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What’s happening is that support from VC money is drying up. Tech companies have for a long time survived on the promise that they will eventually be much more profitable in the future. It doesn’t matter if it’s not profitable today. They will be in the future.

Now we’re in a period where there’s more pressure on tech companies to be profitable today. That’s why they’re going for such anti consumer behaviors. They want to make more with less.

I’m not sure if there’s a bubble bursting. It could just be a plateau.

Isn’t problem solving mostly put things together of what you’ve learned before?

Haven’t read through this, but this sounds like what C++ is to C. I’m not sure adding more complexity and features to an already complex language is the right way forward. What is needed is a language that cuts down all the burden that has accumulated in C++ over 3 decades.

Something like Zig sounds like the better path forward to me. A completely new language from scratch with cross interoperability to C++. I’m surprised it’s not mentioned even once in the page.

Imagine doing whatever I want with my free time.

It’s an entertaining video. I watched it to have something in the background while doing chores.

It was featured in a PlayStation showcase last year. The most notable part of the trailer was a burger. I’m not kidding.

Joseph Anderson has made a similar trolley challenge. It’s a cinematic masterpiece: https://youtu.be/RgqRIFj4Zrk

Right now I’m mostly using the Xbox One controller (on PC). It’s a controller that feels really good to hold. No weird gimmicks like motion control either. I think it’s one of the all time greats.

Runner up is GameCube.

Shit in terms of having no players and being pulled back after just two weeks.

From what I understand, the game itself was alright. It had no major technical or gameplay problems. At least the team of programmers and game designers were competent.

The main issue is that the game was incredibly unappealing, and I believe this can only come from poor leadership.

It’s probably not even the artists fault it turned out this shit. My gut feeling is that the game is victim of incompetent leadership. Indecisiveness on important matters and micro management on stupid things.

It’s also the same incompetent leadership who will get bonuses and promotions after this.

Sony has weird priorities. There are probably many who started with Elden Ring and would love to play From’s other titles. Easy money.

Nah, let’s waste $100 million on the biggest failure of all time.

They’re lobbying so they can make more money from cryptocurrency. It’s not going to benefit the common folk in any way (unless you believe in trickle down economics).

Reserves = USDT, which is definitely backed by real USD.

and you’d have the same problem cryptocurrency has.

No, that’s not going to happen. The reason why cryptocurrencies must rely on a consensus algorithm is because the order of transactions matter. One transaction can make another transaction impossible depending on which one comes first.

Fediverse doesn’t have this strict condition. No post and comment can make another impossible. It’s also not the entire world if a post is lost.

There’s a huge difference.

Fediverse uses almost no energy compared to Reddit and Twitter. This is because few people are using fediverse alternatives.

Bitcoin uses more energy than entire countries, despite few people using it.

In my team we use both Linux and Mac (I don’t want to disclose my company, but it’s in Sweden). IT isn’t entirely happy about some of us using Linux because it’s more difficult for them to administer the computers (i.e. install spyware), but so far they’ve been unsuccessful in making us switch.

Both Black Mesa and the original are great. I’ve played both almost back to back, and I enjoyed both.

There are things the original does better, and there are things Black Mesa does better. Personally I slightly prefer the original.

Half Life 2 is a masterpiece, and you don’t need to play the original to appreciate it.

I’ll revise my opinion when Valve changes to a more overtly predatory model of capitalism

I believe as long they’re not publicly traded )and Gabe is in charge), that’s not a concern.

Being public (or owned by a publicly traded company) tend to bring out these nasty traits. It’s more about finding ways to bring value to shareholders than the customers.

For each steam power there are thousands of similar inventions that never see the light of practical use cases. We just remember those that had significant breakthroughs.

That doesn’t mean cryptocurrencies is like steam power.