Pet_Ant

> Factorio pretty much founded the factory video game genre.

I’m pretty sure Zachtronics predates Factorio. SpaceChem 2011, Factorio 2020. I like Factorio more… but SpaceChem is the more demanding puzzle and the better game.

Worse, it was just almost all horses. There are a few in Central Park pulling tourists and that’s enough for the Pollyanna’s to point to and go “See! We’ll be fine!”

Did you play Supreme Commander? Really made use of the 3D for scaling in a out

May I introduce you to Maxwell’s Demon?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxwell%27s_demon

This is true and I don’t know why it’s downvoted. IBM was notoriously obsessed with lock-in, they just bungled it with the IBM PC because they needed to move fast because they didn’t want it to slip away from them. So, they used off the shelf components that anyone else could buy.

The lenient contract with Microsoft and the unexpected to them ruling on reverse engineering the BIOS sealed their fate.

But no company wants to compete in a commodity, they all want to be monopolies. All the Unix vendors tried to be common enough to be a selling point but idiosyncratic enough to lock in their clients.

Apple isn’t nefarious… they are the default.

Now, if we want to support their ambitions with our wallets is another question

I see the same thing in Russia. It seems like there is no such thing as a civilian target because getting your opponents citizens to uprise and while yours to support you is the key strategy now.

It’s Vietnam Hearts and Minds all over again.

Not if you’re in a different domain, then it cannot be claimed to confuse customers.

So if it’s a network router or a woodworking router, then you’re good.

I can sells of red socks, and white socks, without getting sued by Chicago or Boston.

If it’s in the same space… you might want to contact a lawyer. I believe Firefox had conflicts with earlier names like Phoenix and FireBird and they weren’t even browsers.

Didn’t POWER end up needing proprietary memory firmware?

https://www.talospace.com/2021/09/its-not-just-omi-thats-tro...

That couldn’t have helped. Otherwise I feel like RISC-V is better if you want to build something new from scratch.

I worry what that says about our lives as a whole. The government will make our lives the lowest common denominator that we are willing to endure.

I hope they make a wired one. Ideally with a detachable USB-C for when the cat eventually chews on it.

> I'm real curious why lightning never became the standard.

Because it is bad. In any connection there are springs that keep the tension, which will eventually wear out. They can either be on the cheap replaceable cable, or in the receptacle that is hardwired into your expensive device.

This is why, in part, USB Mini was replaced by USB Micro. ( https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/18552/why-wa... )

> Why Micro types offer better durability? Accomplished by moving leaf-spring from the PCB receptacle to plug, the most-stressed part is now on the cable side of the connection. Inexpensive cable bears most wear instead of the µUSB device.

Definitely had an iPhone where the port was worn out and getting it to connect was difficult.

What he needs to do is start sketching the rest so that it can be finished after his death in his vision.

If I run blame on the new file the will I see the commits made by the original writers? Will it find the same code if it was written independently? It’s not about find copies it about recording changes to a code base as an artifact and not to files. The closest git has is limited rename support.

1) An “easy” way to implement this would be to treat the original file as the parent to both files. You can add a new command “split” if needed to mark the new file as a fork of the existing file.

2) language sensitive version control seems like the next thing. We need like an LSP for VCSes.

What I want from a version system is to capture event in history not like changes as a files but as events that capture a process.

If I split a file in two I still want to be able to see blame correctly for the author of the function, not one file as freshly created and the other with a bunch of deletes. I wish commits could be folded into larger commits so that you can still capture the individual changes but also not see them by default when looking at the history of a file.

Just a more human centric perspective on change history where it captures the way we talk and think about changes.

I wonder how easy this would be to port to Guix?

I expected a Peter Molyneux game. Worth checking out if you wanted a Sims-informed RPG.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_(video_game_series)

Apparently there is a new one still coming out:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fable_(2027_video_game)

Mickey Mouse was already a legally distinct Oswald the Rabbit.

I hope people pronounce this as „pig-dog” and has a mascot that looks like „man-bear-pig”

> If I as a human want to make a clean room reimplementation of some API or application, I must not have read the source code of the original implementation.

That is the difference between necessary and sufficient. Clean-room is sufficient to guarantee avoiding copyright, but it is not necessary. The line legally is south of there, but that position was chosen because they didn’t want to crossing and it was easier to argue for legally in court.

tl;dr: clean room is overkill for avoiding copyright infringement

I mean ”hey artist, take this stolen character and make them legally distinct” is already a common thing.

Considering all of Trump’s shenanigans it’s impressive it’s just that. With Hormuz, tariffs, and America first, this is the equivalent of a fender dent after spinning out on black ice.

During the AI layoffs they’ll be the first to go and we’ll be back to the always working bread winner dad. Not saying I like it, just saying that’s my read of the tea leaves.

I took a course in advanced logic and there is actually a really broad and diverse world of them that is fascinating. Contextual logic for one.

> That's asking every company to prove a negative before rolling out new features.

That’s not as rediculous as it seems. That’s sort of model that drug manufacturers follow. It would also mean that if internally they see troubling behaviour they know they have to stop.

Practically, it would be corporate cover up. And applied earnestly it would make these businesses unviable.

“The Naked Ape” is seminal work. When I found it in the bargain bin of used bookstore I was incensed!

Considering the popularity of Factorio and Satisfactory I'd recommend RoboRally. It gets a bit silly but it's accessible.

For much more depth I recommend Dominant Species by GMT.

I’d love to see Factor ported to bare metal so we could write a modern Forth operating system.

I work remotely following a divorce because my children live here. It's not something I would choose for myself and will be looking to move once they graduate.

That's because everyone else has access to the same tools. If you don't become more productive then you will be replaced with someone who will.

They only way it'd help you is if you controlled access to AI and it was a competitive advantage for you over a fellow developer. A rising tide lifts all boats... but you are only paid for how much taller you are than the other boats.

It's important to understand that AI is capital, and it's to the owner of the capital go the spoils. Your capital is in your skills, but they are a commodity and thus you have limited leverage.

Who benefits from AI is smaller businesses who could not afford custom application development at previous development costs. It's like faster laptops and better IDEs didn't boost developer salaries.