adamrezich

Your theory of urban/rural bifurcation is overly reductive. My city had a population of about 40,000 in the 70s (when guns were left in racks in the backs of trucks in the high school parking lot)—it's about twice that today. (I did however just return from visiting my wife's hometown in northern Idaho, which has a population of about 500, and indeed I did not feel the need to lock my car, despite keeping a firearm inside of it.)

I don't care to propose any solutions here, especially around such politically-volatile topics, because I believe the actual changes that transpired and the reasons for why they did are worth acknowledging and investigating first.

When my mom attended the same high school I graduated from, in the 70s, kids who were hunters would leave firearms in racks on the back of their pickup trucks in the high school parking lot. Not only did said firearms never once get stolen or used to shoot anyone, but, such a thing was simply unthinkable.

When I attended the same high school in the 00s, we once were put on a district-wide lockdown because some kid at the other high school all the way across town had inadvertently left his paintball gun in the back seat of his (locked) car—after a weekend of fun in the woods with his friends—in the school parking lot, and a security officer saw it.

Now, today, we get periodic local PSAs urging people to not leave firearms in their locked cars in their own driveways at night, because people are breaking into cars, stealing the guns, and using them to commit crimes.

I won't speculate on how we forsook it, but clearly something here has been forsaken. That the way things were a mere ~50 years ago seems unthinkably impossible today clearly speaks volumes.

Maybe there was something to the high-trust society we once had.

Perhaps it had something going for it that we lost when we decided to forsake it.

So if I'm understanding the situation correctly:

- Activism group lobbies banks/card companies/payment processors to ban content

- itch.io takes immediate action to prevent them from losing access to payment processing

- Mass outrage, lots of confusion, various conflicting claims such as “I've had games vanish from my account”

- The developers of “Mouthwashing”, in particular, complain about having had their game delisted on itch.io

- itch.io responds saying “Mouthwashing” was delisted a long time ago, because their “Download” button was a link to their Steam page. Also says they're looking into resolving things with Paypal and Stripe (their payment processors)

- itch.io responds again saying free NSFW content will be reindexed, and that hopefully soon paid NSFW content will be reindexed and made available soon once talks with payment processors resolve issues

- Now, Mastercard says none of this is their fault, they've had the same policies as always, e.g. anything's fine as long as it's not illegal

It's hard to figure out what's actually going on here. Is it Stripe and Paypal that are preventing itch.io to resume operations as normal, because they think the card companies like Mastercard are going to impose new restrictions as a result of activist lobbying? Or what?

Regardless, the beating itch.io has been taking on social media has been incredibly disheartening to see. It's obvious that they don't want to have to deal with this problem any more than anyone else, and that it's been thrust upon them—yet, there's been a lot of incredibly histrionic overreaction from users on social media, directed at itch.io, for their defensive actions.

It's kind of funny how “Copilot” has become the new “Live”—this Brand Word that Microsoft marketing seems obsessed with, branding everything they can with it, completely regardless of how much they dilute whatever positive qualities their users initially associated with it.

This is why it is so tiring to see everyone reduce what is happening here to “they're trying to ban [specific thing I care about]!” rather than take the objective facts of the situation in total.

Good thing our children will learn all about this at their mandatory Internet Literacy Fundamentals course they have to take in high school.

Oh wait—no such thing exists!

It's up to us to teach this to our children. There's no hope of getting the current generations of Internet users to grasp the simple idea that app/website backends are black boxes to you, the user, such that there is absolutely nothing preventing them from selling the personal information you gave them to anyone they see fit, or even just failing to secure it properly.

Without being a developer yourself or having this information drilled into you at a young age, you're just going to grow up naively thinking that there's nothing wrong with giving personal information such as photos of your driver's license to random third parties that you have no reason to trust whatsoever, just because they have a form in their app or on their website that requests it from you.

Not that I'm disagreeing with you, but I simply found it startling that the article was so well-written, and well-researched, given that my only exposure to Salon has been since the “bloggification of news”, which has seen them become just as much of a shitrag as everyone else these days. But this guy put some serious time and effort into researching this story, and then further time and effort to coalesce it into this article—all from a highly inquisitive, truth-seeking perspective, devoid (as far as I can tell anyway) of any sort of partisan bias, or predetermined “angle” to the story that he's trying to push.

Boy would it be nice if we saw more Actual Investigative Journalism like this, these days!

Man, this makes me really miss Actual Journalism.

Sorry, but I don't care about the self-interest of my nation in any matters that don't concern the self-interest of her citizens, much less any matters that work directly against the self-interest of her citizens—and no amount of rhetoric is going to convince me that I should think otherwise.

In order for such a statistic to be useful, you'd not only have to demonstrate it, but also demonstrate evidence that companies they start add more non-H-1B jobs to the market than they add more H-1B jobs to the market.

> And I care a lot more about what’s good for America as a whole than trying to protect someone’s income.

Uncharitably, it sounds like you think of your nation as a generic economic zone whose growth you want to continually increase at all costs, regardless of the fate of its citizens. But what is a nation, if not the people that comprise it?

I dunno man even just learning that Bjarne thought Simula's classes were cool specifically because of the domain of what he was working on—and learning that he ran into the same “unity build” problem that anyone who's worked on a large C++ project has encountered, years before literally anyone else in the world had—was fascinating, something I'd never heard before, and very interesting context in the broader scope of “OOP.”

To be fair, though, the video has an uncommonly high (by modern standards!) information density/signal-to-noise ratio—there's minimal filler, and it's very straightforward and to-the-point with regards to its subject matter!

I know a two-and-a-half hour video is a hard sell for most people, but I found this talk to be absolutely fascinating. It's not yet another tired “let's all shit on OOP just for the sake of it”-type thing—instead, it's basically nothing but solid historical information (presented with evidence!) as to how “OOP”, as we now know it, came to be. The specific context in which these various decisions were made is something that nobody ever cares to teach, such that it's basically long-since forgotten today—yet here it is, in an easily-digestible format!

You really don't think the tone contributes to the insincerity?

Have you seen Idiocracy, specifically the very beginning of the film?

These excuses sound similar to those made by the “prosperous yuppie couple” (who end up never having children)—contrasted with “trashy” couple, who churn out progeny without a care in the world.

https://thescriptsavant.com/movies/Idiocracy.pdf

Embrace, extend, extinguish.

Nobody here seems to have noticed but the “pseudocode” in the article is in fact Jai code, which you can tell by the `xx` in

    base_slot_coordinates := decode_morton2_16(xx index);

which in Jai means “autocast”.

> The next Apple will be the one that creates an AI-first device entirely from scratch.

When's the last time something of this magnitude actually occurred in real life? Myself and many of the other commenters you refer to have a hard time believing something like this is even possible in the current market—the huge megacorps are more risk-averse and incapable of innovation than ever before, and the scrappy startups seem to exist entirely to be acquired by the megacorps to raise their valuations.

The last time something even remotely like this happened was, what, the Oculus Rift? And that was far from a perfect product that perfectly solved every problem in the domain perfectly on the first try.

AGI any day now, though! Any day now.

It's only a “somewhat niche optimization” because the language emphasizes RAII.

There are other ways of writing code—which other languages can incentivize by being designed differently—where it is not a niche optimization, but rather the default.

> He also talks about combining multiple allocations in to a single allocation that then gets split into multiple pointers, but that could easily be done in C++.

But this is explicitly the opposite of how the language is designed to be used, because that's the whole point of RAII.

Rust being forbidden on a platform, and Rust being unsupported out-of-the-box with the SDK toolchain, seem to me like they're rather different things?

> Also you’re strictly forbidden from shipping Rust code on PlayStation. So if you have a breakout indie hit on Steam in Rust (which has never happened) you can’t ship it on PS5. And maybe not Switch although I’m less certain.

What evidence do you have for this statement? It kind of doesn't make any sense on its face. Binaries are binaries, no matter what tools are used to compile them. Sure, you might need to use whatever platform-specific SDK stuff to sign the binary or whatever, but why would Rust in particular be singled out as being forbidden?

Despite not being yet released publicly, Jai can compile code for PlayStation, Xbox, and Switch platforms (with platform-specific modules not included in the beta release, available upon request provided proof of platform SDK access).

I had the same issue a few months ago when I was trying to ask LLMs about Box2D 3.0. I kept getting answers that were either for Box2D 2.x, or some horrific mashup of 2.x and 3.0.

Now Box2D 3.1 has been released and there's zero chance any of the LLMs are going to emit any useful answers that integrate the newly introduced features and changes.

> In 2015, Vice News contacted mathematician Joanna Nelson for a resolution, and she said that TheJosh would have to schedule his workouts in two-week chunks, claiming a week is seven days from Monday to Sunday.

Why was a mathematician necessary for this assertion?

This is explicitly referenced in “A User’s Guide to Restructuring the Global Trading System”, written November 2024 by Stephen Miran—current Chair of the Council of Economic Advisers of United States—which outlines the general ideology and strategies behind the current tariff situation.

https://www.hudsonbaycapital.com/documents/FG/hudsonbay/rese...

Everyone else is not cooperating though. Just because you think nationalism, realpolitik, and xenophobia (and slave labor, for that matter!) are all bad things that one shouldn't partake in, doesn't mean the rest of the world feels the same way, such that they will extend you the same courtesy.

If only someone had written a book on this exact topic, back in the 80s.