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  • I would like to introduce you all to Dizzy Mizz Lizzy

    Seriously, sprinkle them in your Spotify routine and shop around if you like them at first glance. They’re a bit grunge, a bit alternative, but with a very distinct flavor.

    Tim Christensen, the front man, is a creative genius, who adds a very unique sound to everything he touches. He also has some solo stuff that is absolutely worth checking out.

    In my opinion, there is nothing quite like it, and if the timing had been better, Dizzy could’ve been one of the biggest bands in the world.

    They have some heavier stuff, some lighter stuff, some funky rhythms, lots of genius guitar playing (I think all Danish guitarists are partially inspired by Tim C). All of it born from a completely unconditional love for music, which absolutely shines through.

    Do give it a listen. If you like music, I guarantee you won’t be disappointed.




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  • It is definitely the exact opposite of this. Even though I understand why you would think this.

    The thing with systems like these is they are mission critical, which is usually defined as failure = loss of life or significant monetary loss (like, tens of millions of dollars).

    Mission critical software is not unit tested at all. It is proven. What you do is you take the code line by line, and you prove what each line does, how it does it, and you document each possible outcome.

    Mission critical software is ridiculously expensive to develop for this exact reason. And upgrading to deploy on different systems means you’ll be running things in a new environment, which introduces a ton of unknown factors. What happens, on a line by line basis, when you run this code on a faster processor? Does this chip process the commands in a slightly different order because they use a slightly different algorithm? You don’t know until you take the new hardware, the new software, and the code, then go through the lengthy process of proving it again, until you can document that you’ve proven that this will not result in any unusual train behavior.







  • Alan Wake is pretty much the definition of a modern AA game, though, so that just plays into what he’s saying.

    While Alan Wake 2 is super well executed, its development costs is dwarfed by modern triple A games that cost at least 10 times more to develop.

    (Alan Wake 2 reported budget 50-70 million euro, compared to games like Assassin’s Creed Valhalla, Red Dead Redemption 2 or Cyberpunk 2077 which were all reported at ~500 million euro, while games like MW3 (2023) and GTA VI both have billion dollar+ budgets).