Trump 1.0 he was actually there still, easily manipulated but still there. Now he’s just a puppet with dementia.

Don’t forget that they’re only accountable to investors who are extremely gullible, especially in the tech and sales sectors.

So nice of them to help with Spotify’s off-site backup.

You never met my old orange. Plastic wasn’t an issue for him somehow. Just took longer.

A lot of the “cuts” were for programs that had already been funded… the money was already spent. Agreements and contracts were cancelled. Some of those surely had penalties involved. Some were for things they actually needed, and so they’ve had to renegotiate again with worse terms because the government just proved it can’t be trusted.

Probably the FBI team that usually interfaces with NYPD specifically due to the size, and complexity of the City, as opposed to just New York in general.

Not even. E coli is fucking everywhere. Why that of all things?

Agreed, the assets did make it to production, but were replaced in a patch 5 days later. That definitely seems like it was placeholders that just got missed. Which happens, especially for a new small studio releasing their first game.

GenAI being used for temporary placeholders is arguably a correct use case for it. Especially with a smaller development team. If you have a limited number of artists, having them spend time crafting unique placeholders that will be replaced is a poor use of their time and talents that would otherwise be spent working on final art that will actually be in the released game. That is a 100% valid use case scenario for it, as long as the assets are replaced for the launch. And missing a few and fixing that within a week is entirely understandable, not something they should be indicted for.

There is some concern about the exact wording I’ve seen in various articles. Some say that Sandfall told the awards that GenAI wasn’t used in the development, but the articles don’t use a specific quote on their side, and then later saying it was used for placeholder assets. They seem to imply that Sandfall lies about the use to qualify, then later came clean. I’m wondering if that is simply miscommunication, potentially language issues, about the final game not using GenAI. Just because people speak multiple languages, that doesn’t mean that they understand nuanced differences in meaning when not using their native language. I can see the difference between the final game release and overall development being misunderstood depending on the exact wording used.

A year ago that firm would have been worth hundreds of millions of dollars, at the moment it’s a fire sale. They’re almost surely losing millions on the deal.

They’re leaving basically with whatever they were already paid as a partner for the years they were there. Law firms don’t operate like or pay like traditional businesses. Partners at firms like this almost always have to be offered a partnership, and buy their way in. Some partnerships at prestigious firms can have buy-in fees upwards of a million dollars.

The partners then are paid a percentage of the business, depending on seniority and managing status. If there is no business, there is no pay. If the firm goes under, or is bought out, there is little pay because the firm isn’t worth much, if anything.

They’re basically leaving with what they’ve already squirreled away and not spent with potentially lavish lifestyles over the years.

Meh, just a hard floppy. Although I really did appreciate my Zip 100 drive for that storage space before writable CDs came along.

Two options really…

1. Scared by Trump’s threats and not willing to fight like other firms.
2. Support Trump.

Here’s the thing, at firms like this, the prestige of being a partner at a firm that’s been around since 1792 is a primary reason for being there. The money is secondary. And being known as the partners that destroyed the oldest firm in NYC, is a dishonor none of them want to be known for. It’s what they’ll be remembered for, not anything else they’ve done.

Exactly. Simply being in a photo isn’t damning by itself. Depending on where the photo was taken of course.

Especially if you’re a journalist in New York, Epstein worked in finance in NY for over a decade and was at many exclusive events.

Billionaire donors are complicit, maybe directly, maybe indirectly.

One could make the same argument about creating a more complicated solution when a simple one solves it for 99% of users. Especially when the remaining 1% will know the difference based on what they’re doing, regardless of the icon used.

There’s a good reason that these two icons are currently different.

Not really, it’s just legacy, the same reason the save icon is still a floppy disk in most programs. That’s what it’s always been.

You may make the distinction between saving a document and downloading a document, but most people don’t pay anywhere near that amount of attention, and don’t care about specifics.

Oh this is going to do nothing to make TikTok better in any way, or cause it’s downfall.

It just lets Trump’s friends make money from it now.

Can’t skip a generation, gotta go from the floppy disk icon to the HDD icon for a while first.

Why does it need to be separate? The end result is the same, the file on your device. Where it is coming from makes no difference.

99% of users won’t care at all.

It’s infinitely more accurate than a floppy disk icon.

For 99% of users, the specifics make no difference at all.

It’s closer to reality than a floppy disk icon, that’s for sure.