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Free market capitalism and corporatocracy are two opposite things. (Free markets don't exist without strong institutions and regulation)

The cure for high prices is high prices.

Only if you don't want or need any geopolitical gradient at all.

...because the point of surveillance was never to solve crime.

I don't see how that is related to my comment in any way.

...for Putin

Responsibility of intellectuals, or wise men/women, has always been to guide the tribe towards security, happiness and prosperity. Not to sow dissent inside the tribe by moralizing, while completely ignoring all the ills in other tribes.

So called "intellectuals" who do it just to further their own selfish goals, should not be awarded high ranking positions.

Mating is where humans are still closest to nature. Traffic has rules. Love has none.

Sex and violence intersect and interweave. It's not realistic to avoid any hurt.

You call it a straightjacket, I call it a railroad track for reliably delivering software.

Another argument for open source devices that are easily repairable and modifiable by the user (or a 3rd party shop).

"People in EU" are Hungary and Slovakia for pipeline gas and crude oil. Belgium, France and Netherlands for LNG. Most see a huge problem with it and pledge to phase it out by 2027.

Source: https://energyandcleanair.org/june-2025-monthly-analysis-of-...

Easier than with either cash or gold.

Moment of truth.

Yeah, this is one of those points that are likely to get drowned out in the noise, until they are too late to do anything about.

Because there's no obvious universal optimal data structure for heterogeneous N-dimensional data with varying distributions? You can definitely do that, but it requires an order of magnitude more resource use as baseline.

ComfyUI addon for Krita is pretty close I think.

It's very weird to me how some state entities think cannibalism will cure famine.

Many of the companies Behringer steals from are also poor, and will wither away with no sales from their innovative work.

Cloning innovative products for a much cheaper price will drive those companies out of business and cause the industry to stagnate.

I don't claim that. I claim that the process could be improved by a significant margin if there was incentive to do that.

Having done some Rust macros, the entire thing is such a huge hidden wart. Even very simple meta-programming in Rust need to be in their separate crate and has to use very complex syntax and invocation.

Also the whole "don't write macros" is such a hilarious statement given that entire Rust ecosystem is built on them.

Or small autonomous carts that drive on the bicycle and pedestrian roads. Safest, simplest, easiest to implement. The biggest hurdle is not technology, but politics and infrastructure.

Easier way to change the battery would decrease the cost of ownership by a ton and decrease the profits of EV companies also a ton. Which I guess is why it doesn't happen.

Is your legislation answerable to democracy? Citizens having some power in that case from outside the system could be very useful.

It seems the general direction in all big organization on this planet. EU is definitely not immune, but perhaps the most resistant so far.

The first death was definitely the arrival of 3D accelerators and shaders. It's never been the same since.

I had the opposite experience when learning linear algebra as I was also doing 3D computer graphics at the time. It was super interesting and fun. I guess you just have to find an application for it.

An interactive feedback loop that handles various edge cases of AI, rendering it, asset loading and display, keeping track of global data, user input, etc. -- is still a game engine.

Visually speaking, there's always visual issues in tying disparate assets together in a seamless fashion. I can see how AI could be easily used to "hide the seams" so to speak. I think a hybrid approach would be an improvement definitely.