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I can still play my Gamecube games, and my original copy of Final Fantasy 7 is still alive and kicking. Thirty, twenty year old games still running perfectly well. I can also give them to friends so they can try games out.

I can't exactly say I'd trust Sony to not fuck me over in thirty years of letting them handle my "license".

a constant low 60dB 20Hz hum in the background, 24/7 is as close as a a torture technique invented by the CIA as it can get.

Fable will definitely be the one on call when it inevitably breaks down from the pile of shit slop it wrote at 5AM, don't worry <3

>particularly around serialization/marshaling

The solution being to drop those dogshit reflection based libraries as everyone should have done 10 years ago when codegen became more common.

Looking at you, Gson.

No, this is what the term "remigration" explicitly means.

Revealing that capital is catastrophically misallocated to people whose deep desires are to inflict suffering on others? Oh no, please don't do it, that would be terrible. We could almost figure out a solution to this capital problem. Maybe something involving a common ownership and a sense of class.

The one time HN is accelerationist in the right one. Be proud, comrade, you're making the world better even if you don't know it

Considering their CEO is only supporting a party whose primary goal is mass deportation of undocumented and documented immigrants as well of legal citizens, it's going to be one of the easiest purity check of my life. A good fascist is a dead fascist.

No, you're just looking forward to being the only violent imperial power and to rule unopposed. the existence of another violent imperial power keeps you on a leash. It's not the best case scenario, but an unfettered and unrestricted united states spells doom for the world.

China also happens to be the one that's electrifying the world, producing and improving batteries, solar panels, has a long term plan while the US is going hurr durr VC money printing for smart dog food.

> The US, under Trump, is a foreign policy disaster.

The US, under every single president has been an imperialistic threat to half the world. From imposing embargoes, to overthrowing governments and supporting dictators and genocides all over the world. Half the world hates you, and the other half has begrudgingly no choice but to half assedly support the greatest threat that the world has ever known, a military in a trenchcoat made to protect their dominance over world trade.

So, respectfully, fuck off. The Chinese are not a worse problem than you are, merely a different one. The NSA already has all my data, no reason the MSS shouldn't get a piece of that data too.

And as we say, _c'est bien de la merde_.

Watch movies and listen to people if you want grammar to stick. Languages are living things. Not something you practice in a bubble with Anki and Duolingo.

Free has ipv6 enabled on 100% of their customers, and while sometimes their software has a few issues, it's working perfectly fine. People just get pissy because Free refuses to pay for peering with Google for e.g. Youtube, and it feels slower, even more on v6.

The only ISP not putting out v6 widely is SFR, and thankfully they've gone bankrupt and we will be rid of this scourge.

"Why do you need both, it's possible with technologies we don't have at scales we don't control with predictions weeks ahead on a rapidly changing and unpredictable weather model"

Yeah, uh, I'm going to go with the "building a nuclear plant is the safest solution" answer, thanks. Technosolutionism is fun up to a certain point.

>It's possible to get 99.99% reliability [...] It's also virtually impossible to get more than 99.99% reliability out of any grid

Notwithstanding the fact that lol you're happily saying that you're perfectly fine you get 1 hour of complete downtime every year, which fucks over many industries and services, you're ignoring multiple facts: 1/ to ensure safety, that means rolling brownouts when you're at 95% capacity, great solution, 2/ 99.99% works exactly like it does in software: you don't get tiny seconds long drops, you get gigantic, energy grid collapsing catastrophic failures, that are impossible to restart, grid sync because every renewable island is isolated.

>It's also virtually impossible to get more than 99.99% reliability

What kind of incompetent country are you living in? I have had exactly ZERO minutes of power outages for the past 5 years. I'll be generous and include the 30 minutes of downtime for maintenance. The country wide average blackout time is 2m30s, .43 power cuts / person / year. That's 99.996% stability country wide, and that's heavily weighted down by the places that get fucked by a tree collapsing on a transformer station

you'll be so happy about being price competitive when the conditions are bad for like a week and the country just doesn't run (or rely on other countries price gouging you for what your country needs to exist.)

Opposing nuclear & renewables is stupid. You need both. You need as many power sources as you can, as quick as you can while the resources are available. Energy is not something you leave up to the invisible hand of the market hoping that price competitiveness means that it works well. Lives are at play.

>You don’t have to cluster anymore. You can just be.

Try to get Google Maps or Apple Maps running on a phone with more than 200 Markers/Annotations, then come back to me with that. Their performance is fucking dreadful. Google Maps released a new renderer that just OOMs if you're rendering a Polyline with 5k segments. Decimate it or face consequences.

As far as I know, MapBox is about the only one that has tolerable performance. Anyone else doing heavy work and using the gmaps SDK is figuring out tricks: overlay rendering (drawing on a canvas above the map, which requires expensive RPC calls to get visible bounds / map projection which makes performance shit if you're not careful and always lags a frame behind), intense caching of marker descriptors, careful management of markers (dropping 200 Markers from scrolling the map + adding 200? Enjoy your main thread work that freezes the map), etc, etc.

First party map tools are absolute dog shit.

>George Collins believes that people can satisfy their material needs by working only a few hours

And George Collins is wrong. My rent (for two people) is 1000€ (60m²), electricity is 150, food is 600, internet 50, total of about 2000. Say 1000 since we split that in half, and maybe i'll even reduce those needs, live in a smaller space, heat myself less in winter so it goes down to 800.

That's about 35 hours of work for the absolute bare minimum, 70 including my wife. That means no car, using my bike for everything, eating objectively worse food for my health (not talking about caviar there), get rid of pets, etc, etc.

one full week of worth each to cover the bare minimum. and let's be honest, I'm quite well off there. People on median income would _die_. They already do, working the full month.

George Collins would do well to read more sociology and not generalize.

Indeed. And once the publishers have paid their fair share, JKR also will, and she won't be a billionaire anymore.

It's true. After all, what's wrong with endorsing a company that uses slave labor to make shoes ?

JK Rowling, the proofreaders, the reviewers, the printers, the marketing, the librarians... Everyone in that list is in effect getting stolen from by the publishers, yes.

in the same way that Lebron didn't go where with his own feet, he benefited from coaches, support, doctors, nutrionists & cooks, all dedicated to putting everything into this one man. Do you think merely being a freak of nature nets you a billion ?

>So if one finds a way to do it and not hire people they actually earned the money by that definition?

That's the fun part: they cannot make a billion dollars through their own work. It doesn't exist. Billions of dollars do not exist without either collaboration (extremely rare), or exploitation of others (see: every single YC company)

>Whereas: If they hire a single employee to help with, idk, responding to support tickets that would get them into "well maybe you did not earn it"-territory?

Would you have made that billion without the employee ? If not, you did not earn it. Would your company have gone under if you didn't have someone handling those support tickets, what percentage of the survival of the company is linked to it, and why didn't you pay them nearly that percentage ? Congratulations on exploiting your employee.

Work means the creation of things. Clicking on stocks for your 401k is not working.

Considering the last time we made lists of people's origins, it was used by the nazis and that there's a chance for the neonazis in 2027: no, thank you.

Knowing someone is algerian, muslim or black doesn't help you fix inequalities. It doesn't help in the US, or anywhere else in the world. Racial statistics are useless. We know where poverty is.

It does come with one tiny little issue: it now draws 700W on full load. Just a single 5080 is enough to measurably heat up a room when loaded (320W draw at the wall on mine), and with that amount of power flowing through, you better have a good PSU as well as checking your power plugs themselves, these are going to get HOT when your entire setup is basically drawing 1kW.

France used to make plenty of lists. We loved lists. Lists are good. Jews lists? Sure, it's maybe useful one day when we want to do something.

Boy were the Germans happy to find these.

The American obsession with asking for people their perceived origins (AAPI, AA, Latino, ...) is more than weird: it's downright dangerous. Don't fucking ask these questions, and never, ever write it down, especially not with names.

Thankfully, now they can just buy it from data brokers and let Palantir target, so that makes life easier for them

You have an unhealthy and unreasonable obsession with the idea of CCP models, you should get that checked.

because not all malware is open source

scanning arbitrary blobs very often entails running `strings` on the binary. Just slap it in there and oop there goes your LLM.

I know, but it's far too fun to bait the parent into revealing how ignorant they are.

> Trump cannot instruct Google to put picture of dogs on their homepage.

Sundar Pichai would personally be barking on a livestream on the homepage.

Trump is quite literally the one president showing that the US has zero rules or anything to hold power back from the white house, really not the example you want.

Are you paying maintainers for that, or are you just blindly demanding things from a piece of software maintained by volunteers before saying iT'S sO uNprOfEsSiOnAL ?

> That $23/hr in France would be taxed at 30% compared to 12% in the US.

So, since you're full of shit, let's do the math. I'll even be kind, I'll go 1$ = 1€. 23€ per hour, 35h/week, 4 weeks per month (broadly). 3220€ gross, which, to cut things short and not even get into gross -> net, let's assume 100% of your gross is now net, is 38640€ / year. The 30% tax BRACKET starts at 29316€. 25% gets taxed at 30%, 60% gets taxed at 11%.

Anyways, you're full of shit, I just needed people reading you to know it.

yes, yes, the spectre of communism, BYD is the CCP, Alibaba is the CCP, stealing your children and eating them for Mao, bla bla bla.

I have a feeling you'd be slightly salty at people saying "Google and Tesla are making CIA models"