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Really? Not just stock price goes up but actual profit? I know they went into funko pops and such but surprised that can cover the cost of their stores and land...

Yeah you're right about investments like pensions/401k whatever. I won't be a winner, we will see if I even will be a survivor. I don't think the major Ai companies will completely die because most of them have other revenue sources, Nvidia Microsoft etc will still be there and there stock will still be valuable. Anthropic may turn to ash, openai will probably be incorporated into Microsoft. The small companies selling bespoke Ai solutions may die or thrive depending on if they are actually producing something useful but likely won't have a tremendous effect on the stock market.

Just like the dot com bubble, useful companies with thrive and useless ones living off vc funding with die. I don't think Ai is like 3d tvs where it was everywhere and then no where. I have a feeling it's more like dot Com where there is so much over investment which will correct itself but won't go to 0.

I mean they MAY have cash on hand but looking at revenue is different. I may have 100k in the bank but if I'm unemployed and have no income that won't last long. They need a source of income and with most game purchases going online that won't work so they need something else.

Ebay is probably too big of a target for them though...

Is it real money or "value evaluations"?? For example Tesla stock is worth way money then all of tesla's assets. It's a lot of money because many people think it will be worth more tomorrow than it is today. If tesla went out of business tomorrow no real money has disappeared, just people's hope of future money disappears. In wars, like Ukraine or Iran, real money gets destroyed. A person used to have "x" and now "x" is no longer. If openai went out of business tomorrow, what was lost? Some investors will find out their idea of future profits was wrong.

The worst programmer I ever met was myself 6 months ago...

The other question... Why are you going to the bathroom a lot at night? That might be another issue you should look into.

Yes I know it's a old meme.

Today is gf turn to cook but I'll try to post a good meal this week.

I don't know how it is these days but a cool Fandom used to be eve online. The game sucked. 99% of the time you didn't do anything. Literally. Like to gain isk(money) you could go mining, you would go to an asteroid, click it, activate mining laser, wait, transfer ore to a hauling ship, wait, repeat for several hours. Oh you want to attack someone? Go there, click on them, set ship to rotate, set ship to auto fire, wait to determine if you win or they do.

That said you spent hours in voice comms just hanging out with your group. Many people used the time to make art. There were some who made songs about the game. Many people made life long friends as they were just talking every night for a few hours. This also led to a lot of creative incidents, like the guy who created his own insurance company for in-game property.

There were some assholes. One notable one being the guy who damaged the literal physical obelisk the company made engraved with all the player names and showcased at their convention. He scraped and carved a person's name out who he was fighting with online. Didn't hear the end result but I know the company was looking into legal repurcussions.

Plus there the added fact that you can buy a month of game play with RL money or with in-game money and things which are destroyed are gone for ever. That means you can calculate a ratio between in-game and rl money and know how much money that ship you just blew up cost.

Yeah but I would have to take out of storage, find place on counter etc... I was just lazy. It wasn't a cooking day.

I do but it was a long day and didn't have the time or energy to do that. I was in the hospital all day with my son(nothing major just an appointment and blood draw but he's epileptic and severely autistic so yeah). Maybe I'll do something more today.

Within reason this is true but you also have to agree that it often goes too far. Not everything needs to be an interface or factory. For example if your making a pdf viewer dont concern yourself with abstracting how to open a file, you know it will be a pdf. If someone opens a gif with a pdf reader it's ok to give an error. Plus to me a lot of "maintainable" code is difficult to work with because there's so many levels of abstraction and functions spread across multiple files I can't keep all that in my head.

Also if you only need one or two functions you don't need to import a whole library. For example look up "handmade hero" and see how Casey works with the windows libraries.

Well today was lazy boiled hotdogs... Not much to post