Very much agreed, though I'm not looking to switch back. Reddit had gradually turned into a homogenous slurry of astroturf and toxic groupthink. Lemmy lacks the critical mass for both of these to become a problem.
I still find Lemmy a better alternative, because at least I can see opinions that differ from mine. I'll gladly throwdown and get my opinions challenged rather than feel that I don't need to contribute to a discussion.
I agree. There should be good laws already in place for this. Defamation should do it.
A "technically gifted teenager" is someone with an attention span longer than 5 minutes and a computer with a decent GPU. While definitely a scarce resource, not super scarce.
Running stable diffusion locally is getting easier and easier. Took me about 15 mins last time. I just followed the readme. It won't be long until it's just a one-click setup and everyone can do it.
If it has a separate price tag, it was outside of the main budget.
If nobody buys the DLC it will not make any money and time invested in it will be at a loss.
This is also perfectly fine. This is the free market. We have the right as a collective to decide the DLC's value to us.
If nobody buys subscriptions, DLC or expansions, it will ultimately not get made. We will return to the good old days of games where patches are only made to reach new target markets (previously unsupported devices, resolutions, platforms or translations), never to serve the existing audience unless it's a marketing gambit.
Games as live services will cease. This isn't inherently bad either. It's just a question of what you as a customer value.
I value game franchises that I love being treated well and developed by passionate people. You can see the love the Tekken team has put on display for the past 4-5 years in particular. While their track record remains good, I am a happy repeat customer.
There is nothing wrong with being picky with your purchases either. You don't have to spend 20 bucks to get Eddy + the other 3 unannounced characters if you don't assign it value. If there are more people like you out there, the devs will plan accordingly.
This is how we got only 36 characters at console/pc launch for Tekken 7, after Tekken Tag 2 despite its immense 61 character roster bombed.
People didn't find value in Tag 2, so Bamco budgeted T7 accordingly. Luckily they made one smart choice, which was launching for PC and Xbox and got immense sales due to new untapped markets.
Admittedly T8 rolls out with less than T7 on non-arcade release, but it's worth noting T7 had 2 years in the arcades with a starting roster of 20. However T8 skips arcades entirely and has reanimated much of the character roster, which is a rare treat considering they've been reusing animations made even as far back as 1995 in T7 still.
Either way, I hope you get the gist of what I'm going for here.
Releasing something you make outside of the budget of the main project for free is something a profit-seeking company will be very unlikely to do as it needs justification for months of work.
Sure, they could do goodwill in the hopes of a return of investment in the form of increased sales from being such good guys.
We're looking an international entertainment giant here, not a small indie. They need to meet their profit margins or it's time to fire some of the workforce.
In the announcement they're showing a character that's still a work in progress.
You're saying they should push back the release of a fully functional game because they're gonna get 1 more character ready somewhere near the beginning of March?
Based on what was shown, they're fully redoing the mocap of a character with a 100+ moveset. This is a lot of work.
DLC is entirely sound when your goal is to support the game post-launch for years. This income justifies a slew of balance patches, large esports event funding as well as the addition of more characters.
You could argue that the Day 1 DLC of golden suit skins is a cashgrab or the retro t-shirts. This would be more valid, as they indeed are repackaging ready content as DLC. However, it's just a golden suit and should be considered a tip to the developers.
I believe Spotify did this back in the day in order to hide as much of their AB testing from Apple who is essentially a competitor due to iTunes.
Having much of the UI delivered via web also makes it easier to deploy updates as no software update is necessary.
Ah yeah of course! The engineer in my stupid brain was going off before common sense.
Thanks!
That address is on the money. Bill should be funding local business in Africa directly for the most immediate impact in the region.
His current approach at best helps once the innovations become accessible.
I do agree with Gates in part that hunger is a production problem. Increasing supply lowers price, which would help with food accessibility. It's not a silver bullet and has many blockers, like the issues mentioned in the address.
Do you have articles on Gates' work causing harm on the food sector? I'd love to learn more.
He had some valid reasoning behind preventing an open source covid vaccine. Whether it was the right call is up for debate.
The most prominent reason that stuck in my mind was to ensure the vaccines were of high quality and made using proper equipment. This is reasonable as a bad one could've drastically reduced trust among the general population.
If one country begins sharing resources and wealth, it will get stomped by the others that don't.
Capitalism can't be stopped without a violent revolt of colossal proportions. We're talking billions of people dead, displaced or left vengeful. It's a recipe for disaster.
Peaceful options won't work at global scale. Even if people begin to vote with their hearts en masse, it won't change nations where voting is moot.
I'm against violence, so the best I can see happening in my lifetime is me understanding and living with the system we inhabit and trying to alter what little I can in my small country for future generations.
I work in an AI company. 99% of our tech relies on tried and true standard computer vision solutions instead of machine-learning based. It's just that unreliable when production use requires pixel precision.
We might throw a gradient descent here or there, but not for any learning ops.
Pretty much. Doesn't help that Firefox is the best browser for customizing your browsing experience. So all adblockers are very good on it.
Probably some summer trainee tasked with solving the Firefox + ublock Origin combo made an oopsie.
With all that said: fuck Google for even beginning their crusade against adblockers.
On a global scale you're right.
If we're discussing the scope of a nation, strong enough tax laws and safeguards for unions prevent ludicrous growth within its own contained system. This can allow people to experience a reasonably fair society.
Finland definitely is still benefiting off of cheap labour from poorer nations though. How to solve that especially if our country wants to retain its status, I would not know where to start. World domination?
I'm answering from the perspective of living in a country with functional democracy, so it's hard to see the power the wealthy have over it.
Lobbying and representative campaign funding are more transparent here. No party has majority seats alone, coalition governments are a necessity. Legislation is consensus driven.
Finland is very much operating in a capitalism driven economy while still supplying its citizens socialism driven security.
Capitalism is like fire. It's a good tool, but a bad master. With appropriate legislative checks in place, it won't get out of control.
In the States it already has, but that doesn't mean that capitalism is bad. Just that nobody was tending the fire.
I think exactly that way and am as left as you can be in the Finnish mainstream party system, with the exception of small sub-1% parties like the Communist Party.
Landlords & Billionaires = living, breathing taxation waiting to happen
Even if we were to tax a billionaire by 80%, they would probably still be a billionaire. However, they would also indeed be creating jobs, wealth and sustainable growth. School systems, medicine, hospitals, city infrastructure, job placement programmes, you name it, they fund it.
Corporate tax is also grossly under-utilized.
Capitalism isn't bad if you tax it hard and use the money for the welfare of citizens.