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  • Not having the touchpads is a big downside, but this still fills a huge niche that the others dont. My Xbox elite controller is cool and all, but has neither a gyro nor capacitive joysticks. My dualsense has a gyro, but no capacitive touch so I need to activate it with a button hold or leave it always on.

    The Xbox and PS5 controller also don’t treat the paddles as independent buttons by default, so you need an extra layer of software on PC that allows mapping those buttons to arbitrary inputs. Steam Input can overwrite this sometimes, but it’s very inconsistent on a game + hardware basis. The companion app is a concerning “feature”. Hopefully it’s just marketing trying to make up a fancy phrase for “hardware driver”.









  • It doesn’t matter what you think about AI. It’s very clear that this technology is here to stay and will only improve. From this point on AI will become deeply integrated into human culture and technology, after all we’ve been fetishizing it for almost 100 years now. Your only logical option as a developer is to learn how to use it and abuse it. Choosing not to do so is career suicide, possibly even societal suicide depending on how quickly adoption happens.

    You’re probably right, in the near future people that can’t use it will be fired. To that point they should be fired. Why the fuck would I allow my accounts to do their financal work on paper when Excel exists?

    Welcome to the future.



  • Classical Computers count numbers and do math on numbers. Quantum Computers count collections of numbers and do math on entire collections of numbers.

    One is like cooking a full course meal on a single stovetop, the other is doing the same but using an entire restaurant kitchen. The end result is the same meal, but the approach was different. The home chef classic computer has to cook things in the order they were served in, but was able to clean dishes and prepare each step. Problems could be identified and fixed swiftly, buIt took a long time and there were probably a lot of delays between courses so it wasn’t the best meal and a lot of shortcuts and hacks are done to keep things moving.

    The restaurant chef does the whole thing all at once and staggers cook timings so everything arrives at the right time. They have no time so they need to carefully plan ahead and set things up, then they have to burn through a shitload of energy making the meal. If anything goes wrong, the whole thing collapses. It may take a higher level of skill to make the meal, but that skill is still founded on the core principles found at home cooking and can even be used at home in a limited manner.

    Technically quantum computers can’t do anything new, but the speed boost allows us to do things that are currently impossible. Doing more math at the same time in huge batches is the compututational speed equivalent of breaking the sound barrier.