You going to prevent people from downloading open-source, noncompliant Linux from Asia or Europe?

That’s the real plan, I suspect.

Will the sysadmins in Congress need to verify their age to use a server?

Yes. Yes, they will.

The mechanical turk, the robot maids of the 70s, etc.

Yes.

But I’m a little sad that I still can’t buy a robot maid or butler.

I figured they would exist by now, for about the price of a vacuum.

I’m not demanding that they actually be any good. We could just program them to quote “The Jetsons” and do some simple vacuum pathing, or deliver a tray full of drinks.

Why doesn’t it just edit files like it normally does?

Haha. Yes.

But it does everything the most probable way, according to all the stack overflow it has swallowed.

Sometimes that way makes sense. Sometimes not.

Yes. Ironically, if Korra was a completely separate thing from ATLA, I think it would be more popular.

Ignoring how it connects with ATLA, I think it’s just a solid Anime, with a few things that don’t work, and many that are great.

Yes! This is legitimately one of the ways the bubble may burst. Particularly if the AI gets substantially smarter, and just starts recommending full switches to existing libraries and software suites - at a cost of exactly one token, instead of churning out thousands of lines of slop code that require ongoing tokens to maintain.

It’s an infinite amount of money from every customer!

But it’s okay, because there’s infinite money to be saved by laying off technical expert staff.

I always wished for a Street Fighter side scrolling beat em up.

You’ve just described the 16-bit era forgotten almost-classic, Cyborg Justice.

The learning curve is steep, and the graphics are kind of boring. But after that, it is a a co-op ongoing series of Street Fighter brawls with surprisingly deep combat and some interesting and satisfying progression.

Edit: As others mentioned “Final Fight I/II” get close, and is way nicer looking, but doesn’t have much going on for special moves.

Also “King of the Monsters II” is a pretty solid Street Fighter clone that has some side scrolling in the levels and destructible environments.

There’s also a few goofy old Capcom arcade games that have this feeling, but I’m not remembering the title names, right now.

Probably same thing with Starcraft, but I’ve never tried it.

Oof. Yes. I recall Starcraft II’s tutorial requiring what felt like South Korean world champion commands-per-minute play to get through maybe the third level of the tutorial.

just wish I could play and experience it all at my pace - family life currently precludes me from being able to invest sufficient time to play an MMO.

Wayfinder does this pretty well. There’s some rough edges from where they pivoted in the design, but I got it on sale for less than a single month of WoW, and have been playing through it at my own pace ever since.

I haven’t seen this exact screen, but since there’s very little help in this thread so far, I’ll speculate.

I’ve seen plenty of single solid color screens that turned out to be “fuck you i didn’t like something, have a plain color instead of your image” from some piece of Digital Rights Management software.

If it is DRM, the two approaches I’m aware of are:

• Try to guess what pissed off the DRM, while being treated as an enemy at every level and step of logging and debugging.
• Turn to the clear, communicative, well documented piracy community for help. Note that their solutions may not be strictly legal, but they tend to actually get me access to the thing i already paid for.

“Why is no one having a good time? I specifically requested it.”

So many great lines, and his delivery was perfect.

Yes! His early death was tragic.

We could have had several more Dirk Gently mysteries, and the Guide Trilogy could have been even more inaccurately counted, by now. RIP Adams.

The skill gap between those sides will be incredible.

Yes. And we see this skill gap between folks who learned to code before web frameworks, vs after, as well.

Yes. If steam shuts down, I’ll probably just stop purchasing games entirely.

I am unconvinced that Zuckerberg isn’t personally searching Meta messages to select future Epstein Island 2.0 victims.

I’ve had friends who had close calls with what seemed to them to be a kidnapping attempt by a paid organized group of people.

I dismissed their experience.

Then the Epstein files released.

Tinfoil hat incoming:

Zuckerberg’s whole organization makes a hell of a lot more sense if their real product is profiles allowing billionaires to select their next rape victims.

“almost right, but critically broken in subtle ways” turns out to actually be more than good enough for many people and many purposes. You’re describing the “success” state.

Exactly. The consequences are at worst a problem for “future me”, and at best “somebody else’s problem”.

AI didn’t create this reality, but it’s certainly moved it into the spotlight and to “center stage.”

Yes. Exactly. In my experience, there’s more code shops that ship shit than that catch their mistakes.

They get a lot of things wrong but there’s so much usable that you can save a ton of time over doing everything yourself from scratch.

Your experience with Junior devs has been quite different from mine.

I work with Junior devs because someday they will be senior devs who owe me a favor, even though they’ve always only costed me time.

Edit: I also work with junior devs because sometimes a tiny corner of my job is both mind-numbingly boring, and also weirdly difficult to automate away.

I assign that work to junior devs because I don’t want to do it.

In doing so, I am wasting the boss’s money, since I could do it faster.

But I consider it but just another part of the price of hiring me, because it keeps me happy.

Interesting. I wonder if the exact method may become common knowledge, helping force Walmart to consider paying a living wage…