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  • At least for me in the US, performance was very good. I was able to 100% Sekiro, for example.

    The reason I think it was a freebie is:

    1. Everyone was stuck in-doors about six months after launch
    2. Everybody wanted to play videogames, but no one could get GPUs and the console situation was not great
    3. Cyberpunk 2022 2077 came out and tons of people wanted to play it. It ran terribly on consoles and on PCs, but surprisingly well on Stadia at launch

    It may have still failed altogether anyway, but the fact that they didn’t seize this opportunity, and instead stuck by their absolutely confusing-as-fuck “like Netflix but not really; first let me explain how this works” subscription model, always gets me.

    Edit: Cyberpunk 2077 🤦🏻‍♂️














  • There’s vanishly little that LLMs are actually being used for that can’t be done far cheaper (computatiomally and cost-wise) with existing tools.

    Reminds me of the most recent Adam Conover podcast. He had as guests two computer scientists who were purportedly critical of AI, and one of them still shat out something to the effect of:

    It does have a use case where something takes longer to produce than it does to verify. For example, a website …