If you can only play mario on the switch, even if it costs a lot of money, people will generally buy the switch and the game.

Implying that people really like mario and that people are generally expected to do whatever it takes to play it.

And for that reason and just the amount of care and work that the team put into it, I think it was decided that, 'Yeah, this feels like $9.99 is not an exorbitant price. It feels like a good value for what you’re getting out of the product

Man has a hard time pronouncing “greed”

What’s bro gonna do with a drywall knife up front there?

Here’s the graph with axis labels:

https://mastodon.social/@organicmaps/114155428924741370

Looks like a contributor was in a sanctioned region?

At a glance that could work well to hold umbrellas with pointy tips

Unit tests and good architecture are still foundational requirements, so far no bug reports with any of these updates. In fact a huge chunk of these ai updates were addressing bugs. Not sure why you’re so mad at what you imagine is happening and making so many broad assumptions!

They’re all pretty fired up at the update velocity tbh 🤷

Nah, generative ai is pretty remarkably useful for software development. I’ve written dozens of product updates with tools like claudecode and cursorai, dismissing it as a novelty is reductive and straight up incorrect

Honestly, that’s fine. This may be a wild take, but they grew and their usage of excel obviously didn’t hold them back, what’s the issue?

General advice is to reframe and redirect, you may be “stuck” in a mental mode of refusing to acknowledge possible solutions because you feel broken. That isn’t your fault, your life experiences have pushed you to become what you are.

The general advice is given often because it does work for other people, it may not work for you instantly but given enough time and patience you can slowly start to erode the deep deep neural connections that lead you on your thought death spirals.

The human brain is deeply unfair, it is literally designed for inertia, thoughts you have frequently you will have later. But if you can start to redirect every single time those thoughts come up to something more pleasant over a long time you may be able to make stronger connections on those happier thought paths.

Mushrooms or other psychedelic drugs could possibly be an escape hatch for burned in neural pathways, but the science is shaky and I know a lot of people who got just a little kooky after going to hard.

Long story short, there is no overnight magic pill to fix your thoughts. Just treat your mind like a toddler, your negative thoughts like hot irons, and redirect that toddler to a shiny toy or tv show or something (redirect to a positive pattern)

We somehow value the things that make us primal more than anything else, love, strong emotions, conflict (can’t have a good story without an antagonist), dominating, ownership of mates through marriage

Even if given a chance to eliminate the primal side, humans would collectively say “No! Thats What makes us human!” As if somehow the culmination of all that awful stuff somehow has innate worth? Existence somehow isn’t worth living without conflict, lust, overcoming terrible odds, etc?

Default instances would go a long way, I know there’s a lot of hate for lemmy.world but defaulting to the biggest instance or a random one in the top 10 would help ease some of the early friction. Users can choose an instance later when they get more comfortable with the platform.

Federation is neat but the average person just wants to scroll and chat

I just want to be in a post capitalism society with incredible AI that I could ask to continue a game I’d played before with a twist.

Give me pokemon red in 3d, but make more puzzles and more pokemon and the npcs more interactive. That kinda thing

If the question is how do you revive a company with a dead reputation and little sales like Kodak, but tailored to that case specifically:

Kodak, and every other retail company, creates products that rely on not only their product, but also their brand. Companies with semi useless products sell them all the time

K-cups, somehow took an infinitely reusable thing like a coffee maker and turned it into a tiny plastic trash cup Dasani water is awful tasting, terrible for the environment, and expensive, but they go where they’re needed

And a million other examples, selling a product isn’t about being the best or even having something good. It’s really a matter of branding and marketing strategy.

Rebrand kodak to a bespoke camera with a bunch of little camera accessories, a small preview screen but a bunch of little knobs, lean into the fact that it’s not a smart phone. Print on the device like those urban outfitter cameras, make a snapchat style camera that will only keep photos for a day, do something different and target a specific audience and they could be revived as something different. Work on making a camera that can’t be reproduced by ai, human authenticity fingerprints for images or something.

Kodak as it was will very likely never make a comeback. They didn’t keep up.

Oh my bad, my reading comprehension degrades with my expectations I guess

Ye olde inverted supply and demand, just like my econ professor taught me

There was a state that banned Reddit?!

Short sighted idiots

I’ve been running it locally using ollama, works completely offline, no keystroke data for anyone!