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Makes me wonder if a game studio could instead pepper the amount of money it takes to build an AAA title and instead give it to teams of much smaller size, and leverage the radical focus that can come with such arrangements where a team is given finite resources and has to make due, compromises and all.

Bet across 10 teams instead of one, that kind of thing.

Willing to bet a 30 million dollar budget game will play and look great with proper focus.

Even if only 1-2 take off, it’d be overall better wouldn’t it

I feel like this conflates work with productivity. One can be working more than ever and still be unproductive.

In my opinion what people think is that they will be more productive for the same amount of work, not have more work than previously and still only be approximately at the same level of productivity.

What AI has done to many is create more busywork than it solves in many cases, rather than making me more efficient for the same amount of working hours.

It’s been deployed widely enough that it’s becoming apparent where its lines are from genuine tool that boosts productivity to bolted on and makes things the same or worse, the pipeline for the work simply looking different

As noted, I said they ruined venture capital not that venture capital wasn’t a thing, or VC funding wasn’t a thing.

I feel like the MBA types spoiled everything

Venture Capital, working in the office, how companies operate.

The 1980s and 1990s were largely a scene of people who wanted to be there and were less concerned with KPIs and raising money.

They were engineers or designers first for the most part.

Today’s world one of the first things that happen to any startup is an MBA rolls in to “help get it off the ground”

The smart answer would be to figure out the expected payload of the devices and send a dummy one that tricks the TV into thinking its phoned home, I suspect.

Projectors are still valid, and often superior, alternatives to TVs.

They’re definitely more work to get right though

I realize that this is a tangent but one of the more sad developments of recent developments as an advocate for open knowledge is how much of it is trapped on servers like discord that will never be indexed by any search engine.

There isn’t even an ability to turn on a feature to have discord chats indexed or anything. I realize it’s not only discord but it’s illustrative of what I perceive as an issue

Shoutout to Kagi search for having a deny list feature. It’s really nice for this sort of thing.

Part of me wonders in a world with evergreen browsers if that long tail won’t simply shrink as time goes on.

I have yet to run into Java applets or Internet Explorer required situations in years. As far back as 2016 I’d occasionally find myself having to deal with both of these things. Still rare in 2016 but it was there.

Eventually I never saw it again.

That said, I’m not sure what gaps exist that I don’t perceive either, so I could be wrong and not know it

Very few languages have also suffered their popularity

Companies attempt to manufacture demand all the time. It’s one of the core functions of marketing.

Liquid Death is a perfect example of manufactured demand.

It’s really another way of saying: it needs to meet GitHub’s current utility and functions today.

And one of them is ease of discovery. GitHub make’s it really easy to do that. Same with contribution.

As far as looks go? That’s more subjective.

But the discovery and contributions piece is easy to prove, just look at how much traction a project gets when it’s hosted there versus elsewhere. Even really large projects that has many contributors have moved there like WebKit

Wish they would decouple styling from everything else.

Have a default you can import? Absolutely, that makes sense

But styling by default they you have to make complicated overrides for? That’s the part that gets me

Oh it most definitely does matter, to think it doesn’t makes no sense. The Chinese may be building up their military capabilities but they still spend a fraction of what the US does every year.

They’re different leagues, and in a gloves off war being on the receiving end of the US military would be devastating.

I think if China makes a move it’s because they perceive US political will to defend Taiwan to be weak enough that there won’t be a real protracted fight or escalation.

Which I half wonder if that is why they aren’t more defensive about Iran. Bleed out the political will of the US populace on a war and it’s unlikely we’ll want to support another one anytime soon.

Doesn’t negate capability which is what is being mentioned.