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Comment Late to the party (Score 1) 31

I assume anybody interested in playing XBox games on a PC already has Xemu (XBox), Xenia (XBox 360), and tools to rip discs and play virtually any game they like through emulation. About the only thing Microsoft could add of value would be live service features like trophies, DLC etc. and that's a pretty weak value proposition.

Comment Re:Not sure why they don't do what Google does (Score 1) 53

It's not one or the other. A car can do mundane stuff, and provide rapid response in emergencies like collisions or skids, but having a human being who is attentive and capable of dealing with random events is also important.

And that's because autonomous cars with their "extensively trained algorithms" demonstrate repeatedly that they can fail in very stupid and systemic ways. e.g. if the software in an autonomous car does not stop for a school bus then it is a problem affecting all vehicles.

Waymo, which can be considered the best of self driving platforms, has suffered many such issues by its own disclosure. And other platforms are likely to be far worse, since they are not forthcoming with issues.

Comment Re:Rust is a tech debt killer (Score 1) 121

Rust catches bugs early by language design, enforcement at compile time and if necessary with runtime panics. So issues that would follow C/C++ into executable code and may not trigger until the code is in the hands of customers aren't even allowed to happen.

It's still very easy to write application level bugs in Rust but having the door closed on so many by design means less overall. Other niceties like not having to write headers and sources, integrated unit testing, package management, cross compilation also make it a far more pleasant experience.

Comment Re:Not good timing (Score 1) 67

Actually it's 3200 and that's not including all the staff disappearing with the sale of some major studios. Basically this is an evisceration and it is clear that the XBox the console is fucked, and what remains will focus on casual and lame content - more Minecraft, more Candy Crush and similar slop.

Comment Re:What year is it? (Score 2) 93

This is also WSL. The container runs against WSL except the command line tool also sets up the cgroups, fs, network at the same time. At present if you want to run a container in WSL you need a shim Linux image like docker-desktop, or install docker daemon / systemd on Ubuntu running under WSL to do this set up.

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