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The thing is, we're actually pretty crappy at knowing what we'll need 50 years from now, much less 500. Doesn't make sense to overbuild for an unknown future, when hundred years from now us will likely be able to do a far better job anyway.

I mean, Torvalds has called basically every person on earth an asshole at some point, hasn’t he? He’s the opposite of being sparing with critisicism, and frankly has historically often used his bully pulpit to do it.

A big one I’ve been seeing a lot lately is advertising annual subscriptions as monthly rates. It isn’t $12/month subscription if I have to pay $120 in a lump sum up front. The actual monthly rate is often basically double what they’re advertising.

Taken a look at the job market lately? Unless you’re like the top 1% (which most people aren’t), it’s extremely bleak.

To build? Sure.

To run? Absolutely not.

Feels like a distinction without a difference. What is any intelligence but a sum of its knowledge?

Um, how exactly does that even tangentially relate to my point?

Yeah, as a guitarist this is hideously non-standard. Definition of change for the sake of change.

There's no such thing as "Tab format". Tabs are just ascii text.

Not really. The lilypond format is extremely...complicated and obscure (and that's my polite take on it). Even simple stuff is quite complex. Very very far from Markdown's virtually WYSIWYG.

Not for physical mail.

It's not hypothetical. Xbox's margin last year was 3%.

What monopoly did they gift? IdTech hasn't been licensed to external companies in over 15 years, and several major versions ago.

The last non-Id release on IdTech was Brink in 2011.

Why not?

If you input $1000 into process A which returns $20, and inputing $1000 into process B returns $30, you'd be insane to invest in process A and not process B, right?

They are unprofitable though. Profit margins of the entire Xbox division are less than just sticking the money in the bond market.

Every ps4 game works on ps5.

We would be a hell of a lot better off with career politicians than the current batch of grifters and ex-Fox News chuckleheads.

No, he really isn’t.

Trump one had a sane (terrible, but sane) cabinet that largely controlled his wilder impulses.

This time he went for loyalty above all else.

My conclusion was the exact opposite. Maybe each individual response was slower, but it took so many fewer round trips to get what I wanted wanted. I had a project fable was progressing steadily and correctly on. Opus on the same project keeps handing me garbage it insists is working and meets the stated requirements, but isn’t and doesn’t.

Even the worst MBP is light years better than the plasticky crap on the Windows side.

The ore copywriter world did not have any means of mass duplication.

It's easy to imagine that as a world where no one funds any thing resembling research or content because it will get instantly ripped off.

It is impossible to having to have a meaningful discussion with someone living in fantasy land. Good day. I'm here if you wish to discuss reality and not some imagined communist utopia.

Such contracts can and have been negotiated. It's simply - as logic would dictate - more expensive. Just like buying a house is far more expensive than renting it for a few years.

I prefer the artists who make the work I enjoy not to starve. That is a moral/ethical principle.

I rarely build much passenger service at all. It's all about slinging vast quantities of freight around.

That "new" feature has been around since at least 2011.

You just put a signal at both ends of the passing loop. Just the way they’re signaled in real life - one signal to authorize a train into the loop, one to authorize movements out of the loop.

Path based signals (nor pre-signals for that matter) didn’t exist in plain original TTD and constructing such track layouts was easy and straightforward.

Exactly - and look what those cost despite being produced in relative quantity. Now scale up to something that's 1000 times the size with 1/1000th the production volume. Wouldn't surprise me if the per-tube cost was in the millions.

Nixies are also cold cathode, low current devices. Radio broadcast tubes can be handling tens or even hundreds of thousands of watts.

I'm sure they could, but sourcing people willing to manufacture heavily equipment/processing intensive speciality products for tiny runs will be MINDBLOWINGLY expensive.

This isn't about the little tubes that go in a guitar amp... we're talking about tubes that may well be too large for a single person to lift.

What's more, everyone who knew how to build things is either dead or in a retirement home. You'd have to re-engineer much of it from scratch.