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Re:Software may be getting worse, but it used to be horrible on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @01:31PM (#50262666)
Makes me wonder if a game studio could instead pepper the amount of money it takes to build an AAA title and instead give it to teams of much smaller size, and leverage the radical focus that can come with such arrangements where a team is given finite resources and has to make due, compromises and all.

Bet across 10 teams instead of one, that kind of thing.

Willing to bet a 30 million dollar budget game will play and look great with proper focus.

Even if only 1-2 take off, it’d be overall better wouldn’t it

Re:AI promised less work. I've never worked more on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @11:39AM (#50260959)
I feel like this conflates work with productivity. One can be working more than ever and still be unproductive.

In my opinion what people think is that they will be more productive for the same amount of work, not have more work than previously and still only be approximately at the same level of productivity.

What AI has done to many is create more busywork than it solves in many cases, rather than making me more efficient for the same amount of working hours.

It’s been deployed widely enough that it’s becoming apparent where its lines are from genuine tool that boosts productivity to bolted on and makes things the same or worse, the pipeline for the work simply looking different

Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office on Tuesday October 27, 2026 @09:07AM (#50258630)
As noted, I said they ruined venture capital not that venture capital wasn’t a thing, or VC funding wasn’t a thing.
Re:Behind the scenes at the NeXT Computer office on Monday October 26, 2026 @11:03AM (#50244987)
I feel like the MBA types spoiled everything

Venture Capital, working in the office, how companies operate.

The 1980s and 1990s were largely a scene of people who wanted to be there and were less concerned with KPIs and raising money.

They were engineers or designers first for the most part.

Today’s world one of the first things that happen to any startup is an MBA rolls in to “help get it off the ground”

Re:LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:46PM (#49614868)
The smart answer would be to figure out the expected payload of the devices and send a dummy one that tricks the TV into thinking its phoned home, I suspect.
Re:LG TVs caught spying even when offline or on standby on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @02:44PM (#49614836)
Projectors are still valid, and often superior, alternatives to TVs.

They’re definitely more work to get right though

Re:There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:19AM (#49610708)
I realize that this is a tangent but one of the more sad developments of recent developments as an advocate for open knowledge is how much of it is trapped on servers like discord that will never be indexed by any search engine.

There isn’t even an ability to turn on a feature to have discord chats indexed or anything. I realize it’s not only discord but it’s illustrative of what I perceive as an issue

Re:There's a new "Google Jail" for independent wikis on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:15AM (#49610661)
Shoutout to Kagi search for having a deny list feature. It’s really nice for this sort of thing.
Re:This Month in Ladybird – August 2026 on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @10:10AM (#49610601)
Part of me wonders in a world with evergreen browsers if that long tail won’t simply shrink as time goes on.

I have yet to run into Java applets or Internet Explorer required situations in years. As far back as 2016 I’d occasionally find myself having to deal with both of these things. Still rare in 2016 but it was there.

Eventually I never saw it again.

That said, I’m not sure what gaps exist that I don’t perceive either, so I could be wrong and not know it

Re:Git Submodules as a Package Manager on Saturday September 05, 2026 @01:06PM (#49578476)
Very few languages have also suffered their popularity
Companies attempt to manufacture demand all the time. It’s one of the core functions of marketing.

Liquid Death is a perfect example of manufactured demand.

Re:GitHub has alternatives, but no replacement on Saturday August 01, 2026 @12:23PM (#49135753)
It’s really another way of saying: it needs to meet GitHub’s current utility and functions today.

And one of them is ease of discovery. GitHub make’s it really easy to do that. Same with contribution.

As far as looks go? That’s more subjective.

But the discovery and contributions piece is easy to prove, just look at how much traction a project gets when it’s hosted there versus elsewhere. Even really large projects that has many contributors have moved there like WebKit

Wish they would decouple styling from everything else.

Have a default you can import? Absolutely, that makes sense

But styling by default they you have to make complicated overrides for? That’s the part that gets me

Oh it most definitely does matter, to think it doesn’t makes no sense. The Chinese may be building up their military capabilities but they still spend a fraction of what the US does every year.

They’re different leagues, and in a gloves off war being on the receiving end of the US military would be devastating.

I think if China makes a move it’s because they perceive US political will to defend Taiwan to be weak enough that there won’t be a real protracted fight or escalation.

Which I half wonder if that is why they aren’t more defensive about Iran. Bleed out the political will of the US populace on a war and it’s unlikely we’ll want to support another one anytime soon.

Doesn’t negate capability which is what is being mentioned.
They aren’t. Political will is faulting but the military is holding back on Iran. There is no follow on ground invasion or clear carpet bombing of the entire country. These strikes are all suppose to be strategic. If the US military was waging a true all out war, Iran would be piles of rubble and glass

I am not supportive of war with Iran by a long shot but to see the US military and be like “oh it’s strained” is just not talking from a place of knowing. The politics is straining the military and rightly so, but capability wise it’s as good as ever

We aren’t getting anything like AGI in this current cycle of AI innovations.

At least not what I think most people imagine when someone says “advanced general intelligence”

Which is what we all called AI before the nomenclature goalpost moved

Re:Towards a Harness That Can Do Anything on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @12:44PM (#48923574)
In the age of agents, I feel like BDD is more important than ever since it describes the behavior, and if it does so well it’ll make it much easier for these tools to pick up correct behavior.

Gherkin style tests also come to mind

Re:Briar Is in Maintenance Mode on Wednesday July 15, 2026 @11:36AM (#48922473)
Claude, Copilot or JetBrains AI could also do it
> The challenge still remains decarbonizing the rest/electrification

A challenge that can be more easily addressed if it can scale first to handle induced demand only rather than base load. It’s a smaller problem that way.

It’s not that simple.

For instance, consumers want fast and high speed rail and light rail in cities, yet the federal government is still subsidizing hundreds of billions of dollars to car centric projects rather than allowing municipalities and state governments to have control over those funds they come with strings attached that force them to choose car centric options.

Affordable housing is another example. Consumers want reliable cheap homes but every single attempt to unseat obtuse regulations and policies that make home bulldog a nightmare across metropolitan areas all over the Us entrenched home owners fight in as many ways possible to keep new homes from being built. This pushes more people into farther out suburbs that makes an existing issue even worse.

So no, it’s not all consumer choices, not even “pretty much”.

The false dichotomy that it’s simply choice is not a good faith argument.

The other flip of the coin is this: people can consume in ecologically smart and sustainable ways, and often given the choice they do but lack of choice exists across most sectors that don’t allow them to or are knowingly priced higher than the alternative options due to poor regulation or lack of proper subsidy on the scale of the dirty alternative.

And we subsidize a lot when it comes to oil, natural gas and coal, let alone other industrial polluting industries.

Voluntarily convince? Yes, I agree asking other nations to afford something on top of struggling to afford things is not easy.

However, a global reparation fund would make a difference. Not entirely unheard of for richer nations to fund these things for poorer ones

Steady state nuclear power plus wind and solar would. In today’s world, make the grid more reliable and greener than ever.

Nuclear should not be off the table. It’s safe, it’s well understood, it’s reliable and is a very cheap way to create base load capacity that renewables like solos and wind can build out on top of

This ignores too much to be a good faith argument like lack of options to choose. Ability to choose in absence of regulation, the fact that industry spends millions to curb any regulation and I know ok missing other factors.

Individual choice is actually a small part of this wheel, almost negligible.

The vast majority of polluting is done by industry, and they also do the most not to make things better and actively often try to make things worse.

Re:Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity on Saturday June 13, 2026 @05:09PM (#48521501)
Fixable problems by any measure though
Re:Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity on Saturday June 13, 2026 @04:42PM (#48521238)
This feels like FUD, I have lived in California for a long time and I’m not really sure what it is you’re trying to reference as a negative.
Re:MacBook Neo Is So Popular That Apple Doubled Production on Wednesday June 03, 2026 @01:26PM (#48386930)
I’m not shocked in the slightest. Great price point for younger folks to buy or be given as a gift, the build quality is good for what it is and it is snappy for most uses.

It’s many years too late IMO but I suppose the economics only made sense once they controlled their own chipset. I imagine doing this in the intel days would have been a far worse choice

Re:Go: Support for Generic Methods on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @01:28PM (#48297529)
Dart was relegated to effectively being Flutter. It was originally intended to supersede JavaScript but no other engine would commit to that. It failed at its initial goal and hasn’t really found a footing outside of Flutter.

Carbon is by its own admittance not ready to use and I think mostly relegated to solving Google’s problems with C++ right now.

Both of them didn’t ship with a standard library as robust as Go’s.

One thing that made Go popular out of the gate is it is extremely good fast to build out robust HTTP services and infrastructure.

This is a very common use case and they tailored Go to be a great fit for it. You can build your entire backend without a single third party module if desired using Go’s standard library and it isn’t terribly complicated to do so.

Re:Private Equity Bought America's Essential Services on Wednesday May 27, 2026 @11:04AM (#48295457)
I don’t see how they were ridiculous on the face it. The economy during that regulatory period grew into a huge juggernaut.

Most of the R&D that laid the future of the world happened during that period. The middle class grew to its largest portion during that period.

I don’t think the economy was hamstrung in the least

Re:The Cost of Owning a Home on Tuesday May 26, 2026 @05:47PM (#48286454)
Condo is suppose to be that nice hybrid but they became enshittified long ago and have routinely proven to be bad deals for the average buyer in too many circumstances.

The US doesn’t understand how to make the housing market functional. I’d love to have a condo where a great many things are handled by the association but the math never maths, as they say, and a great deal of the issues is because condo associations aren’t well regulated and they often don’t account things correctly.

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