jmcs

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[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 21 points 5 days ago

I believe this is what he wants. I even believe he's doing everything to convince his bosses that Xbox consoles have a future. I also would suggest everyone working on the Xbox hardware team to keep their CV updated, because when your boss starts talking about your team "definitely" having a future there's at least a 50% chance of layoffs not being far behind.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 19 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Techbros see all cyberpunk as an utopia, Zuckerberg even renamed his entire company after the Metaverse in Snowcrash when that's one of the obviously dystopian cyberpunk worlds.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 42 points 1 week ago (4 children)

(Good) cyberpunk was always a documentary done through a slightly distorted mirror lighten up under neon glow.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Their lack of a patent for controller vibration prevented Sony from having vibration on Sixaxis - notice that despite all the BS that it interfered with motion sensing, Dualshock 3 came out just a few months after Sony managed to settle the suite with Immersion.

Since there's no penalty for making a patent and not using it, it's probably cheaper for Sony to pre-emptively register everything that comes from brainstorming sessions.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 26 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Sony patents random stuff just in case all the time. It doesn't mean it's ever going into a an actual product.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 1 points 2 weeks ago

Probably Starfield would be the Bethesda game to benefit more from it. At least they could make cities feel like cities.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 16 points 2 weeks ago

The theorem is not misleading, it literally states infinite monkeys. Not 200k monkeys or even 200 decillion monkeys, infinite. If it's possible for the monkeys to press the keys in the right order, then the time it will take for one of them to write Shakespeare's complete works will be limited only by their typing speed.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 3 weeks ago

I don't know. Personally I'm a fan of Piyu style reeducation (or at least a more modern and humane version of it).

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 20 points 3 weeks ago

This is the gaming version of XKCD 1172.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 children)

That doesn't help if they have software that assumes it can reach all sites. I remember a few years ago AWS had a EC2 outage in eu-central-1 because of 1 of the Availability Zones went down and the service that allocates instances threw a 500 when it failed to get that AZ's capacity instead of just allocating the instances to the other 2 AZs.

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Instagram was already forcing people to self-censor before TikTok became a thing

[–] jmcs@discuss.tchncs.de 106 points 4 weeks ago (8 children)

Social media forcing people to see self-censorship as normal has to be in the top 5 of the most harmful things they are doing.

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