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Comment Re:I mean ordinarily I would be on Tencent's side (Score 1) 50

What about the people who look like they are from China, can speak one or more Chinese languages, but were born in the USA/Australia etc. and call themselves Chinese? What about the people who've been living in Malaysia for five or more generations, and also speak and call themselves Chinese? They don't have Chinese nationality for sure. So what do you call that? I would certainly call it race or ethnicity.

Comment Re: If you have a mediocre workforce at best (Score 1) 101

Ah, that makes sense. I'm working on a team with a code based that's evolved over perhaps a decade, and I've been on the team for 4 of them. I can imagine as a contractor you have different incentives and obligations than someone whose looking to wrangle a large code base vs solving a specific problem.

Comment Re: Product managers will program instead of engi (Score 1) 101

I have, and generally they have done a passable job for me. The only thing I would criticize is that the tests don' often exhibit domain knowledge by using data that reads like "real" data would. Still does the job, just a little different than I would., however, like you say, sometimes more thoroughly and quite quickly is the ML test suite

Comment Re: If you have a mediocre workforce at best (Score 1) 101

I can sympathize with not wanting code that's not up to standards into the main branch. Often once it's in something else will take priority, then the less than ideal code gets used as a model by someone else, and standards start slipping. We tend to work off of feature branches if there is an integration point that's going to hold back progress for someone else while code goes through review.

Comment Re:Jesus (Score 4, Insightful) 69

It's not pointless. Once the technology is perfected, it should eventually become cheaper to grow lab meat than to grow actual animals.

Also, there are plenty of people that like meat, but don't eat it due to ethical concerns - so there is a market for it even if it is more expensive.

This would also be useful in situations like having fresh meat on Mars, or further out, where having actual animals would be prohibitively expensive in comparison.

I think it's fairly unimaginative and naive to call research into new technologies 'pointless'. Are you just angry because some vegans are annoying, so now you hate the idea of anything that could possibly further a vegan cause?

Comment Re: Destroying your country (Score 1) 566

It's weird you got modded down for that comment.

That being said, the article you linked has already been updated to say there isn't going to be a price rise on the Switch 2:

Update: After a shocking report made headlines yesterday suggesting an inbound price hike on Switch 2, the DFC Intelligence firm via Forbes is clarifying its statement further – there perhaps won’t be a price jump at retail after all:

Apologies for the misunderstanding created on our part by not clarifying the reference to a 20% hardware price increase over the next two years applied to the hardware side in general and not just the Switch.

In the case of the Switch 2, we believe much of the 20% increase was already baked into the $450 price. It is not likely Nintendo will raise the price, and if they do, we don’t expect it to be 20%. Also much of that increase is in the form of NOT discounting prices. So not necessarily a price increase but where we model a 20% price decrease in the next year or so we have the prices holding steady.

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