I just did a line of microcontrollers

These are the chips boomers think are in vaccines /s

There’s literally no reason to buy a game until the minute before you’re going to play it. It’s not like digital copies sell out or takes time to ship. Add games you want to play to our wishlist and buy them when you’re actually ready to play them.

Ah sweet, manmade horrors beyond my comprehension.

Microsoft: has town hall

Also Microsoft: “approved opinions only!”

I think this is kind of a good thing, that way companies can’t sell old cpus to people who don’t know any better.

But the other side to this is that those new old stock CPUs just became e-waste when they could have been sold at a discount to people who could make use of them despite their age. Perfectly good parts containing precious natural resources and people’s labour getting thrown away because Microsoft said so.

Microsoft: NOOO YOU CAN’T USE THAT CPU IT CAME OUT AN ARBITRARY AMOUNT OF TIME AGOOOO!

Linux: Haha potato chip go BRRRR

Honestly playing a competitive game with AI is kind of like playing with a child who hasn’t grown out of the making up random rules phase.

“Rock crushes scissors, I win!”

“Nuh uh! My scissors are actually a ray gun and disintegrated your rock!”

Because AI doesn’t actually “understand” the concepts it’s using the same way humans do. Nor does it know what winning or losing is or even the concept of a game itself. All it knows is you told it to prioritise reaching a certain state (try to “win” the “game”) so it will do whatever it can to reach it without regard for if it makes sense or not. AI at its core is just statical analysis and prediction of what a human might do given the prompt.

Of course it does for the private contractors raking in peak profits!

I know it’s impressive and all but I still get the heebee jeebees from a humanoid robot.

I want the robot uprising to look like HAL, not Terminator.

“We need quality human-made data to feed to our AI so please don’t give us slop we can’t use”

A pledge is only as valid as the trustworthiness of the entity that agrees to it. Google is completely, utterly untrustworthy at this point so nothing has really changed by them dropping a pledge.

However, it does show that they’re now brazen enough to acknowledge it.

Oh the person who deliberately stored Facebook 1.0’s passwords in plaintext so he could use them to log into his users’ other accounts and stalk them now cares about privacy all of a sudden?

Hot take: Even if China did “steal” technology from the US, who cares? Why are we defending US corporations all of a sudden? You don’t think they haven’t done their fair share of stealing? In fact, I don’t care if US companies stole tech from China or any country stealing tech from any other country. All competition benefits us peasants in the end, and you, fellow nobody who’s probably not a Fortune 500 CEO, are not the one being stolen from. China making something with alleged US technology will not deprive US citizens of said technology. And get this, if China “steals” your tech to build something better than you have now, you can then “steal” their improvements right back, because “stealing” or more formally, copying of technology is an ancient phenomenon that only started being vilified with the copyright and patent era. People have openly copied each other’s innovations for the vast majority of human history, and the most important inventions of the human race have arisen from people copying other people’s ideas and building on them. Imagine how ridiculous it would be if China was able to patent their invention of paper, or the compass, or gunpowder, and prevented Europe from “stealing” those technologies. Imagine if Ancient Greece patented bronze and successfully prevented the technology from proliferating into a brand new era of humanity. The second person to figure out fire probably watched the first person behind their back.

“Unlike Communist China, the US believes in free market capitalism and that the market will regulate itself, the US would especially never threaten other governments to tow the party line unlike those communists.”

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Minesweeper

I forgot what the numbers mean already

Japanese Ash Ketchem? /s

Companies would rather protect themselves from potential litigation than stand up for their paying customers so yeah most companies probably just preemptively block the site as soon as the abuse report comes in. They’re not really under any obligation to actually check that the abuse report was correct or not, so most companies have decided to cut positions/funding to any sort of complaint review department which is why they can be so slow/unhelpful/incompetent most of the time.

How much you want to bet that response was AI generated?

Seriously, the way it explains things and the repetition reek of ChatGPT

Hot take: If a partner rejects you because you didn’t give them an expensive enough engagement gift, they’re not worth marrying.

If they truly love you, they wouldn’t care. If they had the slightest concern for your future together, they would prefer that money go into a savings account or the down payment for a house or literally anything more useful than a ring.

Keep track of all the David Mayers out there, if the movies have taught me anything, they’ll probably be instrumental in winning the coming war between the robots and humanity.

You want the company stripe gone, you want this dudes life ruined, you want other companies to sacrifice time and resources and get pissed when they aren’t willing to do that because THE DUDE VISITED A BEACH.

The customer is always right. In the original meaning of the phrase: if enough people are sufficiently mad at your business to stop spending their money for your services, you as the business owner are in no position to argue with them or call their concerns frivolous.

No business owner is being forced to acquiesce to the boycotters’ demands. People are just choosing not to give them money if they don’t like what they’re seeing. If a boycott like this ends up tanking Stripe or any business that uses it, that’s literally the free market at work and the result of consumers exercising their right to choose who to do business with. Tough luck, should have adapted to the market.

If someone gives a shit about this, they’ll find a way to avoid Stripe. This might surprise you because you’ve presumably have never given enough of a shit about a cause to actually modify your behavior for it, but deciding to participate in a boycott does in fact mean having to sacrifice your own convenience and limiting the options available to you.

Ok, regardless of the actual politics, this game had literally nothing to do with the Oct 7 attack given that it was written in fucking 2022. We might as well ban the 2012 movie because things really did start going to shit after 2012.

“Bro full self driving is 5 years away bro trust me bro”

And as always, the majority response to this will absolutely be something along the lines of “I support writers but you can fuck right off if you expect me to inconvenience myself in the slightest most superficial way in solidarity with you because actually having to modify my behavior in the simplest way is where I draw the line.”

And Apple is also pushing its own omnipresent AI.

Same reason Siemens, Volkswagen, Bayer, and many more, including a ton of American ones were onboard with the Holocaust.

Genocide is good for business.

The kid who jury rigged their gameboy to a power adapter is probably an electrical engineer by now.

NiMH is perfect for an application like this, where the power draw is high but you don’t need the batteries to retain charge while in standby for that long, so the high self-discharge rate is irrelevant.