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New comment by asylteltine in "Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees"

asylteltine — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:24:09 +0000

I really liked the universe and characters which is why heroes of the storm was so cool. But of course they killed that off. Their classic games aren’t just about the gameplay it’s the universe too.

New comment by asylteltine in "Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine/Proton performance improvements"

asylteltine — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 19:22:06 +0000

Wow that’s huge. I hope this makes it way into proton. It’s getting to the point where windows is going to be mostly irrelevant for gaming, and ideally, for everything!

Mac is a better experience for every single thing other than gaming (that may change soon too). My steam deck is an amazing mobile gaming device. I’m hoping one day I can actually just steamos on my gaming pc and dump my last vestigial windows install.

New comment by asylteltine in "Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees"

asylteltine — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:30:54 +0000

I agree. D3 at launch was meh but over time became excellent and super fun. D4 at launch was good but then it wore off and everyone I know stopped playing even one person who was a d3 fiend.

New comment by asylteltine in "Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees"

asylteltine — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:29:53 +0000

The blizzard you know is completely dead. No one from their classic games is around. No one who made Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft, etc is around. Those games were made as a labor of love.

New comment by asylteltine in "iPhone apps harvest data when they send you notifications, researchers find"

asylteltine — Thu, 25 Jan 2024 15:28:16 +0000

This is why websites push you to apps. Venmo recently stopped me from transferring money using web even though it worked just fine a month ago!

New comment by asylteltine in "eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce"

asylteltine — Wed, 24 Jan 2024 14:08:49 +0000

11,000 people can’t make a database/schema that can store their data such that they stop purging listings! They literally have to purge listings due to their design. It’s so annoying

New comment by asylteltine in "United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing"

asylteltine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:22:41 +0000

In and out is SO overrated. Their burgers were meh and the fries were dry as hell. I would rather eat at McDonald’s any day of the week.

Public ownership is great and doesn’t necessarily lead to shitty products.

New comment by asylteltine in "United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing"

asylteltine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:21:00 +0000

Ha, as if I would ever get on a Chinese plane. Have people learned nothing?

New comment by asylteltine in "United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing"

asylteltine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 18:20:19 +0000

They already supply a ton of smaller aircraft and short haul routes for regional carriers. They would not replace Boeing though

New comment by asylteltine in "Sex differences in work preferences among gifted men and women"

asylteltine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:21:32 +0000

> Males are obviously preventing females from taking more risks and forcing them to work under 40 hours.

This is a claim that just smears all men without evidence. How are all men obviously forcing women to work less? Have you considered that women prefer to work less and make less money in return for a quieter life?

New comment by asylteltine in "Sex differences in work preferences among gifted men and women"

asylteltine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:19:44 +0000

Such as?

New comment by asylteltine in "Sex differences in work preferences among gifted men and women"

asylteltine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:12:25 +0000

Isn’t everything biological? How can something magically only be cultural? There is a root of behavior and that’s biology. Men are on average larger, more aggressive, stronger, etc. of course this would influence culture.

New comment by asylteltine in "Why are we templating YAML? (2019)"

asylteltine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 14:08:35 +0000

So true. I abhor yaml. It’s impossible to know correct indentation without a plugin that shows it which isn’t available in many cases where you edit yaml. It’s whitespace sensitive. The data types are not obvious. It’s just all a round bad

I love json. It’s explicit and easy to read. We should just be using json for everything that needs to be human readable.

New comment by asylteltine in "Dana-Farberications at Harvard University"

asylteltine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 04:19:40 +0000

Going to schools like Harvard is 90% about networking and 10% education. Harvard dudes hire Harvard. It’s gross

New comment by asylteltine in "Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead"

asylteltine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 03:53:28 +0000

Is the economy bad? Seems fine to me. In general a “bad economy” seems entirely made up. It’s not like the money just disappears. I think it’s a concept invented to facilitate wealth transfers.

New comment by asylteltine in "Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead"

asylteltine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 02:09:18 +0000

Any time I see a title that talks about the future, changes, a message from, etc I assume it’s some ceo bullshit talking around doing layoffs

New comment by asylteltine in "Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead"

asylteltine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 02:08:29 +0000

Why is everyone doing layoffs at once? Is it just in the news now or are they taking advantage of everyone else doing it?

New comment by asylteltine in "Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service"

asylteltine — Tue, 23 Jan 2024 01:04:53 +0000

And promptly killed by Google a year later

New comment by asylteltine in "Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of 6 Papers by Top Researchers"

asylteltine — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 19:11:32 +0000

I don’t think hard sciences are 50% but still too high. But that’s just the data people looked at. There are so many papers and studies being submitted, who knows how many times a researcher fudged a few values to make the effect size bigger? I personally witnessed this in academia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

New comment by asylteltine in "Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of 6 Papers by Top Researchers"

asylteltine — Mon, 22 Jan 2024 18:01:07 +0000

I don’t trust anything coming out of academia anymore. First we had over 50% of psychology being nonsense, then sociology (not surprising), then the hard sciences too. But then we also have the rampant ideology problem where you are forbidden from even researching certain topics/questions and if you do, you are blacklisted. They need a hard reckoning. What happened to science? Who cares what the ideological implication is? The truth is the truth.

The icing on the cake is when these frauds retract their papers, NOTHING happens to them. Nothing.