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xn7 commented on Riot Games: Peeking into Valorant's Netcode (2020) technology.riotgames.com/... · Posted by u/jakey_bakey

xyst · a year ago

The pressures at game studios are often very high. These game studios prey on people/gamers to “do it for the passion”.

Probably different at Riot? Not sure.

But companies like Blizzard/Activision and some smaller companies were described as very toxic environments.

xn7 · a year ago

Riot has a notoriously toxic work environment, and recently has had massive rounds of layoffs[0]. And it’s extra bad for women, like at most game studios.

[0]: https://www.riotgames.com/en/news/2024-rioter-update - 11% of staff let go

xn7 commented on Using AI to fight insurance claim denials sfstandard.com/2024/08/23... · Posted by u/jpmattia

dylan604 · a year ago

The concept of spirit of the law vs letter of the law infuriates me to no end.

I think the letter of the law should stipulate the spirit of the law (almost a TL;DR right at the beginning) so that jurists can later take that into account when deciding if the law was broken.

xn7 · a year ago

I agree that it’s very frustrating, but law is a language game between opposing parties. There is always going to be willful misinterpretation, because, well, sometimes people want incompatible things. If you add a spirit of the law TLDR, you’ll need a spirit of the spirit of the law, and so on.

xn7 commented on EU parliament member hit by Israeli Candiru spyware twitter.com/moo9000/statu... · Posted by u/miohtama

throwawaydummy · a year ago

Don’t we live in a world where zero click exploits are a thing? I thought the target didn’t have to click the links just receive them

xn7 · a year ago

Zero click exploits are a thing, but they are very expensive and have limited shelf life (once they have been used a few times, they tend to get found out and patched). Most actors won’t use one, unless it is a very, very high value target. It seems that the EU parliament member was not high value enough, and got lucky.

xn7 commented on Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see businessinsider.com/googl... · Posted by u/thunderbong

ed_balls · 2 years ago

Recently I've been thinking there should be a term limit for PMs/Chancellors

Tatcher, Merkel, Putin - if they would have a 10 year limit, things would be much better.

xn7 · 2 years ago

Putin has “updated” term limits several times. For the UK and Germany, this makes sense, however.

xn7 commented on Outlook is Microsoft's new data collection service proton.me/blog/outlook-is... · Posted by u/jlpcsl

tiahura · 2 years ago

Why is it cool to pay for stuff you may not use?

xn7 · 2 years ago

They also have offers where you only pay for email || vpn || cloud-storage. Their payment structure is somewhat confusing, but very flexible.

xn7 commented on Clicks – Physical keyboard for iPhone clicks.tech/... · Posted by u/guyinblackshirt

paxys · 2 years ago

I doubt this thing will get anywhere, but this discussion thread is making me nostalgic about the wild times of smartphone design in the late 2000s/early 2010s. Motorola Droid. HTC Touch. Palm Pre. Nokia N900/N95/N97 and their other crazy form factors. All the different Blackberrys.

Phones were sliding, folding, twisting. Then at some point everyone decided that a glass rectangle was the only way to go and that was it.

xn7 · 2 years ago

The Palm Pre had the best mobile typing experience I have ever had. I tested a lot of different stuff (Blackberries, various weird looking Nokias), but something about the Palm Pre was just... better. It had the perfect amount of resistance, the keys were well defined and had a nice rubber touch.

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