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jncfhnb commented on Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license unity.com/products/unity-... · Posted by u/finnsquared

matsemann · 4 days ago

Unreal already has % of revenue. How do they track that, and is this any different?

Aka my guess it's a combination of trust, verification using public numbers (like downloads on Steam) and the ability to do audits of some kind?

jncfhnb · 4 days ago

I believe that’s correct. It’s primarily on you to report revenues and they can audit you if they think you’re lying.

jncfhnb commented on Unity reintroduces the Runtime Fee through its Industry license unity.com/products/unity-... · Posted by u/finnsquared

Lammy · 4 days ago

Until it's an established payment model for one product category, after which it fill feel more natural to extend it to others.

The worst part of it isn't even that devs would get their wallets shaken out but that it's really just surveillance in disguise. Those apps would “““have to””” spy on me as an end-user in order for them to know what to charge.

jncfhnb · 4 days ago

I switched to unreal several years ago because Unity had written hundreds of gigabytes of log files complaining that it could not phone home and filled up my hard drive

jncfhnb commented on Electricity prices are climbing more than twice as fast as inflation npr.org/2025/08/16/nx-s1-... · Posted by u/geox

crmd · 8 days ago

One of my favorite things here in New York City is how Con Ed gets approval to pass infrastructure upgrade costs directly to consumers, but at the end of the financing period the asset is mysteriously owned by their board of directors, not the public who paid for it.

jncfhnb · 8 days ago

Most of these things are really liabilities. You have to maintain these things.

jncfhnb commented on Toothpaste made with keratin may protect and repair damaged teeth: study kcl.ac.uk/news/toothpaste... · Posted by u/sohkamyung

orliesaurus · 9 days ago

Funny that the first picture on the website is a bald man, I guess he hasn't tested it himself?

jncfhnb · 9 days ago

Perhaps he had hair before the harvesting

jncfhnb commented on Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn

JCM9 · 10 days ago

What city? Most cities I’ve seen the majority of entrants have either gone bust or on a path to.

jncfhnb · 10 days ago

That doesn’t matter. Were really just talking about uber and lyft.

jncfhnb commented on Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn

Ancapistani · 10 days ago

That is clearly a failure on the part of the seniors on their team - not AI.

jncfhnb · 10 days ago

I don’t blame the stupidity multipliers but I don’t love having them around

jncfhnb commented on AI-induced dehumanization (2024) myscp.onlinelibrary.wiley... · Posted by u/walterbell

megamix · 10 days ago

How do you guys read through an article this fast after it's submitted? I need more than 1 hr to think this through.

jncfhnb · 10 days ago

Ask AI to summarize and write a response

jncfhnb commented on Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn

sokoloff · 10 days ago

> Because instead of writing code, they’re spending - wasting? - a ton of time fixing AI coding blunders. This is not a productive use of mid-level, never mind senior, programmers.

It’s amazing to think that humans have been writing blunder-free code all this time and only AI is making mistakes.

Humans coders, including good ones, make errors all the time and I don’t fully trust the code written by even my strongest team members (including myself; I’m far from the strongest programmer).

jncfhnb · 10 days ago

Problem is juniors are now pushing code that they don’t understand and have concluded they cannot understand because the AI is smarter than them

jncfhnb commented on Are you willing to pay $100k a year per developer on AI? theregister.com/2025/08/1... · Posted by u/rntn

JCM9 · 10 days ago

This is all a familiar pattern. In the early days of ride share it was an amazing advancement and very cheap, because it was highly subsidized. The quality was decent, and certainly better than taxi and car services in most cities. Tons of ride share app companies popped up.

Then reality set in. Costs were raised so they weren’t losing money anymore. Rideshare became more of a commodity and competitors got squeezed out as there wasn’t much room to compete and make money. Service quality went downhill. Uber is generally reliable but the quality has fallen off a cliff. My last car smelled bad and the rear axel sounded like was about to fall off the car. In most cities at the airport I just walk outside and get an old fashioned taxi at the rank vs dealing with all the nonsense regulations forcing one to walking to some remote corner of a parking garage for the “ride share pickup” zone.

GenAI is entering that pivot point. The products have plateaued. There’s pressure to stop the loss leaders and set prices to a more realistic level. Services are becoming commoditized. It’s not going away but we’re entering a period of rapid consolidation. GenAI will still be here in a few years and will be useful, but like rideshare the allure will wear old and we’ll look at these things like we do spell checkers today. Something everyone uses but ultimately boring commoditized tech where there’s not a lot of money to be made. A useful feature to add to actual products.

I do think there’s some good opportunity to shift to locally run small models, but that too will just become commoditized spell-checker level tech.

jncfhnb · 10 days ago

Your anecdata is bad though. Rideshare is doing fine.

jncfhnb commented on Exile Economics: If Globalisation Fails lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n... · Posted by u/mitchbob

churchill · 13 days ago

If the Chinese want to dilute the wealth of their people and use it to subsidize stuff for Western consumers, the smart thing to do would be to buy it!

Anti-trade activists always agitate about how they'll jerk up prices after capturing markets, but Uber hasn't managed to pull it off, despite >$50 billion burned. The moment a company's margins hike significantly, they attract competitors chasing those same dollars and they have to lower prices or lose market share.

jncfhnb · 13 days ago

Uber prices have been increasing for years now at a rate much faster than inflation