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Valve have the market share because they were good enough, early enough. Half Life 2's launch onboarded hundreds of thousands of users, with many getting the game for free with component and PC bundle-deals. The number of games doubled for the next few years while the traditional development model (fixing bugs before shipping) died. The DIY updaters died with a solid online distribution. The sales went up. The costs bottomed out.
Tim Sweeney could have done all this at Epic in 2004 too. He's said he thought everyone thought it was malware, completely blind to what people thought of in/pre-game updaters and all the other redist crap that shipped with his own games.
Valve's only moat is the software industry being unwilling to count a license on one platform as a license on another. If we started requiring license migrations between accounts, guys like Epic would stand a chance of actually taking some long-term business.
I understand that at a lofty, ethical plane, it's a reflection of value, of growth and progress and confidence in all of that.
But in practice, it's not even gambling. It's humanity's hope bastardised by HFT and recurring insider trading. It's confidence for all the wrong reasons, institutional HODL.
It's a mugs' game.
Setting fire to cash to have the best model that anyone else can also do isn't a business model. They're never going to be able to stop setting fire to cash or they'll fall behind immediately. Their user base will not pay the bills. It's an obviously bad investment.
In the UK, Sellafield was a nightmare. Lots of less serious slip ups and malfunctions punctuated by a few critical incidents, between 1954 and 2003. You might understand why yesterday's Green Party might think it an issue worth pursuing.
This sounds more like tax evasion than paperwork avoidance.
Weird how this stuff only applies when it's not you doing it.
Polymarket: Hold my beer.
We don't know what's next except that for most of us in here, it'll be dramatically different, worthy of a 1970s film.
We don't scream and shout that page nav links all look like content links, after all. Well, maybe you do, but it's not 1996 any more.
I'm not one to ply Plex with praise. They've concepted and birthed every conceivable mistake in the last two years. But the player is a mess. The whole app is a mess. And because they unified, they're all a mess.
People do deserve to lose their jobs over this. I just hope it was the same people pushing for this crap in the first place.
Now I have to decide: vibe code some alterations to Plezy so I can see more than a few things at a time on the home screen, or move away completely. Anyone else facing this choice, let me know what you're doing.
The settlers know what they're doing and know how it looks internationally. While the IDF, government of Israel, and the Israelis who vote for it all vote for this, they consider themselves bulletproof. They're bragging as they ruin these Palestinians' lives.
Just like Iran, this is extremism that has to be fixed internally at a very low level, but it also looks like they're just getting started. I'd make historical comparisons but I don't need to. As standalone events, these are bad enough to require action.
Of course, it's also less safe. But the threat of a quick death in a lithium fire is the only reason some of us get up in the morning.
And if it were just talk, I think people would understand, but it's the mode of discussion, and obvious quid-pro-quos that make it so alien and unpalatable to the actual electorate. And by that I mean everything that isn't a discussion in your office or theirs, with the same treatment they'd have were they to meet with a voter. A cup of coffee and some homemade cake, wonderful. An expense-paid weeklong fishing expo in Bermuda? Nah.
It's hard to have this conversation while the current US administration pillages everything not screwed down and openly give themselves immunity from prosecution, but lawmakers at all levels of all branches should serve the electorate, not themselves. That's the job.
I'm sure your company only does positive, representative things, but the relationship some of your peers have with politicians and judges is unacceptable.
The coasts would be fine, but getting stuff in and out of interior states would instantly hyperinflate.
Why do you think this? People still use open source software and most of them don't immediately turn to a LLM if things aren't working for them, or they want additional features. They have to ask.
What has changed immensely is support. Stack Overflow sites are dead. Forums still get traffic but the impetus to sign up used to be "help me!". LLMs are doing all this work now.
The drive is going remain engaging with people, getting donations, taking about stuff. But I suspect the route into these communities is going to have to evolve.
I had no idea what 13 million gallons of water was until they pointed out it was like when I filled up my olympic swimming pool 20 times. That was a slow summer.
Given the pressure construed on resources, why not use personal or household usage averages?
Maybe ~450 people-years doesn't have the same impact as Olympic pools.
And if multiple people are wondering what something fundamentally is, perhaps it's the pitch, not the people.
If they only bought a CPU and CPUs don't have serial IDs (since P3s and some kooky server CPUs), how could Valorant fingerprint it?
Really reminded me of this classic pitch (and yes I know it's not the original turbo encabulator).
> More over, whenever fluorescent score motion is required it may also be employed in conjunction with a drawn reciprocation Dingle arm to reduce sinusoidal depleneration. The Retro Encabulator has now reached a high level of development and it's being successfully used in the operation of Millford Trunions. It's available soon wherever Rockwell Automation products are sold.
If you trust someone that much, why are you even in the loop? Why are you badgering them at all? This is just bad management pretending to offer underlings autonomy. As soon as it fails, everyone loses their job.
The quality of Google has dropped precipitously. Their AI answers are often a horrible misunderstanding of my query, and the SERPs are filled with ads, preferred content providers and sites that have successfully spammed their way to victory despite having no content on the item I'm searching for (fandom has a billion skeleton sites that just hoover up traffic).
LLMs are often wrong, but they feel like they understand. The UX of not having to fight your way to this stop is dramatically more pleasant.
It's hard to see how Google got so bad at this. Perhaps it's a deliberate enshittification to push people at Gemini but it's been sagging so long now I think it's just their trajectory.
Malaysians poured £10bn into that hole, and the only tennants who'll give them the smallest chance of recouping that money are trillion dollar multinationals.
It's a shame though. The best shopping centres are the ones full of dodgy little shops but they're long gone in new builds now. Cambridge used to have a few good examples but they've all been pushed out.
These new waste charges require administration that put a de facto floor on minimum monthly sales of €300-1500 per-country just to cover PPWR costs. It's insanity.
If you named a Japanese artist or style rather than giving an adjective derived from a country, you might get something that wasn't national wank.
Yes, a human might do this step for you. A mediocre one might not.
I can't imaging Canada would be looking to align its standards and laws with the EU. Don't get me wrong, the EU does a lot of things that make it both safer and better, but it makes things more expensive to make, and that only works when there isn't a wild-west next-door-neighbour. It's hard to compete when your biggest and nearest export market has looser labour and product regulations than you.
Of course Canada can do more trade with the EU without broad regulatory alignment, it just seems weird you'd need to announce it.
Please flood the timber market.