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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEOs are astatic about AI because they can train it to always agree with them.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re making assumptions that I’m some young kid, naively thinking I can change the world with overly simplistic ‘solutions’.

  I’ve been in this career for a decent chunk of time, and, more importantly discussed these issues with others that have been here 40+ years. They feel the same.

  You see it over and over again, management makes a short term cost saving decision, gets promoted or leaves to a new company and the rest of the people spend the next 3 years dealing with that decision. Things that used to be fixed in 2-3 days now takes 2-3 weeks. Projects that used to be completed in 4-6 weeks now take 4-6 months, etc.

  These are things that I’ve noticed after 15+ years in the job and things that my 40+ year co-workers agree with and things the next two levels of my own management agree with (both 30+ years at the company). Hell, these are things executives I’ve been on better terms with have agreed with in the past (only to get let go after failing to implement culture changes).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨CEOs are astatic about AI because they can train it to always agree with them.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My experience with executives is that they don’t necessarily want yes men, but there’s a range of acceptable criticism or feedback that they’ll accept. As long as you’re within that range, it’s fine.

  If you try to address fundamental problems that might require real change… well those people tend to get suppressed.

  They’ll happily take feedback on meeting structure or project planning or whatever. But try to do a retrospective on what the true longterm costs of their decision to go with the cheap, but unreliable solution and they’ll blackball you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like a huge number of franchises were started back in the day, but everything now is just sequels and remasters of old games.

  How many of the current biggest AAA titles got their start in the 2005-2015 era vs the number of new franchises in 2015-2025?

  Creativity seems to be mostly dead and games all have to be mega hits or they’re considered a failure. There’s also a distinct lack of AA games (the successful of which often later became AAA titles).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC gamers spend 92% of their time on older games, oh and there are apparently 908 million of us now⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AAA games are legitimately worse now than before, but the gulf isn’t as big as people are claiming.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MMO scholar puts a $500 bounty on old versions of RuneScape as part of a community archive project: "You might have ALL of the game's lost versions!"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I think it’s funny people still believe ‘the Internet is forever’. Data disappears all the time. If you really start paying attention it’s scary how ephemeral the Internet truly is and how much is lost all the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is anyone else getting a bit of schadenfreude from the news each day?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m struggling to believe these articles are anything but pandering to the left. I struggle to believe there’s any significant number of conservatives actually having real second thoughts.

  I mean during COVID you had conservatives literally claiming COVID was no big deal as they died. I think that was when I understood just how far gone these people could be. They will happily drink the Kool aid no matter the personal cost to themselves.

  So losing their jobs is questionable as to whether or not it’s going to actually result in a different mindset, rather than some fleeting complaints that are forgotten by the next election cycle.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IRL⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  High schooler in anime: is horny, girls begging to get in pants, refuse because reasons?

  High school in real life: is horny, girl makes what she thinks is obvious pass at you, be completely oblivious, realize 20 years later you completely missed it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PCIe standards group releases draft specification for PCIe 7.0 — full release expected in 2025⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did I miss 6.0? My new motherboard only has 5.0 and I hadn’t even heard anything about 6.0 yet so why are we already on 7?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They didn’t say AI produces low value art. They said AI doesn’t produce art at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI-generated poetry is indistinguishable from human-written poetry and is rated more favorably - Scientific Reports⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think there’s an argument about art being the emotions it invokes in the viewer rather than the creator. Humans can find art in natural phenomena, which also has no feelings or backstory involved.

  I’m not really defending AI slop here, just disagreeing with your definition of art and the relation to the creator rather than the viewer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald’s posts biggest decline in global sales in four years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The price difference between fast food and restaurant to go has shrunk too much to make sense

  The McDonald’s app/rewards program is one of the worst available that I’ve seen for fast food. When I used it, I earned points and had nothing worth spending them on. The deals often exclude their most popular items. The app is also extremely buggy and needed to be reinstalled multiple times.

  Pretty much zero incentive to go.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was always so disappointed in the 90s to see ‘realistic’ looking graphics and then you play the game and realize it was just a point and click game

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The feds are coming for John Deere over the right to repair: The farm equipment giant has fought against letting farmers repair their own equipment for years⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Modern farming is extremely reliant on gps and ‘smart’ planters, fertilizers, etc. Using tech to precisely control exactly how much seed, chemicals, etc is used can result in significantly less costs. My understanding is that Deere has bought out basically every company that has a decent implementation of this technology and is an effective monopoly on modern farming equipment.

  You can move away from them, but expect your business costs to significantly increase as a result.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might as well go cyberpunk, I guess.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep cyberpunk still perpetuates the idea that corporations are highly competent and innovators, which just doesn’t seem to be true in our current reality. The MBA/financial people have taken over and people that actually want to make cool stuff are no longer in control

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All Of Apple’s Foldable iPhone Prototypes Have Visible Creases, Which May Explain The Company’s Apprehension Towards A Launch⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The recent trifold phone prototype by some Chinese company was the only version that interested me. It actually expanded to true tablet size and the proportions and thickness while folded matched the standard phone proportions. That actually felt useful and I could get rid of my tablet, so I wouldn’t mind the extra cost too much. The big issue obviously would be if it could have decent battery life, which I assume will be its critical flaw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon tech workers leaving for other jobs in response to return to office mandate⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the next executive’s problem. These executives will jump ship with their golden parachutes before any of that affects them.