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> Despite this price hike (and the handheld's aged internals), both models of the Steam Deck sold out in North America shortly after the increase was announced back in May. The 1 TB model, which is going for £779 where I'm based in the UK, appears to be out of stock again at the time of writing. But I doubt this is a sustainable trend.

(Doesn't really explain why this is not a sustainable trend).

Memory prices raise the price on everything. We are still a ways out from gaming being broadly unaffordable, it's still a relatively inexpensive hobby for how much time is spent on it. Worst case scenario, there is 0 new gaming hardware produced and we are forced into a retro paradigm that focuses on performance and portability and repair, which honestly doesn't seem so bad with how dysfunctional the AAA industry has been.

> the us in its current form will not tolerate an existential threat to israel

It seems to be tolerating Netanyahu and Ben-Gvir just fine!

Imagine the different place Israel would be if it pursued Oct 7 as a criminal act instead of a pretext to commit genocide. Enormous strategic blunder by the Netanyahu regime. Israel would not be a global pariah state and it's entirely possible that regime change in Iran would have succeeded. But you are never going to regime change a people who know with certainty that they will be butchered/raped/tortured by their supposed "saviors" the Israelis. There is literally nothing worse than surrendering to Israel.

It absolutely does, it can simply choose to not bomb Iran after Iran enforces regulations on its (shared with Oman) waterway.

Bombing Iran for a month because Iran fired on 4 ships that were violating its SoH rules is wildly disproportionate and optional.

Opportunity for what?

Cool. The pot is surprisingly small. Is the sauce in it highly concentrated or something?

The recent real war crimes of the US-Israeli entity are only comparable to the fake war crimes they conveniently accuse their opponents of while carrying out the real war crimes.

For example, it's okay to butcher 160 Iranian school girls because Iran just butchered 100,000 innocent protestors in a single day (trust me bro).

What do you think happened in Xinjiang?

The fact is GingerBill or someone else could have kept the article up with enough money spent on the right PR firm that knows how to turn the Wikipedia knobs.

> A CTO friend uses the metaphor of clearing two paths up a mountain. The left-hand path is quick and dirty, cleared with a machete and brute force—you do not expect anyone to follow you, you just hack your way through—but you make progress quickly. The right-hand path is a wider, clearer, paved path, and more substantial, but takes time to build as you go along.

This is a good metaphor and is more effective than the neologisms and acronyms of the rest of the article. The author claims a "middle path" but doesn't even connect it to this real world metaphor.

It seems the author is really advocating for the "left path", but only if you are a experienced programmer and with a sprinkle of QC. In the real world metaphor, this would be like hacking through the jungle, but making a little effort to ensure your path is visible to someone else, not unnecessarily dangerous, and makes pragmatic compromises (we will go around this cliff instead of bringing climbing gear or other heavy dependencies).

If you polled 100 SWEs on the example of 'skipping the JSON library and implementing de/serialization for a few objects ' and asked whether they thought it was a "left path" or "right path" solution I'm certain you would have a strong leaning to the left, and not a 50-50 that suggests a secret middle path.

I wouldn't equate incel with manosphere. Manosphere is often hypersexual and about greed/consumption and being insecure and getting scammed, whereas inceldom is more hate-based.

The Associated Monopolies of America.

There are millions or billions of quadrupeds surviving on 3 legs every day. 4 legs is evolutionarily superior to 3 but 3 gets the job done, especially if you don't have to worry about agility or repair.

Manosphere content is toxic and harmful but the hyperviolence and desensitisation of the former should not be downplayed. That's where the mass shooters evidently come from.

Everybody knows which country AIPAC is loyal to, and it's not the USA. The bad faith arguments undermine your hasbara.

AIPAC is just the most well-known and representative entity in a large constellation of a hostile foreign lobby that has somehow avoided accountability under FARA.

Qatar didn't spend 9 figures getting Trump elected, but an Israeli gambling magnate did.

I thought the whole point was that the reactor would deliver heated water to the surface for utilization...? But it will magically stop trying to do that if the main shaft is obstructed and there is a separate egress?

Or are you also burying the turbine and power lines a mile deep?

Kinda like how the USA respected the previous elections in Venezuela?

I'm not talking about elections that far right lunatics* allegedly win by 1%. I'm talking about what happens after.

* Colombia's new guy boasted of strapping fireworks to cats, and married his wife when she turned 18 and he was almost 30.

It's way too early to declare total victory. US also swiftly deposed Chavez, but Chavismo came roaring back.

Maduro himself is unlikely to escape his abduction, but the actual power structures and grassroots opposition to Washington's totalitarianism remains across LatAm.

Seismic activity collapses the well, trapping the nuke underground, pressure find a way to escape via polluting a "faraway" aquifer, or it doesn't escape and you have a man-made volcano in the works

You claiming that Valve hired an economist to study digital scarcity, not because of Valve's booming ingame economies, but because Bitcoin was at $10. Sure.

You elided the part where you are adding an extra column to your database just for this rare corner case.

Bitcoin was not much in the public consciousness by then. It was trading at ~$10, mainly on MTGOX. It's likely its transaction volume was much lower than other non-crypto digital assets (and MTG cards) at the time.

These aren't global timezone changes, these are changes to individual or small batches of timezones. If you are not scheduling future events in these timezones, they do not affect you. You are welcome to overengineer systems to possibly prevent potential future timezone-shift-caused data corruption. Unless I ran a globally distributed appointment/event database, I would personally avoid doing that.

The first thing is false or worded poorly. Before Bitcoin became globally popular, there were many examples of digital scarcity driving significant transaction volume: Early online games with tradeable game objects, gimmicks like Million Dollar Homepage, etc.

Valve hired economist and future politician Yanis Varoufakis in 2012, when Bitcoin was well below $1000, to study "in-game economies" (i.e. digital scarcity) because it was such a big deal in their existing online games.

This is one of those cases where I would prefer to be antifragile and rapidly "patch the data" once as opposed to trying to perfectly solve problems like this before they arise. In all likelihood this will never happen in a particular timezone.

Valve could have made a $2-$3K rig that outperforms other consoles for 4K gaming but I'm glad they didn't. It's genuinely unfortunate the components market went crazy at the same time.

I hope this and the steam deck-likes continue to be successful and incentivize developers to optimize their games for last-gen and portable hardware. I think the "steam deck compatible" certification has already been fairly good for that.

The next generation of life-improving technologies will likely come out of AI/robotics trained on high-quality data that hasn't been collected yet. Medical, ecological, resource and waste management, agriculture, home automation, etc.

Scientists are literal pros at identifying and collecting (if not organizing) high-quality data.

This really should be a period of supercharging basic science in recognition of that, not looting it.

Dismissing software non-buyers as irrational, or asserting certain purchases are "no-brainers" is missing the mark.

Acquiring new software is a major commitment beyond just the price tag. It means integration, continuous maintenance, dealing with forced UI updates, supply chain exposure, and so on.

Every seasoned dev (unless very lucky) has dealt with bad software acquisitions, almost all of which seemed to be great deals at the time of purchase.

This differentiation is amplified in (pure) mathematics, where two different subfields can have essentially zero overlap*, making peer review and general QA difficult to scale.

* Physical sciences also have a lot of diversity, but at least you can go to their labs and see their equipment, reagents, data, etc cetera.