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Wonder if they regret having used that development time on Starfield instead of a new Fallout, because with this renewed interest due to the show a Fallout 5 would have done ridiculously well

And we have been paying for it ever since. They will never make that mistake again lol.

and he’s doing a damn good job at it

The idea of Valve ever becoming a public corp ranks higher in my lists of fears than being eaten alive by zombies

broadband? Isn’t this specifically about cable TV, not Internet communication?

a threat that doesn’t pass even the slightest sniff test, any significant raise in prices would leave them open for a competitor to undercut them.

The tradeoff kinda made sense at the dawn of streaming, when the transaction was basically trading quality for better pricing and convenience.

Nowadays? Yeaaaaah I don’t know about that chief

Crazy to think that we lost all the advantages that streaming offered, kept all the disadvantages, piled on a few more disadvantages on top of that, and people went “sure that makes sense 24 bucks a month worth it bro”

dude think about this stuff before you open the floodgates bro

in certain parts of the world they really ingrained in us that roman numerals are the proper way to do it and it’s very hard to shake off, apologies

Nah, not so much a failure on your part as a failure on the part of a society that elects to glorify people that “move ball good” or “say line funny” over the people that have built the pillars without which our modern society literally would not exist in the same manner.

To paraphrase Churchill “Never was so much owed by so many to a single man”, NTP has been a critical aspect of XXIst century, from making highly complex clusterized systems work reliably to saving you the pain of adjusting the clock in your smartphone. If you have used even a single networked electronic device for a millisecond in your life, you owe the man some thanks.

Subscription-based services already change the agreement of a transaction too much in favor of the provider, because it goes from “convince me that your product is good enough to go through the hassle of obtaining it” to “convince me that your product is bad enough to go through the hassle of cancelling it”. It is only fair to try to tilt it in favor of the consumer as much as possible.

I find Kbin’s Collections feature a good fix for federation confusion. Honestly I think it should be the default type of view when browsing communities, you need to abstract the average user from federation as much as possible and leave browsing by instance as an advance option for those that want to engage with federation in detail

I was ready to go on a tirade about that but I think a better use of my time is to show appreciation for the excellent JoeKrogan username

When it comes to IT, it’s important to keep things in perspective, there’s a limit on how much it can be impacted. It may be able to give you the foundations of that Python code you need, but it sure as hell won’t be able to make sense of the fucking mess that your organization has made out of the venvs (I won’t either, but sssshhhhhh). I think most if not all of IT specialties have that kind of situation.

If there’s anything my time in IT has taught me, is that any solution or paradigm change that gets introduced doesn’t really outpace the difficulties and challenges that are constantly emerging, and more often than not they create their own positions without completely eliminating the ones they are trying to streamline/replace. You introduce Ansible to automate and streamline the configuration of your storage systems, you think the people that were doing the deployment and config until now are now obsolete… Joke’s on you, you now need both the Ansible dev as well as the guys that were already in charge of deployment and configuration, because inevitably something goes wrong periodically, something needs to be adapted to the particularities of the environment, or any other number of other things.

In the short term, yeah, maybe some entry positions might be affected under the direction of directives with lack of foresight, but I hope that, in the end, it won’t end up being as severe as we expect, or at least that there will be an eventual course correction.

Do not despair at 100% is what I’m trying to say.

Only like, 70%.

I hope somebody pokes that professor’s nipples

oh shit

I misread and thought that was physical
whadawhat

“family therapy” is what you are gonna need if you have to pay 100 bucks for a bunch of paper sheets that you are gonna use once in your life, fuck me

I really wanna hear what the proposal is for removing “unqualified” jobs en masse without implementing universal basic income.

The low pay and bad conditions of “unqualified” jobs often gets excused because they, allegedly, are “stepping stones”, a means of sustaining oneself while working towards more specialized careers.

If you destroy a significant amount of those positions, where does that leave those people? Are we so drunk on cyberpunk-esque lust of AI evolution that we are fine eliminating the means of entry to society for so many?

You see, if you pirate a couple textbooks in college because you don’t have resources, but you want to earn your right to participate in society and not starve, it’s called theft.

But if one of the top 10 companies in the world does the same with thousands of books just to get even richer, it’s called fair use.

Simple, really.