Some people have no sense of scale and nuance.

I am fully aware Bill Gates is a shady guy who has done bad shit to destroy consumer choice in OS. There is still a massive gulf between him and outwardly vocal evil billionaires like Bezos and Musk.

I get annoyed that even here on Lemmy people will say all billionaires are equally evil. While still faithfully giving their money to Valve/Steam/GNewell.

I’m in a workplace that has tried not to be overbearing about AI, but has encouraged us to use them for coding.

I’ve tried to give mine some very simple tasks like writing a unit test just for the constructor of a class to verify current behavior, and it generates output that’s both wrong and doesn’t verify anything.

I’m aware it sometimes gets better with more intricate, specific instructions, and that I can offer it further corrections, but at that point it’s not even saving time. I would do this with a human in the hopes that they would continue to retain the knowledge, but I don’t even have hopes for AI to apply those lessons in new contexts. In a way, it’s been a sigh of relief to realize just like Dotcom, just like 3D TVs, just like home smart assistants, it is a bubble.

Sorry, she should have written:

Make everyone a lactose.

Facts don’t wake up MAGA diehards. Feelings will.

Right now, they’re in the cult through tribal mentality and loneliness. Imagine if a moral compass suddenly asked you to boycott “Every website ever made”. Even if that imperative was fact-based, many couldn’t do it.

Not discounting the part where they’re insanely evil, but many are afraid to face reality at this point.

I feel a bit of shame that back in the Win7, Xbox Series S era of Microsoft I was sort of cheering them on as an underdog in several markets.

But it does seem like every large company is driving these zero sum efforts now. Anyone that high up is chomping for workforce reduction.

If larger-scale changes don’t prove possible, I still want Elizabeth Warren’s Accountable Capitalism act as a way for majority workforce in a company to declare “No, this way is insane, fire whoever suggested it” earlier rather than later.

It frustrates me that the independent, “keep to myself and don’t trust the government” personalities love gas/oil and not solar panels/batteries. Can’t remember a time we invented a war in the Middle East to steal their sunlight.

Both this and Five Nights at Freddy’s have an interesting problem, where they’re based around an entertainment franchise that goes wrong - but the franchise itself necessitates repeated attempts and failure.

There’s a few media that I felt much less invested in when this happened in. In my case, it’s all “VR simulations” with super hazy justification.

The Escape Key closes most popups, dialogs, modals. It’s also non-destructive, so it won’t close a program; any “save changes” dialog will be cancelled.

Alright.

8 people vote to drive the bus over a cliff into a crowd of people. 6 people vote to shoot the crowd of people from the safety of the bus. 10 people choose not to vote, some because they don’t want to harm the crowd of people, others because they’re lazy.

It’s a sour vote either way. But if the remaining people vote “Let’s just get ice cream and not kill anyone”, I’d find them morally in the clear, even should that vote fail.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nl_Qyk9DSUw

“I’m sick of investing in video games. They’re always so unreliable.”
“You literally only ever invested in two companies.”

Me 3 years ago, somewhat ignorant: “I’m okay with sending bombs to Israel.”

Me, today: “I’m okay with ‘sending’ bombs to Israel.”

Does this mean in 6 years we’ll get “BelowTheWatermica Dos” by a new studio, and it will be a far better spiritual sequel?

It’s happened only a few times when a publisher cans the developers.

Anytime I see super-smooth transition animations in a demo, or even just gameplay mechanics that seem to work out way too conveniently, it tells me it’s an animated “pre-viz” demo of the game they want to make. That’s kind of the impression I got from Perfect Dark.

Except even this isn’t true.

One of the least pleasant parts of driving is traffic, potholes, and constant construction. We get fewer potholes when fewer cars are weighing down the roads. We need less construction when we’re not building so many lanes.

On meat, if you ever saw that KOTH episode where he eats from that coop: That store makes amazing meat but could never sustain a huge customer base without selling out and driving their quality down. When everyone demands huge meat portions for every meal, what you get is terrible quality.

You are better off with your habits NOT being grossly overpopular.

Any chance he’s putting the question on social media to convince other stakeholders above him?

It’s possible he was in a board meeting when some novice shareholder suggested “What if you take an exclusivity deal”? And he just didn’t have clear evidence on hand of that being vastly unpopular. Obviously that could be me being overgenerous to him.

I’ve been curious if a government-run dating app could do better - if its goal is to achieve genuine engagement, not cycles of frustration that boost subscription rates.

This is one of many subjects where capitalist concern ruins the product (and that’s not even something I say as often as others on Lenny)

I’ve seen this type of situation before. The basic idea is, the woman has low worldly awareness and isn’t in full control of her actions in that sort of state.

I had a student in my class who was over-dieting get up from her seat, walk towards the window absent mindedly, and fall over.

It’s a small implication but I think the fact that the person in the comic didn’t throw their hands out to stop the fall hinted to the flight attendant there was something very wrong with them beyond the turbulence.

This is something I loved about Hitman. Theres a bit of set dressing appeal around violent infiltration, but by and large, 47 uses social manipulation, knocks out only a few people, and only kills his targets, who are terrible people that make the world worse.

It also has a nice quote in a cutscene. (Paraphrased)

“We don’t take sides. ICA always remains neutral.”
“I hate to break it to you, but neutrality is a side. It’s the side of the status quo.”