This should be plainly obvious, of you want to have fun playing with strangers as the game is designed, it sucks if someone could just disable your camouflage by replacing textures with bright orange.

It’s not just about integrity of “eSports”.

That said, I just don’t play online with people I don’t know. Even without cheating online randos can be frustrating, especially in coop games.

‘AI experiences’ go in favor of moar datacenter for AI bros to play with.

Basically the infrastructure play has started running out of loans, and the market is switching to who can secure the most debt in a stingy market. So moves like this try to mitigate the hit to credit ratings, trying to avoid what has happened to Oracle for example.

I don’t know the details of the microsoft offer, but at another company we had a few of them, and the ‘fine print’ was:

• If too many people applied to participate, the company reserved the right to deny applicants
• If someone was deemed too critical, executives reserved the right to reject individual cases

So offering to 60k does not mean they actually accept the risk of all 60k leaving.

More interesting is the logic of a ‘buyout’. Now the superficial assumption is that it’s better for morale, but as you saw, it’s pretty much certain that morale will be hurt by an involuntary layoff action anyway after the buyout. But maybe you could argue the hit was softened by the buyout earlier…

However, I think the actual goal is to disproportionately get the people in their 60s, the folks that given the right ‘nudge’ will just nope out into retirement. They would love to do that in layoffs, but historically that has hit age discrimination suits. Whenever we had a farewell celebration in a buyout, the people were mostly people at retirement age.

Pretty much. The industry was for ‘those nerds’ in the days, then dot-com came and holy shit, money to be made, but for a time, let the nerds cook because the investor class had no idea and kind of knew they had no idea.

Then the crash put the investor class firmly at the wheel and the industry has been significantly distorted since then, motivation wise.

Clearly good things have happened, but there’s always this anti-user angle at play now.

She’s fully capable of coming up with three superlatives about her child

You may underestimate how much of a sociopath these people are…

I largely agree with you, though by the time she took the reigns at yahoo, it was already pretty dead.

But this pattern of executives proudly offloading ‘pesky personal connection’ to AI just works to confirm that their stratum of society are almost exclusively sociopaths.

LLM above all else are good at baseless confidence without regard of whether they actually know what is being discussed. So just like a c-suite.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1AMFirysrc is an example of exactly why C-suite loves the hell out of it.

Man I have noticed a severe drop in intelligence lately.

I’m getting beyond the most basic dumb questions from people that have been in the industry long enough to know better. I know they could have answered it themselves earlier. Basically I’m getting either hard questions that the AI can’t answer, or really dumb questions that the AI chokes on because the question doesn’t make sense (“How do I log into a directory?” Yes, someone forgot about cd and asked it in such a weird way the AI was unable to understand it)