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Comment Re: Rust is NOT memory safe (Score 1) 134

That's fine, but remove the “memory safe” label. The “unsafe” keyword is important because it signifies you can't actually be memory safe, performant, and a system language. If you owned a company that produced “nut-free” food, you can't also have products which contain nuts, and always carry on that you are absolutely hardcode nut-free. If your customer base was doing that on your behalf, you should be coming out and publicly making statements that you do not endorse or support that label, and its customer created.

Your other comment, he gets a lot of hate for simply suggesting Rust is not some super language that should take over the world. He makes objectively true statements, isn't biased about it, and holy crap, gets absolutely destroy because of it. I've never tried Rust, I'm not concerned with Rust, but from what I know of its public image, it's the ultra memory safe, system safe, solver of all, language, and time after time, isn't. That's my point.

Comment Almost like any smartphone should be... (Score 1) 17

iPhone users in Japan will see browser and search engine choice screens during device setup, can assign third-party voice assistants to the side button, and can select alternative default navigation apps

Aside from the choice screens, you can already do all of this on Android. Why does anybody buy anything that doesn't give you these options to begin with? That's just asking to be enshitified at some point. Safari is already enshitified.

Though maybe I'm not the typical iphone demographic. I don't use stupid apps. Basically everything I do is in Firefox. With extensions to disenshitify websites. Maybe what separates me from iOS users is when Reddit says "time to sign in with a shitty app" I say "fuck you, reddit" and disable that crap with ublock if I really need it that bad. Whereas ArchieBunker says "oh yay! a new app! There's an app for that!" and then proceeds to hum the apple ad piano melody.

Comment Re:Diminishing returns (Score 1) 61

The value proposition of spending a bunch of money for a slight increase in graphics quality just isn't there for most folks.

The value proposition in a console has never been in the graphics, it's always been in the games. You bought the N64 not because it was 3D, but because you couldn't play Mario 64 on your SNES. You talk about the jump from PS2 to PS3 ... well the PS2 outsold the PS3.

On PC where hardware capability is variable for the same released games it's a different story, where better hardware = better graphics for the same games. But on consoles the games dictate the console not the graphics quality.

Comment Re:The PC will follow suit (Score 1) 61

PC hardware will take a hit for one simple reason. RAM prices (due to the AI bubble).

That is a simplistic single variable (technically 3 variable) view of a very fucked multi-variable scenario.

Yes RAM prices are high, however that is just making and already shittacular year for sales worse than it already was. We have hardware prices raised thanks to tariffs (globally, thanks to Microsoft distributing the loss in profits and not just passing them off to Americans alone ... in a way Trump was right that other people are paying *throws up*), we have had a truly shit year when it comes to AAA releases, major anticipated releases delayed, less major releases were an incredible flop, and thanks to Nintendo for teasing the ability to sell expensive titles gaming in general got more expensive too.

Also there's always a new NVIDIA launch on the horizon. That has little impact, especially considering the cards have been flops in recent memories and there's no reason to think they won't be next year.

Also the Steam Machine was only just announced mid month, so it has had no impact on half of November or indeed any of the shit months prior.

Comment What about the upside? (Score 1) 19

Warmer climate means land will become farmable further north, higher CO2 will mean greater agricultural yields and less severe forest fires, glacial melt will free up more water for agriculture and consumption, and real estate will become attractive in northern latitudes.

Climate change solves the water, housing, food, and air quality problems.

Comment Re:Is Windows 11 the cause of this? (Score 1) 36

Windows isn't the reason for an OS to feel sluggish. Linux would run like absolute dogshit on 4GB if you were to run Teams on it. Heck I disagree with your premise, Linux runs like dogshit on 4GB with a significant browser heavy workload as it is.

Applications chew through RAM. The OS is quite insignificant.

Comment Re:Q:If they have money and think they'll make mon (Score 1) 19

Simply raising money isn't a reason to go public. The reason to go public is fundamental capital flexibility, and allowing investors to flexibly cash in when they want.

The fact that OpenAI doesn't make money is only loosely related to why they would go public. Even if they did make loads of money there would still be good reason for investors (i.e. Microsoft) to request the company to go public. Specifically with a high evaluation now is a great time to cash in.

Comment Re:Good (Score 1) 61

The amount of adults I see wasting their lives away playing video games or digital hoarding is depressing.

How about you spend more time minding your own business, and less time assuming you know what other people are doing? I work my 50+ hours/week. I have "productive" hobbies. I keep a home. I contribute to society. I raised kids into functioning adults. If I want to sit on my ass in front of the tube once in a while who the heck are you to judge? If you were to look at my usage you'd probably assume I was another one of those adults wasting their lives away, but that's about as far from the truth as can be.

Submission + - Swearing Actually Seems to Make Humans Physically Stronger (sciencealert.com)

alternative_right writes: Eighty-eight participants, aged 18 to 65, all in good enough shape to exert themselves physically, were recruited at a university campus to participate in the first experiment.

They each selected a pair of words based on the following prompts: a swear word you might utter after bumping your head, and a neutral word you might use to describe a table.

Then, they undertook a chair push-up, which involves sitting in a chair and, holding each side of the seat, using your arms to lift your entire body weight (bottom off the chair, feet off the floor). ...Both experiments suggested that swearing offers an advantage in physical performance, with participants achieving longer chair push-up hold times as they repeated their foul-mouthed mantras.

Submission + - Want to See a Really BAD Contract? There's abuse, and then there's this... (substack.com)

An anonymous reader writes: Allegedly a press by the name of ‘Shadow Light Press’ had their contract — that they (allegedly) require an NDA just for you to see it — posted on reddit. Folks, contracts are public documents, if someone isn’t willing to let you share it, RUN AWAY. Seriously.

Now, as I said, someone has finally posted it, on Reddit (https://www.reddit.com/r/ProgressionFantasy/comments/1poe338/psa_shadow_light_press_contract/) and it’s not just bad, it’s horrible. Sadly a fair number of people who either didn’t read it, didn’t understand it, and did not get legal advice, signed it.

All of whom are pretty much F’d for life now.

How did this happen? Well there’s a lot of finger pointing going on about ‘discord and community hosts’ allegedly promoting these people and perhaps shutting down anyone who tried to point out the abusive nature of the contract (and allegedly getting scammed by these people as well.) But honestly, the problem is with the people who signed it, for not reading it and understanding it, and getting legal advice.

Look, PEOPLE! NEVER EVER sign a contract if you don’t understand it completely and do NOT be afraid to show it to a LAWYER! Anybody who balks at you wanting to show it to your lawyer is a SCAMMER who you do NOT want to do business with, ever. Yes, you’re excited that you’ve been offered a contract. I was excited when the biggest Asian media company in the entire world came to me with a ‘deal’.

Until after my lawyer saw it and pointed out how I was going to be screwed out of my IP. When we suggested changes to the contract, they balked and I walked (and I know that dozens of poor MF’s fell for the BS and will eventually regret it, if they’re not already).

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