imo socialist and capitalist are 0% technical meaning at this moment, and 100% vibes / group identification. Trump is attempting a command economy fever dream built on coercion and grift, but is nominally the "capitalist" guy.

Writing a math program to optimize a problem subject to constraints is straightforward even if complicated.

Asking a program to create Jolly Roger Bay with the right music is not

Tbh graphics hit diminishing returns 10 years ago? Video games made huge leaps from 8 bit to 16 to 64 but, but it's not like 128 but will ever be a thing.

Same will be true of AI. They made impressive gains by throwing more training data, up to size of entire internet. Where do you go from there?

Very solvable, the same way your computer can verify it's connecting to the right host and not a man in the middle.

Digital signatures with unique private key burned into the camera device at manufacturer.

Public keys could be distributed in certs or something.

When you roll over 4 0 you unlock 10k decibel sneezes

Monolithic is the new distributed

I just want to register displeasure with someone saying "carry us back to the middle ages" when the early modern era was arguably equally if not more more insane

It's amazing for stuff with lots of training data (writing bash scripts), but awful and hallucinatory for gritty details (linux kernel work, weird nuances of NIST SP publications, etc).

I started dabbling in wine for Linux gaming and so far performance is better on Linux than Windows 😂

I may abandon Win entirely over the 11 crap

Fedora is streamlined and brainless to setup tbh.

Literally the slowest step in setting up dual boot Win / Fedora is booting Windows for the first time.

Directors Cut Kingdom of Heaven is like best film ever. It cannot fail, it can only be failed

yes, there is an enormous amount of destruction happening. but the idea that there is some irrecoverable golden age being destroyed is loser mindset. the idea that we cannot create, only preserve is dead as a doornail. wake up and smell the 21st century.

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- Final Fantasy Tactics (original)
- Risk of Rain 2
- Final Fantasy 5 (or any SNES RPG)
- Vanilla WoW

And secular people reinvent religions, but dumber (new age spirituality, crystals, etc)

(1) I say again, you cannot actually surrender to these people because they're too stupid and angry to know what they want.

(2) "Al Quaeda's status as a foreign terrorist organization is ironclad" sounds like a blurb they'd put on their magazine cover next year.

Ted Cruz doing his Susan Collins concerned impression

brain rot as a platform

The suspension of U.S. assistance for Ukraine is a very unfortunate and significant development, but it may not have immediate impact. Ukraine is far less dependent on the U.S. for day to day battlefield needs in 2025, than it was in earlier periods of the war. 1/

these are just high-density camps to concentrate the people the awkward arm gesture guy doesn't like

Texas SuperMaster hell yeah

You better be hauling a single wood plank in the bed like a real man

A long thread on the war and the current situation. Although the worst-case scenarios didn’t materialize in 2024, it was the most difficult period since spring 2022. There were positive developments, and bright spots, but the current trajectory is negative. 1/

Given this week’s events Assad's regime is finished & it’s a race to Damascus. The Russian position in Syria, and MENA region writ large is consequently in deep trouble, because of Syria’s importance as a logistics hub for Russian operations. Short thread. 1/

Kingdom of Heaven directors cut > Gladiator.