Low quality PC to console ports have always existed (and vice versa for that matter.) Define broken - crashing your console?

I'm a game programmer, 20 years in the industry shipping dozens of games across the entire history of consoles starting from the PS2/GC era up to and including the consoles of today. Take it from me, the fact that console hardware is fixed ensures the experience of running games designed to push hardware to their functional limits is far more stable/hassle free.

If you don't wanna play games that do that, then this might not be as big of an issue. But the fixed hardware of a console simply cannot be discounted. Valve is not stupid for making a "verified on our console" program. The console platforms spend OODLEs of money ensuring that console games are by and large rock solid. (Counter examples not welcome, I'm just saying in comparison to the arbitrary hardware landscape of the Windows PC install base)

Also console OSes are designed for their main purpose - turn it on, play the game, stop playing the game whenever you like, come back to the game whenever you like. They're optimized towards that experience in a way that a general purpose PC struggles to do (admittedly Steam's big picture mode is pretty good, but you can't totally handwave away the fact that Windows is running in the background)

I'm not against gaming PCs, I have a nice one, it's my main daily game driver. (Also have a PS5, because I'm not only a developer, I'm also a customer!)

First they monetized loneliness with OF and Tinder. Then they monetized unemployment with LinkedOut, and now they're monetizing homelessness with Air B and E.

Hey, these are businesses that have to make money, so if they're clubbing kittens to death you have no right to complain. Now we noticed you stopped moving and you aren't spending money so we're going to have to ask you to leave or we're going to call the police and film them beating the shit out of you. Thanks for being our customer.

The latest Sun SPARC arrived at the speed of light... unfortunately it still runs Slowaris

If education was an easy fix, we'd have an educated populace and ClickFix wouldn't be a problem.

The fact is, we live in eternal September. No matter how many people we educate, there's a unending firehose of exploitable n00bs arriving to replace them.

If you're going to attempt something outrageous that is almost certain to fail, why not a Space Elevator? On the off-chance you do succeed, that would be a hell of a lot more valuable.

Won't you be proud after your career of denying jobs to men while you pulled the office train. You'll be in your apartment all alone with sobs echoing in your barren womb for the next 40 years.

Hope it was worth it. The guy you fucked out of a career and a family has nothing but love for you. Say hi to your cats.

A baby in a cradle is the wrong analogy -- a better analogy is an internal organ inside a body. Yes, you can (with advanced technology and at great expense) remove the internal organ from the body and keep it alive externally for some time, but it's going to be unpleasant for everyone involved, and sooner or later the disembodied organ will wither and die, unless it is returned to the environment it was specifically evolved to live within.

"Africa" is a continent, not a nation, and the very first sentence of the summary says this is "after more than a decade of planning."

The summary says merchant fees will reduce "by an average of 0.1% over several years" so I'd say the chances of this making anything cheaper at point of sale is on par with the sun going supernova in the next several minutes.

From TFA: out of 15 patients, one patient died during the study. Hope it wasn't due to the treatment...

there are 5 billion Roblox accounts created

5 billion more accounts than you have brain cells, apparently

Yeah - only 5% of ChatGPT users pay for it.

OpenAI's focus, and revenue, is mostly from ChatGPT, as opposed to Anthropic's being from API use (coding + business use).

API use seems more scalable than interactive ChatGPT use, which is limited by number of humans on the planet, with users willing to pay evidentially being a tiny percentage of that. OpenAI already has 800M weekly users, so you are not going to see a 10x increase than that unless they are selling to aliens.

API use has almost no limit since it's driven by computer use, not humans, and other than trial accounts, almost all API usage is paid for.

Most of the talent at OpenAI ends up leaving... typically for Anthropic. Of course if you pay enough you'll get employees, but it seems that's more despite the management rather than because of it.

AFAIK there's only 3/11 of the original founders still there (Altman, Brockman & Wojciech Zaremba).

With a president who solves an existential threat by finding the best expert he can find, and using his own formidable political skills and charisma to run interference for that expert.

Seriously, Comacho was a meathead, but Iâ(TM)d vote for him.