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Of course. The system rewards you so much if you do, and punishes you if you don't (anti-human is where all the money is). May as well point out that there's an unlimited supply of male grasshoppers willing to get their heads bitten off to have sex.

Set the date back to 1980 and sticky tape over the corner of the screen where the date is displayed.

Their 100 y/o hardware is built from stuff that's still produced though. We still make relays (not identical ones but ones that perform the same function), wires, and mechanical levers. The system's behavior is not encoded in the relays but in the connections between them. If you had a CPU made of separate transistors you could replace burned out transistors with any future transistors but if you had one made of chips you'd need those exact chips that were out of production.

Replacing the relays in old telephone switches is a problem because they use so many weirdly specific types of relays - but those systems are only found in museums now. I believe track control uses fairly ordinary DPDT, etc., relay designs.

Now you know why "nuclear power may have been dangerous in the past, but with modern technology it's completely safe and Chernobyl will never happen again" is not a good argument.

Custom chips aren't as expensive as you think. About a few million dollars for the design and a hundred thousand chips, way out of reach for a hobbyist, but accessible to large enough companies. Just because it's opaque to us software people doesn't mean it's not a real industry you can buy things from.

If parties agreed on things there'd only be one party.

That stuff is politics.

Is the USA even still producing bombs and missiles? Last I heard it's completely ineffective due to all the corruption (same as Russia's problem).

Nobody's asking for more bureaucracy, they're asking for these companies to be held properly accountable, which will involve bureaucracy.

Nobody's asking for computers that use a lot of electricity, they're asking for powerful computers, which will use a lot of electricity. You can't just turn up with a space heater and pretend it's the same thing because it also uses a lot of electricity.

So the detailed spec is "whatever the compiler does". And the compiler allows cve-rs, so it does not violate the detailed spec.

Switching to actual 3D rendering to save VRAM has been suggested and rejected (ideologically) many times.

I think the Switch version of Factorio uses low-res sprites.

So it's wrong about the fastest route. Fix that instead of inventing a new type of app.

Could banning forms of escapism lead to more confrontation of the things being escaped from?

Unrealistic expectations. Weird mind games that benefit neither party. Sexual exploitation of the actresses. Dopamine reward system mistraining. Computer viruses.

Didn't we already get rid of the industry and then bring it back, a few times?

Cars are the best form of transportation ever invented.

This is an AI ad for an AI slop product

You're right, "tell me which of these four preconceived routes is fastest" is much nicher than "telly me the fastest route"

Howl was faster houses, Ford was faster horses.

What if all computer games from now on are AI Dungeon?

Empirically, nobody has a problem with their stuff running on someone else's computer, with chat interfaces, or with repetition, or with repetition.

Why would you get a computer in that era if you didn't want to learn BASIC?

I'm tired of reading about the awesome future that could happen, but doesn't. If you think this future can happen, go and make it. Surely it's just a few Claude prompts away? Or surely you already live in this time you describe, so it's not the future, but the present?

Not really related except the title: Its time for operating systems to rediscover hardware - USENIX 21: https://youtube.com/watch?v=36myc8wQhLo

Which part of the Rust standard does cve-rs violate?

Incorrect. It's all just plain old pixels. It should be 8 bits per channel though, not bytes.

you do not need a different texel for every rendered pixel in every animation frame, which is what you need, and factorio has, with the sprite approach.

I don't know exactly what it means either. Really I just mean "thought" and "critical" is an intensifier in this comment.

Yes, as a $19 profit per user.