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• Sure, WSJ. Next do an article on Selection Biaspoptalk.scrubbles.tech ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tired of hearing about “The offshore team”⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Agreed, and I’ve seen way more coming out just because the pay is decent vs just having a passion for it. I’ve noticed they are usually looking for the quickest way out of programming and into management too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple urged to axe AI feature after creating false headline claiming that Lugi shot himself⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Generative AI continues to be a solution looking for a problem.

  It has a very strong future for applications. The current number of applications are extremely limited compared to what CEOs think they are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tired of hearing about “The offshore team”⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll only get worse. Part of being in the corporate world is seeing it normalized so much, but then also you won’t ever make a decent living unless you’re in the corporate world. We’re hurtling towards a cyberpunk dystopia, but there’s more than likely not much you individually you can do.

  Even the major push for computer science you’re seeing is thanks to FAANG companies pushing for more students to enter the field, not to give them a better living, but to flood the market so this exact thing happens, too much talent so they can pay them less.

  Find something, get paid, and make a living for yourself. Corporate world sucks, but we’re forced into it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I predict that this post will get approximately 01000011100101100000000000000000⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  For future people here. They’ll disable the link after a few days.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having Ciri as The Witcher 4 lead will help the game explore the Witcher world's sexism, say CD Projekt⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  One of the best things as playing as a woman in RPGs is seeing how normal that shit is. Like, it’s really normal, and even in a game what I have heard second hand sounds MUCH different when it’s directed at you. Cyberpunk did exceptionally well with it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Frostpunk creators cancel "Project 8" and lay off staff amid concerns that "narrative-driven, story-rich games" don't sell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyberpunk 2077, RDR2 still wasn’t that long ago, Dragon Age Veilguard was actually a success convincing even EA, Star Wars Jedi series, the list goes on. It just has to be a good story, you can’t just slap some boring ass story in there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woohoo! Just in time for the holidays!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m thinking of investing it

• Woohoo! Just in time for the holidays!poptalk.scrubbles.tech ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EXCLUSIVE - Ubisoft Wants to Change the 'Far Cry Formula' with Far Cry 7 and Maverick⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well they just started playing, I’ll let her know it might be changing. The UI and engine are just exactly the same, so they have pretty low hopes so far for it getting better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No, the Nvidia App isn’t killing your PC’s performance⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Any overlay is going to add some level of performance degradation, it’s just how much is noticeable or acceptable. Claiming it doesn’t do anything seems more like this comes from the marketing teams vs the technical teams

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EXCLUSIVE - Ubisoft Wants to Change the 'Far Cry Formula' with Far Cry 7 and Maverick⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Fucking preach. Entire problem with Ubisoft is their “formulas”. Zero risk, zero creativity. Boring games that all are the same. SO just started playing ac mirage and it looks and plays exactly like Valhalla. Which was exactly like Odyssey. Which was exactly like Origins.

  Then they’re all like “why are people bored with our games?!?!!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Two Genders⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  She aged naturally! Ugh, she was my hot sexy daughter in Witcher 3! Why would they… Have her grow up?! /s

  Only thing I’m hesitant about is the actor, but I’m willing to give her a shot. Minor thing.

  I doubt CDPR went into this without knowing how incels would react, and knowing they’ll still buy it. After CP2077 with the whole customize genitals issue (that I’m sure most people had forgotten about), I don’t think CDPR cares. They’re Polish, I hope they laugh at our stupid ass “culture war” bullshit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Wicked: Part Two" gets new title — "Wicked: For Good"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yep, I have no interest in seeing it in theaters because of their shit move there. I’ll acquire it afterwards, if I want to, but even then the insane marketing and the shit Cynthia Erivo pulled against Wicked fans has really bugged me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Wicked: Part Two" gets new title — "Wicked: For Good"⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s like, the length of the entire Broadway show

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which were the worst movies of 2024?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m just annoyed at how all of a sudden people are Wicked fans. It’s been a massive hit broadway show for over 2 decades. It toured in pretty much every American city. I saw it in Des Moines, Iowa for 40 dollars back then. It is not some crazy new franchise people, it was just marketed like crazy because they wanted their own barbie movie.

  But Americans think going to see a live show is pretentions and musicals are stupid. Unless advertisers shove pink and green in their faces for hours on end, then all of a sudden Wicked is the best thing everrrrr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Tangled’ Live-Action Movie Set at Disney With ‘Greatest Showman’ Director Michael Gracey⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Might as well keep cranking them out

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Tangled’ Live-Action Movie Set at Disney With ‘Greatest Showman’ Director Michael Gracey⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ugh.

  The worst thing is that these movies are obviously making money. So many suburban moms taking the kids to go see it and validating it, when it’s so obviously a cash grab.

  I gave up on boycotting years ago. I still am not doing the things, I’ll personally boycott, but I’ve given up on Americans changing their routine at all for even the smallest inconvenience, like showing Disney we don’t want their cash grabs. But Americans just for some reason gleefully hand their money over

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Witcher IV revealed with Ciri as the protagonist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  She a boring normal protagonist? “So WOKE! No point in even making it a woman!!!”

  If she is some badass with special abilities? “So WOKE! Can’t even be a normal woman!”

  Women really can’t win with conservatives. (I know you’re being sarcastic)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Current best video models?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Never heard of it, thanks for the heads up

• Current best video models?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nurse Allegedly Gang-Raped In UP, Stick, Chilli Powder Inserted In Genitals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Downboting because this is NOT “mildly” infuriating

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not going to be banned. It’s a forced sale or spinoff. They’ll still have TikTok. Media just made up the term ban. It’s just that tencent has ties overseas and they don’t want the foreign influence

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨nftblackmagic/catvton-flux A state-of-the-art virtual try-on solution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I live that guaranteed there are companies like Nordstrom who are desperately trying to add this tech and some guy just makes it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah that’s all it really says. Media made it into a ban, but it’s just that China has major influence over it and the us doesn’t want that, so they need to sell it or spin it off to an American company. Or they can shut it down, but no one is just going to set that much money on fire and walk away. The modern world I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some great games that require you to bust out a notebook and pen?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same my friend, same. I’m starting my new factory on Friday and I’m getting ready for the math.

  Btw if you’re not already, we’re here at !satisfactory@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does Xbox backward-compatibility works?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I believe so? I think? It’s been a long time. The only thing I could see that would prevent it is if they require a check when launching it, but I remember if you had the disc in that was enough for it before.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does Xbox backward-compatibility works?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay the other person is onto the right path but not for the right reasons.

  The 360 used a PowerPC architecture, which at the time was very cost effective at the time. Pretty much most things now use x86, our standard 32-bit and 64-bit CPUs are this architecture. (ARM is another type that we are seeing now).

  Now, you cannot run code from one PC architecture to another, even emulated this is a very costly procedure, every call to the CPU, every call has to be translated. Even with emulation this is difficult. (Note how we’re still just now getting 360 emulators).

  This is mostly why Microsoft and Sony both said no to backwards compatibility, because there was no simple way to take a disc, pop it in, and play.

  So after the massive backlash (which they deserved, but also was understandable their point of view), Microsoft created their backward compatibility program. Essentially what they (or developers, not sure who did it) did, was to literally re-compile each entire game for x86, instead of PowerPC. They would then upload the bits to Microsoft, and that is what you download when playing. The disc you insert is purely for checking that you own it, after that you ignore everything else and download the x86 version which is runnable on your console.

  So, it stands that backward compatibility wasn’t feasible, it still isn’t “backward compatible”. They rebuilt everything from the source code to run. A pretty massive effort on Microsoft’s part and the developers just so we could play old games. Hopefully you see too why I don’t blame Sony for not going through all of that, it’s a lot of work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The casual moviegoer is a thing of the past. That's a big problem for Hollywood⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They did this to themselves. Crazy expensive prices, snacks no one can afford, dingy theaters, allowing noisy annoying patrons, there’s no benefit now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brits think AI in the workplace is all chat, no bot for now • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Four in ten employees agree that there has been more discussion about how to implement AI/tech in their workplace than actual change.

  Four out of ten people understand how business actually works