I bet that company also employs lots of horses as most engines have quite a few horsepower these days.

Isn't this just identity theft for companies? If folks are liable when scammers pretend to be them and fool others, shouldn't companies also be liable when scammers pretend to be them and fool others?

Weren't they boasting about AI writing 75% of their code shortly before this? They don't seem to be as quick to assign it blame (or even state that it wasn't involved).

My main desktop computer is still a mid-2010 MacPro. At the moment it's still running macOS Mojave because that's the latest version officially supported on it. There are ways of getting newer versions on it, and at some point I may explore them. It's still going strong, though; all the hardware is great, and I'm a big fan of the case design and how easy it is to access its internals.

In spite of what Meta and the article claim, it's not over 4 years old. It was released on May 19, 2019 (easily verifiable).

Sure, but if there's one game that's probably not ideal to run with an additional virtualization layer, it's Dwarf Fortress, known for melting CPUs even when running native.

I wish them success, and I was personally there day one with money in hand, but I'm not going to purchase a copy that won't natively run on anything I've got. I'm sure I'm not alone.

So the original is free for Linux, Mac, and MS-Win, but they're only releasing the commercial version for MS-Win? I guess I can't use the commercialone then.

I'd ask what could go wrong, but I suspect most of us here have read Lovecraft and already have an idea.

The example given sounds more like simple age discrimination to me. The company can't actually fire him that close to retirement age without making it obvious, so theywork in little ways to make his life miserable.

Most of the folks I hear whining about "quiet quitting" seem to be complaining about people doing their jobs for the number of hours they've agreed up front to be paid to do them and not pitch in extra unpaid labor for free. Wouldn't then the proper analogous "quiet firing" be companies that don't hand out extra money and incentives beyond the amount they've agreed up front to pay? Wouldn't "silent quitting" and "silent firing" often describe the exact same scenario, just from different perspectives?

Sure, and small groups of people have been doing so in an organized way for years. See the book Obfuscation: A User's Guide for Privacy and Protest published back in 2015 to read up on it. The magnitude of the impact completely depends on the percentage of people who deliberately try to mess up the data; this is a simple mathematical truth. For the time being I imagine it's noise, but also that the data for individuals who actively participate in such activities is at least corrupted.

Do they automatically increase your salary if you (of your own choice, not being forced by them) move to a more expensive location? If they don't, it's pretty hypocritical of them to reduce it if you move to a less expensive one. I suspect that folks who move to a less expensive location (and thus get their salaries reduced) and then move back will have difficulty even getting their original salaries restored.

Contrary to how it was described here this isn't a new theory. I first read about the "Nemesis Hypothesis" being used as a way of explaining regular cycles of extinction on the Earth back in the early '80s. I can even recall watching a visualization someone made (more artistic than scientific) on an Amiga of Nemesis as a black hole.

This sounds a bit like more mathematically-inclined people describing the old Nemesis hypothesis. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... I don't know offhand how far back this idea goes; I believe it was originally proposed to explain cyclic mass extinction events occurring due to bodies being upset in the outer reaches of the Solar System by a companion to our sun (maybe a brown dwarf, maybe a black hole, maybe something else) with an eccentric orbit shaking things up. I recall seeing a computer visualization someone had made of it (even titled "Nemesis", IIRC) back in the '80s. I think it was done on an Amiga.

These days I play all my games on either the Oculus Quest headset or a System 76 Linux laptop. If your game doesn't support either standalone VR or Linux, I probably won't get the chance to play it.