thesmokingman
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- Comment on hotwheels sisyphus 3 hours ago:
You need pictures to really understand this.
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- Comment on It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (Opinion) 1 week ago:
Multiple teams are being cut, at least at Arkane Austin. I don’t know the total heads rolling. Many of my friends are now out of a job. The severance isn’t terrible, at least for some of the engineers. That’s not better than a job, though.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
I’m not gonna lie I found he died today when I was double-checking the spelling with a quick google. I then had to check the timeline to make sure he was actually involved in the sale.
Basically selling user data from BNET didn’t work out and after the year of flops the board got antsy. Still blame Altman tho.
- Comment on Microsoft Closes Redfall Developer Arkane Austin, Hi-Fi Rush Developer Tango Gameworks, and More in Devastating Cuts at Bethesda 1 week ago:
Robert Altman continues to fuck people with that sale
- Comment on Microsoft is a national security threat, says ex-White House cyber policy director 1 week ago:
Users aren’t responsible for the plethora of security issues Microsoft regularly releases.
- Comment on 🔔 SHAME 🔔 2 weeks ago:
That does not make one set more infinite than the other. You cannot be more unending than to literally have no end.
Your use of language is incorrect. But, since you’re clearly the only published expert with any experience in this topic on the internet, it’s really not worth pointing out that we fall on two sides of the standard axiom of choice debate since you already knew that. Have fun!
- Comment on 🔔 SHAME 🔔 2 weeks ago:
This is incorrect. There is not a one-to-one and onto mapping from the natural numbers to the real numbers ergo the sets have a different size. We have defined words to describe this. We can put uncountably many copies of the natural numbers inside of the real numbers so there are arguably infinitely more reals than naturals.
Granted you have to accept the axiom of choice for any of this.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
This doesn’t appear to cover the cost of the electricity it would take to keep your stuff running. There is no way to pay anything out at all. Seems like a pretty straightforward pump-and-dump where the end users are collecting imaginary points while some company abuses their resources. Every blog and Reddit post I looked at to try to understand this was full of referral links. Equally classic sign of pump-and-dump pyramid scheme.
- Comment on You have to type www. to access the Texas DMV website. 5 weeks ago:
If you find the relevant department and start harassing them on Twitter and other socials at least once a day they will eventually fix it. This has happened before with other departments and security issues. My record is eight days.
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 5 weeks ago:
See my link for 47. Its Wikipedia has more context. If you’re a Star Trek fan, you’ve seen it a ton.
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 5 weeks ago:
42, 47, and 50 all make sense to me. What’s the significance of 37, 57, and 73?
- Comment on How does data sent over the internet know where to go? 1 month ago:
The simplest explanation is that my computer doesn’t know where to go for everything but does know where to go to get answers. It sends its traffic to the place that will know where to send things. Rinse and repeat until you finally hit the place you wanted to go.
A more complete answer if you chase everything down is the traceroute manpage.
- Comment on Users ditch Glassdoor, stunned by site adding real names without consent 1 month ago:
They already did that. They companies the tools to remove negative reviews. Glassdoor has not been much different from BBB for some time (if not all time).
- Comment on tesco and sainsburys hit with technical issues 1 month ago:
It doesn’t sound like you’re aware of PCI DSS
Regulatory burden aside, you don’t do data analysis at scale running “some big wigs’ nephew’s VB/C# app.”
- Comment on Can you use an oil lantern inside of a wood stove for all night heat? 4 months ago:
It never hurts to pack a battery-powered carbon monoxide detector when you’re experimenting with something like this.