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Well, they did invent EEE after all. Why would they thread carefully? They own the product/service they can shut it down, no need for explanations.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embrace,_extend,_and_extinguis...

I think even in the Roman times anyone could be "Roman". The way I understand it being Roman was not a measure of your ethnicity but a measure of your devotion to the empire.

Rome was an extremely militaristic society so they needed soldiers and what I understand is that your status in the military largely dictated your status in society. They requited soldiers from all of their empire thus all backgrounds within (late period).

Ethnicity is hard to define and a term that spurs a lot of debate. Therefore I think it is best avoided in serious discussion.

For America (and in extension the american continent) it is quite clear who is ethnically native, actually it is probably one of the clearest examples there is partly because it is near in history. And already it gets messy when you dig deeper because of limited record keeping etc.

Broadly in the Americas anyone that was there before Columbus is considered native. Anyone that came after is considered migrant. Anyone born into native heritage can be considered descendant of native and thus native themselves.

  British ethnicity is a thing though

British ethnicity is messy and quite complex, are we talking before or after migration of the vikings? Before or after roman rein? Are we considering Ireland or Scotland separate? What about intermixing with neighboring countries through trade? Before, in or after British colonial empire?

Publishing the obvious has tremendous value for historians, it allows them to figure out how things are done. I try to write content that seems so "normal" it doesn't need to be described ever! It can give fun reflective insights also.

I want to dig more into archival of the sources I use. I think it is important when linking to an other resources to at least describe what was found there or just mirror the source. I have read enough forum posts with link-rotted images to know how a useful comment can become a puzzle when a few links, images or referenced source dissapears.

Now I wonder how well the web will be archived in the long run, but that's another matter. Seems it is an ever sliding window where knowledge of the past is build upon but not kept.

  both of which have laughably low specs by modern standards ... potato 

I have the opposite view, modern games require laughably high specs for what experiences they are achieving, look at what great dynamic experiences (games) can be achieved on older generations of gaming hardware.

Transformer based AI does not magically equal great dynamic experiences, good game design does. Sometimes a basic technique is more effective then a complex one.

Dynamic experience wise what is really the upgrade between ps3 call of duty and current day, aside from graphic fidelity that has increased there is parkour now. But mirror's edge shows that was possible at the time too. Seems it's just consuming a LOT more resources for not a lot of benefit. If you run a ps3 emulator with a modded game with high res textures & shaders you're still using 1/4 of the resources the modern re-release does.

  squeezing a lot of juice out of basic techniques

"limitations breed creativity" I think this is one of the reasons why games on limited hardware are often better games, it requires the game designer to choose between prioritizing the game's core or other distractions like graphics.

But you can use hardcoded while referring to interpreted languages as well, it's a bit of a difficult term. I feel it's more about repeatability when non of the input changes.

I would define it more broadly, "same input == same output, with the same program" and using that definition all computer programs are hardcoded in the end.

There is a gray area, you can consider that even programs that use random() are in the hardcoded category as with the same (semi)random value they will produce the same output. You just need to think of the random value as input, since not all input needs to be user input.

  AI - artificial intelligence

The "artificial" can have several meanings. It seems a lot of folks interpret it as "man-made but identical" however I usually try to interpret it as "not sincere", "fake" or "a replication of". If you use the term that way it will fit a lot nicer into your understanding of AI in games, frankly also AI as in LLM's. In the way that it is not actually intelligent it is mimicking intelligence.

Just by using the term "AI" I feel like you are indicating that it is not actually intelligence, otherwise you would call it intelligence instead. Therefore using hard-coded logic to fake behavioral patterns makes perfect sense.

https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/artifici...

Everyday I hope a LLM enthusiast discovers how game "AI" (and games in general) fool/trick people and realizes LLM's don't do anything different. Some of my favorite examples are the Mario kart AI, Amnesia and Deadspace. It's all an extension of the ELIZA effect.

Create a small sun a mile under the ground, what could go wrong?

Also the actual article it seems has nothing to do with fission, they are focusing on extracting the heat already down there. "superhot rock needed for next-generation geothermal power"

  When a company says “AI made everyone more productive, so we need fewer people”, I want to see the evidence - and I don’t believe it exists today. 

I think these companies doing "AI layoffs" do actually see improvement though it is a placebo and not caused by the AI usage. Don't we know for a long time already that leaner software teams perform more efficiently?

  don’t read any of this as anti-AI

I am not afraid to say I am anti-AI it surfaces a rot that in this industry marketing ideals and anecdotes have more impact then measured performance and that many people still find it very hard to estimate a developers performance, impact.

AI is shit, doesn't speed up my work. Only 10/20% of programming is typing and AI can do that fast, but the whole process no. If you disagree show me a proper study where actual improvement is measured.

Probably you could get a cheaper and more constant improvement if you make sure the developers are properly trained in the IDE's and environments they are already using. For example give everyone a Unix programming course and a course in their preferred IDE.

yes it does seem fundamentally different. Most claims about AI are unmeasured marketing and favoritism. Similar to how management wants you to use eclipse or codeblocks to a developer that uses Emacs skillfully because it is shiny and new and they don't understand the requirements of the developer.

but the host (the company) will need to pay the price in the form of server equipment. Not the user as is the case with client side rendering. If server side rendering becomes slow it will affect all users regardless of their hardware or connection, prompting earlier response from management and devteams.

> The capacity exists, but it's not necessarily used all the time.

By choosing not to engage with a tool you are deciding that the tool serves you and your goals (perception of good) best by not being used. You can make it illegal to use the tool but as long as the tool exists it does not mean it won't be used.

Think of the millions devices part of a botnet or web accessible camera's that are being used illegally by malicious actors.

Isn't it worth considering if we actually need and/or want this tool to be build in the first place?

  "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, that they didn't stop to think if they should"

This game looks great I really like the style it is inspiring.

The author seems to consider open-sourcing the engine, I would also be interested in the mentioned scripts for asset creation. Those scripts would make a great toolset for asset creation in this style.

The DEC 3000 would like to have a word with you.

x86 boots in 16-bit real mode. Then you need to specifically transition into 32-Bit, and from 32-Bit it can be transitioned to 64-Bit Architecture...

The last step (32-bit to 64-bit) can a bit of a can of worms especially on older platforms where 64-bit implementations can differ greatly and 32-bit "just works tm". 32-bit is quite well supported and has enough resources to make some interesting programs work without much hassle.

I think the author has made the decision not to support 64-bit mode due to needing to balance the complexity and usability of the project. It is a hobby project after all.

Since the author maintains a 16-bit and 32-bit for this project I suppose if you wanted you can always fork and maintain a 64-bit version if you wanted to.

> Surveillance is a tool. It's neither right nor wrong, good or evil.

What is it a tool for, it is a tool for observing while no person is present therefore breaking privacy.

  Privacy, a state in which one is not observed or disturbed by other people.

Any tool is (as long as it exists) always used for right or wrong, good or evil. However what might be good or evil is very subjective. Both in the moment and looking back on the use of the tool. Therefore it might be best to consider not creating the tool at all, instead of the current we'll try it and see what happens rhetoric.

Guess which funding is getting impacted to enable this kind of law.

Because in the UK people believe, media enhances this, they can get stabbed for little to no reason or over a small argument due to mostly due to social tensions but also poverty. In the US it seems you have a high chance of not getting stabbed/shot if you don't agitate. So I think the paranoia about knives does not correlate with the likely hood of getting stabbed but with the unpredictability of it.

I agree that this is the wrong direction to develop into.

Detection, even if "on-device, fully private". Is meant to notify others, the person viewing the image already knows what they are viewing. I would argue that the notifying of others of what (kind of imagery/category) you are viewing, is the main violation of privacy, even if the actual imagery is withheld.

Actually withholding the image may make it harder to fight the accusation (in court) if wrongly categorized.

For now the category argued seems to be "nude children" but what safeguards are there that prevent another category "politically sensitive"?

> The average middle class parent will surveil the shit out of their children, for example.

Most of those parents will argue that they have the right to do that and are actively recommending other parents to do the same. It happens so much that a local celebrity actually said the following recently (paraphrased)"As long as you live in my house I(the parent) have the right to go through your room, your stuff and your phone whenever I want".

In my country this is actually illegal as kids have a right to privacy just like the parents, though it happens so much since kids don't have the resources to sue their parents therefore people think this is normal (and kids grow up thinking it is normal).

That page does not load for me, did you mean https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/standards.png or https://xkcd.com/927/

there is a whole lot out there. I personally like the following two also:

https://nocss.club/

https://no-html.club/index.txt (seems to be offline atm but archive.org has a captured version)

Maybe you're overthinking it. Perhaps instead of creating a whole new stack, you just want to host a "personal blog" yourself. You could even consider creating a listing of similar sites you have found. If all people that want this kind of web host their own personal site I suspect it come to reality. There are of course already several collections of sites like this, 1mb.club 10kb.club nocss.club tilde.town wiby.com sdf.org and more.

You could also consider Gopher or Gemini to find like minded individuals.

> as they fail at least (2), (4) and (5).

Can you explain how you see that they fail 2 and 4?

To me it seems with Gemini, Gopher and BBSes (tilde.town is html so let's skip that) they can serve any type of content they want and you can probably already connect to it and retrieve something readable.

Seems like the whole "no tracking, no targeted advertisements" is a great feature of Gopher & Gemini. BBSes do tracking but it seems rarely used for advertisement its more distributed anyway so if you don't like a BBS you can move to the next one connected to the same messaging networks.

Then there is also the communities, increased accessibility (it's just text) and the more structured nature of the "sites" which may be a feature.

So I would argue that there is definitely some benefits (for the user) to those alternative protocols.

> system akin to film classification age ratings

I am pretty sure that most parents let their kids watch movies that are rated for a higher age group then their current age.

For example a lot of marvel movies, harry potter or pirates of the caribbean are usually in this category.

My conclusion the parents are not lazy they care to be breaking the age restriction. A lot of parents even go out of their way or get aggressive to make sure they can age rated movies to their kids as they think the age ratings are bullshit.

I would suspect age verification to have similar effects in practice, and there is the additional hurtful factors as well leading to a net negative. Not just for minors but also for adults that now have to deal with this crap.

I like the idea to have a symbol to unite the world under one flag.

The blue dot seems to make sense as it represents the world without focusing on one perspective or projection of the world map. The transparent background also makes sense for the flag, but I think it would be more recognizable if it was just a white background (in my mind the default flag background).

Also it seems to me transparent materials are in general more polluting. On the website it mentions a black background was considered (I suppose representing space). It would be nice if there was an alternative version chosen without the transparency for mediums where transparency is not an option either black or white would suffice imho.

As others mentioned it does seem very similar (same proportions) as the Japanese flag. I wonder what the opinion of the Japanese is on this concept.

Make sure the new firmware slightly corrupts the audio for guaranteed high return rate.

To be extra malicious, if you can infect a connected pc make it propagate the worm to any similar device plugged into the pc over usb in the future.

you could but I think the inclusion of lasers would make for a better spy / cyberpunk movie. Most "hacking" in movies are not realistic and for show but it being plausible is just a bonus.