I’d say ethics aside, it’s inherently dangerous to pirate executable files… so there’s an argument to just not do it to avoid viruses.

I personally would never pirate an executable file for that reason alone. A lot of games have demos these days thankfully, so that’s a way to get a taste and see if it’s worth buying. And in my experience, I got bored of several demos and saved money! And some I realized I would probably really enjoy it.

Ethically though? I mean, if they offer a demo and they’re an indie studio, I think it’s much more ethical to try the demo.

I’ve had several family members in big pharma, people who research and design drugs, and marketers. I’ve married into family with similar.

The fucking stories I heard … They all leave it saying it’s the most evil shit. Studies are twisted, data is cherry picked. They take doctors who give talks to other doctors out to $10k dinners and persuade them into thinking some shitty drug is a wonder drug, and fear monger that they’ll get sued if their patient complains about symptom X and they don’t treat it.

Doctors don’t know better because they’re being lied to and fed bullshit.

It’s so bad that I asked a family member if they’d be willing to speak up and I heard “people have tried, they get sued and silenced, and big pharma has lawyers specifically for this”. You’re going up against a monster.

This was after I was told how they literally do avoid potential cures because they make less money, and cost more money to research. They literally discover cures sometimes and don’t fucking follow the research because it’s not financially worth it.

They make shitty treatments you have to stay on your whole life because that’s what makes them rich. And they lobby to get shit like the recommended blood pressure lowered so they can sell more blood pressure meds.

Evil in and out.

I’m sure the devs did a quick search for sexual keywords to clean it up after the news came out

Yeah tbh, they shouldn’t have to take that down. It’s the least of the bad shit they’re doing, and showing fake violence is just in poor taste.

Could be STEM as a whole. Everyone glamorizes it, but it’s definitely not for everyone. Shit, my family literally got upset when I suggested I might want to be a writer.

I would argue it’s normalizing.

For fucks sake, the last 30 years have been insane, especially with the dotcom boom and bust.

Suddenly every dipshit adult was telling their kids, “computers are the future, the internet is the future, and you can’t survive with just a highschool degree. You better go to college and learn programming!!”

Those parents are a bit to blame with how things got. And it seemed like they were pretty accurate too as high speed internet became huge, and lithium batteries thus mobile phones…

I always was interested in programming, since before my mom pushed me into it, because she was one of those types too. Then I went to college, and I met a bunch of teenagers who said, “uhhh I don’t know what I want to do but I want it make money so I’m doing computer science”.

The first year of college usually filtered those people out. Usually.

And i’ve always said, don’t join this career for the money. It’s not worth it, if you don’t love engineering. This is the most stressful fucking job I’ve ever had, and there are tons of meetings and social activity to go with it. You can’t just solve puzzles in a vacuum, even if you like programming, and that’s EVEN if you enjoy it. You have to start leading others at some point, act like a mentor.

You take on a fucking lot of responsibility, start giving demos, working with product managers, marketers, help teach people what is possible in the product and what isn’t. This isn’t a chill gig. It rarely is. It usually involves a fuck ton of effort and planning.

You get paid a lot… But honestly, if you’re actually doing the job well, you’re underpaid even then. Often you will be underpaid compared to the effort you put in. Especially now.

Not as many people should be in software engineering as there are. I talk to people sometimes and you can tell they hate this job. It’s okay, and I don’t blame them, but way too many people got sucked into this career for the wrong reasons, then kinda now have to keep doing it to survive.

I’m glad I still enjoy it but I see a lot of fucking burnout right now. But I have to say, the people leaving the job now, some of them, not all but some, might be some of the types that shouldn’t have jumped into it in the first place. Lots of people were told they’re smart and good with computers so should make money doing it.

Some of those smart people should’ve done other smart jobs. Biotech is huge too, but I don’t see the drive to it like there was for making fucking websites.

“dont take the diaper off, just pull it to the side”

Take it with about as much salt that goes into a presidential filet-o-fish combo meal

But he said he can go stair

https://newrepublic.com/post/216162/donald-trump-says-can-walk-ramps-stairs

I had a boomer normie ask me how to use AI to develop his new “business” website telling me that he didn’t want to hire a developer if the developer would just use AI anyway.

This guy doesn’t know what a router is, and was asking me for help trying to understand what the AI was telling him, and it was the most basic shit.

When the normies are trying to invest in AI, they’re the last to invest and know to throw money at it. That was a big signal to me that the bubble is about to pop. Money is running out and the boomers are trying to get in on it.

It is an ad.

“Hey guys it’s more dangerous now, we totally didn’t train it to be, totally not our fault”

Even with heroin they waited until after

When people say rape survivor, they usually mean “that person got raped”

With trump it means, “holy shit he didn’t throw her overboard after”

It’s extremely difficult from a cooling perspective IIRC, way more than on earth. Like you have to vent into a near vacuum, which is one of the best insulators.

Zombr? Zombi? I bet they have a logo ready

They literally just got web slinging right and the childhood dream of a game where you fly through building and stop random crimes as Spiderman worked as it did in your imagination.

that was a big feat but yeah, those games were over hyped when they were basically just really fun to move around in

Prompt injection… my ass. I know it’s the going term, but they make it sound like sql injection or cross site scripting when the nature of it is politely asking the person’s computer to delete files.

We shouldn’t even be in this situation, where just politely asking someone’s computer to delete files is effective. It’s a symptom of a much, much bigger problem.