Sestren

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[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 75 points 4 days ago (1 children)

All of this anticheat bs is still making the baseline assumption that the problem needs to be solved at the expense of the players.

It's illegal to steal someone else's property. We don't enforce that law by cutting off everyone's hands preemptively so that there is less demand on police to solve a problem that hasn't happened yet...

If people are assholes and go against the wishes of society, you police and moderate them. If they can't moderate their platform, that isn't the fault of the community - it's a failing of the corporation. It's such a ridiculous mindset. It's a fucking video game...

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Didn't calculate the price by weight. Just took the number from the 6" cube here and extrapolated from that since it was the easiest math.

https://shop.tungsten.com/tungsten-cube/

The 5' cube is 1000 times the size of the 6" cube and the 6" cube is $15k. The prices don't scale up linearly though. The smaller cubes are better value by weight.

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 143 points 1 week ago (24 children)

Assuming that's about 5x5', and going by the price of the first tungsten cube found on Google, this would be worth about 15 million dollars. Decent prize of you could move 150,000lb.

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago

My office laptop will never shut down normally if I have anything to say about it. If it's 4pm they aren't taking any more of my electricity until 8am tomorrow.

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

99% of the time you can just spoof the user agent and it'll work perfectly fine. They only restrict it because they won't hire enough developers to provide support for multiple browsers.

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 15 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

How does the title victimize Google?... It literally just summarizes the article, and then in the first sentence of the actual article they flat out call Google an illegal monopoly.

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Honestly, it never got big enough for that to even matter. It just lost the content war to the PS2 Xbox and GameCube. Shenmue, Jet Set Radio and Sonic Adventure aren't exactly enough great exclusives to justify buying the non-Halo machine or the console built by the company that "won" the previous generation.

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 14 points 1 month ago (2 children)

AI coding assistance is good for the same stuff you would have put through a tool assisted service previously anyway. Regex and other forms of complex pattern matching are way easier for a computer than a human. The only difference now is that you can just write out the problem plainly instead of in tiny chunks.

I recently had to write a script to parse an nginx log for unique entries with very specific criteria that could vary depending on other criteria, and then do some crap to manipulate that data and use portions of it for API calls to other more complicated shit. Figuring out how to properly parse that data manually would be mind numbing. AI does it instantly.

That's not to say that the entire concept as a marketing ploy isn't complete bullshit, but if it were just used for the crap it's good at, it would actually be a net benefit to society.

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 71 points 1 month ago (1 children)

You underestimate the capacity for corporate pettiness

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago (1 children)

The self checkout line in a Walmart after an especially hot summer day.

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago (4 children)

Less than half, but let's be honest here. It's because she has more money than him : P

[–] Sestren@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

People still unironically use chrome?

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