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Tom Gauld on the AI (investment) bubble

#AI #investment

Helldivers 2 to make Steam/PlayStation account linking mandatory by June https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/helldivers-2-to-make-steam-playstation-account-linking-mandatory-in-june?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon

You receive a call on your phone.
The caller says they're from your bank and they're calling about a suspected fraud.

"Oh yeah," you think. Obvious scam, right?

The caller says "I'll send you an in-app notification to prove I'm calling from your bank."

Your phone buzzes. You tap the notification This is what you see.

Still think it is a scam?

React, Electron, and LLMs have a common purpose: the labour arbitrage theory of dev tool popularity: https://www.baldurbjarnason.com/2024/react-electron-llms-labour-arbitrage/

"reCAPTCHA is broken for [some|most|all] Windows users"

This is your periodic reminder that nothing the Chrome team or anyone at Google says about "loving the web" or "caring about the web" matters at all, because nobody at Google tests anything on any browser but Chrome.

'Why Doesn't Everyone See the Importance of Preserving Our Past?' by Warren Spector https://www.gamedeveloper.com/business/game-preservation

"Take-Two confirms Kerbal Space Program 2 is safe despite Seattle layoffs"

yeah, who cares about people fired, right? the game will be fine, don't you worry consumers and shareholders! /s

Did you know that porn addiction isn't a thing?

https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/women-who-stray/201808/science-stopped-believing-in-porn-addiction-you-should-too

"If the concept of pornography addiction were true, then porn-related problems would go up, regardless of morality, as porn use goes up. But the researchers didn’t find that. In fact, they cite numerous studies showing that even feeling like you struggle to control your porn use doesn’t actually predict more porn use. What that means is that the people who report great anguish over controlling their porn use aren’t actually using more porn; they just feel worse about it.

Having moral conflict over your porn use (PPMI) does turn out to be bad for you. But that's not because of the porn. Instead, higher levels of moral conflict over porn use predict higher levels of stress, anxiety, depression, and diminished sexual well-being, as well as religious and spiritual struggles. In one study by Perry and Whitehead, pornography use predicted depression over a period of six years, but only in men who disapproved of porn use. Continuing to use porn when you believe that it is bad is harmful. Believing that you are addicted to porn and telling yourself that you're unable to control your porn use hurts your well-being. It's not the porn, but the unresolved, unexamined moral conflict."

TL;DR: Porn addiction isn't a thing, and if you feel harmed by it, you can get help but you're not addicted to porn, you just have something else going on.

Enjoy being horny and enjoying yourself, just know that porn isn't inherently evil and corrupting like heroin.

i need a job so badly

this month is my last chance

im a software developer with a decade of experience who needs a remote position, please reach out if you can offer something

Hoy mis tíos estaban recordando su infancia y cómo podían salir a la calle y hacer lo que quisieran. En otro momento de la conversación recordaron que antes había menos carros, pero no hicieron la conexión.

Benjamin franklin named them “bifocals” in honor of bisexuality, which he also invented

Many yearn for the "good old days" of the web. We could have those good old days back — or something even better — and if anything, it would be easier now than it ever was.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

#web #newsletter #CitationNeeded

A few days ago I suddenly had a desire to port Super Mario 64 to the Gameboy Advance.

I quickly realised that a straight port was going to be impossible given that the GBA:

- Is about an order of magnitude slower than the N64
- Lacks a GPU or any sort of hardware parallelism (you get about 10 cycles per pixel, per frame to rasterise everything in software, and *that's it*)
- Has no hardware support for floating point maths

So, I guess I'm rewriting the whole thing from scratch.

That Stephen Jay Gould quote where he says "I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops" is obviously true but also it really hits home when you remember that Philip Glass was driving a taxi while he wrote Einstein on the Beach. What Uber driver has the spare time to write an opera today? Capitalism remains the greatest impediment to unleashing human creativity

#picotron 0.1.0g is up // http://picotron.net

idk who needs to hear this but sleep doesnt function like a debt system where you can just catch up on sleep one day of the week and be fine. if you are consistently failing to get quality sleep, the damage is still being done and a day (or a weekend) of good sleep wont make up for it.

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