awww geocities how much have world changed since, it was an era of stranger danger don't get in strangers car world. It was about connection online however, no matter who they are, post your corner of the world online for all to see, hoping to strike up some connection. It was about tiny pictures, midi files because we have no bandwidth. We were optimistic, eager, and already had to filter out the paedophiles by pretending to be a 60/f/china. I miss the era for sure, the optimism especially, we truly believed internet would bring so much progress, world peace wasn't even that far away even.
usual shortsightedness from bean counters, while studio do lost revenue on second hand trades they gained another player! I can't believe they think that's not a worth while trade. Games are like books, the amount of time people spent on it far outweighs their opportunity cost in earnings, and you only have such a short window to capture that audience so do it however you can, allowing piracy is a legit business strategy, let alone trading second hand games!
interesting, I remember reading population of Beijing seem to have lithium in their water or air so their new born and mothers carrying seem to have 20x of lithium concentration of what's considered normal...
making customer happy is one thing, didn't huxley specifically wrote about how consumer hedonism is how tech bros gain control? lol honestly are we at the end stages that billionaires are trolling oxford union... so DIRE
so glad performance is back on the agenda again... oh and removal of stuttering of any sort from modern computing experience will make me a very very happy individual...
yeah and alignment is all about how to be less evil which is no easy job... I can just imagine Chinese LLM renders 1989 tianmen square as an incident orchestrated by CIA which CCP successfully thwarted etc etc
shopping at Costco reminds me of reading news in a bad way, Gell-Mann Amnesia Effect way.
And it's bit of a shame because there's this already implicit trust that have formed over the years, but it just seems really hard to keep enshittification at bay. For Costco to continue they really need to up their game and make consumer their absolute fan by first stop destroying their gut health. Junk food's fine, but chicken mince honestly don't need all that additives.
i think if google can show that they know what it does and able to contain it then sure, it's a tool they have power over. if not then I don't see how it is being contained by the terms
they're all tilted so the new comer don't feel so awkward with that bump on it's head --source: me
*edit: I'd like to also comment on the crazy lighting going on.. if the photographer of this can see this comment, please take a pic of the setup..this look quite intense
what do governments get out of this? Like I get it from ad/commercial perspective, but I don't see how this is highly unpopular from governments and still being implemented
To get a hint of the backdrop.. https://www.nbcnews.com/nightly-news/video/1993-rabin-and-ar...