justaman

It seems like the USA's goal to bring chip manufacturing back into the country only targeted cutting-edge chips. Refocusing on building "old-gen" chips is quicker and more affordable. Drones don't need the latest tech. Most consumer goods don't. I believe Germany did this to some success.

Woodworking. Tables, chairs, etc. You typically a want a hardwood for these crafts. However, it you're going to make cheap stuff that won't last... pine is fine.

Everyday we move closer to RealID and AI will be the catalyst.

It seems that bluesky will be the political left's version of twitter going forward. The same way truth social became a right-wing echo chamber from its inception. I see the world(the US in particular) drawing lines and further devolving online discourse in a time where what we need most is mutual understanding and respect.

Grow more of your own food. Preserve it in glass jars you reuse every year. Hunt and eat venison.

Well the education system certainly needs attention and a refactoring. I don't think anyone can dispute that. The details of what the end goal looks like vary wildly based on who you talk to.

Manufactured outrage. Designed to entice clickbait farmers to spread the word. Gone are the days of blasting millions into a TV ad. No new age ad gets that attention anymore. Instead, the idea is to go viral.

We just had our constitutional rights shat on. Slap on the wrist....

I think everyone has a sour taste left over from decades of half-baked laws written by politicians that don't understand the basics of the internet or technology in general.

With that said, I also don't understand the issues people are having with this.

I would sit on facebook, refreshing and doom scrolling endlessly. When fb messenger came out I was monitoring facebook messenger when it first came out to see who was online. I was always a pretty lonely kid, and I thought social media would connect me with people. It didn't really.

I just heard about this software today. Seeing that it was a one time purchase, I almost got out my wallet right then and there. Making it a subscription model would immediately turn me off.

I grew up as social media came into being(mid 2000s). When I was 13, I got Myspace. When I was 16, I got Facebook. It wasn't until well into college that I realized the impact social media had on my mental health. I would go further and say nobody until 18 should have social media, but that may be unrealistic in 2024.

Eventually tech leaders will stop hiring Chinese nationals. This keeps happening again and again.

Will this work against ads on major streaming apps like prime, hulu, and netflix?

Modern progressive discourse argues that when the west exports their culture it is native-erasure and neo-colonialism(ie racist). So I think your argument is very much up for debate. Sometimes a part of someone's culture is trash. Sure the Mayans built cool temples, but they were also ultra violent.

It sure sounds a lot like you are defending pedos here...

The pendulum has begun swinging in the other direction. Seems to follow roughly a seven year cycle. As the world shifts to a more conservative paradigm in the coming years, I hope that people are reminded that things will go too far before self-correcting and find solace in the fact that most people have settled in the middle.

> Illegal downloading of copyrighted materials takes up 24% of the global bandwidth.

Completely impossible. Think of how much bandwidth is used for HD streaming of twitch, netflix, ABC-XYZ +, and social media. Piracy making up even 5% of global bandwidth usage is being overly generous.

MBAs and cert-chasers make the worst managers/scrum masters. Give me a former dev who had to code less because they got carpel tunnel or a hacker with only one book on agile methodology any day.

There needs to be an EV van at prices comparable to an ICE. An AWD Crysler or Toyota is around 60usd. Most middle class families can't afford a regular ICE van today with that interest rates are at.

Piracy as a whole is absolutely seeing a resurgence. The fragmentation of cable into the streaming era started wonderfully. There was a time when one or two subscriptions could service your media needs. I think the most egregious offender is the NFL. To follow your team, you need all these services: ESPN, Peacock, Paramount+, Amazon. Or, you can pay for a sub-par service offered by the NFL.

Ultimately, we are paying more for less content with more ads than cable. AND they are selling our data on top of everything.

Piracy will gain enough momentum to warrant government intervention that will further degrade and rob us of internet freedom. Mark my words.

Yeah, they are called small towns. I've lived in two small towns in the last decade. One had about 5,000 people; a grocery stores, bars, churches, post office, and a small movie theater all within a mile end-to-end. The other, an even smaller town of ~800 had a dollar store(not a real grocery store), old downtown with various small businesses and a vibrant community. All within about a half a mile end-to-end.

Small towns have much less wealth than metropolitan areas.

I think this is the key take away. Unfortunately world leaders are not tech savvy enough to even consider this a threat.

If you asked me 30 years ago what I thought the web would be in 2023, I would have said something similar to this.

They will be rare but do you really think Big Oil's lobby will let that one go thru?

I'm an F tier programmer but I think the Simpson's Hit and Run game has some really great code. Its easy to read and well organized in my opinion.

https://github.com/Svxy/The-Simpsons-Hit-and-Run/tree/eb4b34...

There was an uptick but its taboo to talk about the demographic.

The trick seems to be keeping it targeted towards one unique and tight nit community. Then opening the doors for those users to branch out. Like if you had a "subreddit" for an MMORPG where community is already a key attribute.

The moderators of major subreddits are extremely authoritarian. There must be a middle ground between free-for-all and thought police.

Gabe Newell

I've played over 500 games on chesscom in the last year at between 700-1050 rating. Its hard to point out a cheater but sometimes you just get a hunch, then on review of the game, they blundered twice in the first dozen moves then the game shifts dramatically. Early game rated 600, mid 1500+.

Whats more common is cheesy tactics. Kid will go on YT and watch a video about some cheeky opening and mimic that. Things like early queen pushes. Once you punish it, they crumble. So you get these players that have inflated ELO. If they can't do the one opening they know, they simply don't know the general tactics.

Then there are the smurfs. They don't last long at low rating but these people are the worst. They exist in any online game.