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[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago

Thanks for clarifying, my bad!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago (2 children)

WhatsApp is closed source, and obviously it must be able to decrypt messages for the end user to read them. Anything could happen to the unencrypted data at this point. Therefore it's less secure allowing conversations to flow into that app.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Once you're in the industry and see the typical shitshow that goes on in most companies and teams, you won't think twice about not hearing anything for 3 months. There's a million reasons why you won't get a job or not hear back for a really long time that have nothing to do with you. Stick with it, times are tough right now but your luck will eventually change.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 8 months ago (1 children)

I like to remind juniors that you can only become an expert on something temporarily, especially on large teams/projects. Between skill atrophy and the foundations shifting beneath your feet as other developers continue working, it's not possible to truly understand a complex system in a state of flux for very long.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

We should see an improvement in game quality for the platform once last-gen sales drop off enough that developers only need to target current-gen.

Right now any game that comes out for both PS4+5 is bottlenecked by PS4 memory and performance, with only easy wins taken for PS5 like higher quality assets and faster IO/FPS.

Designing a game for current-gen platforms from the ground up is when we'll start to see some more impressive features, but there's still money on the table for PS4 so it'll be a few years (IMHO) before we see PS5 exclusives as the norm.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Spite reading, love it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago

We don't even need to choose! Just use hours, months, years, decades! But no, Barbie movies.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago (2 children)

A programmer sitting in front of a text-based IDE with millions of keyboard shortcuts at their disposal has to be the least necessary use case for a voice assistant I've ever heard of.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago

Glass arrived on the scene in 2013. Since then recording in public has become much more normalised... smartphone camera use, cars with dashcams and CCTV/face recognition have all increased in popularity. YouTubers, live streamers, creators etc. If it were released again today, I'm not sure it would achieve the same hatred it did back then, at least on the "creepy camera in public" point.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 9 months ago

"Am I so out of touch?"
...
"No, it's the customers who are wrong!"

[–] [email protected] 15 points 10 months ago

I refer you to the coal mines being built in Australia.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Here's what I was referring to with the lightbulb thing and capitalism:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phoebus_cartel

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