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Comment Re:Who's surprised? (Score 1, Troll) 9

Many businesses don't care about the people that work for them because they only view them as liabilities, not as assets.

More accurately, zero businesses care about people who work for them, because businesses are legal fictions, which only exist in the legal system. They don't have brains, hearts, or emotions. People who work for them might care, but as the business increases in size, that becomes decreasingly relevant, and once it becomes publicly traded the shareholders can act to remove officers who don't follow the charter. And while corporations aren't legally obligated to maximize profits by default, the charter pretty much always says something about that, as that's why people invest.

A sole proprietor might care about you, and that might even be relevant...

Comment Re:Graaa! We Must Secure The Code!! (Score 3, Insightful) 44

Maybe there will be software jobs in the future after all?

AI may be what gets the industry to start taking security seriously. Most computer systems are designed with security as an afterthought, tacked on at the end. Performance has been the primary selling point. But now that AI makes it feasible to find holes that previously would have required a lot of manpower to exploit, perhaps we will see the focus shift in that direction.

Comment Re:Great value for money (Score 1) 44

They know they cannot scale to sort this out so they have to get the contractors in which is its own bag of issues BUT they are working the problem.

But the problem is that they cannot scale to sort this out. Where you see a commitment to good security, I see that BofA has been punting on security and failing to meet their commitments to their customers, and that culture has now come to a head with the catalyst of AI leaving them no choice but to scramble frantically.

Comment Re:What do you actually get from the newest consol (Score 1) 70

That sounds a bit circular there. The argument is to get the newest hardware to run the newest software, but the newest software is specifically written only to run on the newest hardware - actual benefits of the hardware be damned. Certainly Sony and Microsoft wouldn't be selling these newest consoles if there wasn't money to be made doing so (regardless of where the profit actually lies for them).

It's just a hugely diminishing return at this point from my perspective. 2nd generation consoles -> 3rd generation consoles was a tremendous leap. 3rd generation -> 4th generation was a tremendous leap as well. 4th generation -> 5th generation was a bit less of a leap than before. 5th generation -> 6th generation was still significant but still smaller than before. We're now in the 8th and 9th generation of consoles, and not only do many people find the 8th and 9th generation titles indistinguishable from each other, many people have a hard time seeing benefits of even the 9th generation over the 7th generation.

Obviously the whole bit still makes a ton of money. Obviously folks don't care what I think of it. I'm going to say it anyways. Maybe I'll go yell at a cloud after lunch.

Comment Re:Not impressive at all. (Score 0) 82

"To store" is definitely the last thing I give a shit about, but it's also true that Steam is impressively bad. Even after they've recently allegedly given it a major makeover, it's still absurdly slow to launch. Forget "to store", how about just "to a window"? Even that takes longer than it should take to get to your library.

I don't let Steam start on login on my Linux system, but I do leave it running once launched, I guess so that it can semi-randomly decide that now is a good time to process some shaders. Of course it's actually just a stack of web browsers dressed up as an application, which is why everything about it is slow. I get that it's sharing content that is being put on the web so nothing else makes sense, but ugh.

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