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by fzeroracer 4d ago
I'm not sure how anyone didn't see this coming. Literally every business is working towards a solution where consumers own nothing and they own everything. Games, music, movies. They want to sell you subscriptions to use shit like
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by fzeroracer 11d ago
I'm curious: Why do you arguments against unions not equally apply to employers? Why do you blame the unions and not the companies responsible for it in the first place? Especially when you proudly admit you're partially responsib
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by fzeroracer 13d ago
Because it is trivial to identify the people who vote by mail. This complaint comes up over and over and over and over and over again by people that have spent zero seconds actually looking into how verification is done. You compare the sig
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by fzeroracer 14d ago
While I disagree with The Dark Forest hypothesis, the way AI and LLMs interact with the internet validate the theory in this specific instance. Individuals hosting their own slice of the internet have to deal with crawlers DDoSing them into
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by fzeroracer 15d ago
Posting revenue numbers as an example of a company not dying seems rather foolish. Microsoft's gaming side is floundering and dying and Linux has been growing at an unprecedented rate as a result of Microsoft's decisions. Not to m
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by fzeroracer 15d ago
It's not exactly an old thing. Wizards of the Coast hired the Pinkertons to seize cards and harass people extra-legally as recent at 2023. As I said, even if you remove the legal barriers preventing control over IP companies can and do
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by fzeroracer 15d ago
In a world without patents and copyright, there's nothing stopping companies from just hiring the Pinkertons or something to threaten you into compliance. These sort of 'if we just get rid of patents things will be great' ide
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by fzeroracer 15d ago
I think as a developer this is one of the biggest takeaways I've had from this whole thing. I used to view features sitting endlessly in a JIRA backlog as a bad sign; a signal that we weren't prioritizing the right thing. But in r
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by fzeroracer 15d ago
Profitability can only matter as long as the ecosystem is sustainable; otherwise once the floor collapses there's no more money to be made. A game can be profitable, but when the entire team that made it is laid off or furloughed befor
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by fzeroracer 16d ago
That's the exact sort of thing the military would want us to think, because 'we were hacked by another nation' sounds a lot better than 'we fired the people responsible for food logistics'. You're not going to
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by fzeroracer 16d ago
There's a far simpler explanation than some outside actor (either state sponsored or otherwise) deciding that the best thing they can do is to muck around with freezers. We know there's been a severe rot of operational capabilitie
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by fzeroracer 17d ago
Politicians can only be held accountable as long as their base is willing to hold them to account. And unfortunately the old and wealthy have practiced the maximal mantra of FYGM. The degree with which not only do they hoard wealth but do e
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by fzeroracer 18d ago
How do you know your average AI PR is better than a human developer? Most of the teams that I see touting the benefits almost never review the code that's output, or they offload that process to another agent. Like I see people say t
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by fzeroracer 19d ago
Capitalism has long since embedded itself as a cult of money, which is why it makes debates around it so difficult because people believe they are the Golden Child simply disenfranchised by people refusing to let Capitalism grace them. It&#
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by fzeroracer 20d ago
The backlash has only been growing as the result of a significant number of incredibly sloppy decomps, either creating unreadable codebases or outright being so buggy/inaccurate as to be useless. Every day I see another decomp pop up t
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by fzeroracer 23d ago
This is just false, considering I've lived across the US. My experience has been pretty universally the same whether or not I lived in Texas, Virginia or Washington. People that are incredibly sheltered like to believe that it's u
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by fzeroracer 23d ago
Living in Seattle, people focus a lot on the homeless because it's an obvious problem. The guy screaming at the corner, or the people sleeping on the sidewalk. But I personally think people miss that its a symptom of greater social rot
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by fzeroracer 25d ago
The wealthiest Americans aren't buying shit from China, I have no clue where you managed to get that point from but they're buying boutique shit from Europe or elsewhere. American-made goods have the worst cost:quality ratio for m
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by fzeroracer 27d ago
> We do architecture reviews now. Code reviews are going away because agents handle it. So you already failed the first part of doing your goddamn job as an engineer which is reviewing and owning code. Code review is a vital part of that
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by fzeroracer 27d ago
How much extra do you get paid to drink the corporate koolaid? I ask this because some of the most miserable people I know were the kind of people that were all-in on serving the corporation at all costs only for it to burn through everythi
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by fzeroracer 1mo ago
FYI, Opera didn't fail as much as they sold out. It was still sustainable, but the former founder/CEO left over this spat and formed Vivaldi over it.
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by fzeroracer 1mo ago
> Yes, I understand you want to dismiss works based purely on provenance without actually evaluating it on its merits. I have gone over almost 20,000 games on Steam because I focus on indie game curation. If you have actually paid attent
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by fzeroracer 1mo ago
If you're a gamer: Have you seen the amount of AI slop on Steam? Or the amount of poorly created translations banged out with AI? Or the amount of shitty decomps appearing daily developed with Claude? People are looking for signals bec
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by fzeroracer 1mo ago
Hiding your use of AI will only make things worse when people find out. Look at how badly the CEO of Saber Interactive is crashing out after they lied about firing a writer to replace them with AI.
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by fzeroracer 1mo ago
> Games are literally one of the absolute best uses for this tech. Someone is going to figure out a way to leverage this stuff as a first class function of the gameplay. Player directed assets or procedural world creation, dynamic quests
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by fzeroracer 1mo ago
The US has long gone in the direction of abject mistrust in government agencies, which means large projects are just not feasible. Companies can't pick up the slack either; if they can't build out a new shopping mall without falli
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by fzeroracer 1mo ago
And companies frequently ignore city-wide noise ordinance thanks to corruption and kickbacks.
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by fzeroracer 1mo ago
It's close enough when you consider that the noise from a poorly built data center (ie: most of the ones being stood up rapidly in the current AI craze) can carry noise upwards of a mile plus depending on a bunch of different factors.
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by fzeroracer 1mo ago
This is false and easily provable by simply looking at the location on the map [1]. It's very clear that it's being built near housing and schooling. Especially a big deal as there's been more recent cases of exceedingly loud
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by fzeroracer 1mo ago
> UBI is essentially redistribution from those who work to those who don't work. If you believe this, then surely you also believe pension plans are the devil? If we can't have UBI then we can start by tearing away pension plan

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