MrBuddyCasino

They should write this prominently on their website. It doesn’t radiate trustworthiness/substance/reputation. Also performance and resource requirements should be prominent when targets are MCUs.

The kind that has a strong in-group bias and likes to hire from his own ethnicity, gradually taking over departments.

This coming from a BioWare exec is rich:

"BioWare is not, like, a guy. BioWare closing is not like Steven Spielberg or Quentin Tarantino getting fired or cancelled.

BioWare is a business entity that existed for 30 years. During that time people — including lead creatives who were responsible for the great games — came and went.

Some video game studios manage to maintain a culture and a sensibility around excellence and the key creatives either stick around for a long time or pass the reins to handpicked successors who share their values and preserve the culture and standards of the studios.

What has happened in the game industry over the last 15 years is that there came to be a widespread belief that the cultures that incubated excellent games were exclusionary racist, sexist, homophobic boys clubs that needed to change in order to welcome in different kinds of people.

Instead of hiring people who shared their values and sensibilities, the people at these game studios were pressured to push their workforces toward being 50% female while achieving racial equity. The staff of the studios changed dramatically, the cultures of the workplaces changed dramatically and the games changed dramatically.

The pandemic sent a lot of people into their homes to play video games, which seemed like it was going to drive an era of growth for the industry. At the same time, the new generation of gaming hardware required more detailed assets, more animation, and therefore more people to make these massive games.

So there was a huge hiring boom at the precise moment that there was an overarching focus of the demographics of the industry, which means that nearly every Western game studio’s workforce was completely transformed. Over 40% of games industry workers under the age of 25 identified as LGBT or nonbinary on recent surveys.

Additionally, some studios have had unique pressures that have driven a lot of turnover. At Rocksteady Games, for example, a lot of the people who made the Batman: Arkham trilogy were not interested in building the live service game Warner wanted, so most of the principals on those games left the studio during the production of “Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.”

The studio cannot pivot back to what used to be its strength at making single player titles after that failure because all the people who are responsible for the classic games are gone. They no longer have that strength. They no longer have the institutional capacity to make great games because great games are made by great people and the great people are gone. A similar thing happened to BioWare during “Anthem.”

They couldn’t just pivot back to making great “Dragon Age” or “Mass Effect” games after the failure of “Anthem” because too many people were gone and the culture had changed. They weren’t the same studio and they weren’t a great studio anymore.

The BioWare that was shuttered today is not the studio that made “Mass Effect 2” or “Knights of the Old Republic.” That studio hasn’t existed for many years. It was just the “Dragon Age: The Veilguard” studio."

https://x.com/DanFriedman81/status/2113096028698149135

Not mentioned in the last link is TeddyCloud (https://tonies-wiki.revvox.de/docs/tools/teddycloud/), which enables you do keep regular Tonie functionality and add your own content on top.

The organizational form that underlies everything that works and is not dysfunctional in basically everything around you.

No, optimism is exactly not the result of confidence. Its cowardly avoidance and pushing problems aside.

Pessimism is the thought that it cannot be fixed and it is hopeless. Optimism is wishful thinking and avoidance. You want to aim for realism.

Thanks, this is exactly right. AI is useful insofar it can be made to conform to engineering principles.

The state, over time, becomes parasitic. This has always been the case.

Combined with universal suffrage and the welfare state to buy votes it is a recipe for decline and ruin.

The french state is bankrupt like all the other western democracies. They hide their pension obligations well, but that doesn’t change reality.

This system will continue to suck everything it can out of the young and the productive, because those are the incentives. There is no point at which it will stop, short of regime change.

Optimism is cowardice. Best case, they meant something different: energetic, positive, confident.

In theory they have huge manufacturing capacities. But its all for logic, not memory, so its useless.

Thats a different process than logic, so they can't just switch their factories to DRAM production easily.

Rust has a mode where no allocator is available.

universal basic girlfriend you say?

In Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (1979), Patrick Stewart has a short appearance near the very end as soviet KGB mastermind Karla.

Never have I seen such presence and charisma squeezed into so short a scene.

I don't think there exists a laptop with a similar value proposition as a MacBook Neo or a MacBook Air?

For phones its not as clear, I agree, but at least they added iPhone 17e starting at $599.

Not the laptops.

Can arenas be made to use no actual memory unless it is being used, so the virtual memory subsystem only allocates pages when written to?

2D action games peaked with Metal Slug.

The opinion of the masses are shaped by media. I don’t think there is much more to it. You can always find a reason post-hoc.

45% vs 80% seems to be a very substantial partisan divide?

A little bit of traction https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50193579

American architecture is already bleak (mostly), why is it now the time to care about Industrial Park Architecture?