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Stackoverflow had a weird license for a while now to where if you work at a corporation, there is literally a tool to detect if your project contains Stackoverlow code. There used to be a common saying "I don't know, I just copied it from StackOverflow". Yeah, that's not said anymore,

... and I bought a Dell laptop a few years ago. Oh boy... here comes the creepy ads.

Hopefully this isn't the start of a domino effect. Tesla, now Microsoft again. Sony and Microsoft have a lot of the same major investors.

I was thinking at first that Activision-Blizzard was in the wrong, but as soon as I read what Acceleration Bay was doing, nope. Acceleration Bay seems shady, The Leaving a Broadcast Channel patent is too generic. Distributed Game Environment easily looks like they could use parts or a large...

I wish Microsoft kept having something like BASIC shipped with the OS. It's easier now, but kids finding it and playing with it would be better.

I wonder if they studied the curve at how new games sell and if older first-party games actually do help with console sales. After the hype is over, does it make sense to keep the game on a single platform, or do games actually generate more money over time if there's a Steam version, for example?

I have the feeling that the deals of the Activision-Blizzard buyout is a major reason why Microsoft is going to do multiplat. If Nintendo, Sony, or Valve did this with a similar deal with various governments related to buying someone out, I would expect the same. I actually prefer them to...

There's truth to this. Consoles used to be sold at a loss, and game sales helped make the difference. This happened especially with the PlayStation Console makers have been trying to reverse this trend for a while, or at least make the console more profitable earlier.

I'm thinking the Activision-Blizzard deal comes into play. Microsoft might not be able to restrict as many games as first-party, especially Activision-Blizzard. I rather they release 3rd-party games from that company over pulling some AT&T-level promise BS. The FTC seems a little ticked off at...

I'm wondering if they are going to make Steam Decks Keep in mind that PlayStation is a company under the Sony umbrella. PlayStation could be sold off by itself

I'm surprised there hasn't been that much of a Grotesk battle in the comments section

Make sense. Even if they can stuff a newer AMD APU into it, they probably need some times to recover the investment on the current hardware. The Steamdeck is a cooler idea than I thought it was

Don't know how I feel about it. I'm surprised they are pulling it off, though Microsoft probably has the legal team. I would be more on Sony's side if it wasn't just about Call of Duty. I do like that there was scrutiny, though. This should apply to everyone. I can understand why...

3M released a study about N95 masks to use N95 masks in radioactive environments. It turns out due to Brownian motion (see the video in the Ars article), N95 masks actually can go above 95% in efficiency for particles smaller than .3 microns. .3 micron is where filtration is the least efficient.

I'll wear masks even if there's not a pandemic. Maybe not all of the time, but more than I used to They help me a little with nausea when flying because I don't smell as many odors from the plane. During wildfires, they were nice. During allergy season, they help. There were times where I put...

Agreed. The images look odd. The first image that ars put in has the eyes and/or ears misaligned (I have limited artistic skill, but can tell. Someone better at 2D art might be able to break it down further). Her neck looks like it has a weird extension. The postcard one has the protagonist...

I am for the FDA going over this. Whether it's milk, lean something meat that got labeled Pink Slime later, etc. I want my stuff labeled correctly. I remember Just Mayo, which had no egg, which had a picture of an egg on the label. That's really riding a thin line, and they did change it later...

I hope the new person can fix the spam. I think it's gone down. How many months we were getting Telegram scams? It's hard to tell if it's her that's responsible though. I do hate how everything is gearing towards doom scrolling or keeping you on the service. "These people are popular, and you...

Google Search lately reminds me more the old Yahoo, which was more of a directory instead of a search engine

Hm... so the future was Yahoo, then Altavista, then Ask Jeeves, then Google, and now it might be back to a variant of Ask Jeeves (AI Bing). Google nowadays feels like the old Yahoo I more than likely missed a few search engines Nah. If you search for something on Google or Bing, it'll use the...