PedroBatista

The rivers of ink and all the gymnastics we do to avoid saying the obvious: Houses/Real Estate has become the main asset where most people store/keep their wealth.

It has been this way for quite a few time, the banks like it, the boomers love it and the local governments can't live without it.

The chickens are coming home to roost on this one, and I'm talking about society in general not just a"correction in the housing market" at this point that is more or less meaningless when looking into the big picture.

The F-35 is the biggest Trojan horse but this problem has been getting bigger and bigger over the years. Everything dependent on GPS and even cruise missiles with components from another nation requiring the other nation to agree on the targets ( in general terms ). I’m talking about hugely expensive equipment “owned” but a country, not the other country refusing a new order. Ironically this has also been a similar problem inside the branches of the US Military, aka weapon DRM where the soldiers/technicians can’t even do a basic repair, they have to call “customer support”. The more the time passes the more the old truths make more sense: Never, ever be dependent on somebody else to defend yourself. Who knew the fricking France were right.. ;)

The present could never be the past. Having said that, never in History there has been so much migration.

Oh wow! Apple keeps innovating and MacRumors keeps clickbaiting.

Who’s “broccoli hair” now? Take that gen-xers!

Americans will “feel cheated” again when reality arrives and learn that a huge part of their economic power is based on the world dumping trillions of dollars of their savings into us stocks, bonds and real estate, thus making the US dollar artificially strong, making it possible for Americans to buy stuff and being rich. Wait until foreign money and trust starts leaving the US to see how “betrayed” you really get, now it has been la la land, let’s wait for the next act..

I don't know if I'm in a parallel Universe or hallucinating, but these are graphics cards, designed and created for people to install in they deskop PCs and run games. Just like they have been doing it for decades now.

What's with the P40, CUDA and fp8? Seriously people, chill. AI has been using graphics cards because that was the best available route at the time, not the other way around.

Otherwise I must question, why don't you talk about DisplayPort2.1, DirectX12, FidelityFX.. and other dozen features graphics related.

These are gaming cards. If you think AMD is lacking here with just 16GB I can only assume you never bought NVIDIA gaming cards in the last 10 years.

Just installed Waterfox a couple hours ago. ( https://www.waterfox.net/ ) I'm getting fed up with all the latest Mozilla bullshit to the point I'm ready to switch browsers.

Ladybird is starting to look good too, from an end user daily driver perspective, technically it has been impressive for a long time.

One other thing I'm really hopeful is to embed Ladybird engine in a "first class" way. Think of if as an Electron alternative but in a sane way.

According to experts, the EU is a failed experiment that will fail any day now.

Consulting my historical records, the EU implodes about 3 or 4 times a year and has been this way for decades.

So the first collapse of the EU Season 2025 is about to happen.

Where there's a will, there's a way..

It would complicate some of these "games", but I'm sure they would implement a kickback system where the person would receive a great salary but it had a "side contract" where it would be required to pay most of it to another company, or just straight up fraud..

IMO for a significant amount of games, isometric is the best way to display them as it emphasizes the dimensions of things, makes for a clear navigation and general awareness of what's going on.

Also not really an issue these days, but I think it's still somewhat valid: In a controlled isometric projection where the angles are fixed, you can focus on making the art just pixel perfect, shadows and lighting being also a big part. This makes it possible to make your game look good with a fraction of the budget. In many cases, depending on the style, you still want to model and render the stuff in 3D and use hugely advanced renderers ( now GPUs/game engines have realtime ray-tracing, global illumination, subsurface scattering, advanced shadows, etc. but still, you can get most of the look by rendering it offline and just present sprites in a "2.5D" isometric projection and they'll look amazing at a fraction of the cost for both a game studio and the gamers who have to run that )

Of course there is also a great deal of nostalgia, but I would not discount the current trends of "going back to the basics" as just "nostalgia".

I remember a YouTube video talking about this and I think it's this one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rs4B8-qoY1I

Signal could start doing some posts praising Musk and promoting Tesla or whatever scam he’s pushing at the given moment, that would unblock them really fast.

Pre-Musk Twitter was indeed bad, a sign of it’s time and dying. Now it’s even worse and quite pathetic.

Of course it does :) The two games are decades apart and 1800 was known to require quite a beefy PC to run good when it came out.

My point was 1602 holds up visually in a sense of doing it’s job assisting the game mechanics, something most modern games often fail and over complicate. Also.. nostalgia.

Not gonna lie, was expecting something with more substance. Instead I feel I just read a quimera of LLM slop with a homework assignment of some marketing kid trying his/her best to meet the quota.

Played Anno 1800 a couple years ago, good game and pretty.

But the original Anno 1602 still wins in the looks and style department. As most 2.5D isometric games do..

Here we go again..

If you know so much about European colonization then you might also know the topic of “contact with then” vs “avoid contact” is almost as old as the colonization itself.

I hope the irony of “our amazing stuff,we know better” and your statement of “just leave them alone” isn’t lost on you.

I don’t think the tourists are the ones doing the graffiti…

This.

At any big company, if you’re doing software you’ll be doing OAuth/OIDC like it or not.

That's my overall point of view too. Regardless of infinite technical discussions about one or another, if Alice and Bob can't live together than just don't get married.

Why spend all this energy on conflict and drama to no end? If one language/technology/group is so much better then just fork the thing and follow their own path.

I'm actually not defending the C guys, I just want to leave them alone and let "Nature" take his course, if they die on obsolescence, then they die. who cares..

This is exactly why I blame Linus, this discussion (a civil one, hopefully ) but also nasty wars inside the kernel would not exist if he had the "straightforwardness" as he likes to use as an excuse for many of his sins, to say NO to this.

IMO your points are valid, but from a practical perspective they are out of place. Their place is not in the existing Linux kernel.

> Third, I think you may discount how important the Rust energy/mindshare is.

I'm very much aware of it and I'm also old enough to see how it plays out and how it ends. That feverous energy would be much better applied in a fork. With all the problems of current old Linux, with all the advantages of Rust and energy/mindshare of the community, a fork is a no-brainer.

Think of all the energy not wasted in this civil war and all the not screaming happening while everyone is busy out-coding each other try to prove the other side wrong. Linux is not the Holy Sanctity, it will end when a new better thing appears. Do that thing.

Linus knows this and wanted to have the cake while eating it too. This is the result.

This whole Rust in Kernel will not end well. We can spend all the time of the World bean counting half-percentages of who is more at fault but regardless of the Holy accounting this will not end well for Linux.

When being challenged for anything both sides tend to be despicable zealots, but given the 30+ years of C in Linux I tend to side to keep it that way, since the whole "everything is better and secure if done with Rust" is starting to become an annoying myth and the "aggressive victim" mentality a not so small part of the community has manifested throughout the most recent years does not bode well to the kernel of an OS that powers most of the World.

IMO its more like choosing a lesser known evil, because the new ones already demonstrated not being better.

PS: I also blame Linus for this. When you're the "Benevolent Dictator" having the foresight to avoid these brewing nasty civil wars is where you get the credits for all those accolades. He failed miserably.

While the design of NYC - plus economic pressures - never accounted for domestic waste storage ( in a global and universal way for all buildings/tenants ). The truth is no one ( with actual power ) did anything meaningful to stop this.

It became some type of "culture" or "it always has been this way" type of situation. With a city budget in the billions and a VERY active and "enforce/fine" happy public sector there is no excuse of "people don't just follow basic sanitation rules", it's in the culture and I hope this finally starts to go away as there is no reason to be this way.

Although Figma is not the worst offender, looks like billionaires siting in Davos we should consume less resources and be happy with "owning nothing" because the World is at the brink of collapse so "everyone needs to go back to the basics"

Figma is a ( good ) tool, but immense it reads a bit like Smith & Wesson telling us we need to kill less.

I understand his words and he has a bit of a point in his context. I question his motives, everything he says and the obvious army of “bros” who are just as bad and juvenile as the blue haired woke ones. It’s sad to see most adult dynamics it’s just high school with money and fatter.

They are also good, but outside a more or less homogeneous bubble with no incentive for monetization it quickly becomes a cesspool dictated by "the algorithm".

Not sure the editor of the Economist had a fever dream and thought he was employed by The Onion or the author is still drunk from New Year's eve.

Looks like Intel is royally screwed.

Not much because of their performance as a company ( although it's ugly ), but because of the board and their major shareholders.

If they went after previous CEOs from ~2015 to ~2020, I can see some of their points. Not sure if a lawsuit now would be of their best $interest$ but they were also too busy raking in money during that time-frame, no amount of lies would matter.

Either way this type of stuff at this critical period in Intel's life might be the swan song for what we know as Intel today.

Employee tradeworkers make good average money, self-employed trades people make a ton more money.

I think the silver-lining here is: be competent at your job and all aspects related to it, but do that while being your own boss.

Not much different from other areas but in this case, trades are in high demand and the initial investment in terms of capital is very little compared to "start a company and hope to break even in an year or two".

What's the hourly cost? or it's charged per play?

I don't see the pricing.