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New comment by wtetzner in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

wtetzner — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:48:24 +0000

AFAIK they stopped losing money on PS5's about 8 months after release.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/sony-says-499-ps5-no-longer-sells...

New comment by wtetzner in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

wtetzner — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:46:24 +0000

The way things have been going, it seems unlikely we'll see a price drop any time soon.

New comment by wtetzner in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

wtetzner — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:44:31 +0000

Neither of those things make it any less ridiculous. What it really amounts to is that you're not really purchasing the hardware.

New comment by wtetzner in "PS5 Relapse Exploit"

wtetzner — Wed, 30 Sep 2026 20:35:45 +0000

> If Sony and MSFT decide to go down this route and it's the only way to play blockbuster games, it'll happen whether we like it or not because the market cares far more about playing the latest game than it does maintaining control over its own destiny so to speak.

Maybe, or maybe it'll live a giant gap waiting to be filled in by a new competitor in the console market.

New comment by wtetzner in "A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]"

wtetzner — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:31:16 +0000

Just because something is due to incompetence instead of malice doesn't mean they shouldn't be held accountable.

New comment by wtetzner in "A Privacy Analysis of Web and Mobile Conversational AI Agents [pdf]"

wtetzner — Tue, 29 Sep 2026 14:29:18 +0000

You don't store your password in the URL.

New comment by wtetzner in "GUIs should be fully keyboard-driven"

wtetzner — Sat, 29 Aug 2026 15:17:29 +0000

Couldn't you distinguish things by their grayscale value? Then you change the hue on top of that for people who can see color.

New comment by wtetzner in "The entire city of San Francisco as a video game"

wtetzner — Tue, 25 Aug 2026 13:35:40 +0000

On my phone I was able to just touch-and-hold on the screen to move the camera. I assume on a PC you can just use the mouse to control the camera.

New comment by wtetzner in "Rust Glancer: Rust LSP using 100x less RAM"

wtetzner — Sat, 22 Aug 2026 01:47:52 +0000

Then why not just ask the LLM to explain what LSP stands for?

New comment by wtetzner in "Semaglutide linked to lower predicted dementia risk"

wtetzner — Sun, 16 Aug 2026 04:35:12 +0000

It's not just habits. It changes the composition of your gut microbiome, hormones, etc. All of that can make changing your diet much harder than one might think.

New comment by wtetzner in "How to read more books"

wtetzner — Mon, 13 Jul 2026 17:26:28 +0000

This sounded weird to me at first until I realized that this exactly what I do when watching a movie with subtitles.

New comment by wtetzner in "Physical disc production ending in Jan 2028 for new games on PlayStation"

wtetzner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:54:59 +0000

I'm wondering if going back to cheaper and less capable hardware will actually result in better games. Forcing creativity, and maybe (by necessity) dropping the constant push for higher fidelity graphics. I think that push for fidelity is so costly that a large number of game developers don't even attempt to innovate in the rest of game design anymore.

> For the ps6, they were already done with design and they'd need to let that go to waste to not put it out.

I guess nobody can predict the future, but this sounds like the sunk cost fallacy. E.g., if it's not going to sell well enough to recoup manufacturing costs, then producing the console will be more costly than just wasting the design effort anyway.

Maybe they don't need mass market sales to at least break even?

New comment by wtetzner in "Odin, Wikipedia and engagement farming"

wtetzner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:48:45 +0000

> The author knows the orientation of his language better than anyone else.

^ I was only addressing this comment, not the specifics of Odin.

> Odin is a general purpose language; is capable of being used in numerous different areas from application development, servers, graphics, games, kernels, CLI/TUIs, etc.

I would argue that being capable of doing anything is not in conflict with being oriented around something specific. Any Turing complete language is capable of those things.

Again, I don't even know Odin, so I'm not addressing whether or not it is game dev oriented. Only that the arguments themselves don't seem sound.

EDIT: grammar/formatting

New comment by wtetzner in "In Emacs, everything looks like a service"

wtetzner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:42:01 +0000

> that seems backwards to me

I'm not sure I completely understand which part you find backwards. Do you mean merging language runtimes and the OS is a bad idea, or that you think merging them would lead to more innovation?

I can see an argument for both (in terms of innovation), but being able to run only one language environment on a computer at a given time would make it much harder and heavy weight to use new languages. Or at the very least, new language runtimes.

New comment by wtetzner in "In Emacs, Everything Looks Like a Service"

wtetzner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:35:25 +0000

Yeah, I kinda feel like when you're mentoring people, you should let them drive. If you're going to do it for them, you might as well just record a training video.

New comment by wtetzner in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

wtetzner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:33:50 +0000

This was already addressed:

> But with LLMs generating 7101 commits in less than a month that isn't feasible.

I don't think trying to understand LLM generated code is feasible for anything other than very small projects. IMO it's a big problem with using LLMs for coding. Sure, they can generate a bunch of stuff, but in some ways that just makes the real problems of software development even harder.

New comment by wtetzner in "A Love Letter to Flashcards"

wtetzner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 16:31:09 +0000

I kinda feel like using memorization techniques for things that require deeper understanding probably isn't the most efficient way to learn.

IMO you want to be actively trying to map the new concepts to things you already understand, and constantly working to update your mental model.

New comment by wtetzner in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

wtetzner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:53:32 +0000

So your solution is to just read through all 1M+ lines of code?

New comment by wtetzner in "Postgres rewritten in Rust, now passing 100% of the Postgres regression tests"

wtetzner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:41:44 +0000

What about just not installing sketchy extensions?

New comment by wtetzner in "In Emacs, everything looks like a service"

wtetzner — Fri, 10 Jul 2026 13:33:30 +0000

> You could add lisp to mspaint and mspaint suddenly becomes awesome somehow?

TBH that does sound pretty awesome, assuming good primitive operations were exposed through the Lisp API.