his wife is an executive at Disney

Wait. What? Holy shit, every good goddamn thing he’s ever released regarding copyright and intellectual property needs a big bold disclaimer about that in front then.

Fucker’s talking out both sides of his mouth.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Taylor_(businesswoman)

In 2017, Disney acquired Makie Labs technology and personnel for an undisclosed figure.

In keeping with the strategic acquisition, Ms Taylor is now the Director, StudioLab at The Walt Disney Studios. In that role she is responsible for ensuring that Disney continues to invest in the intersection between online tech and content distribution.

I’m sorry, in non-executive speak, doesn’t that heavily imply that she at least oversees some work on DRM? Any content distribution method Disney touches with a 40-foot pole is going to have DRM methodology.

Motherfucker.

Wow, $300

If you dig through the pictures there’s a decent bit more to it than just the initial diorama, but still.

Hope the bootleggers do a good job copying it.

Hasn’t there been internal email and chat logs leaked showing that he knows he’s completely full of shit and just trying to make the most fucking money at any cost?

Then why are you posting in the Nintendo community?

Exactly. I really hope the drama chasing shit doesn’t bring down a shitstorm on this guy. Everyone actually involved is cool about what’s happened.

The statement alone is a good one, but this is not the guy you want to go to for advice about writing good science fiction.

Outside of the small scene groups dumping new releases, why would someone wanting to pirate go to the trouble of buying a legit copy of a game and this device, only to dump the game resulting in effectively the same file that someone else has already put online?

The people who are putting game roms online generally aren’t randos. It’s scene release groups, who already have plenty of ways to dump carts without this, otherwise we wouldn’t be seeing roms released same day or earlier than the shelf date.

You can already dump games with any Switch you can run homebrew (and therefore pirated games) on. I’ve done it with my carts so I don’t have to juggle the little things or bring a case with me. You don’t need this dumper to do it, or to get the files to put on the MiG flash card this is for. Normal dumps off the internet work fine in the cart for pirated game playing on newer switches.

So yeah, it’s a piracy device. But I just don’t see the use case here for it to meaningfully aid piracy at all.

Look, I have pirated games on a ton of consoles and handhelds, including the Switch, and I’ve also dumped my own carts/discs. One thing I’ve never done, or never heard of someone doing, is using one of these dumping tools and then selling the used copy of the game.

I’m sure there are people out there that have, and in the days of game rental stores people absolutely would rent a game and dump it, I used to do it with music CDs. It was harder to grab shit from the intenet back then though, so it was easier than downloading.

If I like a game enough to buy it, I’m not going to the trouble of getting an insulting amount for reselling it. If it was crap enough that I no longer wanted it, why would I dump the cart to a file?

Nowadays, you can download ten switch games in maybe an hour and a half, and every single game is downloadable normally on release day.

Why would you spend extra money on the dumper and lose money from reselling the game for less than you spent, when you can just download it for free?

There’s a romhack for Golden Sun that apparently adds voice acting to the prologue scenes at the start of the game.

I have a hard time believing you’re not being willfully obtuse here. Does it really need to be spelled out to you that STD already has a meaning? Sexually Transmitted Disease.

No one acronyms Star Trek: Deep Space Nine to STDS9, Star Trek: The Next Generation to STTNG, Star Wars: The Force Awakens to SWTFA, Star Wars: A New Hope to SWANH, or Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 to CODMW2. You drop the prefix: DS9, TNG, TFA, ANH, MW2.

Alternatively, no one shortens the above to STD, STN, SWA, SWH, CDM.

In verbal conversation, calling it Disco saves you a syllable compared to STD. In text, DSC is the same amount of characters.

There’s no point trying to defend your choice here. You call it STD because you don’t like it and calling it STD made you chuckle. I get it, it made me chuckle the first time. I really don’t care whether you like it or what you choose to call it. I watched most of season 1 and it just didn’t click for me.

I just can’t imagine being the kind of person that would try to say they don’t understand why calling it STD could be taken badly. Wow. Reminds me of school days, the kids with the sheer audacity to tell the teacher they didn’t bring a cellphone into a test while their pants are blasting out a compressed to hell 30 second loop of a top 10 song as a ringtone.

I’m a sysadmin that spends most of his time automating shit with PowerShell. VSCode/Codium is where I do most of my scripting work.

Existence proceeds as history would suggest. Existence proceeds as history would suggest. Existence proceeds as history would suggest. Existence proceeds as history would suggest.

Yeah, something like “I’m looking for growth opportunities that aren’t available in my current position”

On the other hand, not anticipating and preparing for eventualities can be just as bad.

Nothing quite so permanent as a temporary solution, especially those difficult to maintain.

Itcs a generalized method/notation of measuring how long a piece of code takes to run for a given input.

O(n²) means that as the input n grows, it takes exponential time to process. Like if you were trying to find items that matched in an array by looping over every item in the array and then using a nested loop in the first one to compare against every other item in the array. You’d be doing (# of items) * (# of items) comparisons, or (# of items)² comparisons. n² comparisons.

There’s some rules about simplifying the result down to the most significant portion, so Oⁿ+n would be simplified as Oⁿ, but that’s the basics.

It’s a pretty important concept as you get into making larger projects.

Sounds like your manager needs to take it up the chain. Get one of the people that manages the money in on this. “The development team’s refusal to engage in [standard process] is costing the company hundreds of man hours”

Got anything more in depth than platitudes? That doesn’t help someone currently in an overworked situation. I’d hazard an assumption that unions don’t sprout overnight through sheer application of will, and I’m legitimately interested in how a person could start organizing one.

In my experience one of the toughest things when you’re being overworked to that degree is finding time and energy to do anything beyond staying afloat.

Unions aside, from my experience: The best thing to do is to enforce boundaries with your work early, and refuse to work overtime except in the case of true emergencies, not for issues of poor deadline planning. Speak up early and often against unrealistic expectations before it becomes the crazy sprint to the finish, and quietly be unavailable when there are calls to overtime. Use excuses that are tough for people to challenge, like children or time with family. If challenged that others are sacrificing those things, ask if that is official company policy and expectation that you can get in writing, and remind them that is their choice to do so but it isn’t yours. After overtime bursts, start the conversation of “what is being done to prevent the need for these crunches going forward?”

Ultimately though, the easiest option tends to be to try and find a different empoyer where crunch times are not considered standard practice.

It may complicate the money situation, but as a new parent my wife and I have found a lot of value in paying the extra price for stuff like grocery delivery. We also found value in getting a roomba.

The roomba keeps the main floor of our house clean enough that we can afford to go a few weeks without using a real vacuum if we need to.

The grocery delivery saves us on having to get the kid together, ensure the diaper bag’s packed, drive out to the store, find the stuff, drive back home. Or at least we can avoid locking down one of us with kid duty while the other runs out to shop. It’s not cheap, between fees and a tip we often end up paying ~20% more, but it’s a time vs money value decision. I find we’re valuing our time more than money a lot lately. It also allows us to re-up groceries or household goods on days one of us is working from home, while we’re working.

Granted, I’m in a very stable salaried position where I’m not constantly being picked apart on metrics or qualified productivity (I’m more sysadmin and automation than software dev). We’re also in the early stages of child rearing, not even 6 months in yet. Mileage may vary.