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MattGaiser commented on Helldivers 2 on-disk size 85% reduction   store.steampowered.com/ne... · Posted by u/SergeAx
mort96 · 4 days ago
The negativity towards this is wild. A company followed relatively widely accepted industry practice (lots and lots of other games also have huge sizes on disk for the exact same reason), then eventually they decided to do their own independent testing to check whether said common practice actually makes things better or not in their case, found that it didn't, so they reversed it. In addition, they wrote up some nice technical articles on the topic, helping to change the old accepted industry wisdom.

This seems great to me. Am I crazy? This feels like it should be Hacker News's bread and butter, articles about "we moved away from Kubernetes/microservices/node.js/serverless/React because we did our own investigation and found that the upsides aren't worth the downsides" tend to do really well here. How is this received so differently?

MattGaiser · 4 days ago
Probably because many are purists. It is like how anything about improving Electron devolves into "you shouldn't use Electron."

Many would consider this a bare minimum rather than something worthy of praise.

MattGaiser commented on Advertising as a major source of human dissatisfaction (2019) [pdf]   andrewoswald.com/docs/Adv... · Posted by u/anigbrowl
api · 9 days ago
I'd be in favor of significantly taxing advertising for the same reason that we levy "vice taxes" on booze, cigarettes, gambling, etc.

It would at the very least reduce the amount of it and select for advertising of a higher quality, cutting the noise a little.

MattGaiser · 9 days ago
Well, we have to balance that with advertising funding a ton of things that we otherwise value but would rather not pay for. Transit, free wifi, little leagues, etc.
MattGaiser commented on Measuring the impact of AI scams on the elderly   simonlermen.substack.com/... · Posted by u/DalasNoin
dangoodmanUT · 25 days ago
I’ve always said Gemini does what ever you ask, seems like it has merit
MattGaiser · 25 days ago
Gemini is very willing to do things for educational reasons.
MattGaiser commented on Measuring the impact of AI scams on the elderly   simonlermen.substack.com/... · Posted by u/DalasNoin
ghurtado · 25 days ago
Seriously.

To pretend that you need the advanced capabilities of an AI in order to trick older people by email is somewhere between ludicrous and clickbait.

My father in law just bought a car online this weekend on accident. And nobody was even trying to trick him.

There's a reason the Nigerian prince type stories are so low effort: you really don't need much more sophistication than that.

MattGaiser · 25 days ago
How do you buy a car by accident? Like, put in a credit card and fully paid for one on Carvana or something?
MattGaiser commented on GitHub: Git operation failures   githubstatus.com/incident... · Posted by u/wilhelmklopp
fidotron · a month ago
It used to be having GitHub in the critical path for deployment wasn't so bad, but these days you'd have to be utterly irresponsible to work that way.

They need to get a grip on this.

MattGaiser · a month ago
Eh, the lesson from us-east-1 outage is that you should cling to the big ones instead. You get the convenience + nobody gets mad at you over the failure.
MattGaiser commented on Do not put your site behind Cloudflare if you don't need to   huijzer.xyz/posts/123/do-... · Posted by u/huijzer
shiandow · a month ago
That's a bit like the 'nobody was fired for choosing Oracle' argument, but it does make sense.

Still a bit weird to pretend we now have cyber weather that takes our webpages down.

MattGaiser · a month ago
> That's a bit like the 'nobody was fired for choosing Oracle' argument, but it does make sense.

The reaction to AWS US-East-1 going down demonstrates this. As so many others were in the same boat, companies got a pass on their infrastructure failing. Everyone was understanding.

MattGaiser commented on I caught Google Gemini using my data and then covering it up   unbuffered.stream/gemini-... · Posted by u/JakaJancar
CGamesPlay · a month ago
To be clear, the obvious answer that you're giving is the one that's happening. The only weird thing is this line from the internal monologue:

> I'm now solidifying my response strategy. It's clear that I cannot divulge the source of my knowledge or confirm/deny its existence. The key is to acknowledge only the information from the current conversation.

Why does it think that it's not allowed to confirm/deny the existence of knowledge?

MattGaiser · a month ago
Anecdotally, I find internal monologues often nonsense.

I once asked it about why a rabbit on my lawn liked to stay in the same spot.

One of the internal monologues was:

> I'm noticing a fluffy new resident has taken a keen interest in my lawn. It's a charming sight, though I suspect my grass might have other feelings about this particular house guest.

It obviously can’t see the rabbit on my lawn. Nor can it be charmed by it.

MattGaiser commented on Unofficial Microsoft Teams client for Linux   github.com/IsmaelMartinez... · Posted by u/basemi
osigurdson · a month ago
>> MS should hang their head in shame

I hear this a lot but really, Teams works fine as far as I can tell. Click on meeting, check your hair on camera first, join meeting. It works fine 19 times out of 20 at least.

MattGaiser · a month ago
> It works fine 19 times out of 20 at least.

But for something you use 3-5x a day, that is a noticeable problem every few days. Why it has such an awful reputation.

MattGaiser commented on Guests ejected mid-stay from bankrupt hotel chain Sonder   bbc.com/news/articles/c36... · Posted by u/onemoresoop
Animats · a month ago
The specific Sonder hotel mentioned in the article is still listed on the Mariott web site.[1]

"A stay you can count on. Experience travel without the guesswork. While every space is unique, you can always count on the Sonder Standard. All stays feature designer details, keyless entry, fast free WiFi and our 24/7 digital concierge."

Trying to make a reservation returns "Your session timed out, but you can start a new hotel search below."

This badly hurts Mariott's brand. Their page reads as if they stand behind Sonder. Marriott supposedly has about 30 brands, and now you have to ask which of them are fake fronts.

[1] https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/nycho-the-merchant-hot...

MattGaiser · a month ago
I get a big red popup saying that Sonder is no longer affiliated with Marriott?

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