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Re: Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Post by corbulo »

tasuki wrote: post #88
corbulo wrote: post #76

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But if they have the money, how could they lose the power in the first place? If money=power it should be impossible. I would say it is the majority of cases that people who lose power retain their wealth. Violent ends to power is exceedingly rare comparatively.

> But if they have the money, how could they lose the power in the first place? If money=power it should be impossible. I don't see why this should be true. If money=power, surely that has nothing to do with whether you can lose it or not? Generally, when you have something, you can lose it sometimes, no?

Well yes in reality I completely agree. But if money is power then someone with money can't lose power (then money/=power). Otherwise there has to be more variables to power than just money.

Re: Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Post by wilg »

_aavaa_ wrote: post #67
wilg wrote: post #22

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I think there’s a good argument to be made it’s not a problem at all.

Your customers should not be used as your beta testers or QA department.

Again, this is totally subjective. It can be out of "beta" but still have bugs.

But also, in many cases people are happy to have the opportunity to support a product before it is completed. Steam Early Access, etc.

Re: Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Post by somsak2 »

reset8 wrote: post #68
somsak2 wrote: post #56

Just hilarious to me to lay the blame for 'bad' software at the feet of capitalism when one of the 'purest' capitalist countries, the US, is so dominant in this sector worldwide. Of the 100 largest tech companies, 62 are from the US. Next-highest China has 9. [0] Where's all the great software developed by non-capitalist economies? [0] https://companiesmarketcap.com/tech/largest-tech-companies-b...

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Feel free to check out some rankings of this stuff by people that have thought about it methodically rather than just cherry-picking examples. US is ranked 6th and 20th in the world by Fraser Institute and Heritage Organization, respectively.

https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/capitalis...

Re: Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Post by jiggawatts »

fmajid wrote: post #84
jiggawatts wrote: post #78

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What blew my mind is not that incident, or that Microsoft devs refused[1] to fix it, but that about a year later they updated Notepad the same way and it visibly lags and stutters on a suuuuper high end gaming machine. Like. What. The. Fuck!? They literally never tested Notepad with large text files! It can take a minute to open a file that every other text editor on Windows opens instantly. It misaligns tabs and fou…

Corporate legal departments have a really strong aversion to GPL.

Exhibit a) Microsoft has their own Linux distro: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CBL-Mariner

Exhibit b) Microsoft is a top-5 contributor to Linux: https://www.zdnet.com/article/top-five-linux-contributor-mic...

The Terminal team could have simply asked a Microsoft Linux team member to watch the videos, and then explain the gist of the algorithm without ever referencing any specific code.

Algorithms can only be patented, not copyrighted, and any IP lawyer would tell you that.

Not to mention that Casey's code is dead obvious, totally standard, done-this-way-for-decades, not some sort of exotic thing he invented. Heck, I've personally implemented something nearly identical back in 2000, and I'm pretty sure every game engine console (as seen in Source games) works nearly identically also.

It's so simple that a one or two sentence description is sufficient. Nobody is suggesting that Microsoft copy-paste reams of GPL code. Instead, Microsoft is refusing to listen to a single sentence of good advice, and stubbornly forging ahead with a demonstrably stupid solution.

Re: Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Post by compressedgas »

praisewhitey wrote: post #86
1vuio0pswjnm7 wrote: post #29

"In 2019, the company released an entirely new version of its terminal for Windows 10, promising a better performance. However, user Casey Muratori was not convinced, claiming that the performance was still far from what could have been done without much effort. To prove his point, Casey developed in just a few days an open source prototype that performed 200 times better than Microsoft's new terminal [32]." "In the…

>For example, when creating an empty (!) project in npm for web development more than 50,000 files are downloaded, taking about 350 MB. What is this in reference to? Running `npm init` just creates a package.json file

I think they mean something like a next.js or a meteor.js project.

Re: Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Post by jiggawatts »

tough wrote: post #87
pointlessone wrote: post #85

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I wonder if the author could release his code in public domain if he wants to fix the issue. Corporate stance on GPL is not exactly unknown after all.

Why should here the good guy bend over microsoft lawyers? Use the open source version

Nobody needs to copy the code verbatim anyway. The essential part is the algorithm (or the "approach" to the problem), not some sort of specific C++ wizardry or a huge library.

The correct solution can be thrown together in a couple of weekends, it's not something that has to be imported into the Windows Terminal codebase as-is.

Re: Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Post by darthrupert »

morpheos137 wrote: post #83
darthrupert wrote: post #73

Of all the things we are bringing back from the past, why does communist propaganda have to be one of them? Why do people, smart people! keep making almost the exactly same mistakes? Modern socialists have clearly studied history, but how are they able to interpret it like this?

What if the only viable futures are communism or collapse? Consider as capitalism grows in complexity the grasp of the invisible hand grows weaker until it loses its grip. Does the world really need a new iPhone every year when people can hardly afford rent? Does making monopoly aspiring app for dog walking (Wag) to enrich a few sophomoric founders or defraud a few more gullible investors really constitute efficient…

It is possible that we are, but it's certain that communism is not the thibg that's gonna save us.

Re: Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Post by maerF0x0 »

emodendroket wrote: post #65
maerF0x0 wrote: post #44

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I had to start over from the beginning 3 times due to completely main plot breaking bugs, and this was on 1.4+ versions . Still had a side quest broken. That is not a "more or less" serving it's purpose.

I played the game from beginning to end without any major incidents on launch. But even then it was eventually fixed and I still don't think this is a harbinger of the collapse of global capitalism.

I agree "collapse of global capitalism" would be a stretch.

That being said I also think platform mattered a lot. I played on PS4Pro fwiw

Re: Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Post by maerF0x0 »

wilg wrote: post #45
maerF0x0 wrote: post #40

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The real issue with C2077 is that so many people pre-paid for a quality game, and never received it.

That makes no sense. If you pre-order something you have no idea what the quality is. Also I played the game all the way through and it’s pretty good.

You know what the marketing materials say, and there were features promised and demo videos.

I agree the game (story, concept, mechanics) was good, but the bugs were real bad.

Re: Bullshit Has Dominated the Tech Industry

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Post by emodendroket »

maerF0x0 wrote: post #98
emodendroket wrote: post #65

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I played the game from beginning to end without any major incidents on launch. But even then it was eventually fixed and I still don't think this is a harbinger of the collapse of global capitalism.

I agree "collapse of global capitalism" would be a stretch. That being said I also think platform mattered a lot. I played on PS4Pro fwiw

Yeah, I think that is true as well. I had just upgraded my PC for the first time in many years and was looking for something to showcase what the hardware could do when I picked it up. All the bugs I encountered were pretty minor.
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