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Comment Re:Bosses' folly (Score 1) 45

Everybody wants to make the next new thing. Most people don't want to contribute to the thing that's already developing. That's why we have so many abandoned projects, people try to do the new thing and then find out that it's hard. On the other hand, intelligent people aren't going to take a bunch of uncopyrightable and possibly copyright-poisoned code into their projects, so this AI time can't really help those projects along either. All it can safely be used for is throwaways. Who's going to spend real time making sure those work correctly?

Comment Re:Steam average is RTX 3060 (Score 1) 40

Those GPUs are still selling used for $300 or more. That's just too much to spend for a card that's damn near 7 years old now.

The average user already has one.

I'm feeling much better about buying a 4060 Ti 16GB than right after I bought it. I chose it to get a card with CUDA support and also decent VRAM, I mostly play older games so it's generally enough GPU for me. Since nobody can afford to upgrade, it's remained above average spec, and therefore even new games are still being made such that they will run well on it.

Comment hmm (Score 0) 40

Since Rockstar has yet to officially announce a PC version, "this deal will allow Xbox to market its Xbox Cloud Gaming service to PC players who would otherwise need an Xbox Series X / S or PS5 console," The Verge reported at the time.

As we recently discussed here, it won't allow that, whether because they didn't get the rights or because they decided not to do so. I would of course bet on the former, because R* wouldn't want the competition and they are not run by idiots.

Anyhoo, I wonder whether this version of the game will work on Linux. They have historically had a lot of problems with cheaters, which I have both been harmed by and benefited from at different times — when the big cash cheat was happening, they did take away most of the money that was given away, but they let people keep the vehicles and properties they'd purchased. They might well be tempted to utilize kernel-level anticheat, and I don't have Windows on my primary PC at all any more so that would be a hard deal breaker.

R* doesn't need my money, but anyway, they certainly won't get it if I can't run the game. The game probably won't run worth a shit on Steam Deck no matter what, and I imagine that the predictable effects on their decision making process won't be beneficial to me.

Comment Re: I want someone to challenge this legally (Score 1) 194

Even in the USA, it is illegal to use unpaid interns as replacements for paid workers.

I had a coworker at Cisco in Santa Cruz (formerly the office was TGV, which they bought) who commuted from San Francisco who was an intern who absolutely did the work of a "real" employee. However you think the world works, whatever the laws are supposed to accomplish, this is reality.

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