Would have been nice to have amended the headline to reflect the actual story.

Oh in our company the CTO still has cloud resistance… But at the same time also feels comfortable sharing sensitive documents over Skype, Outlook and Teams…

I suspect it’s a case of they thought they were getting a good deal out of this when they signed the contract but didn’t realise how much Taylor was going to take the piss until it was too late. Likely when the contract expires it probably won’t be renewed.

Also we have to question whether it can be considered waste if it’s actually necessary.

coffee cups

You want to know the ridiculous thing about that - the coffee cup thing is a complete con. They can’t be recycled as paper/cardboard because they have a polymer coating to allow them to maintain their structure.

The main issue comes when the game is using proprietary stuff. Like I found getting Kingdom Hearts to run at all was a pain in the arse because of it using a proprietary codec for it’s cutscenes.

I also found Hand of Fate 2 had some weird rendering issues with certain graphics settings.

And if you want to do Ray tracing or HDR you’re currently out of luck.

It’s basically “he’s retiring but keeps getting paid by Nintendo”.

Proton is revolutionary but it still isn’t a solution for every game. And that’s not even getting into the lack of support Nvidia gives to anything Linux.

Yeah I was going to say the reason there hasn’t been significant progress on a HIV virus isn’t because it isn’t possible but because for the longest time the bodies that could provide funding for the research thought HIV killing ‘the gays’ was a desirable outcome…

Microsoft had to provide a separate edition that gave the user a browser choice for 10 years because the EU successfully called anti-trust on Windows doing IE/Edge as default.

Not to mention Microsoft’s profits aren’t from the OS but what they get from the user once they have the OS. Once they have the Windows user they then have a market to sell other Microsoft products, not to mention all the stuff on the Windows store.

They don’t need profits from the OS as the OS pays for itself in the long run.

They meant in the sense that crypto/nft was the last fad that VCs were throwing money at.

It’s actually hilariously transparent how dumb VCs are and how much tech companies exploit that. Every now and then they randomly get hyped by some big tech company over some ‘new’ Y idea, then suddenly they throw money at any company suggesting they are doing Y thinking they will be the next Google or Meta. Then they inevitably doesn’t materialise and they move onto the next fad.

Through the years I’ve been in the industry we’ve had Big Data, followed by AI, followed by Cloud, followed by blockchain, followed by nfts, followed by metaverse and now back to AI again. And the tech companies don’t even need to implement any of this they just have to find a way to spin what they are doing to make it sound like the fad is what they’re doing.

Yeah I was going to say VC throwing money at the newest fad isn’t anything new, in fact startups strive exploit the fuck out of it. No need to actually implement the fad tech, you just need to technobabble the magic words and a VC is like “here have 2 million dollars”.

In our own company we half joked about calling a relatively simple decision flow in our back end an “AI system”.

Firefox mobile used to have mobile add-ons but it was separate and naturally therefore more limited.

Yeah I feel like I live in a different world because I’ve never had windows force an update on me. And that’s not because I did anything special I just flipped the option of “let me choose when to install updates”. But then I do run update once a month anyway because likely they would have worked out the main bugs with the update within a month of it and it’s probably a good idea to patch security vulnerabilities.

Yeah when I saw the title I assumed it was going to be about the sheer crassness of the quarantine room scenes.

It mostly doesn’t matter except for a couple of linking points:

• Strange New Worlds effectively directly follows events of Discovery Season 2 with a plot point introduced in season 2 being a bit of a focus of SNW S1

• It is probably advisable to watch Picard S1 before Discovery S3 and 4 as the first season of Picard introduces lore elements that have relevance.

Also to be honest, the Star Trek IP being taken away from Paramount’s dumb decisions could be the best thing to happen to it.

They would but that doesn’tv sound as sexy to investors.

That’s what it all comes down to when businesses use words like AI, big data, blockchain etc. Its not about whether it’s an accurate descriptor, its about tricking dumb millionaires into throwing money at them.

I’m also reminded of the time a few years ago (but post gamergate) when the total war subreddit got flooded by people lamenting the wokeness in Rome 2 due to “being able to have all female armies”… Except this wasn’t true, the screenshot floating around depicting all female armies was from a mod.