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My man, bragging about paying 33~ percent more for a bottom tier burger joint on top of a subscription is not the statement you think it is.

You couldn't torture that out of me.

There was a lot more pride in professional work yeah. People cared about doing a good job. I'm not quite sure what caused the decline over 3+ decades but you could probably throw a dart at "the internet" and probably hit something partially related.

I think theres just MUCH more depression over the much more visible reality that your upper managers don't care about you or the work you put out. Especially now with AI companies pitching them a salivating dream of doing the work of 100 with 10.

the point is that "task" is a dubiously defined unit that the frontier labs adjust to whatever makes them look good.

your miniPC doesn't have GDDR RAM. PS5 does!

There are several public git hosts hosted in countries that don't care about DMCA.

And nothing is stopping you from renting a VPS from a provider based in that country and running gitlab or something.

The worst part is sharing around a sketchy URL but, that just comes with the territory when you're in the DMCA dodging parts of the internet.

my honda civic can fly too if I floor it on the hill nearby.

DDR4 never left. DDR4 RAM pricing has also been spiking, just not quite as hard as DDR5.

If my DDR4 RAM go kaput I'm screwed just as I would be on DDR5.

well they won't give me one of those great jobs

I think it also has a bit to do with the AI sector of tech still moving at lightning speed.

Theres already models that outdo DS 4.1 flash in cost/performance. Luna 6 on max effort for example. Luna also doesn't care what time of the day it is for cost calculation.

And I'm sure by the time people ask why Luna 6 is being slept on there will be another cost/performance king

The amount of irrationality I see in the economy with AI makes me more convinced that the wall street bankrollers know very well they're throwing money into a pit, but it's a pit they're gambling will turn into some world hunger ending AI (that will somehow also keep them making money off of scarcity)

never mind that theres no guarantee we'll get that mythical AI. Never mind that the societal reformations would also impact their revenue numbers.

any day now surely.

no. buy a linux compatible laptop and deal with the UX downgrade.

Ok! I don't use iMessage because people I want to talk to are happy to install a new app to do so. :)

Because techies on average aren't socially popular enough to get anybody to make any effort to msg them on a better platform.

Conversations about the costs of inference never consider the reality that API pricing is significantly higher than the operating costs.

Nor do they ever consider that the cost of datacenter hosted inference has to crash when the bubble pops and hardware vendors can't fill orders at sky high prices created by demand anymore and the hyperscalers can't keep things running near capacity at the high demand prices.

All of which leads to the ROI math for implementing AI looking much different.

Has everybody forgotten how much money Nvidia, TSMC, and all the hyperscalers are making, today, in pure profit? The costs of inference are high because we're in a bubble.

I don't think it's going to be a disaster, doing nothing is not quite a disaster when the AAA games sector has been ticking over like this for the past 10 years or so.

The law is worded so that this does extremely little even if fully passed by CA's legal system due to the very broad exceptions. Exactly as lobbyists want it.

Makes great headlines for SKG while doing pretty much nothing material for them though.

Despite the good intentions of SKG, their efforts are being heavily shaped by the intense lobbying against them.

This law has a lot of weird omissions and obvious loopholes because industry lobbyists want it that way for their clients. It's a very clever law in the studio and publisher's favor. It changes pretty much nothing. The worst GaaS plagues on the industry will be able to keep trucking along as usual and the few service games remaining that have an upfront cost will slap on the tiniest singleplayer function to meet the law. Hell a model viewer might even meet it, or at the very least bait people into trying to waste time in court over it.

All while making nice headlines implying that SKG is making meaningful progress (they're not)

> However, it excludes games provided via subscription services, free-to-play games, and games that are inherently playable offline indefinitely.

How is that incentivizing offline games? Half of the service game focused industry would be exempt

> However, it excludes games provided via subscription services, free-to-play games, and games that are inherently playable offline indefinitely.

Live service games overwhelmingly fall into exactly this category. If anything they're being incentivized over making a game that has an online multiplayer but focus being singleplayer or anything intended to be released and moved on from.

I would love to live in a world where my coworkers learn from their mistakes

is this Human 2.0? I only have 1.0a beta in the office.

I get the joke but it really does highlight how flimsy the argument is for humans. IME humans frequently make simple errors everywhere they don’t learn from and get things right the first time very rarely. Damn. Sounds like LLMs. And those are only getting better. Humans aren’t.

It's not seen as important enough for others.

Just like with a lot of things. Sure you could do a thing better, faster, more efficiently on a PC, but some people just don't care when 80% is good enough.

It's also a smart legal strategy.

Nintendo's lawsuits they won against emulator projects in the past had donation systems as one of, if not the sole main point they drove to win the case.

Because he doesn’t.

The impression I get from SWEs I’ve met throughout my life is that most of them don’t actually care about their job. They got in because it paid well and demand was plentiful.

mobile gaming is much bigger than HN would believe.

A lot of people do in fact, play more than a couple forever titles.

I know multiple weebs that want more powerful ipads to play mobage.

It makes me wonder why he has the job of CEO then if he's so confident that the technology will destroy the world.

Don't worry, I know exactly why. $

Reddit has been shedding its techy enthusiast crowd for the past few years with the combination of policy changes and insufficient moderation against LLM bots. I wonder if that’s contributing.

Your home systems can slot in HBM? Doubt that.

Another issue is that you actually need a lot of money to meaningfully run for most federal office roles, so that's one filter which promotes rich guys who don't care about doing the job well.

To put it another way, I have not participated in a federal election where I was excited about my options, ever. I have always been triage voting in federal elections ever since I was old enough to vote.

So yes, we do vote for our clowns, but only because we're not given any decent options to vote for.

Fortunately, the US giving a lot of power to states means that our more local elections are a lot more interesting to participate in and at least in my state, I have several decent options to vote in people who will make a real difference.

I am not exaggerating slightly when I say that arch wiki taught me how to use Linux

I’ve always been dabbling in Linux since 2007 but I never really felt productive in it until i discovered arch. And it’s outstanding wiki

That would be great if your community only exists in a voip channel