p03locke
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- Comment on New Junior Developers Can’t Actually Code. 2 weeks ago:
This is more of a personality problem than an issue with AI itself. StackOverflow has been doing people’s homework for decades now.
If the talent is crap, then you tighten the hiring process. Never hire a developer without a series of code tests.
- Comment on Loops by pixelfied Is Doomed to Fail Because of Daniel Supernault 2 weeks ago:
Are you seriously using alts to cross-post?
- Comment on Xbox Sales Hit Rock Bottom After Historic 2024 Decline 2 weeks ago:
Consoles have essentially become obsolete, while PC gaming is at an all-time high.
Consoles are more expensive than video cards, except you can’t upgrade them. GPU processing power hasn’t been jumping exponentially, like it had in the past, so you can still play most anything with a decent 5-year-old card. Hell, with AAA gaming falling behind indie games, there’s not really a point in investing so much in graphical output, and you have far far more indie game options with PC.
Console exclusives are a thing of the past, so everybody has the option to jump ship to a PC version. While some of the console->PC ports can be pretty bad, most are starting as PC-first and then moving to console, which ends up with bad porting quality happening in the other direction. Exclusives used to be a huge driver of buying a console (like Metroid Prime for GameCube or FF7 for Playstation), and now PCs have the most access to almost every game.
Steam Decks are starting to drive the industry, pushing Linux gaming to the highest its ever been, and is making Nintendo worried enough to push Switch 2 as a competitor. A vast vast majority of PC games are on Steam, and a vast majority of games in general are on PC. So, accessibility to play just about anything you want on both PC and on a portable Steam Deck makes it way more attractive than anything the consoles could provide.
Consoles are already dead. They just need another 10-15 years before their respective industry leaders finally realize that. At best, Nintendo would carve a market with their own brand of exclusivity and first-party titles, but even that will fall.
- Comment on Why was there a pro-Hitler, Holocaust-denying ad on X? 2 weeks ago:
Better question: Why the fuck are you still on Twitter?
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- Comment on A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. 2 weeks ago:
“Data structures called hash tables”? Editor thinks this is some arcane little-used data technology.
Hashes are used in literally every programming language that’s worth using.
- Comment on YSK: There's a protest today at noon at your state capitol. 3 weeks ago:
we are dealing with an administration that thinks an ethnic cleanse of Palestinians to set up a resort city sounds like a safe idea
Right. Psychopaths.
How do you force psychopaths to care about somebody else’s POV? You can’t!
- Comment on Some nice art from Mastodon 3 weeks ago:
WE POST MESSAGE!
YOU READ CONTENT!
Yo, verb conjugations are a thing.
- Comment on YSK: There's a protest today at noon at your state capitol. 3 weeks ago:
Even if it was a huge protest, the psychopaths in charge will walk over their backs and casually walk into the capitol.
Protests don’t do shit because you cannot convince people who don’t feel emotion to suddenly care about your situation. They only care about self-enrichment, power, and self-preservation. Do you have enough political capital or leverage to influence a politician?
Maybe if you threaten their sense of self-preservation, you might cause them to notice.
- Comment on Russia VPN Crackdown Revelation - VPN Sites Hide Their IP Addresses 4 weeks ago:
Russia having a blocklist full of Cloudflare IP addresses is almost normal too.
Sure, let’s just block all of Cloudflare. Or Azure. Or AWS. I’m sure that won’t end up blocking half of the internet at all.
- Comment on Tech Execs Plead for Great Firewall of America to Protect Them Against Scary Chinese AI 4 weeks ago:
Instead of embracing this gift of open-source, they desperately cling to the old monopolies.
Fuck them. AI is in the people’s hands now. OpenAI is old tech now.
Why should mega-wealthy investors pour billions of dollars into this shitty old technology that doesn’t turn a profit?
- Comment on 26 years late but I finally beat Half Life 1 month ago:
You already missed the 20th anniversary of Half-Life 2.
- Comment on CareerCupid (OkCupid for jobs) integration with ActivityPub: follow @thecupid@cupid.careers, answer polls, find like-minded people who would be great co-workers. 1 month ago:
The second reason why I have always advised my teams not to consider “culture-fit” when interviewing prospective employees is that it is a covert way of discriminating against people who have otherwise protected attributes (race, religion, gender, sexuality etc).
There’s a difference between “culture fit” and “hive mindedness”. I’ve seen singular employees turn a good workplace into one with strife because that one employee has vastly different goals about how to run things, and it doesn’t go away until that employee is fired.
Also, it’s not about discriminating against future hires. It’s about not hiring shitty employees who would discriminate against their own co-workers.
- Comment on DOOM® CAPTCHA 1 month ago:
Too many imps in the center square. Too easy to just get ganged with fireballs. I found that I needed to hang out in the hallway and get the marines that were coming in.
I get that this is a joke project. But, if you were to reduce the difficulty to some common denominator, it could actually be a viable CAPTCHA.
- Comment on what is your opinion on mastodon and other fediverse microblogging sites?? as opposed to forum-type websites 1 month ago:
Ditto. On top of that, I could not get into the tiny, tiny width of the “Twitter experience” with their web site. I don’t need mobile width pages on desktops.
Responsive Web Design… use it, implement it, never forget it.
- Comment on Google’s counteroffer to the government trying to break it up is unbundling Android apps 2 months ago:
I’m sure Google will drag this around until the end of January, when suddenly they don’t have to do anything.
- Comment on Some videogame ads from the 1990s 3 months ago:
E was really damn popular during that time, so why not?
- Comment on Vampire Survivors: Ode to Castlevania DLC Coming - 31st October 4 months ago:
Konami died the moment they fire Kojima and embraced the god of pachinko machines.
- Comment on A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games 4 months ago:
That depends on what you watch and subscribe. Watch angry, conflict-driven videos, and you’ll get those.
I personally don’t get any of that shit in my feed.
- Comment on A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games 4 months ago:
YouTube is like the rest of the internet, some good, some bad.
- Comment on A patient gamer youtuber explaining why she only plays old games 4 months ago:
I think that was too vague. Also, I’m not real clear if that’s good or bad.
- Comment on Star Citizen Expose Paints a Fairly Bleak Picture: 'There's No Actual Focus on Getting the Game Done' 4 months ago:
Chris Roberts is still rich, and could probably retire right now without worrying about anything. He could tank the company, and he wouldn’t care.
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 4 months ago:
while OpenAI & friends have been infringing copyright on a much, much bigger scale, and getting away with it.
Based on what? Distributing numbers in a big database doesn’t infringe on copyright, and downloading a web page or image doesn’t either.
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 5 months ago:
And I am of the opinion that spreading access to knowledge is vastly more important than copyright laws made decades before the internet was a thing. Especially when is comes to US copyright laws being forced upon the rest of the world.
Breaking the law is not how you change copyright laws. Ironically, AI is the best way to crack copyright laws like an egg, but everybody seems to be vehemently opposed to it.
- Comment on The Internet Archive’s Fight to Save Itself 5 months ago:
Not sure why this is getting downvoted. It’s completely accurate.
They pushed this “digital library” idea to even beyond their own definition, got punished for it, and now they are at-risk of losing their core function. Corporations and alt-right shills would love to get rid of any trace of accountability, and this is one avenue that calls them out on the bad shit they post online.
- Comment on Alan Wake, Control developer agrees €15m convertible loan from Tencent 5 months ago:
This is not the place for commas. This calls for a slash.
Alan Wake / Control developer agrees
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 5 months ago:
- Comment on Ubisoft's Board is Launching an Investigation Into The Company Struggles 5 months ago:
Well, it also doesn’t help how much they are “accidentally” insulting multiple racial groups trying to make an Assassins’ Creed game.
- Comment on The Revolution Will Be Federated 5 months ago:
I’m sure that line of thinking will go over great when you stay home during Election Day and Trump magically gets elected.
- Comment on Due to AI fakes, the “deep doubt” era is here 5 months ago:
