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Rollercoaster Tycoon was the last of an era, not a sudden burst of genius.

Before Doom (1993), almost all games were assembly. Doom was a shock to the industry. You could now write a high performance, multiplatform, sophisticated game in a compiled language ©. When I say multiplatform, I don’t just mean how it was ported to everything later. It was developed on NextStations first. DOS was the first port. So it proved all of the above immediately on release.

We take for granted that C is performant now, but that wasn’t obvious until optimizing compilers got good and someone tried.

Rollercoaster Tycoon (1999) is the last notable title that used ASM. It’s impressive in many ways, but it wasn’t as much of a standout as it seems now. Six years earlier to its release, that was just how games were done.

It’s notable that the only port of Rollercoaster Tycoon was the original Xbox, which was also x86. Nobody wants to rewrite it for anything else.

What do you plan to do when childhood sexual abuse is uncovered decades after the fact?

If these companies wanted to spin up a lobbying and PR group, they would have huge reach.

Which would cause other problems down the line, but they’d crush this particular problem.

Convictions for sexual assault are made based on testimony alone all the time. They’re often made years after the fact when all physical evidence is gone.

It’s not true, but the way it plays out makes people think otherwise.

There are tons of first gen atheists who came from deeply fundamentalist families, and often believed everything well into adulthood. To name two examples, Bart Ehrman and Genetically Modified Skeptic.

What won’t happen is changing someone over the course of a single debate. They will come up with all sorts of mental gymnastics right on the spot. However, conversations like that do add up over time. An otherwise inquisitive mind will find a way eventually.

Nintendo’s distain for its own fanbase continues to baffle the world.

If we only believe the victims, Trump is guilty of being involved in a pedophile ring beyond a reasonable doubt.

We only need the Epstein Files to “prove” this because we don’t believe the victims.

No, that’s why the Bible says babies are delivered by storks. Sex was invented in 1960 by feminists who wanted to chop your balls off so they could superglue them on and transgender themselves.

Who is it profitable for right now? The only ones I see are the ones selling shovels in a gold rush, like Nvidia.

People are increasingly taking out loans to buy groceries. Nobody does that if they have a better choice.

You demand citations for this, something that has been extensively covered in the news, but also throw around arguments like “absolutely inflated but it’s definitely real value” and “we’re way past the point of tech bubbles popping”. Who is cringe here?

LLMs can absolutely disappear as a mass market technology. They will always exist in some sense as long as there are computers to run them and people who care to try, but the way our economy has incorporated them is completely unsustainable. No business model has emerged that can support them, and at this point, I’m willing to say that there is no such business model without orders of magnitude gains in efficiency that may not ever happen with LLMs.

And nobody especially objected to it. Not even much from outside of NATO, excepting Afghanistan itself.

Poor Russia, had no agency at all. Had no choice but to become an ultranationalist shithole because NATO forced them to.

The rest of the world were willing participants in Afghanistan. The US didn’t have to do anything to “force” them.

Iraq and Afghanistan are interlinked stories, but the way they played out with world support was very, very different.

Are you aware of the actual reason that NATO bombed Yugoslavia?

Oh, .ml, that explains it.

Dynamic DNS is the usual way. Your ISP assigns the IP, so they’re the only ones who can make it static.

You might be able to do it with some VPN shenanigans, but generally dynamic DNS is what you want. It’s basically a script that runs on your server that will periodically update the IP on the DNS entries.

Native Americans came up with plenty of dwellings using the same materials in the same environment. Most of those were far less wasteful. Trees falling are not that common.

Tends to be a self-correcting problem. Google and other search engines don’t handle it well, and that makes it difficult to get popular. Even Go would have had issues if Google hadn’t been behind it.

Nah, I still want to live in a community. Just not the fake community we have now.

Also, log cabin homes are bad. The one pictured has the internal space of an efficiency apartment, but uses far more logs of wood to get a much draftier result. You could get a lot of 2x4s out of this thing.

It’s interesting seeing how Mr Beast runs his thumbnails. Not “interesting” in a good way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5s41rjEtwOE

He has staff who runs through hundreds of thumbnails per video. They ruthlessly apply A/B testing of variations. Some of those variations are tiny, like his hair laying slightly different. The thumbnail that comes out the other end (perhaps days or hours after the video is posted) is a carefully manufactured marketing ploy.

Which also implies that his soulless smile is itself manufactured to maximize view count. They ran variations of everything else, why not that? This is apparently what the algorithm wants.