Tamo240
@Tamo240@programming.dev
- Comment on Ticketmaster to be investigated by watchdog over 'dynamic pricing' of Oasis tickets 1 week ago:
They should gather that before they set the price. Once the box office doors open, increasing the price is price gouging plain and simple.
- Comment on Ticketmaster to be investigated by watchdog over 'dynamic pricing' of Oasis tickets 1 week ago:
I disagree with this whole ‘market price’ thing because as a consumer you don’t have constant opportunity to buy. You get one slot where you are are the front of the queue, and if you don’t like the price then tough. It essentially just rewards those who got to the front sooner, and punishes later joiners.
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 2 weeks ago:
The point is that Epic complaining about being unable to compete with Steam, and therefore needing to employee anti-competitive, anti-consumer practices rings a little hollow given that they have significantly more resources available.
I’m not here to stan for either company, I think if Epic wants to compete they need to create a better product, not fling monopoly accusation while actively pursuing monopolistic strategies.
- Comment on Remedy and Annapurna announce a strategic cooperation agreement on Control 2 2 weeks ago:
Quick google says epic has 13000+ employee while Valve has only 300+, and yet they can’t build a legitimate competitor and have to resort to exclusivity deal to force people onto their platform which is totally anti consumer.
Also for the record console players whine endlessly about Xbox/PS exclusive games, so don’t act like this is some weird thing that PC gamers do.
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 3 weeks ago:
Anyone in software engineering will tell you that as you get more senior you spend less time writing lines code and more time planning, designing, testing, reviewing, and deleting code.
This will continue to be true, it’s just that there will be less juniors below who’s whole job is to produce code that meets a predefined spec or passes an existing test, and instead a smaller number of juniors will use AI tools to increase their productivity, while still requiring the same amount of direction and oversight. The small amounts of code the seniors write will also get smaller and faster to write, as they also use AI tools to generate boilerplate while filling in the important details.
- Comment on In Leaked Audio, Amazon Cloud CEO Says AI Will Soon Make Human Programmers a Thing of the Past 3 weeks ago:
I agree with you completely, but he did say no need for ‘human programmers’ not 'human software engineers. The skill set you are describing is one I would put forward is one of if not the biggest different between the two.
- Comment on Gearbox founder says Epic Games Store hopes were “misplaced or overly optimistic” 3 weeks ago:
How does that benefit devs? Epic should swallow the cost of it wants to do that
- Comment on No one’s ready for this: Our basic assumptions about photos capturing reality are about to go up in smoke. 3 weeks ago:
If a bunch of people photographed that same incident from different angles, clearly it’s real
Interesting that this is the threshold because it might need to be raised. In the past it was definitely true that perspective was a hard problem to solve, so multiple angles would increase the likelihood of veracity. Now with AI tools and even just the proliferation and access to 3D effects packages it might no longer be the case.
- Comment on Technically Correct 5 weeks ago:
IIRC water happens to appear similarly to a lot of explosives on the metric they use for what the composition of items in the scanner is.
Improvements are being made though so soon we may be allowed to take water through unrestricted:
Why Airport Security Suddenly Got Better (13:01) youtu.be/nyG8XAmtYeQ?si=RTjA8GRuZaMIJs9d
- Comment on Technically Correct 5 weeks ago:
The goal is not to stop the people in the queue being attacked, its to stop someone boarding a plane with the means to hijack it
- Comment on How to talk about the PM of the UK. 2 months ago:
Actually Maps are just ‘Honourable’, only Privy Council members are ‘Right Honourable’.