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  • New Microsoft gaming chief has "no tolerance for bad AI"

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  • That's a bit different, because he's selling finished products. He can just check all the boxes from star wars over dnd to collectible card games and order the value pack from a middle man and then it's all about the location of the shop and the competition in the area.

    You don't have to understand why a specific product works if what you're doing is essentially providing a mixed physical storefront for a bunch of corporations.

    But this lady is now going to have to make important strategic decisions, about which games to give funding, which ones to cancel, what kind of hardware to even envision.

    Compare it to valve, who sat down and build their own controller and handheld, because they looked at 20 years of market and product development and thought they could do better and delivered. You have to know a lot about why you want hardware for what purpose and what makes it better or worse for that purpose to do that.

    XBOX, theoretically, same as any other big name in media, could be the place where a new media franchise is born that dominates the next 50 years of pop culture. THAT is the kind of position this is.

    That they won't because they can't "build the next skyrim / WoW" is kind of the problem.

  • New Microsoft gaming chief has "no tolerance for bad AI"

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  • Being a personal fan of video games isn’t necessarily required to succeed in running a gaming company.

    What the F***, yes it is.

    (that's arstechnica saying that though, not the new xbox boss person)

  • The U.S. spent $30 billion to ditch textbooks for laptops and tablets: The result is the first generation less cognitively capable than their parents

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  • I don't think that's the problem.

    By that fall, the Maine Learning Technology Initiative had distributed 17,000 Apple laptops to seventh graders across 243 middle schools. By 2016, those numbers had multiplied to 66,000 laptops and tablets distributed to Maine students.

    The introduction of the iPhone in 2007 also didn’t help.

    Like, wtf is that sentence even supposed to mean.

    Pretty much every single time someone does a study on "technological* impact on learning" for example handwriting and typing, they mess with the methodology or they don't have a good control group or system. And then the result is always that their traditional system is better.

    They never genuinely switch methods and put effort into TEACHING the new tech and with the new tech. Obviously you can't just hand out laptop and the competence just... diffuses into the kids, because internet. That's nonsense.

    Horvath noted not only dipping test scores, but also a stark correlation in scores and time spent on computers in school, such that more screen time was related to worse scores.

    one guy noticing a correlation better not be "good science" at this point.

  • AI bots may lead to the end of the internet as we know it

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  • openDemocracy’s website has been repeatedly brought down by an army of bots.

    This website uses cookies to give you the best experience.

    See, from my point of view, the problem is that the website is up, not that it was brought down?

  • From 'buy America' to 'bye America', Wall Street exodus gathers pace

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  • Oh, funny, that's how the external link buttons got converted into text, let me fix that.

  • From 'buy America' to 'bye America', Wall Street exodus gathers pace

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  • That's some very good, factual, number based information.

    Someone in the journalism space actually did their job for once.

    One thing that's a bit below the lines is:

    In the last 12 months, the S&P 500 (.SPX), has risen around 14%. In dollar terms, Tokyo's Nikkei is up 43%, Europe's STOXX 600 (.STOXX), has surged 26%, Shanghai's CSI 300 (.CSI300), has returned 23% and Seoul's KOSPI has doubled in value.

    But Dollar to Euro has actually weakened by 11% last year. Dollar to renminbi has weakened by 5%. So a good chunk of that "price surge in dollar" is just due the currency evaluation changing.

    The rest is as "it's all over, panic sell everything now" as the factual part of the news will get

    U.S.-domiciled investors have poured nearly $7 billion into European equity products, compared with an outflow of roughly $17 billion during the four years of Trump's first term from 2017 to 2021.

    U.S. investors are pulling money out of their own stock market at the fastest pace in at least 16 years

    16 years ago was the end of 2009, early 2010, after the real estate crash. We didn't have an official crash yet and people are moving that fast.

    Pretty interesting stuff.

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    Dbzero has Defederated from Feddit.org following its Governance post about the later's "Zionist Bar Problem"

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  • ok.

  • Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.

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  • AA and indy games. A GTX 1060 usually won’t do for UE5 unless you accept severely degraded graphics.

    1. well yes, I do.
    2. I don't usually play games like that, I think, you are free to name a few you think this is an issue for.
    3. indie art isn't that "high cost of investment/valuable" anyway. Meaning, they don't have 500 people creating high vertex count 4k textures everywhere. YAGNI, I don't believe this is an issue in practice.
    4. UE is a commercial engine. With support and dev staff. And subscription pricing and everything. They can optimize?!
    5. Yes indies need to use the optimizations or build them themselves. Skill issue.

    I'm not calling you wrong, I doubt I could play "expedition 33" in "nice graphics", but I have 0 interest in JRPGs, so it's literally not a problem for me.

  • Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems.

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  • That's a weird take.

    I still rock a gtx 1060, I have no issue playing a wide variety of games, obviously most classics and many newer indie titles.

    The games I "can't run" are modern AAA titles that put a lot of emphasis on spectacle and pay no attention to optimization.

    Yes it sucks for people who want new hardware right now because they have literally nothing, but even then something used from 5-10 years ago will play 95%+ of all games, including many many classics and very popular games like minecraft and fortnite.

  • Games you fell out of love with.

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  • I could write a book on eve online. That one is insidious. The hook is that you dream of getting the upgrade, which takes real world time to get, both in farming and in "skill training" time that's passive and works while you're offline but measured in real world time and can only be boosted but still takes months to do. So you sit there and think "oh boy it'll be so cool when I finally can do X" and then you get it and it's pretty much the same you were doing before, but bigger numbers.

    It also got community and then you have friends and don't to leave your friendgroup

    And the devs? Deliver banger shows that show what they're planning. Planning being sort of the catch, because in the nearly 15 years I've been watching what they're doing, they did things I would call "correct", one which they reverted (because the players were running away) and the other which they nerfed.

    More recently skilksong. All the elements for a fantastic game are there, art, especially the music are unbelievable. But upgrade system, the placing of where you can get them, what they actually do, some of the resources and currencies. That part just sucks.

    And for some reason, the game and the community ship the main character and a mass murdering psychopath? Just wild.

  • Deutsche zahlen gerne kontaktlos

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  • Ich halte es nicht für notwendig das zu untermauern wenn die Tagesschau ebenfalls keine Zahlen belegt.

    Der einzige externe Link ist für die Benutzung von Bargeld, nicht für kontaktloses bezahlen.

  • Deutsche zahlen gerne kontaktlos

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  • Im Schnitt wurden 100 digitale Zahlungen pro Person im Jahr gemacht. Das ist schon sehr niedrig wenn man bedenkt was man alles bezahlt. Tickets, Supermarkt, coffee to go, jedes Bier an der Bar...

    Also mal wieder schlechte Arbeit vom ÖRR, so wie man das kennt. Weil die Herrschaften zu dumm für Statistik sind, oder so.

  • Ehemaliger KGB-Agent enthüllt: Kreml hat kompromittierendes Material gegen Trump

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  • Die Frage ist schon was das ist, weil die Sachen die jetzt schon publik sind sollten ja eigentlich reichen, tun es aber nicht?

  • Defence industry in the dark over how countries plan to use €150 billion EU loans

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  • Well I for one am shocked that the companies aren't immediately informed of every secret plan that governments come up with? How dare governments do that?!? Don't they know who those CEOs are?!!!

  • Military Pressured to See ‘Melania’ Against Their Will

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  • The mandatory cinema consumption featuring great leader's family will continue until morale improves.

  • DI.DAY is a Movement to Encourage People to Ditch Big Tech

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  • It was literally started less than 2 months ago, it's going pretty well for a national movement. I don't think it's explicitly limited to German only, if you want to do an event, you can sign up on the website and do it.

  • Kursrutsch geht weiter: IT-Aktien im Minus, Bitcoin kratzt an 60.000 US-Dollar

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  • Zahlen über die letzten 5 Jahre:

    • NASDAQ Composite: 22,857.394USD +8,761.924(62.16%)
    • Nvidia: 183.665USD +168.704(1,127.60%)
    • Meta: 657.61USD+387.11(143.11%)
    • Microsoft: 397.305USD+152.315(62.17%)

    Solange die positiv sind, hat noch nichts korrigiert.

    Oh nein "dritter Tag in Folge" blah blah blah. Geht nach Hause, kommt wieder mich auf wenn wir von Heute aus bei -20% oder -30% sind und der Kurs für mehr als 14 Tage nicht wieder nach oben geht.

    Microsoft ist immerhin für das letzte Jahr negativ aber auch nur 5%. Nvidia ist auch für das letzte Jahr +60%.

  • Stift statt Tablet?: Warum die Schreibschrift ein Comeback feiert

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  • Hab noch keine Studie zu dem Thema gesehen die keine methodischen Fehler gemacht hat.

    Nur zwei der 4 verlinkten Studien sind tatsächlich als Text einsehbar, deswegen würde ich die Aussage wegen fehlender Vollständigkeit der Argument grundsätzlich ablehnen.

  • Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis?

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  • If I search “Iron” on wikipedia I’m looking for facts

    Not what I meant.

    The point is: there is an established group of editors, with established rules and preconceptions, an established interpretation on what good sources are and what a neutral perspective is and isn't, and there is no chance of changing those and that is why I have no interest in interacting with wikipedia in any constructive way.

    I could talk about politics too, I picked video games because I know those articles are also bad.