I dunno, sounds like communism to me. They are basically opening the door for Russians to just take over. /s

The Mirror’s Edge theme was written and performed by Lisa Miskovsky who was part of Cheiron Studios and worked on several hit songs including Backstreet Boys’ “Shape of my heart”. One of my favorite songs of hers is “Why start a fire”.

I know how it must sound but it wasn’t like that when I graduated around 2002. 80% of my classmates were self-sufficient and had gained experience and self-esteem through various demanding group projects and their thesis work. Many of them already had more value to offer than the tired self-educated colleagues they met on their first job.

When you have developed and simulated your own ad-hoc wireless routing protocol, implemented distributed two-phase commit algorithms and built your own compiler, you don’t need to ask your colleague fifty times how to use React state. You google it and figure it out. You’re trained to always learn new things and be comfortable with it.

My experience as a senior dev who is often involved in the recruitment process (admittedly in Sweden and not Silicon Valley) is that there are hundreds of people applying but they all lack sufficient skill. We still have a severe shortage of people who can actually do the job without requiring so much hand holding that they have a negative impact on productivity. There seems to have been a surge in “quick-fix” educations that are a couple of months long, and the new iPad kids are already behind when they start the education because they don’t understand how a computer works. They have no interest in the craft and don’t enjoy it, they just want to check off a detailed todo list and get a fat pay check. We need people who can think, extrapolate from unclear requirements, and ask smart follow-up questions.

The demand is still there, the supply isn’t. Half of these applicants couldn’t even implement FizzBuzz.

Probably just dumb kids who don’t understand how to play but heard friends in school talk about it. Or people like me who are caught up in life and even though I want to play I never really have the time that the games require.

In Life is Strange

In “What remains of Edith Finch” you arguably don’t change anything. You just discover what has already happened, then you leave and the story ends. Even more so with “Dear Esther”. Less so with “The Vanishing of Ethan Carter”.

Alan Wake? Unclear what happens and what doesn’t, but one possible interpretation is that the main character is just stuck in a room typing on a typewriter for the entire game.

In Xenon, when you finish level 4 it just restarts at level 1. 🙂

Except no? The text you quoted literally says “the only devices supported […] are Steam Deck and Legion Go S”.

…so? This has been available on Steam Deck for years. What’s the update?

I’m 100% convinced their internal testing is flawed and possibly suffers from confirmation bias. The strategy might work for a couple of years but in the long term they are killing their brand. Once the masses start migrating to other search engines, Google will be beyond rescue.

Guess it’s time to start thinking about Android and Chromecast alternatives because when Google becomes desperate they will turn everything they touch into shit.

Probably just a missing token

If the phone saves its state before rebooting, why would that help? It will still be accessible after the reboot. What’s the attack vector?

Yeah, won’t work well with multiplayer games though since they typically have anticheats that don’t play well with Linux.

I own my PC. The annoying thing is that I might have to pay a subscription for the gaming OS that I dual-boot to sometimes. Might just make me buy a console instead. OTOH, Sony already charges exorbitant subscription prices for the ability to play online.

I want something that runs a small local LLM for text prediction, but there’s no proprietary alternative for that either.

Haven’t tried all the ones mentioned here but I installed the modrinth app and can’t really complain about anything so I haven’t looked further. Easy to search mods and install them, it deals with all the dependencies, updates automatically, etc. It looks nice and doesn’t get in your way.

You say that as if it was easy, and as if it doesn’t come back again a few Windows updates down the road.

But because it’s all opinion, it gives me nothing except “some guy on the the internet has an opinion”. I can’t do anything with it, especially not form an opinion of my own. It’s just a waste of my time. Mind you, I already am of the opinion that Tesla is going to shit but I found very little in this article to substantiate that opinion should I need to argue for it myself, and the headline is just a plain out lie that that has no basis in the body text. It’s poorly written at best, and intentionally misleading at worst.

Zuckerman vs Zuckerberg. Who will win, the man… or the berg? Either way, they’re both Zuckers.

In a corporate setting there usually isn’t

I will never stop playing that game. I would suggest playing with “Peaceful” difficulty level at first (and maybe choosing Phoebe Chillax as narrator) so you’ll have time to advance. There’s so much to discover and do anyway without everything trying to burn your house down.

I got my (recently turned 12) son hooked on Civ5. He put 70 hours behind him in just a week during the Easter holidays.

So now we’re playing multiplayer. I have my gripes with that game, but damn it never gets old.

He polled game developers about how Starfield can be fixed, and they answered that it can’t be fixed.

I’m 45 y/o with a job, a house and two teenager kids. I can probably count the games I finished on one hand.

When the C-suite says “innovation” they tend to mean either “things other companies did that this company hasn’t done yet” or “obvious stuff that we should have done already but didn’t”.

Even the gigs have a thread running through them, though. You can puzzle together stories by doing them.

Oh but they’re not selling it, they’re leasing it.

It doesn’t need to be paid. Many journalists are happy to receive a pre-written article that they can just push out with zero effort.

The article makes several claims and insinuations without backing them up so I find it hard to follow any of the reasoning.

I don’t think it’s desirable that it’s easier to reason about an AI than about a human. If it is, then we haven’t achieved human-level intelligence. I posit that human intelligence can be reasoned about given enough understanding but we’re not there yet, and until we are we shouldn’t expect to be able to reason about AI either. If we could, it’s just a sign that the AI is not advanced enough to fulfill its purpose.

Postel’s law IMHO is a big mistake - it’s what gave us Internet Explorer and arbitrary unpredictable interpretation of HTML, leading to decades of browser incompatibility problems. But the law is not even applicable here. Unlike the Internet, we want the AI to appear to think for itself rather than being predictable.

“Today’s highly-hyped generative AI systems (most famously OpenAI) are designed to generate bullshit by design.” Uh no? They’re designed with the goal to generate useful content. The bullshit is just an unfortunate side effect because today’s AI algorithms have not evolved very far yet.

If I had to summarize this article in one word, that would be it: bullshit.

An iOS styled drawer that is styled according to Material You? This seems contradictory.

I don’t really get how they consider this a meaningful attack vector at all. Of course I can set the phone on fire if I can replace the charger - that’s pretty much always going to be true and there’s no reasonable way to fix it. The only possible use I see is to do it when someone is not intentionally charging their phone, e.g. holding a malicious charger close enough when they have the phone in their pocket.

I am Jack’s complete lack of surprise.

the one cause they care about

You mean, themselves?

And it doesn’t remove promotions by the content creators, so you’re still seeing lots of ads. Still, since my kids spend so much time on YouTube I think it’s worth reducing the amount of brain washing, but I’m definitely not happy about the pricing. It’s ridiculous when you compare it to other streaming services who also have to produce or license their content.

Yeah I don’t know why you’re getting down voted. Obesity shortens life expectancy by around 10 years. Life expectancy for men in the US was at 79 years before covid (it is now down to 73 years). Gabe is currently 61 years old so he can be expected to die by the end of this decade.

Really? I heard it was a disappointment.

More like they’re all uncontrollably spreading in the wind like leaves in an autumn storm, landing everywhere.

You’d be surprised how much microorganisms get around

Like Amazon but for social media

You’re off with your claims about built-in encryption. While there are drives that do what you describe, there are also drives that require a key to be provided to the drive for unlocking it. There’s an entire specification for how the authentication to the hard drive is made at boot or when mounting it.

And patent law is even more broken than copyright law.