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asylteltine··on Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
I really liked the universe and characters which is why heroes of the storm was so cool. But of course they killed that off. Their classic games aren’t just about the gameplay it’s the universe too.
asylteltine··on Proposed Windows NT sync driver brings big Wine/Proton performance improvements
Wow that’s huge. I hope this makes it way into proton. It’s getting to the point where windows is going to be mostly irrelevant for gaming, and ideally, for everything!

Mac is a better experience for every single thing other than gaming (that may change soon too). My steam deck is an amazing mobile gaming device. I’m hoping one day I can actually just steamos on my gaming pc and dump my last vestigial windows install.

asylteltine··on Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
I agree. D3 at launch was meh but over time became excellent and super fun. D4 at launch was good but then it wore off and everyone I know stopped playing even one person who was a d3 fiend.
asylteltine··on Microsoft lays off 1,900 Activision Blizzard and Xbox employees
The blizzard you know is completely dead. No one from their classic games is around. No one who made Diablo, Starcraft, Warcraft, etc is around. Those games were made as a labor of love.
asylteltine··on iPhone apps harvest data when they send you notifications, researchers find
This is why websites push you to apps. Venmo recently stopped me from transferring money using web even though it worked just fine a month ago!
asylteltine··on eBay is laying off 9 percent of its workforce
11,000 people can’t make a database/schema that can store their data such that they stop purging listings! They literally have to purge listings due to their design. It’s so annoying
asylteltine··on United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing
In and out is SO overrated. Their burgers were meh and the fries were dry as hell. I would rather eat at McDonald’s any day of the week.

Public ownership is great and doesn’t necessarily lead to shitty products.

asylteltine··on United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing
Ha, as if I would ever get on a Chinese plane. Have people learned nothing?
asylteltine··on United Airlines CEO says the airline will consider alternatives to Boeing
They already supply a ton of smaller aircraft and short haul routes for regional carriers. They would not replace Boeing though
asylteltine··on Sex differences in work preferences among gifted men and women
> Males are obviously preventing females from taking more risks and forcing them to work under 40 hours.

This is a claim that just smears all men without evidence. How are all men obviously forcing women to work less? Have you considered that women prefer to work less and make less money in return for a quieter life?

asylteltine··on Sex differences in work preferences among gifted men and women
Such as?
asylteltine··on Sex differences in work preferences among gifted men and women
Isn’t everything biological? How can something magically only be cultural? There is a root of behavior and that’s biology. Men are on average larger, more aggressive, stronger, etc. of course this would influence culture.
asylteltine··on Why are we templating YAML? (2019)
So true. I abhor yaml. It’s impossible to know correct indentation without a plugin that shows it which isn’t available in many cases where you edit yaml. It’s whitespace sensitive. The data types are not obvious. It’s just all a round bad

I love json. It’s explicit and easy to read. We should just be using json for everything that needs to be human readable.

asylteltine··on Dana-Farberications at Harvard University
Going to schools like Harvard is 90% about networking and 10% education. Harvard dudes hire Harvard. It’s gross
asylteltine··on Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
Is the economy bad? Seems fine to me. In general a “bad economy” seems entirely made up. It’s not like the money just disappears. I think it’s a concept invented to facilitate wealth transfers.
asylteltine··on Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
Any time I see a title that talks about the future, changes, a message from, etc I assume it’s some ceo bullshit talking around doing layoffs
asylteltine··on Changes at Riot Games and the road ahead
Why is everyone doing layoffs at once? Is it just in the news now or are they taking advantage of everyone else doing it?
asylteltine··on Google and AT&T invest in Starlink rival for satellite-to-smartphone service
And promptly killed by Google a year later
asylteltine··on Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of 6 Papers by Top Researchers
I don’t think hard sciences are 50% but still too high. But that’s just the data people looked at. There are so many papers and studies being submitted, who knows how many times a researcher fudged a few values to make the effect size bigger? I personally witnessed this in academia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis

asylteltine··on Harvard Teaching Hospital Seeks Retraction of 6 Papers by Top Researchers
I don’t trust anything coming out of academia anymore. First we had over 50% of psychology being nonsense, then sociology (not surprising), then the hard sciences too. But then we also have the rampant ideology problem where you are forbidden from even researching certain topics/questions and if you do, you are blacklisted. They need a hard reckoning. What happened to science? Who cares what the ideological implication is? The truth is the truth.

The icing on the cake is when these frauds retract their papers, NOTHING happens to them. Nothing.

asylteltine··on Ask HN: How do you know it's time for you to quit your FAANG job?
You don’t because there’s a 99% chance it will fail and you will waste money
asylteltine··on Palworld Has the Highest Player Count on Steam
Pokémon has been awful after maybe emerald version. Crystal and that era was the peak. 3d Pokémon is just awful. This game however is awesome. It’s fun
asylteltine··on Palworld Has the Highest Player Count on Steam
Yes it’s fun
asylteltine··on Tesla owner adds 4000 watt solar panel roof to his car after company wouldn't
All that… for maybe 50 miles of range?
asylteltine··on Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? (2021)
If you don’t teach children to succeed at work and get ahead you are knowingly putting them at a disadvantage. If I knew programming when I was much much younger I would be in an even better position than I am now, and I’m in a great position.
asylteltine··on A QA engineer walks into a bar
Please don’t post twitter links. Use a screenshot or nitter
asylteltine··on Teaching D from Scratch: Is it a viable first language? (2021)
But why? Why use esoteric languages no one knows?? Why teach someone a language they can’t use at work? Just teach Go it’s so simple and teaches you actually good practices unlike Python. Senior devs hate it and junior devs love it for the same reason.
asylteltine··on Free and Open Source Alternative to Airdrop
No they don’t disconnect from WiFi and as of the latest iOS you can now leave airdrop radius and it will use the internet to continue transfer. Its magic
asylteltine··on Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies
Which part is propaganda? Are you saying it’s not true? Because it is, there’s literal evidence of it. Just because their actions align with you politically doesn’t mean it’s fake news
asylteltine··on Anime is a $25B industry that pays its animators pennies
I just learned recently there’s a lot of drama of “localizers” blatantly mistranslating or inserting their own words to push their ideologies.
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