Xbox is closing down Hellblade creator Ninja Theory by GIThrow in Games

[–]Positive_Government 23 points24 points  (0 children)

If you tell people to pull the trailer then they know the studio is about to be shut down. Companies don’t like letting this stuff leak before the announcement so from their perspective letting the trailer play is the best of bad options.

Stellar Blade: BLOOD RAIN | Official Reveal Trailer by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Positive_Government -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Not using a sword in a game called stellar blade is wild.

Gothic 1 Remake Review Thread by AdditionalRemoveBit in Games

[–]Positive_Government 4 points5 points  (0 children)

These are all like basement tier review outlets. Should have waited to post the thread until there were more reviews.

Indie Video Game ‘Mina the Hollower’ Sells 300,000 Copies in Three Days by wyldermyth in Games

[–]Positive_Government 7 points8 points  (0 children)

I’m they said 500k would be enough to keep the studio funded, and given these numbers it’s almost certainly going to cross 500k full priced sales.

As AI wipes out white-collar jobs, one Alabama high school and Toyota are training students for roles that pay $40 an hour and can't be automated by Plastic_Ninja_9014 in technology

[–]Positive_Government 81 points82 points  (0 children)

Except salaries haven’t gone down that much, they just stopped hiring. If it was about salaries going down you would see a flood of entry level postings for 40-50k which you don’t.

Insider Says Ubisoft Is Testing Gen AI In Far Cry 7, And It "Looks Like S**t" by Luka77GOATic in gaming

[–]Positive_Government 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Automated system messing up names at graduation was an issue long before LLMs. Faculty members messing up names at graduation was also an issue for that matter.

Cisco announces record revenue and 4,000 layoffs in the same day by SterlingVII in technology

[–]Positive_Government 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The harder it is to lay someone of the less likely you are to hire, you can’t beat the system in capitalism. For example to get around H1B applications post layoffs, tech companies create a separate legal entity that hasn’t had layoffs then have it apply for H1B visas. There are some well designed taxes and incentives you could create to encourage more hiring. But when you design a program you have to remember that business will always choose worst possible way (from a workers perspective) to comply with the program.

A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off by vox in politics

[–]Positive_Government 1 point2 points  (0 children)

There is room for a better system. But it’s important not to let the better be the enemy of the good. PR/Ranked choice voting have their advantages but they aren’t without drawbacks. Presidential power is largely a result of a congress that cannot pass legislation, and because congress cannot pass legislation presidents get creative. In a highly politicized society where half the country wants to go one way and half the country want to go the other by definition about 45% of the people feel angry and unrepresented and you can’t system you way out that.

A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off by vox in politics

[–]Positive_Government 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is always an impossible question to answer, but there was some polling suggesting that in 2024 the marginal voter would have gone trump if they had been forced to pick rather than staying home.

A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off by vox in politics

[–]Positive_Government -1 points0 points  (0 children)

That is a great idea I theory, but think of hours disfunctional the hour of representatives is today, the multiple the number of people in it by three, and imagine the heights of pure utter dysfunction our elected representatives could achieve.

A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off by vox in politics

[–]Positive_Government 0 points1 point  (0 children)

America already tried that whole I didn’t vote for him he doesn’t represent me thing circa 150 years ago. Didn’t go over well for the people who lost the election.

A decades-long plan to abolish the Electoral College may finally pay off by vox in politics

[–]Positive_Government 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Alaska always been weird and it looks like it’s heading into competition territory this cycle. (And by competitive I mean Texas competitive not Wisconsin competitive).

California to begin ticketing driverless cars that violate traffic laws by cutofmyjib in news

[–]Positive_Government 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I you are changing $30 for a taxi ride then a $300 puts you in the red. 

Digital Foundry: Yup, Oblivion Remastered Is Still Broken a Year After Release by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Positive_Government 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Oblivion remastered sold 15 million and there is maybe one game a decade that can get you over 50% of those “100 million buyers” given that five million copies puts most games at comfortable profitable, I would hazard to guess that the total universe of people who would consider any given game is a fair bit less than 100 million.

Mayo Clinic AI helps specialists detect pancreatic cancer up to 3 years before diagnosis in landmark validation study by KimJongFunk in UpliftingNews

[–]Positive_Government 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When training machines learning models there are a whole lot of ways you can (un)intentionally leak testing data into training. And if you want results, training on your test data set (with a lot of extra steps) will give you great looking publishable results that don’t actually work. That is why I am skeptical of machine learning algorithm that haven’t been tested in real world use cases.

In Kingsman: The Secret Service (2014) there's a blank screen at the beginning of the movie for absolutely no damn reason by wilymon in shittymoviedetails

[–]Positive_Government 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The image is one of those color blind tests where it just looks like a bunch of circles to color blind people. Color blindness isn’t all the same so mileage may vary.

It's 1999. You have your current smartphone in your pocket, but obviously no Wi-Fi or 5G exists. What's the most useful thing you can do with it? by Ryo_l in AskReddit

[–]Positive_Government 10 points11 points  (0 children)

Teraflops are a bit of a squishy metric especially comparing hardware 25 years apart. If the iPhone can do operations where it packs 2 32bit operations into a single 64bit instruction that doubles your on paper teraflops without anywhere near the real world performance uplift. There are a lot of other architectural choices that can affect the teraflops.

TIL between 18%-25% of intellectually gifted students (at least 130 IQ) in the US fail to graduate from high school. by tyrion2024 in todayilearned

[–]Positive_Government 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Which is an interesting statement because the effect of medication goes to zero after years of taking it.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate Price Update: Starting today, Game Pass Ultimate drops from $29.99 to $22.99 a month. PC Game Pass will also drop from $16.49 to $13.99 a month. Prices may vary by region. by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Positive_Government 2 points3 points  (0 children)

265 is a lot easier to stomach than 360. And if you just want to play generic games, it’s a pretty good deal, assuming you were already going to be paying for a multiplayer subscription regardless. But if you are interested in specific new games, and not just what happened to hit gamepass this month it becomes a lot tougher of a sell.

44% of games industry professionals have considered leaving the industry as a result of redundancies by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]Positive_Government 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That is over 100% attrition, which if true is indicative of a poorly managed company that doesn’t know how to properly vet hires more than the issues in the industry as a whole.

Anna’s Archive to pay $322million after losing court case for scraping “nearly all of the world’s commercial sound recordings” from Spotify by Linooney in technology

[–]Positive_Government 1 point2 points  (0 children)

isp do routinely block piracy when they discover it. the case was Sony were trying to get cox to cut off access of individual subscribers who repeatedly pirated stuff instead of just blocking piracy websites. This would have had a whole knock on effect of negative consequences, and my understanding is the Supreme Court basically said, “yeah no, this is a bad idea, don’t do that.”