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Technology@lemmy.world•AT&T sues Broadcom for refusing to renew perpetual license supportEnglish
30·2 years agoAt enterprise scale I can see a contract for being able to renew your support contract. Aka for us to implement this, we expect you to support it but we aren’t going to pay you up front in case it doesn’t pan out or we drop the project.
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Movies@lemmy.world•Seinfeld’s Netflix Pop-Tart movie embarrasses everyoneEnglish
8·2 years agoYea I’m confused, the article seems to waver between it was confusing to good, but also it misses the point of why the writer likes pop tarts so it’s not good?
“That’s a nice feeling. *Unfrosted *isn’t about that feeling. It’s about the product […] It takes whatever pleasure that can be derived from a Pop-Tart, and chokes on it”
blegeg@lemmy.worldtoTelevision@lemmy.world•Gen Z Is Ditching Movies and TV on Streaming for Social Video
2·2 years agoIsn’t that a pretty big difference? If nearly 50% of users in those age groups are cutting back that seems bad.
Speaking as one of the people who has cancelled a streaming service, I’m doing fine without and unlikely to resub.
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Games@lemmy.world•Helldivers 2 gets its first rebalance patchEnglish
41·2 years agoI think what I didn’t like is: I could maybe agree with their line of thought for the changes they made to the weapons. I don’t like that they prioritized these as the first balance patch.
As many have said it was meta because of the abundance of chargers/heavy enemies in 7-9 for folks trying to get the super samples.
Before the high difficulties felt chaotic but at least doable. Now… it still is but it’s even more running and kiting. To me it’s a less fun gameplay loop.
And the “arrogance” is probably perceived from the other dev comments like “get good” “stop clutching your pearls” “goodbye crutches”. If that’s how the devs feel, it’s easy to imagine the balance person, who prioritized removing tools vs making the reason the tools were needed first, thinks the same way.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What software you consider so bad it made you happy when you left your job?
6·2 years agoLike they wrote their own platform to automate front end automation? Thats… a choice
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What movie or show you didn't know was THAT good until you watched it?
9·2 years agoCouldn’t agree with this more. First few seasons they find their footing, but when they do they have some of the most incredible story lines and pay offs. It has become my favorite.
If you’re really struggling you can probably watch the episodes rated 7.0+ on IMDb in seasons 1 and 2 and still get a lot of what’s happening in season 3 and later, but you’ll definitely miss some backstory. Deep space nine being stationary generally did a good job with continuing characters and stories over time imo.
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Games@lemmy.world•[PCGamer] Helldivers 2 is the least I've felt pressured to spend money on a game in years, so of course I'm buying everything in the storeEnglish
142·2 years agoWhy I think people are praising the helldivers2 monetization is that isn’t the case. The “premium currency” is earnable in game and at a reasonable. I haven’t bought any but still have the battlepass and a few of the premium armors.
You get it as part of the battlepass, and the gameplay loop guides you to the currency. You’ll be looking for ammo or in game currency, and there also happens to be premium currency sometimes. The battlepass not being timed and on a work at your own pace is great too.
It feels fair to me? Like the developer can still make a buck but not ruin the experience. I.e. the monetization lets people pay to instantly gratify if they want vs punish you for not spending.
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Which TV series intros do you not skip by choice?
3·2 years agoOur best hope for peace… it failed. shivers so good
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Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•What's your hobby or pursuit that influences how you like to identify yourself?
2·2 years agoNeat! With a workshop like that is it your job too or does it remain hobby/side pursuit.
I know a few people who have setup workspace for fishing and fishing related thing (lures, rods, etc) but still do it on the side.
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Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•If I ever got a Canada Goose jacket, I'd take the badge off.
8·2 years agoVery much so, they have become a status symbol for some people.
They used to be incredibly well made, I believe they still are but the draw for many people is the name and known high price tag.
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Apple@lemmy.world•Apple Store across the street from an Apple Store -- are there any closer than this?
3·2 years agoI regularly go to these stores, and I wonder why they are so close. It’s handy since one or two times one store had something the other didn’t. It’s a bit more than just crossing the street but not much.
Galleria is in the second story inside an indoor mall. Americana is an outdoor mall, and they are even on the sides closer to each other.
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Technology@lemmy.world•3 senior OpenAI researchers resign in the wake of Sam Altman's shock dismissal as CEO, report saysEnglish
242·2 years agoYea, I think if they were offered severance as part of dismissal/layoff and it had a non compete they could lose that. Beyond that, it doesn’t hold much water in CA for the employees.
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Risa@startrek.website•Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Tells Your Story?English
2·3 years ago👏 bravo, this is fantastic!
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Baldur's Gate 3@lemmy.world•[SPOILER] What choices do you repeat each run?English
3·3 years agoMy first run I made the sword and I regretted it. Armors are pretty good picks, I didn't realize the shield was so good. I didn't really use them this last run, but something to think about for my next one…
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Technology@lemmy.world•Generative AI Is Coming for Sales Execs’ Jobs—and They’re CelebratingEnglish
71·3 years agoOn one hand it's a pretty common acronym in consulting-businees work. But on the other you'd think Wired, as a general tech publication, would want to take the two sentence to explain what it is and how it's generally used.
It could be a pretty big value to remove humans in this step. A lot of times the rfp contents are known-ish anyway. You're a tech dev firm, and someone wants a proposal for building an app in a framework you know, you already have language probably you've used. In theory this is a great application of AI to speed up the process of building this. The request is "hey we need these things and want this and this". A consumer facing business might present this information as a FAQ or custom order process anyway, so automating an rfp could be good since it speeds things along.
In practice, who knows. If it isn't accurate, if it takes longer to edit than just write from scratch, then that would suck. It'll likely be another way to "reduce headcount" cause of "efficiencies" regardless of how good it is. I doubt this changes anything for most sales executives job status, for people who work in those departments that support those execs though, probably not good
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Baldur's Gate 3@lemmy.world•Would a Selunite cleric run with Shovel the quasit?English
3·3 years agoIn my game I regret taking shovel on Tav. Because I can't have scratch and shovel out at the same time, and scratch is a good boy so… sorry shovel, you're riding the bench this playthrough
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Baldur's Gate 3@lemmy.world•Would a Selunite cleric run with Shovel the quasit?English
6·3 years agoCould be trying to fix/save shovel?
It would definitely be easier to explain why Wyll has shovel though.
Yea the only thing that didn’t satisfy me with the self replicating is the “they can just… keep replacing themselves? Man replicators really are broken” and how fast is this replication? Like if the dominion wanted to send 1,000 ships through and it could only take out 5-10 before exhausting why not just send the ships through.
But if the mines were phased and could detonate when the big ships are through, or even inside the big ships, they’d think twice. Again, just weird head canon I had to explain the minefields effectiveness in the show haha

Ahh, thanks! Reading a description, that’s how I use it too, that’s fun to learn there’s a name for it.