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LCDs fucking suck compared to OLEDs. They've always sucked. Backlight bleed is awful, black levels are terrible. Viewing angels are stupid. Gamma is garbage. It's impossible to go back after using a good OLED.

This Oct 26th post sure was 146 IQ. It received not one but two Frys.

I'll be dumping GOOG when it gets to green again or end of the year, whichever comes first. I don't see that company growing out of the bind they're in. I don't think they know how to build products anymore. If ads didn't print money they'd be dead already. Even if they build a revolutionary...

You realize this is a marketing conference, right? Marketers are the biggest liars ever, worse than politicians or reporters.

This is a good book.

I totally understand now how people would get rich trading bonds. My bonds are already up %4 if I were to turn around and sell what was very obviously a strong safe investment already. Seems really close to free money.

Market went into a correction and all I bought was bonds, AMZN, DIS, and 5K more JEPI. At least once of those worked out. Maybe two if you count the 20-year bonds. Only bought $250 worth of SPY when it was down, from my dumb SOFI account.

Tim Apple declined to do layoffs and took a paycut instead. Short run this is probably bad but long term it's still Apple, the most secure devices in an increasingly insecure world. M3 silicon looks great so far. I'd never buy one and yet can't help but compliment.

Well, there's 2 different aspect ratios we're talking about. A 34" ultrawide is 1.5 27" monitors. A 49" ultrawide is 2x27" monitors. A lot of games still won't work right on the 49" ones.

GovCloud, FedRAMP, all seems pretty useless. What exactly has the government made in the past fifty years that's worth stealing? A whole lot of effort goes into protecting those 9-digit numbers that thieves have already stolen from sixteen other breaches.

Yeah, but when companies need 15000 GPUs to run their self-prompting, perpetually retraining proprietary god-simulacra, they're not running that on AWS.

No, but you still want a K, compare specs on Intel ARK. Overclockability isn't the only distinction. Actually, you may still need a K to undervolt. Hmm.

This was the line that had me dying.

lol Exquisite Blood is worth that much fucking money? Shit, I might've been cardboard rich before the reprint.

When compute gets cheap as shit, or when AI models are so important that they have to be trained and hosted securely and privately. It's an imaginable world, but not likely.

*cries in five nines*

Undervolting, wattage throttling, ECO mode.

I might have to give Brave a serious try as a daily driver. I have so much Microsoft stuff, I actually like having it all tied into an MS account, especially considering how often I reformat or switch machines. But this is pretty cool.

This AMD rollercoaster. Wasn't it down premarket?

The RIP of not ripping:

Yo I just gotta squeeze like 5 more years out of this 'being good at computers' thing so I can retire before the bots figure out how to break prod all by themselves.

There are at least 6 people from India on my team of cloud architects and they all do nothing because my manager can't find a single use for them. They bring in no revenue, submit no opportunities, write no docs, work no tickets, draw no Visios, and I bet half of them don't even know anything...

"Maybe they should’ve granted waivers for ALL the non studio productions, keep people working and halt ALL studio productions if they really wanted to make a difference and reach a faster agreement…"

This is 100% true. And most tech companies laid no one off during COVID for a bunch of reasons. A lot of this is just annual churn catching up. Tech companies used to be all stack-ranked where 5% or 10% of people got fired every year for being the lowest person on their teams. But again...

lol if you think that's actually what happens inside a real company. None of the decisionmakers ever get fired, only shuffled around. The people who get cut are just the ones who actually have to do the work.

I mean, it made sense for Astarion.

I've found your problem with the writing. It's coming from inside the house. jk, I also hate the writing for half the characters in this game. Or maybe they're written well TO BE ANNOYING.

What could actually be happening is that all of these companies want to get acquired. Firing people to cook the books is what companies who want to get acquired do. "Look how low our headcount is vs revenue!?!?!"

Very corporate companies DO layoff before the holidays, because it cuts down on annual bonuses and all the annual HR paperwork for open enrollment. Consider also that most of these people would have been paid to do nothing for 6 weeks due to change freezes and other technical stuff.

https://www.destructoid.com/bungie-lays-off-staff-and-delays-destiny-2-the-final-shape-and-marathon/ I don't really understand why the game industry is doing this? They seem plenty profitable? This can only hurt them and will create more competition. < Five-person teams can still change the...

Fuck.

I can't believe any of you grown dudes watch cartoons lol.

He definitely can be.

It's @Chris what did you expect?

what's funny is that Kurt looks the most normal by a lot. Then you know who showed up and he turned into this:

Kinda cool. Different at least. Good to see some actual advanced tech 20 years in the future.

Sure, but that doesn't change the content of the article.

Hah, yeah, that's how it read to me too. I wasn't gonna say it, but thanks. I wonder if DHL paid for that psyop.

https://news.yahoo.com/millions-content-creators-official-records-212932624.html This is a good article that might explain a lot about labor numbers.

The first game ultimately broke down into a traffic simulator at 'endgame.' Nearly every other system aside from the trivial water management became bottlenecked by traffic at high population densities. The only way to grow was to come up with increasingly effective ways to deal with traffic...