This is not and never has been about "equality". It is about people in "protected" classes wanting a free lunch and hence pushing their "status". Competent engineers in "protected" classes were always happy to compete on merit, they just do not want any gross unfairness to hamper them. They want their achievements to be theirs and not something that was handed to them for free.
But in the space of the incompetents, all this nonsense gets pushed. They do know they cannot compete on merit, hence they want an unfair advantage as large as they can get. There is nothing ethical about it, it is just ye old "grab everything you can" short-sighted and greed-based strategy. If this becomes too large, societies decline and die. And hence this needs to be fought.
A society critically dependent on technology cannot afford to have a large numbers bad engineers.
I did indeed miss that. Not that it matters much to me now, but it nicely explains the problem. How could they have been so stupid to not see what that would do? Or do the PUBG developers just do not care at all? I mean, their business seems to be going fine while a large faction of their customers are getting screwed over. Not that this business model is new in any way.
And fail. Most of the core activities in good engineering is solitary and can only be done that way. In fact, "designed by committee" is about the most negative thing you can say about an engineering product and that is no accident. The whole "team" nonsense was created by bad engineers that struggle to reach the level of a qualified technician and need the group to hide in. Of course, those then want all that "welcoming" bullshit and "safe spaces" and call every environment where their incompetence is actually called out "toxic".
I don't agree. He was naive thinking that any SJW scum actually wanted a rational discussion, but his points are mostly valid, at the very least as the starting point for an actually rational discussion.
Engineering is hard-core. If you mess up, tons of money is lost and people may die. It is not a role for anybody that needs to be "welcome". It is a role for people that do understand things, see past the bullshit and can get things to work. And also for people that leave when the bullshit gets too much. Of course, any actual engineering set-up worthwhile working for will cherish and treasure its engineers, whether male, female or anything else. It just does not matter. Skill, insight and capability do.
Of course, most people, like this "CEO" are incapable of seeing this. If they take over, an engineering company becomes a has-been. Because while a good engineer will always find a reasonable job anywhere, these people depend on scamming people out of their money for sub-par performance and after a while, customers wake up to what is going on.
Which in the end means that democracies cannot have good leaders, as the average IQ + 20 points does not make for anybody smart enough to actually manage a country well. A pity, but does match observable data (and "leaders").
Sounds like a conspiracy-theory to me. PUBG uses the Unreal 4 Engine. There are lots of people that know how to render something in this engine and there is lots of example code. They may have been able to just port existing cheat-code over.
They are not doing that either. The problem here is your reading comprehension or choice of "news" outlet. They have arrested cheat _developers_ (i.e. ones that make cheats and sell them for money) not users, and that is a whole different thing.
Bullshit. You have fallen for junk-science. There is no way to know when a person actually decides things and hence there is no reference point. The whole experimental set-up is fundamentally flawed.
Since common sense is very rare, and untrained person is likely just a feeling ob being more or less threatened, with no connection to the actual threat.
The problem here is that ping-times of many people are still way to bad for this. On the other hand, it seems the PUBG developers really made it especially easy for cheaters. Gross incompetence at work. There are certainly things that can be done, but they need more than cheapest-possible coders.
Since China is preparing a "social score" system, they are just being consistent by this. Will be interesting to see whether they will be able to avoid full-blown fascism, but I somehow doubt it. Not that the rest of the world is doing much better in that regard at the moment.
Bought it on release, got killed 3 times in 6 games by obvious cheaters (one suicide by clumsiness), asked for a steam refund, got it and that is it. If they ever get the cheater problem under control, I may have a look again, but as it is this is just sadists against masochists. (No idea what else a cheater would get out of a game like this. It must become exceptionally boring to play as a cheater...). As I am neither, I am just not interested.
On a related note, how incompetent must the developers be to make it this easy for the cheaters? None of the cheats used is in any way innovative or new. Well, it seem the supply of sadists and masochists (and plain idiots) is large enough to make them a lot of money despite that.
Well, it is not. But I have to admit I will buy the dough these days and pre-rolled, because it is much less of a mess. I also like some of the newer deep-frozen ones, they have gotten pretty good, at least here.
The would be only reasonable. The raw product is refrigerated or frozen anyways. Just make it so that it is just ready when arriving. While I am eating either high-quality deep frozen pizza or making my own, I would try that.
US national security in the IT space is shot to hell, and most of it is the NSA's fault, with Intel a close second. China just needs to stand back and watch...
Classically, you have to break a piece of glass or at the very least turn a key to trigger something like this. The UI design bears all of the blame here. It was asking for something like this to happen. It is absolutely no surprise it happened. The ones at fault are the ones that did design this broken UI and the ones that signed off on it. These should at the very least lose their jobs and probably face criminal penalty, because negligence does not get any more gross than this.
Mechanical switches come in very, very reliable variants if you spend more then $1 on them. And you can easily have a backup switch on a separate circuit. And, even better, you can get them with a protective cap.
It is not the fellow that did this that should lose his job and possibly do time. It is the ones that signed off on this design and the ones that proposed it.
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This is not and never has been about "equality". It is about people in "protected" classes wanting a free lunch and hence pushing their "status". Competent engineers in "protected" classes were always happy to compete on merit, they just do not want any gross unfairness to hamper them. They want their achievements to be theirs and not something that was handed to them for free.
But in the space of the incompetents, all this nonsense gets pushed. They do know they cannot compete on merit, hence they want an unfair advantage as large as they can get. There is nothing ethical about it, it is just ye old "grab everything you can" short-sighted and greed-based strategy. If this becomes too large, societies decline and die. And hence this needs to be fought.
A society critically dependent on technology cannot afford to have a large numbers bad engineers.
I did indeed miss that. Not that it matters much to me now, but it nicely explains the problem. How could they have been so stupid to not see what that would do? Or do the PUBG developers just do not care at all? I mean, their business seems to be going fine while a large faction of their customers are getting screwed over. Not that this business model is new in any way.
And fail. Most of the core activities in good engineering is solitary and can only be done that way. In fact, "designed by committee" is about the most negative thing you can say about an engineering product and that is no accident. The whole "team" nonsense was created by bad engineers that struggle to reach the level of a qualified technician and need the group to hide in. Of course, those then want all that "welcoming" bullshit and "safe spaces" and call every environment where their incompetence is actually called out "toxic".
Just found the most stupid AC for today. Congrats.
I don't agree. He was naive thinking that any SJW scum actually wanted a rational discussion, but his points are mostly valid, at the very least as the starting point for an actually rational discussion.
Engineering is hard-core. If you mess up, tons of money is lost and people may die. It is not a role for anybody that needs to be "welcome". It is a role for people that do understand things, see past the bullshit and can get things to work. And also for people that leave when the bullshit gets too much. Of course, any actual engineering set-up worthwhile working for will cherish and treasure its engineers, whether male, female or anything else. It just does not matter. Skill, insight and capability do.
Of course, most people, like this "CEO" are incapable of seeing this. If they take over, an engineering company becomes a has-been. Because while a good engineer will always find a reasonable job anywhere, these people depend on scamming people out of their money for sub-par performance and after a while, customers wake up to what is going on.
Which in the end means that democracies cannot have good leaders, as the average IQ + 20 points does not make for anybody smart enough to actually manage a country well. A pity, but does match observable data (and "leaders").
There was some game that did not ban cheaters, but put them on "cheater" servers. Do not remember what it was, but I like the idea.
Sounds like a conspiracy-theory to me. PUBG uses the Unreal 4 Engine. There are lots of people that know how to render something in this engine and there is lots of example code. They may have been able to just port existing cheat-code over.
They are not doing that either. The problem here is your reading comprehension or choice of "news" outlet. They have arrested cheat _developers_ (i.e. ones that make cheats and sell them for money) not users, and that is a whole different thing.
I have never played TERA, but this is a nice confirmation. Thanks.
Bullshit. You have fallen for junk-science. There is no way to know when a person actually decides things and hence there is no reference point. The whole experimental set-up is fundamentally flawed.
Since common sense is very rare, and untrained person is likely just a feeling ob being more or less threatened, with no connection to the actual threat.
And do that without the least bit of resistance. That is what this behavior on "transparency" means. Morale: Do not get an Echo....
The problem here is that ping-times of many people are still way to bad for this. On the other hand, it seems the PUBG developers really made it especially easy for cheaters. Gross incompetence at work. There are certainly things that can be done, but they need more than cheapest-possible coders.
When something like that happens, I just leave. Scum can be scum together with other scum but without my participation.
Since China is preparing a "social score" system, they are just being consistent by this. Will be interesting to see whether they will be able to avoid full-blown fascism, but I somehow doubt it. Not that the rest of the world is doing much better in that regard at the moment.
Bought it on release, got killed 3 times in 6 games by obvious cheaters (one suicide by clumsiness), asked for a steam refund, got it and that is it.
If they ever get the cheater problem under control, I may have a look again, but as it is this is just sadists against masochists. (No idea what else a cheater would get out of a game like this. It must become exceptionally boring to play as a cheater...). As I am neither, I am just not interested.
On a related note, how incompetent must the developers be to make it this easy for the cheaters? None of the cheats used is in any way innovative or new. Well, it seem the supply of sadists and masochists (and plain idiots) is large enough to make them a lot of money despite that.
Well, it is not. But I have to admit I will buy the dough these days and pre-rolled, because it is much less of a mess. I also like some of the newer deep-frozen ones, they have gotten pretty good, at least here.
The would be only reasonable. The raw product is refrigerated or frozen anyways. Just make it so that it is just ready when arriving. While I am eating either high-quality deep frozen pizza or making my own, I would try that.
US national security in the IT space is shot to hell, and most of it is the NSA's fault, with Intel a close second. China just needs to stand back and watch...
Classically, you have to break a piece of glass or at the very least turn a key to trigger something like this. The UI design bears all of the blame here. It was asking for something like this to happen. It is absolutely no surprise it happened. The ones at fault are the ones that did design this broken UI and the ones that signed off on it. These should at the very least lose their jobs and probably face criminal penalty, because negligence does not get any more gross than this.
Wrong. The screw-up here is a system that makes it far too easy to screw up. It was bound to happen given this abysmally bad design.
Mechanical switches come in very, very reliable variants if you spend more then $1 on them. And you can easily have a backup switch on a separate circuit. And, even better, you can get them with a protective cap.
It is not the fellow that did this that should lose his job and possibly do time. It is the ones that signed off on this design and the ones that proposed it.