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literallywhoon How China built its ‘Manhattan Project’ to rival the West in AI chips

I swear I've been reading about overbuilding in China since, like, 2012. And I've definitely used it in arguments myself. Not only China hasn't collapsed, but it has improved massively since then, as far as I can tell.

literallywhoon Is Mozilla trying hard to kill itself?

Pretty sure even back then, uBO was on the list of vetted extensions. I remember using it prior to 2023 (since like 2019), on my old OnePlus 6. There may have been a period it wasn’t available, but surely it wasn’t gone for too long.

literallywhoon Fix HDMI-CEC weirdness with a Raspberry Pi and a $7 cable

Is it really love if it hinges on the presence of high quality stereo equipment? Also, I have a friend who has similar stuff out in the open and is happily married.

literallywhoon Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux

>You'd somehow have to prove you didn't look at it, ever, or at least be trusted enough for people to take your word for it.

How could one prove a negative? It's supposed to be innocent until proven guilty, isn't it? They'd have to prove that you've looked at the spec files.

literallywhoon Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

He said it in this recent interview. I'm not sure of the timestamp, somewhere in the middle, I think. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Ho0F_jdfSs&t)

literallywhoon Valve reveals it’s the architect behind a push to bring Windows games to Arm

It’s funny, because Zach Barth (of SpaceChem and many other wonderful games fame) worked at Valve and then described them as the ideal anarcho-communist type of organization.

literallywhoon Helldivers 2 devs slash install size from 154GB to 23GB

Latest Ratchet and Clank game relies heavily on ps5’s nvme drive. Its PC port states that SSD is required. And IIRC, the experience on mechanical drives is quite terrible to the unplayable level.

literallywhoon Seed. LINE's Custom Typeface

I wish they'd put this much effort into the app itself. Line is by far the worst messaging app I've ever used (and I have no choice, but to use it). Files and photos expire and disappear, giant ads in the UI, chats that disappear, notifications and calls that fail to show up on the receiving side (happened to me both on iOS and Android), inane process of transferring chats to a new device or the chats will just disappear, PC app that logs me out every single day (somehow Telegram and Signal stay logged in just fine).

literallywhoon Apple says it may stop shipping to the EU

Is the movie thing even actually true? I was watching HBO's The Penguin recently and all characters are using iPhones (not in every scene, phones keep changing, but in many scenes it's clearly an iPhone), including the Penguin himself and his direct rival. Unless Apple makes a distinction for tv shows for some reason.