This is what the internet is for!
(it's for all the other useful, valuable, life-saving stuff too)
Readit Newscardosof commented on I built a website where you can pop confettis for no reason poptheconfetti.website... · Posted by u/beingmani
Probably Nintendo is suing on the catching mechanic which is pretty much the same in both games. In Palworld, the player has a team of Pals and, in order to catch a new Pal, they must fight and after some damage throw a catching ball at the right moment.
Could someone patent a monster catching mechanic, anyway?
cardosof commented on YouTube doesn't want to take down scam ads old.reddit.com/r/youtube/... · Posted by u/Jakob-G
They're all like that. A whole back I reported an obvious real estate scam using Wayne Gretzky and some Blue Jays player (I'm in Canada). The reply was it didn't break any policy.
When ads are the primary source of revenue, there's zero incentive to police the platform
>The reply was it didn't break any policy.
What is the policy, as long as you pay and don't do anything outright offensive, it's all fair game?
While this must be an incredible technical achievement for the team, as a simple user I will only see value when Google ships a product that's better than OpenAI's, and that's yet to be seen.
cardosof commented on Show HN: Netflix for AI-Generated Videos lucidbox.net/... · Posted by u/ringerapps
Can’t wait for that to happen with zero research into the long term effects that’ll have, but who gives a shit right, we can make money now and not give a fuck later.
It's not like that's something new or exclusive to tech, right? Coke had cocaine and cigarettes were physician tested and approved. We should have learned from those things but we didn't, and so history will rhyme.
cardosof commented on Duet AI for Google Workspace Now Available workspace.google.com/blog... · Posted by u/meetpateltech
Same, I was at the level I was directly working with Directors and indirectly with VPs.
I literally had projects blocked because I didn’t provide a promo vision for the Directors to make VP if they funded me. This is business critical shit, my direct supervisor literally told me this. They were angry I didn’t devote any time to showing the promo opportunities. No complaint with any part of my justification beyond that.
Business case was open and shut, low technical requirements, minimal overhead and low cost. All they wanted to know was how to make VP, that’s it.
So yeah, I quit.
(Also to the down-voters who likely work at Google, if you’re not in the room when decisions are made you don’t know how the company works.)
I can't speak about Google at all, but this line:
if you’re not in the room when decisions are made you don’t know how the company works
Is great and true, thank you.
cardosof commented on A room-temperature superconductor? New developments science.org/content/blog-... · Posted by u/nneonneo
this changes everything (if it's true)
Beazley is one of the masters and his other books are great. My nitpick here is that, as in any other language, the basics are there forever and the advanced features/techniques get old and replaced every now and then.
Creating a problem and selling the solution, a classical politician's move.