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Interesting, they flipped the problem around.

The UI toolkits in game engine usually suck hard, so here they started from a good UI toolkit and made it possible to make relatively performant games.

There's more info at https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/1r0lx9g/fluori...

That's a great point. With more open systems there can be multiple winners, instead of a single winner that takes all.

> National pride and competing banking interests repeatedly sabotaged attempts at unification.

That's exactly the problem. Several actors have won the market of their country, but only of their country.

Will Trump be enough to make the europeans realize that they need to work together, and that an italian win is just as good as a german win?

If somebody wants to hurt you while you are traveling in a car, there are simpler ways.

Another reason he wants fewer people buying AI chips is that less demands leads to smaller price, which would reduce the capex of his company.

They thought that the word "server" was not overloaded enough.

It's important to note that the approach described focuses on giving fast results, not the best results.

Simply trying every character and considering their entire bitmap, and keeping the character that reduces the distance to the target gives better results, at the cost of more CPU.

This is a well known problem because early computers with monitors used to only be able to display characters.

At some point we were able to define custom character bitmap, but not enough custom characters to cover the entire screen, so the problem became more complex. Which new character do you create to reproduce an image optimally?

And separately we could choose the foreground/background color of individual characters, which opened up more possibilities.

> If people are viciously attacking some new technology you can be guaranteed that this new technology is important

I don't think that's such a great signal: people were viciously attacking NFTs.

The tricky part is not doing the capability-based OS, it's getting adoption.

Linux is good enough, so a slightly better OS is not going to cut it.

I agree with the assessment that Apple has by far the best platform to ship features.

That being said, if people spend all their time interacting with LLMs for nearly everything, which is the direction we seem to be going in, what locks them in the Apple ecosystem?

> If you [..] do not fully understand the nuances and limitations of SQLite DO NOT USE IT.

So, what are the limitations compared to Postgres?

I would say that customer diversity may be a marker of past resilience, and likely results in moat.

Customer diversity says nothing about current or future resilience.

> in this case justifiably so

Oh please. What LLMs are doing now was complete and utter science fiction just 10 years ago (2015).

> Is there even a case where more RAM is not really better, except for its cost?

RAM uses power.

As soon as a platform gives control to the fullscreen, harmful apps are possible.

See for example Apple detecting if a user is typing on a keyboard while in a fullscreen website, and then blocking the website. Yes it's as crazy as it's sounds.

They have thousands of highly paid employees working on open source; they are spending at least 1 billion per year.

They want to profit from the IPO of OpenAI. Private investors get a free 20% - 30% gain not available to the retail investors.

> They also mastered the world of DC lobbying, successfully outmaneuvering Boeing and Lockheed’s attempts to use anti-trust regulations to shut the European entrant out of the US market.

No amount of engineering can compete with good old bribes.

> For people who introduced themselves to tech with snap as one of their first apps, its the most intuitive thing ever

By definition, the first app someone uses will be from their POV the most intuitive app ever. It will also be the least intuitive app ever.

Mathematically speaking, random actions can't be worse than actively bad actions.

Shrinking industries can still generate profit, and can still give out dividends.

> In France it is reported that retirees now have higher (average?) incomes than workers

It may not be exactly true, but it's close to be true, and then like you said the workers have way more expenses (rent, children).

I will point out that in the 90s we in France already knew that the retirement system was unsustainable. It is quite obvious if you look for 2 seconds at the population pyramid :-)

Generations of politicians tried and failed to do something about it, thanks to the left (and sometimes extreme right wing) saying that there was enough money and we just need to tax the rich more.

> badly in multiple previous launches of ML-based products

Which ML-based products?

> It was convenient for Google that OpenAI acted as a first mover

That sounds like something execs would say to fend of critics. "We are #2 in AI, and that's all part of the plan"

> Today the weird stuff tends to get buried

"skibidi toilet" would like a word

Note that this wouldn't have been useful for Factorio, because Factorio deals with the harder problem of needing deterministic results with varying amount of parallelism, whereas from what I understand Dthread only give the same results if you run the program with the same number of "threads".

By cutting the middle man out, MS could pay TSMC more than nvidia per wafer and still save money.

Some numbers:

During winter, France uses ~50% more electricity per day than during summer. And during cloudy days in winter, solar produces 10%-15% what it produces during summer.

If you don't have month-long battery storage, in order to be fully solar based France would need to produce 20 times more electricity than needed during summer.

> There is no one best way

I think that the laws of physics dictate that there is. If your developers are spawning the galaxy, the speed of development is slower with continuous development than with pinning deps.

The offshoring has started happening in the last 2 years in some of the big companies, by for example opening offices in Eastern Europe.

I suspect it didn't happen before because these companies were more focused on growth than efficiency.

That being said, thanks to AI parts of the big companies are again focused on growth at all cost.

Have you considered using wasm as the foundation for Roblox, instead of Luau?