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• Post #3818541

  Under current technology, that speed is very much impossible. Even if your internet connection was magically instant, there are still more bottlenecks in the way. A high end NVMe SSD can write up to 12 GB/s. So even if we cheat and say the download is a highly compressible zip bomb that downloads instantly, it's going to take about 42 seconds just to decompress and write it to the drive.

• Post #860399

  They're gonna tell you this is the only way to be sure that routers don't contain a backdoor. They're gonna tell themselves this is the only way to be sure that routers do contain a backdoor.

• Post #311531

  You might be right about the relative impact of AI alone, but there are like a dozen different problems threatening the job market all at once. Added up, I do think we are heading towards a future where we have to start rethinking how our society handles employment. A world where robots do most of the hard work for us ought to be a utopia, but as you say, capitalism uses unemployment as a threat. If you can't get a job, you starve and die. That has to change in a world where we'll have...

• Post #251318

  Pretty much every 2D game did.

• Post #247463

  With Splatoon 1, it's worth noting that the first few content updates were already on the disc, and would be automatically activated over time without actually downloading anything. Some of the maps from the first wave even appeared in story mode. So it wasn't a matter of them rushing an unfinished game, but a calculated move to drip-feed content as a way of keeping players coming back on a regular basis. A lot of Splatoon's design decisions can be directly attributed to a fear tha...

• Post #134424

  I would prefer to have it come from someone who... is not Andrew Yang.

• Post #130920

  About as weird as calling Nihon "Japan".