In the US especially. It could be a cardboard box.

Since it’s a thing now, I should note that the layoffs aren’t related to AI. To the extent it improves productivity, we want to have as many awesome developers developing great content and tech as we can.

For example, in the U.S., they’ll receive paid coverage for 6 months. We’ll also accelerate their stock options vesting through January 2027 and extend equity exercise options for up to two years.

As much as I hate Epic, those are both better paragraphs than I expected. I feel for the people getting laid off, hopefully they land on their feet

Oh yeah, to be clear, it’ll break incredibly old and weak encryption, which is already not that hard to break.

I think quantum will have some cool specific use cases in science and math modeling, but will be over hyped like the AI bubble as a total game changer.

The 5 in ELI5 is the 5 words: “the hot dog ballerina princess”

Yes it’s now the superrape missile, thanks for your time

I can imagine so many options. What was her tag?

For me, I find humbleness and the non-decisiveness of knowing there’s a lot to know and understand on almost anything to be a good sign of intelligence.

Yeah no doubt. It can be pitched as solving all the world’s problems immediately, and fear mongered as “breaking all security instantly”. There’s no defined end product yet, so the goalposts can move.

Like AI, it can be a test of the debt market more than of tech

That’s a Slay the Spire 1 screenshot, but it’s the same idea in 2. Super cool isn’t it? Love the color coded text

What? I spent $0 on gas for a car in 2025. The vast majority of my city spends very little or no money on gas. The price 10x’ing doesn’t affect people anyway near as much as most in the US

Edit: idk it’s just weird to defend skyrocketing gas prices

Double edit: ah I looked at your post history nevermind lol I don’t think we have much common ground in general

Yeah but like, in the US you have to use a lot more gas to do your daily life than most Europeans do. Not only with bigger vehicles and faster speeds but like, 25% of my city even owns a car, and half of them are electric.

So gas prices are one thing but the spend on gas is another

I use wax lube now (and really recommend it) except in winter, so even less so!

Oh you said bearings, yes, definitely. Pre coffee mistake

I’m assuming that’s in the US not in Denmark lol cuz holy shit even my most conservative coworkers are pretty floored by the Greenland stuff

This is super impressive attention to detail, and an awesome medium for such a statement

Lmao, even

Ahhh cat herder.

Holy shit I was really wondering why the cat had to pee on OP

If they spent 1% of the time and budget of the visuals on making the game fun it’d be a really neat game

For those of you who (like me) have no fucking clue what the ex Blizzard CEO is doing

https://store.steampowered.com/app/2550530/The_Legend_of_California/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electricity_sector_in_China?wprov=sfla1

I think there’s lots of positive development but no, definitely not the leaders in anything other than coal consumption right now

Totally agree. I’d like it if they tried a bigger battery recharge allowance and deploy per lap, or unlimited, just for quali. I see how it slippery slopes from there, but with such great overtaking and racing if you design a car to qualify well it won’t win you races alone on most circuits