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You need to clean your keyboard if your hands look like that after a day of work

It seems like Japan’s government has made such app

Early access games are usually sold for cheaper. I think it’s a good deal: pay smaller price for a fun but partial game. Maybe it will turn into a good full game? The developers get feedback directly from customers. It’s a win win.

I’ve enjoyed early access games that are still in development. Most notably Ultrakill, which I regard as one of the best action games of all time. Yeah it would suck if Ultrakill would never reach its conclusion, but I’d rather have a great but unfinished game than no game at all.

Huge tragedy. As a Swede, I never expected we would ever have a school shooting of this magnitude. It’s a sad day for everyone.

Some added context: the school is a base and college level education school for adults. It’s like a second chance for many. This often applies to immigrants, which makes these kinds of schools immigrant heavy.

The attack seem to have no gang related motivation (like other recent shootings and bombings in Sweden). Not much has been made public about the attacker, but it seems like he acted alone. He was a loner in general. Probably an ethnic Swede based on current rumors.

Update: the attacker’s identity has now been made public, which confirms the rumors. Why he did it is unclear though.

As has often been reiterated: piracy is a service problem. If what you get by paying more is an inferior service, then people don’t want to pay for that service.

Correction: it wasn’t a robot. It was just a stupid steel tube.

They now know driving scooters to the front line is a bad idea.

The market is not rational. It’s mostly based on vibes and feelings. React first, think later.

The greatest irony would be if OpenAI was killed by an open AI

I believe this will ultimately be good news for Nvidia, terrible news for OpenAI.

Better access to software is good for hardware companies. Nvidia is still the world leader when it comes to delivering computing power for AI. That hasn’t changed (yet). All this means is that more value can be made from Nvidia gpus.

For OpenAI, their entire business model is based on the moat they’ve built around ChatGPT. They made a $1B bet on this idea - which they now have lost. All their competitive edge is suddenly gone. They have no moat anymore!

Agree, but the market doesn’t think rationally.

Better access to software is good for hardware companies. Nvidia is still the best company when it comes to this kind of computing hardware.

Well, the number of PC players with a non RT card is diminishing. RTX has been available since 2018 now.

It costs a lot of money to keep a terminally ill person alive.

I believe we should keep terminally ill people alive for as long as possible if that’s what they want. We shouldn’t deny anyone healthcare. But there are those who prefer to end their agony quick, and I think we should respect their wish.

I think it’s strange that we spend so much money on healthcare on people who rather don’t want to. Better to use that money on people who want to continue living.

This is my thought, but I think many young men are (rightfully) frustrated, but they don’t know what they’re frustrated about. It’s hard to get a job - especially without higher education. It’s hard to buy a home and build a family. Many young men are increasingly more alone.

At the same time, there’s a lot of talk about the ” white male privilege”. ”What privilege?”, they might think. They don’t feel particularly privileged about their situation.

And then they find people like Jordan Peterson who seem to speak for their struggles. For first time they hear someone seem to understand them. And they point to the (very wrong) diagnosis of the situation: it’s the woke identity politics fault! But that’s good enough for them, and that’s where the alt-right pipeline starts.

It happens when there’s no meaningful competition, and when the friction of switching to a competing product is too high. Companies want to make more money with less. If you can get away with doing less without losing a significant amount of customers, then you will do it.

For example, the problem with switching social media is that you have to rebuild all your connections. They can make it worse, because customers aren’t willing to switch.

Another example is Windows. If you’re dependent on a program that only works on Windows it’s hard to make to jump to Linux.

Liberals are just sheep. They believe whatever the media tells them.

That projection.

My first reaction when seeing the salute was ” oh come on, it can’t be that bad… oh it’s way worse than I thought”

A good fit would be random background NPCs. For example, pedestrians in a GTA like game. Can potentially increase the variety in the things they can say, and maybe even talk about things the player has just done.

As a man who’s struggling with dating, Bumble has always been more effective for me than Tinder

I have never noticed this. Shows how the average consumer doesn’t really care about consistent design languages.

Given Valve’s history of taking play testing really seriously, I wonder if this is something they’ve realized through user testing?