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[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Like anything medically related in the US, it's our time to crack open our wallets and do our patriotic duty of paying half the nation.

Like, if I want to talk to a doctor for 5 minutes, then it's my time to pay the all the insurance industry workers, and I have to pay my part of those 3 minutes long drug commercials you see on TV every ad break and before every YouTube video, and I have to pay all those people locking down the medical devices so that the users can't use their own data. This is my time to shine, I got to pay for all this because I talked to the doctor for 5 minutes. Also, hopefully in the end I have a few cents left over to give to the doctor.

Fucking rent seekers...

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Look at the entire history.

In 2018 their stock price was about 24, now it's 2.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

I haven't written any Java since Java 6. This makes me so happy to hear.

What about XML, and XML based configs? Is the Java ecosystem still obsessed with XML?

I remember I was once trying to learn Hibernate. After finding what I thought looked like the best tutorial, I skimmed through it and there was literally no Java code in the tutorial about a Java library! It was all XML! I never could understand it, but this was early in my career, maybe I could handle it now, maybe not.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I don't know. That's what I was saying. I can't possibly imagine what I could say to help someone understand that error message.

😉

[–] [email protected] 44 points 5 months ago (3 children)

If you can't understand that error message then I don't know what to tell you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

The rumored 4th and 5th games...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago

You guys had a house!?!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

And I think their board is panicking trying to figure out how they can regain me, specifically, as a customer.

More seriously, I apparently am not the only one who eventually got their fill of Ubisoft games. I think Ubisoft has planted resentment in the minds of all their customers, and as soon as they slipped a little in game quality their customers were more than happy to leave, just for the sake of leaving.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (3 children)

I may not like it, but you do make an interesting technical argument.

I think it would still be detectable though because of buffering.

What you're saying assumes that videos are streamed frame-by-frame: "here's a frame", "okay, I watched that frame", "okay, here's the next frame".

With buffering videos will preload the next 30 seconds of video, and so if you pressed a button to skip ahead 10 seconds, that often happens instantly because the computer has already stored the next 30 seconds of video. Your plan to just pretend to skip ahead doesn't work in this case, because my computer can know whether or not it really did skip ahead, because of buffering.

[–] [email protected] 79 points 5 months ago (9 children)

Couldn't we avoid all this by giving players the option to host and moderate their own servers?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Use a more holistic approach. Combine heuristics like the average speed and aim hit percentage with reports from other players.

Review player reports, if a player makes a false allegation in their reports, mark that player as having less reliable reports. If a player reports someone who turns out to be a definite cheater, mark whoever reported the cheater as having more reliable reports. Etc etc.

Like, if the report just says "player was moving fast outside a vehicle", maybe they were cheating, or maybe they were just goofing off trying to stand on top of vehicles the whole game. If the report says "player was moving fast the whole game, had the highest kill count, and was also reported by 5 other players in the match for cheating", it's a little more clear what's happening.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I bought Crysis and didn't like the DRM, so I haven't bought a Ubisoft game since. How's that working out for Ubisoft?

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