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Becoming "too big to fail" has become a viable market strategy.

See also how AI companies re trying to sneak in basically every level of infrastructure and public administration.

This, and the next generation of consoles being no less than 1600$/€ on day one.

Given they're moving to digital-only future I fully expect them to sell a "50$ + monthly subscription" dongle-like version of ps6 and xbox where you can play the game you buy as a streaming solution, or pay the aforementioned price for a "locally hosted" device on a console.

It's usually superseded by "don't piss on my head and then tell me it's raining"

Unless we're talking about figma-like web apps, Content is usually a different department than development.

I know it's becoming more and more outdated nowadays, but if a magazine or a news website is still written by humans rather than AI they need a way to provide formatted text and media, and preview the output.

On the other hand I should add that i've also seen an upward growth in CMSes like WordPress being used exclusively as Online Editors, with content ultimately being exported trough REST to completely different backends and frontends, like a Firebase/NextJS infra.

Counterpoint: The "AI Lords" as indicated in this article can easily ignore the permanent underclass, because once we realized we were close to a society similar to a pressure cooker with no release valve, we just built a more-steam resistant cooker, powered by Flock cameras, less privacy, less political voices and options, and more importantly, a police/military/authocratic class strata with somewhat better living conditions and complete control of the mass media.

We can already see in the French and Italian revolts of the last few days - Yes, a few shops have been destroyed but the narrative is fully in the hand of their respective governments, which are already planning towards a more militarized approach to policing.

They don't have to give up anything, the system is sufficiently sclerotized to keep going with a progressive worsening of the biggest part of society for years to come with no ill effects for those in power.

Decades of global warming will probably cause the societal issues expressed in the article, slowly, but I wouldn't hold my breath while things may or may not improve in the future.

> The sociopaths hijack the centralized assets while exterminating via reallocation all opposition. And the micromanaging from a distance produces catastrophic results.

Am I missing the sarcasm here? The difference from the current system would be...?

I think the game is simply hardcoded with a sensitivity curve and deadzone specific for the Dualshock 2 pressure buttons on a regular PS2. Some third-party controls aren't too great to use with PS2 GT games, too.

Patching that is possible I guess, but it would also require setting up some sort of calibration in the game.

> These days you can map analog triggers to the sticks for a modern experience if you want that.

It gets wonky if you press both analog triggers at the same time though. I've also tried mapping them to X and O to simulate the pressure, but the range is also somewhat off, with a way steeper curve (half pressing a trigger gives nearly 100% intensity of the OG buttons).

An alternate solution I've seen around is using a GMIX or similar devices and mapping the g29 wheel controls from the game to a modern Xbox/PS controller, but I've never tried it myself.

A better question: who would want to play Gran Turismo 3 or 4 without pressure sensitive controllers?

Even using the original ps2 or ps3 controller with the right drivers on PCSX2 doesn't really reproduce the same smooth acceleration/brake curve of the PS2.

Playing them on a keyboard or fully digital inputs is just a miserable experience.

The most outrageous sentence frankly is

"we can't ship your stuff because of some material restriction or let you pick up a box with some dignity, so we destroyed your stuff"

Really? never heard of anything like this even when I was in the states. If anyone tried this anywhere in Europe the case would almost certainly end up in a parliamentary questions session.

A more apt comparison would be the producer role (not the executive type, I mean the Project Manager type of roles). And to be honest, I've seen some amazing music A&R being the reason an album is a masterpiece without ever pushing a button or playing an instrument. But none of them would call themselves musicians.

Absolutely, I think fast fashion brands like Shein and TEMU-style shops are incredibly sad, toxic for the economy and the environment, and I've never bought anything from them.

He didn't say it's illegal (even if it's debatable and kinda loophole-ish, but lets pretend for now that society has fully embraced a world-encompassing copyright exception if you're named Altman or Amodei).

He said it's sad, and no matter how you want to spin it, it still is incredibly sad and depressing that we're hailing the age of "semantic photocopiers" as some sort of intellectual achievement.

Joking aside, a few early commercial Linux distro (Red Hat, Yellow Dog, SuSe, Corel Linux) had really nice packaging and media artworks. I'd love to collect them.