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You first ask if you really need to.

Well generally the workers who make these games actually care about the game and want to make a good experience for the players. The execs however, only care about how much money t…

> "The Microsoft and OpenAI situation just got messy" is objectively wrong–it has been messy for months I'm pretty sure "just" is being used here to mean "simply" rather than "rece…

Yeah, it is a valid comparison, and assuming the quality is close to par with a macbook, I think it would be worth the extra cost. I'm someone who doesn't want to go through a new …

> why then switch to a mode that pays artists nothing at all? Do Bandcamp. Buy merch. Do something to support the artists. I don't like this perspective because it puts the onus on…

Exactly. It is crazy that they described MacOS finder as doing this correctly when finder has no concept of up, it only has a back.

I'm someone who started programming when I was in middle school and went into this career field for the passion. But my passion was and is programming, not corporate office work. I…

Yeah, the games industry is in a pretty big crisis right now, and I think change needs to happen both ways: Consumers need to understand that keeping games at the same price for de…

Know the workplace rules! Steam: We take a 30% cut of profits on our store. Devs: Aww you're so sweet. Apple: We take a 30% cut of profits on our store. Devs: Hello? Human resource…

I don't know if the Starbucks example is quite the same as the band example. If anything, their focus on iced desserts shows that they know exactly what their audience wants and is…

In addition to this, LLMs are also simply too slow right now to deliver the results ATC would need. Ridiculous to see people acting like LLMs are a silver bullet for every problem …

While modernizing ATC in the US may be overdue, the real issue here is that ATC in the US has been understaffed, underpaid, and overworked for a while now. My father works ATC and …

There are plenty of stories of ATC helping to guide pilots back to the ground after an engine failure or after a student pilot had their instructor pass out on them or something li…

But that's why they said it was tenuous. Google's Pixels have been one of the most open Smartphone hardware lines so far , but Google could change that at any time.

I think we should not even generalize it down to a rule of three, because then you're outsourcing your critical thinking to a rule rather than doing the thinking yourself. Instead,…

I tried looking through some of the spec samples, and it was not clear what the "language" was or that there was any syntax. It just looks like a terse spec.

This is a good point, though maybe means that "understanding the underlying problem" requires a degree of humanity. I think it's fair to say that Blizzard at a certain point went c…

They are just gotos, but does that mean that they are bad (along with their friend try/catch, who is also a goto?), or does that mean that gotos can be useful when used with restra…

I think 512GB is a fair minimum for a computer these days, but I agree with your "Where does it stop?" sentiment when it comes to RAM. If browsing the web takes 12GB of RAM, at wha…

I wouldn't call my personal project "heavy load", but I have a cross-platform C++ project that I am developing on both a Windows gaming PC and a 2020 M1 macbook air. I use clang to…

I've been feeling the pain of google being awful for a while now. Do you have a different search engine you would recommend?

To take this a step further. I want a phone that is small (doesn't have to be tiny, just iPhone SE 2020 or smaller, please), has a replaceable battery, has an unlocked bootloader, …

The rule of good fast cheap still applies the same as always, but business leaders consistently choose to ignore this reality and insist upon fast and cheap without acknowledging t…

I respectfully disagree. If you compare the western designs in the article to the Japanese ones, the western designs have these giant banners and images that insist on themselves. …

I would think it would have to work the same in both since otherwise C code using that behavior would not compile in C++, right? I am not a C++ expert, but I'm surprised to hear th…