It's not even that so much as it is making change for the sake of change as opposed for the sake of improvement. Every company is guilty of this to some degree, but everyone can name a few that keep shuffling things around for no good reason. A lot of the time it's worse from a productivity perspective, but I guess that at least it looks flashier.

I'd respect the field more if they told management that the current design is good and that it can stay that way for the next five years while they work out something that might be better and go through the process to verify that. Too often it's them doing stupid shit that screams of them trying to justify their own job position or so that marketing has something to talk about for the next product release.

For seasonal flus you're better off taking a preventative approach than trying to treat it after the fact. By the time the symptoms are showing up there's not much that can be done, at least not in terms of hastening the recovery, beyond getting additional rest and letting your body fight the infection. I just supplement extra vitamin C and zinc during cold season and try to make sure that I don't get generally rundown from lack of sleep or stress and that's been enough to keep me from getting really sick. In the last 10 years I've only had one really bad cold during flu season. The worst cold I had was when I was doing a lot of international travel and sitting in a flying Petri dish for long stretches and having my sleep scheduled ruined on a weekly basis for a little less than a month. By the end of that I think I was so run down that it took almost a month to completely get over that cold.

What's wrong with that? When Apple bought Intel's modem team some years ago the designs they had weren't up to snuff so the iPhone kept using Qualcomm modems instead of being forced to use the inferior in-house solution. They only recently started selling some products with their own modems now that they're close to what competitors offer.

It's no different from you buying something for personal use but deciding to sell it to someone else who would offer you more money than what you paid for it instead of using it yourself. Similarly you may be intent on buying something from some particular company, but change to another that's offering something better for the same price or the same goods for a lower price.

This is an explicit call to jail political opponents.

Why do you think the person you're whinging about for a forum post is a Trump supporter?

I don't really understand the right wing's deep need to completely make shit up. If you are strong in your belief of your worldview, then surely reality should justify it.

No one wants to see you jailed for differences of political opinion. Do get over yourself and your persecution complex.

I'm curious if you'd be comfortable if the people who manage your investment portfolio or retirement accounts were to act that way. Everyone always complains about the other guy being greedy, but seems to overlook their own behavior or that kind of behavior when it's beneficial to them. No one would be happy if their bank forsook their fiduciary duties and lent money irresponsibly and lost their depositors money because they didn't want be seen as money chasers.

It's your money though. Use it how you will. Just don't complain if it doesn't work out the way you wished it would have. The only sort of charity that ought to exist is personal charity. Even that is not immune to scammers and those who would try to take advantage of others, but it limits the damage that can be done.

Eventually the AI bubble will burst and suddenly they will find themselves with a lot of DIMMs and a lack of customers to buy them. The same was true of GPUs in the wake of mining booms that went bust. Hopefully those will come down in price as well because the AI boom took off just as the last mining boom was winding down and the prices are still stupidly high compared to historical prices. At least APUs are getting good enough where they're a viable substitute for people who were fine buying lowend cards in the past.

The generation we've nicknamed the Tide-Pod generation because they were eating tidepods as a TikTok challenge? Is that the Gen-Z you're talking about?

Yeah well my generation voted for Brexit in the UK and Trump in the US. Doesn't matter what generation you are, you're in a fuck off massive glass house.

Man, I need to lay off The Untouchables after midnight.

Also the mushrooms you were eating before the late night film session.

Even if replacing it with a free alternative is possible, there's still the issue of testing that everything still works. Imagine a nice laid out document of some sort where time and effort has been made so that content breaks across pages nicely, captions fit appropriately, etc. such that it's a pleasing document to read. Now change the font and see if that document is still of the same quality. It may still be readable, but subtle shifts and changes will make some aspects of it worse.

A UI might be badly broken if text flows off screen or becomes obscured by some other component. All of that needs to be tested in order to make sure it doesn't cause problems or to fix those problems where they occur. The man hours required to do that will quickly wind up costing as much or more as the higher fees.

What will happen is that existing users will fork over the extra money while moving away from those fonts going forward. Replacement solutions will spring up to fill the gap.

Unleashed dog runs into street and get hit: not the driver's fault.

Driver completely ignores that and fails to stop: very much the driver's fault.

So yeah Waymo weren't the only problem here but they definitely a problem.

It seems like there are two unrelated problems here. First, TFA implies that this is affecting existing games. That is truly a licensing issue, and I suppose a Japanese legal expert would need to chime in: Can a font developer change the licensing conditions for an existing product? It seems to me that this should not be possible.

The second issue is really more of a non-issue. If a studio cannot find an "affordable commercial font", then they should just use a free font. Designers obsess way too much over which font to use, but honestly: most people don't care. According to ChatGPT, there are at least four free fonts to choose from: Noto Sans JP, Source Han Sans Japanese, M PLUS 1p, and ZEN Maru Gothic.

Somehow it's always "both sides...so I voted for the fascist", never "both sides... so I voted for the objectively less bad of a pair of undesirable options".

In other words, people saying "both sides" know one side is worse: you don't have to justify voting for something you think is genuinely a better choice.

I wonder how the UK got into their mess? Could it have been giving the keys to dumbass Tories and folks like Boris Johnson for 15 years? They let a huckster like Farage dupe them into Brexit? You're one the ones pushing us there.

The rot started earlier. The architect of the mess was David Cameron and his minion George Osbourne started dismantling the state to enrich their buddies, and also as an act of sheer performative nastiness. This created the fertile ground for all those weeds to grow. He then couldn't bare to have less power and decided to gamble the future of he country in order to get it. He, and ultimately us all lost.

And when I say lost: don't forget that the court ruled that (a) the election irregularities in the referendum were bad enough that it would warrant a rerun except that (b) it was non binding and advisory and reruns only apply to binding referenda. Fundamentally, Brexit was a travesty of democracy too.

Top management breathing down your neck. Yeah, that'll help.

Why were you considering buying a Dell in the first place?