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Friendly reminder to fellow devs. Don't forget to disable these in your next project.

I see a lot of dunking on perceived game sales / concurrent users by gamers out there. Avowed is a recent example. That's an uneducated angle of attack and here's why. For Microsoft (and their owned studios) it's about one thing...Game Pass. Adding to and retaining Game Pass users. That's it. That's the focus. That's why Microsoft buys these studios. To pump quality games into Game Pass. Actual unit sales and profits are a distant secondary consideration. What's important is does the game boost new Game Pass subs or retain them? How many hours played? How many Game Pass subscribers downloaded the game? That's the metric. Xbox is 100% about Game Pass so when deciding the "success" of any given game, first check if it's a Microsoft owned studio. If so, then Steam reviews/concurrent users don't really matter. All that matters are whatever the internal Game Pass analytics show. You can have whatever critique of a game you like and concurrent users on Steam is a relative indicator of how a game does compared to others, but internally at Microsoft they really don't care. If it met Game Pass projections they are happy. Next game. #gamedev

.@SecDef Hegseth says he doesn’t know if Russia invaded Ukraine. This you?

Kamala was right. And it only took him less than 30 days to roll over for Putin.

RT @ddale8: As Elon Musk continues to mislead about this Pentagon contract (issued under Trump in 2018) to a company that worked on a milit…

Closed source AI feels like. Imagine if Einstein sold his theory of relativity to AT&T for $2 mil. They kept it private, vaguely implied “we discovered something big”, and then they released a GPS that was 10% better than their competitors.

The Battle of Bamber Bridge, 1943. Racist US military police attacked black US troops on British soil. US military authorities demanded the town’s pubs impose a colour bar, the local landlords responded with signs that read “Black Troops Only” which pissed them off. A THREAD

machineLoorning redd.it/1if7wdq

Do I trust LLM written code? No. Am I going to actually carefully review LLM written serde boilerplate visitor code? Also no. Do I believe in test driven development? Still no. Do I believe in TDD when using AI? Uh.. actually maybe yes. 😬

Buttigieg was asking Congress to allocate more money to the FAA so it could hire 2000 more air traffic controllers. thehill.com/regulation/trans…

It will take years to make that happen, and the products will be more expensive. That's why we don't make them now. Plus, the capital to build those factories will divert funds from other areas, pushing up interest rates considerably. Get ready for 10% mortgage rates or higher.

Incredible things are happening in Dennistoun

This is SUCH a complicated topic and many people are voicing opinions with some basic facts missing. Please allow me a few minutes to explain this situation in depth: Let's start at the beginning... SpaceX and Boeing were hired in 2014 to provide commercial crew services to the ISS for NASA. SpaceX was the first to successfully fly and safely return crew with operational flights beginning in 2020. Boeing had an unsuccessful test flight in 2019 which required a redo in 2022 which was considered successful despite a few thruster malfunctions, it safely flew the mission to and from the ISS. It should be noted, that Boeing received nearly double the amount SpaceX did for the Commercial Crew Program, mostly for "timeline assurance" - ironic This eventually led to the flight of Boeing's Starliner Crew Flight Test with Butch and Suni in June, 2024. Immediately once on orbit, the vehicle experienced thruster issues and small helium leaks which were more off-nominal than they would've liked. The safest thing to do was to dock to the ISS where they could further test and figure out the exact issue and determine the safest thing to do next. The ISS was their original destination and once on Station, the Crew was safe AND had work to do as highly trained NASA astronauts, station keeping, and doing research and science. During this period, there technically wasn't a known, safe way to get Butch and Suni back, so NASA and SpaceX devised a way to have them return as the 5th and 6th crew on the Crew-8 Dragon, C206 Endeavour in the case of an emergency on station. After a few months of testing, NASA decided the safest thing to do was to have the Boeing Starliner return uncrewed, which would free up that docking port to allow the Crew-9 SpaceX Dragon Capsule a place to dock. So in September, the malfunctioning Starliner returned (safely), uncrewed, and for about two weeks the official way off the station in an emergency was by being the 5th and 6th crew inside the Crew-8 Dragon capsule, but then on September 29th, Crew-9 docked to the ISS. THIS MEANS, THE SPACEX CREW DRAGON CAPSULE THAT IS DEEMED TO "RESCUE" / UN-"ABANDON" / "SAVE" BUTCH AND SUNI HAS ALREADY BEEN DOCKED TO THE ISS SINCE SEPTEMBER. People seem to be missing this point. And here's where this all gets pretty complicated... NASA / Roscosmos flew Crew-9 with only Nick Hague and Aleksandr Gorbunov so there would be two seats available to return Butch and Suni from the ISS. They even brought up two SpaceX space suits with them since the Boeing Starliner ones weren't compatible with Dragon. Normally, the ISS crews do 6 month stays with overlapping "expeditions" where half the crew basically rotates out every three months. What it really means is, GENERALLY, you go up on one spacecraft, you come down on that same one. And crewed spacecraft come up every 3 months, basically play a game of tag, and they swap with half the crew that's currently onboard. They alternate, US Commercial Crew and Russian Soyuz vehicles. Sometimes these schedules change, and sometimes missions have crew on much longer than 6 months, with the record and the safe timeframe being considered about one year. So the plan has been to have Butch and Suni join Crew-9. This means they are part of Expedition 71, 72 AND 73 on the ISS. Basically they got to do an extra expedition, something that I think most professional astronauts might see as a good thing. Since normally you don't have a crew leave the ISS until their replacements arrive, this means Crew-9 isn't slated to leave until Crew-10 arrives. In December it was revealed that Crew-10 is targeting no earlier than March because the particular SpaceX Crew Dragon capsule that was slated to be used for that mission is not yet ready because it is brand new and there was still fabrication, assembly, testing and final integration of the vehicle necessary before it flew. This Crew Dragon, C213, is the fifth and likely final Dragon Capsule that will be built. So why are they waiting on a brand new spacecraft to launch Crew-10? Why aren't they just using one of the other 5 to fly Crew-10 sooner and get Butch and Suni home sooner? Well, C207 Resilience flew Polaris Dawn and is modified for free flying and is docking-portless at the moment, and will be flying Fram-2 soon. C206 Endeavor is undergoing refurbishment as planned after its 5th flight. C212 Freedom is currently docked to the ISS and C210 is currently slated to fly Axiom-4. So what options are there? What if they really do say "just bring them home already!!!"... well it causes a bit of a mess. First off, they would abandon their expedition 72 crew mate, Don Pettit, to be the only person onboard the US segment of the ISS. Leaving him alone to do all station keeping, leaving virtually no time to do science or research, he'd become a full time janitor / maintenance man until he was relieved of his duties. It should be noted that when they increased crew size from a crew of 3 to a crew of 4, the amount of science that could be done nearly doubled, which goes to show just how much time and energy it takes to keep the station operational for a crew. Another option is rush completion and certification of the C213 Dragon and fly Crew-10 earlier, which I think we all agree is a terrible option, and likely one SpaceX wouldn't sign off on, no matter how much pressure there is from up top. Another option is to switch Crew-10 to fly on C210, which is also not great since the Crew has been training specifically to certify and test out C213 as part of their mission. Swapping two crews' hardware at this point would be fairly negligent too. Lastly, the option is to just wait until Crew-10 arrives, swap the crews per usual and allow Butch and Suni to fly home on Crew-9's Dragon Capsule once Crew-10 is settled in and operating the station. This is the option NASA, and ultimately SpaceX, chose. These are just plain and simple the facts of the situation, hopefully it helps you develop an informed and nuanced opinion on this complicated subject matter.

RT @stealthygeek: Because the media is already getting everything as wrong as they possibly can, let's go over what actually happened with…

DeepSeek's censorship is no match for the jailbreakers of Reddit (from u/JimRice18)

One of the important things Arnold talks about is seeing his abusive father and his friends become pathetic drunks because they wasted their lives on a miserable failure of an ideology

The frustrating thing about these neo-Nazis is they're actually not going to do the one objectively good thing the Nazis did - which was commit to a fight with the Russians.