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Comment Re:Oh fuck me (Score 1) 73

And as skins, they have no function other than "something to collect and look at."

My kids are into collecting skins in Roblox and Fortnite and I just don't get it. Back when I gamed, you just pick the skin that's the smallest target and run with it. I couldn't imagine spending real money on this.

Comment Re:failed pedagogical experiment. (Score 4, Insightful) 108

They introduced laptops but they didn't introduce anything that required the laptops.

My kids have school laptops and they are used only as a worksheet delivery platform. Everything they do on them could be done on paper. There is nothing interactive.

And no coding, of course.

Comment I was there. (Score 2) 47

My first gig out of college was as a contractor at MCI WorldCom. The head shop I worked for managed to get my contract paid in full at the start, so I was immune from the layoffs. Management would walk around the cubicle farm with security, and just point randomly at employees. That one. And that one. And that one. Security would escort them out of the building. They didn't even get to clean out their desks. It was horrible. This was in Cedar Rapids, IA, and you either worked for WorldCom or Rockwell Collins, or you moved away.

Comment Re:Multiple rug pulls (Score 2) 90

I pay for an Amazon Music subscription and I have yet to not be able to find something that I wanted to listen to. Music streaming has gotten better in recent years. Video streaming has gotten worse. I miss being able to find anything on Netflix. Now I have to buy a month of Disney+ if I want to watch the new Tron movie.

Comment Re: completely passed me by (Score 2) 41

I'm really picky about audio, but I don't really care about video quality.

Over my lifetime, audio has kind of always been good. Vinyl, high quality cassettes, then CDs. Low quality streaming audio is a step backwards. But I grew up on CRTs and VHS tapes - which, if you weren't there for that, was awful. DVD is phenomenal by comparison. So I've never felt a need for BluRay, 4k, 8k, or anything else beyond DVD quality. And now that my vision is deteriorating, I couldn't tell the difference anyways.

Comment Re:It's as useless as the average human (Score 0) 55

If I search for what type of oil to use in my car, there will be pages and pages of forum posts of people bickering about who's wrong answer is the best. ChatGPT gets it right the first time, and that's amazing considering it's trained on so many wrong answers. And I'd say its WAY more than 90% accurate.

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