Quoting: scaineI'm not saying we should scrap discrimination laws, but I'm very glad that common sense won out here. Let's just say that if I was forced into making a cake for an asshole bigot, that bigot probably wouldn't enjoy the cake I made...

I don't think "bigot" is a protected category in most human rights laws. So I'm not sure I'd say it's an exact parallel.

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Alternatively, face the fury of the Fishmen in . . . Gilled Wars!

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Quoting: scaineThis reminds me of that ridiculous situation where a gay activist asked a bakery for a "support gay marriage" cake and the bakery refused. And the gay activist got up in arms about this, and it went to court! Madness. Sure, the bakery are bigoted scum, but they're a private firm, and they get to be bigoted about the cakes they sell. Thankfully the courts agreed [External Link]. But in summary, if I was selling pizzas and someone came in asked me to make a pizza in the shape of (insert something offensive here), I'd throw them the fuck out of my pizza parlour. My house, my rules.

Hrm. I have a bit of a problem with that perspective. So, if someone has a bakery and they do wedding cakes, it's OK for them to refuse to do the wedding cake if it's for the wedding of two gay people. What if it's for the wedding of two black people? Or, two black people wanting to be served at a diner? I think the US had a whole big movement about that kind of thing, what was it called, "civil rights"? What if it's for the wedding of two Christian people? I'm an atheist, I'd be happy to refuse to serve evangelists, except I believe they have rights. Basically, your position takes us back to Jim Crow, except against whoever a lot of people can be persuaded to be prejudiced against. There should be limits to the rights of businesspeople to run their businesses the way they want. They're not allowed to commit fraud, they're not allowed to put poison in their cakes, and they shouldn't be allowed to poison society either.

Also consider: How does your instinctive reaction shift if, instead of simply refusing to serve (group you don't like), merchants were to start charging different prices to groups they don't like? The product costs twice as much if you're gay, or black, or muslim. That OK?

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Quoting: PhiladelphusProton to Lepton? What kind of particle physics-themed naming is that?? Well, I suppose Electron was already taken. And it's probably too late to rename Proton to Baryon…touché, Valve.

Well, I admit it's a strange direction to go, but the name is kind of charming.

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Quoting: TightRopeHow many people will go back to Crucial when the bubble finally bursts and they need real customers? This is probably a bad long term business decision.

Long term? Not sure I understand that phrase. Does it mean, like, beyond next quarter?!

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As a consumer, not only did I not notice getting chopped, I hadn't even realized I was made of liver!

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Quoting: SzkodnixPlease make that browser plugin for Epic Games Store as well!

Oh, wait. Tim Sweeney says that it's not necessary :grin:

Well, in the case of the Epic store it probably isn't. To need that, you'd have to be buying a game . . .

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Quoting: elmapulanyone knows the name for the steamdeck GPU and steam deck oled gpu on the hardware survey?

Deck LCD: AMD Custom GPU 0405

Deck OLED: AMD Radeon Graphics (RADV VANGOGH)

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Interesting. Looking at that graph, it appears that Mac has bottomed out, which I don't care about that much but am probably more pleased than not, and oddly Steam Deck has flatlined while Desktop Linux accounts for all the Linux rise lately.

That's perhaps less odd than it seems . . . as we've often noted, Steam itself is growing. So, for Deck to stay flat, that still requires an increase in actual numbers of Deck users . . . so if Deck sales have slowed down and are now just keeping pace (proportionally) with Steam overall growth, you'd see the percentage of Deck users being flat. I expect when they decide there's finally the hardware and release a Deck 2, there'll be another rise.

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Well, I expect prices will go down after the AI crash. Which really doesn't seem like it's gonna be all that long now. I mean, the guy from "The Big Short" who cleaned up on the 2008 financial crisis is shorting AI stocks, and the Dark Lord . . . uh, Peter Thiel . . . has sold his. Seems like the music is starting to grind to a halt.

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People can say close to 100% of companies are/will be using AI for coding, but what they mean is "some kind of clump in my immediate view are all doing it". I don't think anyone actually knows how prevalent or otherwise it really is.

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