A big problem is that we now have such big budgets that they need approval higher up, and worse, you end up looking like a fool when your project fails. That is still the case with 100-man teams.

This is not necessarily a terrible situation to be in if it were a startup situation where you could count on having 90% failures and the winner making the whole bucket worth it and people knew and accepted that.

But outside Sand Hill Road nobody gets that, so the strategy is to play it safe, safe, and safe, and then you end up with boring games.

It also doesn't help that it used to be that gamers would reliably update every couple of years, so graphics cards and processes would get faster, and you could make a generic shoot‑'em‑up game that was significantly better than the previous shoot‑'em‑up just because you now had more to work with.

Computers have actually increased in price, so much so that no one buys to update their computers. And at the same time, you need permission from an extremely high level to make games, so you can only make games that are very safe.

Meanwhile, the golden age of indie games is out there. It's never been easier to make your creative game and it's never been easier to find an audience for it.

As a result, there are more games than ever on Steam, and those fun games can last a lot longer because they don't have the marketing budget, so there's no big, immediate launch-month splat window. People will find them on social media, watch their favourite streamers play them etc.

Until we get to a point where games are created by studios who accept that 90% of them will fail, we are going to have interesting games from non‑studios.

That leaves a hole in the options for game development, though. Where are we with games that can be developed by 50 people but not by four? Those games do not have a home right no; They are too risky and uninteresting for the big guys, and they are out of scope for the independent.

The entire game-development business is being torn apart and remodeled by AI development right now. It is very likely that the big companies may never be able to make a game with 500 people.

Many games that were previously too large and required too many people to be feasible for indie developers are now very feasible for them. It's also quite possible that exclusives, such as for PlayStation, will very quickly disappear due to widespread piracy aided by AI powered decompiling. The future is extremely hard to predict at present, even more so than for non-gaming segments of the industry.

I've saved no end of hours of transport thanks to Zoom and Teams meetings, and hybrid is now a thing (just not for me).

Bricks and mortar stores around here have been empty for years in some cases, and I'm the last person in the office who carries cash.

Hopefully with AI we will make things like stonework and indoor plasterwork, hell, even indoor statues, that much cheaper, and we can start creating beautiful places to live.

I would argue that modern art has none. Further, I would argue that art is what speaks to people.

That means that an AI generated image which makes people laugh has more soul than whatever the top selling modern artists was in 1995. By my estimation, that makes a lolcat a better piece of art than most modern art.

That is something that I actually think is true. Of course there are great artists who can show us much, much more than what is inside a lolcat. Its just that I haven't seen one of those in a while.

Artists are concerned for their jobs; That I get. Trying to defend art by claiming magical things like it doesn't have any soul is just cope. And frankly, the more I see of that, the less I care about artists and their real problems.

I admit this is conspiratorical.

I'm clearly part of the target market for this thing. But they think they can appeal to me by making the laptop look like a MacBook Pro. MacBook Pro isn't bad, but there is plenty of room to innovate in looks and port selection.

What isn't nearly good enough is Windows 11. I'm not buying a car just because it looks like some other car if all the seats have been replaced with liquid poo. The problem isn't that the mirror has a different curvature. It's that the internals are filled with liquid poo.

And Microsoft needs to fix Windows 11.

Microsoft seriously needs to develop the Windows 11 Deluxe Edition if they are to sell machines at this cost.

Another thing (that does not really apply at AWS anymore), is that todays's enthusiasts are going to be the future CTOs, and the easiest time to recruit them to your service is when they are still an enthusiast who gets to make decisions on their own because there's exactly one decision maker you have to appeal to and that person really likes to try new stuff.

That's why you can get a free fly.io and why we all use Tailscale. And it works too — if I was in charge and needed it, I would immediately go with Tailscale for a business; I know it and I use it.

You might be perfectly okay with having certain systems shut down, but you probably still want to pay for the archival storage of your important files.

That archival storage might be in several places, including one S3 bucket, whereas there might be another one that, contains copies of scraped Craigslist for X where you'd actually be happy that it just shut down.

This makes it far more complicated to do correctly, and as others pointed out, mostly relevant for hobbyist — this is not something you are going to make a lot of money from.

Better to spend engineering hours making an MCP for the dashboard or improving your Databricks setup.

>You can rename your ChatGPT-hosted URL or connect a custom domain you own. If you rename the hosted URL, the old address redirects to the new one.

This means that, even though it an early access, you are not locked in. Good on them.

Tinder side-stepped this issue when they changed to be a hookup site. The downside, of course, is you end up with a bunch of one-night stands instead of stable families producing babies.

At those prices, it only makes sense to use it for data that never leaves that providers cloud (which I assume, but cannot prove, is their intention).

I imagine I also want a specialized tool for, say, reviewing 3D models before printing them. And they would definitely like addresses to be shown in a navigable map.

But that type of interface already exist (and has been #killedbygoogle) - its Google Wave.

Erlang has had both for over 20 years; it has also had green threads for equally as long—something I don't know if Golang has. I'm sure Golang cannot split itself to run on multiple machines with its actor model. Erlang can.