Insanity

Well, 78% of all statistics humans mention are made up as well, so.. :)

This definitely plays a role, and depending on your use-case the “stability” of your software and system varies greatly. E.g Messing around with mods could leave your game in an unplayable state (to the point it just wouldn’t launch properly), whilst today you just download/install them from Steam workshop with 1-click.

This assumes that what is harmful to animals is harmful to humans. If you determine whether chocolate or strawberries are edible by their effects on dogs, none of us would be eating those :)

This is _sometimes_ true, but we will also miss opportunities by not trusting a substance that would be fine for humans but not for mice.

They do it because they are taught that way and rarely question the prevailing doctrine. There are researchers who eventually understand that animal testing rarely lead to results.

Highly recommend reading “animal liberation” if you want to learn more about it.

Animal models do not translate well to humans, something that’s been known for decades. Researchers continue down this path not because it makes sense but because “it’s always been done this way”.

This research has little real value for human medicine. If anything, animal testing might have set back human healthcare. (People have literally died by taking medicine that worked fine on animals yet severely harmed humans).

Sure, but the parent comment is saying the “matter of time” should be in the past. I wouldn’t buy a 60hz device today.

If they do, you dodged a bullet lol.

I'm surprised that's still around! I probably haven't been Slashdot for a decade or so.

Blizzard is owned by MSFT now, so it did get bought out (back in 2022). So it fits the 'startup mode' model that I _think_ you're trying to say?

There's other studios that similar to Blizzard didn't get bought out early and published multiple hit games, like Insomniac Games.

Yikes. Stuff of nightmares lol.

I guess LLMs would do a reasonable job making this legible, as long as there can be some tests to validate functionality alongside the migration.

+1. I phased out meat over almost like 6 months before being completely vegetarian. It made the transition much easier when I did this about 12 years ago.

I eliminated types of meat (e.g no more chicken, then no more beef, etc). Slowly adapting my diet over time.

I think that made it easier to stick with it.

Sadly that is not entirely true. Many farms will make such claims.. until secret “inspections” happen and you realize they are skirting around the rules.

In theory yes it’s better, in practice, not always.

+1. Highly recommend people read “Animal Liberation Now” (“Now”) being the 2023 version of “Animal Liberation” from the 70s.

I became vegetarian after reading the original book, and more recently _mostly_ vegan after reading “Now”. (Still a work in progress as it’s only been a few weeks and takes time to adjust my diet).

Factory Farming is definitely horrendous and it’s not only for the animals killed for meat. Animals kept for egg or milk are essentially mistreated during their entire (short) lives.

I’m both somehow.

Coding since 12, pretty introverted as a teenager and went the usual compsci route. Spent a lot of my free time hacking on OSS projects.

Then got into engineering management, similar to you I’d o enjoy mentoring and the more strategic aspects of the role.

But I dislike using AI for coding, it really ruined the fun for me. That fun being entirely eroded made it easier to commit to the management path (I did the IC-Management pendulum for some years).