It won’t kill a man but it’s still incorrect syntax and a faux pas, it’s fine if you’re fine with that, but that doesn’t make it standard.

Also it’s not really new information that international speakers speak English better than natives, just look at all the “their” “they’re” confusion that happens when someone learned English as a native but not when they go through the whole shebang of learning about possessives and articles, so just because a native English speaker ignores a rule in their own language that doesn’t really speak much about the language, it says more about the speaker.

you can get around it by using something like “a piece of software”

as funny as the other replies are, it’s just a way to say you’re dirt poor, often used to describe a temporary personal financial state, rather than used when talking about groups of people or the like. it’s British lingo.

How has a cult like that come to do such a thing if not from disinformation? and even without that, it is still possible that if all the other antivaxers existing made it bad enough that this cult got an actual infection.

good marketing. people getting paid to specifically set these expectations

it doesn’t matter if they force anyone or not, vaccines rely on herd immunity because not everyone can get vaccinated. You mess with the ratio of vaccinated-unvaccinated people (by casting doubt or not vaccinating yourself when you are able to) and you reintroduce diseases that were kept under control before.

sorry to be the bearer of bad news but…

Made sense to me but it definitely could use another draft. Just adding some punctuation would help because it’s a long phrase and the punchline blends into one of the sentences, but here’s the same message with minor tweaks and punctuation:

Reading this while working for a division that pivoted twice — first to providing interfaces for agentic workflows (only to discover that only ten users had ever touched the products we made for agents), only to pivot again to support for agentic workflows (which has a lot of competition because every company has to do something agentic now and there’s only like four things you can do in that space) — is bracing.

XBOX shuttered Arkane and other studios already. they’re in cost cutting mode.

um Microsoft owns XBOX which owns Bethesda?

that’s the thing, I tried to avoid using “good” and instead went for “successful”. Skyrim is a lesser game than its predecessors but it still made them a lot of money.

it takes 30d in game for cells to reset fyi

I don’t disagree, I actually mod Skyrim in my free time, but that doesn’t make the games successful. Starfield basically flopped, and made many fans lose excitement for a new Bethesda game.

they are owned by XBOX tho, sure internally it’s the same but externally it needs to make them money, and even Arkane wasn’t safe from getting axed in spite of the good games.

financially not a loss but how many years can a studio coast on that money and glory before someone asks them to do their job and make more money?

the writing was poor, and for a space sandbox it was really missing a lot of the space navigation and sandbox. they recently increased the number of POIs (points of interest) on maps, but I’m not sure that’s enough to salvage it.

I think one of the issues there is Kratom is not really seen as a drug the same way others would be seen. A good first step would be forcing it to go through at least the same amount of warnings and labelling as tobacco companies.

it’s giving Veilguard yes

I upvoted because yes you are right to a degree, but communication is really important and shapes the relation the average consumer has with the product.

Your tap water comes through pipes, laid in the ground, some rusty some not, some you get warnings that they’re not safe to drink from. The systems around it are made to highlight its health risks if any.

Clouds though are clean, white, up in the sky, they’re a force of nature. using it as a metaphor almost makes it sound like we’ve harnessed something that was already there, it doesn’t instill the same image as stacks and stacks of computers in a heavily ventilated building that could be around the corner.

You could reasonably group this together with the abstraction of files and folders to apps for gen alpha and newer, now settings for your application aren’t in a readily accessible file, a program isn’t just an executable, it’s an ✨app✨ that has its own settings and folder structure hidden away from you. All the transparency of how things work is polished out of the experience, all in order to instill trust and increase profits. A layman won’t realise that the viruses his pc can get are also something that can happen to “the cloud”, similarly what files are there to worry about being stolen from a phone when they can’t even see them because the app has them in its own folders?

but they already work, I don’t see the point.