conciselyverbose

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[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 22 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 children)

Using it to generate code isn't inherently bad (outside of copyright concerns). Especially in "stupid amount of boiler plate" languages/etc.

But the problem is that people are lazy. They don't bother understanding the output, making sure it does what you want it to, etc. It's not that different than people copy pasting code from reference material. Part of the beauty of software development is that you don't have to solve every problem someone else has already solved. But you do need to know what your code is doing and why.

Copilot is a shortcut to code that "works" with less requirement to know what's happening.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago

Maybe start by not making people who don't want babies have them...

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

If they actually built out the viral success, they could sell a lot more copies over time.

I'm not convinced pushing another game now is going to generate more revenue than it discourages, especially with the pretty visible dissatisfaction people have for Craftopia being replaced. It's definitely lowered my interest, though it's entirely possible I would have never bought it.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 38 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

There's not a lot that kills my faith in a game like a studio having two active early access games with premises people are interested in, but that need work, and deciding that promoting a third new game is a better use of their time.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 2 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I'm guessing you'd hit interference at some point.

But also latency would be bad and you almost definitely couldn't synchronize them well.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 4 points 2 years ago

Yeah, nvidia has done pretty reasonable at upscaling with DLSS. It's not native, and it doesn't look native, but it looks a lot better than FSR and a lot better than TV upscaling.

It's the CPU I'm still worried about. Apple Silicon does beautiful with ARM, but I think actual ARM designs are going to be the biggest limitation to the capability of a new switch. They're competing with really nice Ryzen-based chips on the other consoles.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I know what sub I'm in, and while I don't pirate anything, I'm not going to argue the ethics at all.

But according to the article, they were literally advertising to customers that they were sling and selling them devices preloaded to look like they were sling. Again, I'm not here to argue the merits of piracy generally. I follow the sub without being a pirate because many of the legal/technical issues around piracy affect anyone who wants to own their media and browse the internet with some level of privacy. But distributors of any of that content aren't credible if they're lying to the end users. Lying to tell people you're actually the real service isn't cool.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago

lol I can't. I have favorite series I go back to a couple times a year on audiobook.

I'm pretty sure I read everything Karen Rose has written at least 3 times last year, I read CJ Archer's Glass and Steele twice, and there are a bunch of others. Most TV shows I space out a bit though. (Except the Good Place. It's just so forking delightful.)

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Doesn't seem like "'pirate'" needs the quotes.

Bypassing the DRM might be legal, but if you're openly advertising piracy, you lose plausible deniability and make it very easy to get your device blocked from sale.

And they scammed people by telling them they were actually paying sling/whoever.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

For the same reason androids are dominant in global market share. Because $5 pieces of shit in the third world that make no profit are the lion's share of that number.

If you're buying a tablet, and aren't buying a $100 piece of shit subsidized by Amazon, there isn't a single price point where a reasonable person would even remotely consider an Android over an iPad. Android is a terrible tablet OS with terrible support from apps, and the hardware only sounds OK on paper. Every iPad from the entry level up completely shits on every competitor on the market at a comparable price point.

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 1 points 2 years ago (4 children)

There's an argument users should be able to do either.

But Apple TV apps are made for a remote. The Vision Pro interaction will be closer to gestures and specific touch points

[–] conciselyverbose@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Should everyone fact check every single claim they see on the internet?

Before regurgitating it?

It's the bare minimum.

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