Hm… isn’t a holiday coming up in a week or so?

Took me 5 minutes to learn spoiler tags, hope I didn’t ruin it for anybody.

We can’t keep sucking Chell back into the lab. Let her be.

Oh huh. I just remember him winning the new shareholder vote for which I believe the stakes were “gimme money or I leave” despite there being no legal requirement to pay him.

Yep. There was another shareholder vote and he won it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law

They just paid fucking 60 billion dollars to him to keep him from quitting. Maybe a smidge of sunk cost fallacy.

Depends on how you sell them, but yes. Don’t assume that you aren’t hurting an individual when you steal IP.

“We lied and paid a $3M fine.”

Heh forgot about the App Store.

Maybe a bad example, but there is certainly a trend recently of purpose built hardware with “free” services failing to justify the expenses of the necessary backend infrastructure getting turned into useless landfill.

Car Thing, Facebook Portal, and this dumb little treat dispensing dog webcam that I used to have come to mind.

Everyone hates subscriptions, but when it comes to hardware that needs to generate revenue to function, I think a token dollar or so a month is appropriate.

Edit: also thinking about it more, core OS software features that are arbitrarily linked to new hardware (like Apple Intelligence) are definitely designed to sell more phones over just selling more software on existing phones. I think it’s fair to say that there’s a revenue link there.

I’ve been using a Sunbeam flip phone for a year or so. Paid for the phone up front, and pay $3/mo for use of maps, speech recognition, and continued bugfixes.

Even if phones never got new features, dev time still needs to be committed to security updates, and services (like Siri) need to be paid for. The model of getting 100% of your revenue from new phone sales is starting to break. If I could pay $3/mo for Siri or whatever and never have my phone go obsolete, I think that’d be a good deal.

I’ve heard Rocket League can be pretty bad, but I’ve never played myself.

Preordered 2016, bought in 2018 well before he was out of the Nazi closet.

Had service done in 2022, this is how my service advisor signed his fucking email.

It’s embarassing.

No. You see Twitter was keeping them contained. This is like the power going out at Jurassic Park.

I spent the whole 40 minutes watching this video earlier today, and it seems like nobody commenting has.

This is not lamenting the death of capitalism. It’s simply talking about how the average person no longer gets to participate in capitalism.

Coworker’s story: Trying to fix a prototype in a hotel room at a European trade show. Soldering iron on hand, but it was a 120V iron and glowed white hot when plugged into a 240V outlet.

So they had one person solder and the other person keep unplugging and replugging the iron from the wall at roughly 25% 50% duty cycle.

Friend’s desktop was so fried from Kazaa and Limewire, that he couldn’t even open a Windows explorer window. Ended up opening Notepad and copying all of his files to a thumbdrive using the file open dialog box before reformatting.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/38980012/

First, we find that evidence for any direct vagal parasympathetic efferent innervation of the adrenal glands is weak and likely artifactual.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acupuncture

Acupuncture[b] is a form of alternative medicine[2] and a component of traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) in which thin needles are inserted into the body.[3] Acupuncture is a pseudoscience;[4][5] the theories and practices of TCM are not based on scientific knowledge,[6] and it has been characterized as quackery.[c]