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Comment Kinda puts the lie to the conglomerate thing (Score 1) 20

Amazon has a rather successful software services business under its roof. It started out entirely as an ecommerce business with in-house software. And yet one of its flagship customer-facing business units is using "fragment microsoft tools?"

Let's try a car analogy: this is like learning Tesla is selling rebadged BYDs for half their sales and rebadged Toyotas for the other.

Comment Considering people make up words and meanings (Score 1) 25

As in straight-up invent new nonsense words and redefine existing words to suit their subjective preferences at a lightening clip...the *perceived authority* of the dictionary is very much done for.

Then again the Kids These Days have been playing word games since Plato and Socrates were complaining about how the written word dulls the faculty of memory....

Comment Re: These people are ghouls (Score 1) 59

Not sure if ifs leftist so much as the bleating of aspies being forced to endure the horrors of actually being in the same room as other humans. Because their brains are missing a crucial piece of functionality they simply dont understand how social interaction works or its benefits for most people so they think it's some kind of conspiracy.

Comment RT is responsible (Score 2) 37

Turn off the RT and the performance would be more than fine. Ultra settings often deliver very little uplift over high as is, but ray tracing is so little of an upgrade for the performance cost that the only reason to run it at all is to justify paying $2000+ for a GPU. I think rat tracing is generally pointless for most games as well. The performance cost is not worth the marginally better visuals and most games don't want hyper realistic lighting because it gets in the way of design and game play. No game can truly be designed for it until the technology creeps down into the mainstream and low-end of the market and we're several hardware generations away from that still.

Comment Re:The Right Thing (Score 1) 22

Ryanair wouldn't care about third parties selling tickets for them if they weren't involved in some kind of fuckery of their own. If they want to subsidize certain routes, etc. to draw in customers that's their own business, but Turing around and getting upset at someone else for trying to take advantage of that subsidy isn't any of their business either. While I don't think they're at all obligated to make it easy or possible for any third party to do that, they could solve the problem completely by not engaging in the sort of behavior that attracts these kind of middlemen in the first place. They can have their cake, but that shouldn't act surprised when someone else tries to eat it too.

Comment Re: I've worked at my job almost 20 years (Score 1) 214

When you get that big, it's not useful to think about it as one codebase anymore. Teams of 3-5 communicate together meaningfully and frequently. Teams of hundreds don't. That's mostly a human limitation and it's why managers will silo projects that big and rigidly require ICDs between the silos.

If I were to write a kernel module for Linux and distribute it via a separate channel, clearly it wouldn't be part of the Linux kernel. If it were to be distributed as part of a Linux distro, but not in the kernel git, it's still not part of the kernel codebase. If I do nothing to it beyond that, but it winds up inside the kernel, distributed as part of the kernel, I would argue that I'd still not be part of the kernel dev team: I follow their interfaces, but the communication is very much one way.

Comment it is the econony... (Score 1) 128

the classified reason is the USA economy obviously. It is in bad shape and cheap oil is not helping to keep production going, oil is cheaper now than a few years back. Between covid, the wars, Saudis opening the spigots, the price has been going down steadily. Thus USA is no longer in the way of Ukraine hitting ruzzian oil tankers and facilities and thus the attack on Venezuella (by the way, USA is not worried about ruzzia helping Maduro. Americans have to admit that Ukraine tying up one of America's main rivals, ruzzia, a nuclear power at that, is quite an accomplishment for a non nuclear smallish country, that trump hates so much). Anyway, this is all about oil prices, oil demand and the fear of losing oil revenues, that is the classified part.

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