Playing as myself, I wouldn’t survive 10 minutes in Megabonk.

gain nothing

Oh really?

Yall member that one guy that was a horrible racist but pretended to not understand what racism is, and called it “rayshism”?

Hyper-realistic VR rig so that I can make my indoors feel like outdoors.

(And then in that virtual outdoors, I spend all my time building shelter.)

This you?

Amazon’s turnover and injury rates are so high they risk running out of workers to hire

Type systems are obligation propagation mechanisms. What obligations would you like to ensure propagate?

If you someday decide to introduce a third state, would you want the compiler to force you to reconsider each call site? If so, you need to use a parameter that you can later widen.

If you specifically don’t want to have to reconsider each call site if a third state becomes available, then use the separate functions.

In a Q&A, Yanis Varoufakis was asked something like “you say you can have markets without capitalism — if capitalism and markets are not equivalent, then what constitutes capitalism?” and his answer was “easy: anonymous transferable shares of ownership”.

I thought that was an impressively concise explanation, cuz every single word is significant.

Yes. The issue is not that ARM systems don’t/can’t communicate with a dGPU over PCIe. It’s that x86 systems (edit: running conventional x86 desktop OSes) have to basically pretend they’re using PCIe to communicate with an iGPU. (Not literally, but a lot of the primitives they use were inherited from AGP/PCI and don’t make a lot of sense for an SoC.)

but I suspect they are still going to be bigger than most can comfortably host for time being

ARM and CXMT both have the potential to change this situation rather dramatically.

ARM: The RAM/VRAM divide is kind of a legacy thing at this point, doing more harm than good in the x86 (desktop OS) space, but ARM doesn’t have the same baggage.

CXMT: We know the DRAM cartel have previously engaged in price-fixing, and the current shortage looks suspiciously similar to their old behavior. When confronted by a new challenger, they might be forced to actually compete.

Hence “x86 (desktop OS) space”. It’s not intrinsically part of x86, but it has settled in as a conventional piece of x86 desktop OSes. x86 consoles and ARM desktops don’t assume the same principle, and they can get a lot more mileage out of SoCs as a result.

Firefox doesn't implement the AudioData API, which is probably necessary for the waveform viewer and cropping tool Discord presents in the soundboard management UI.

Not everything is about Chrome DRM yall.

Kind of.

Harris: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/kamala_harris/412678

Sanders: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/members/bernard_sanders/400357

There are some who voted ideologically closer. But the fact that she’s somewhere between Sanders and Warren is reassuring.

I like Cory Doctorow’s plan.

The reason Canada got tariff-free access to sell to the US in the first place? Canada agreed to enforce penalties for tampering with digital locks, following the premise of the Digital Milennium Copyright Act.

If the US is going back on the deal, then Canada should too. Make it legal to jailbreak all US tech.

Doctorow advocating for this plan:

• On Democracy Now
• On his blog
• On his podcast
• In the Ursula Franklin lecture at the University of Toronto’s Innis College (I especially enjoyed this one, but it is the longest)

Don’t use tariffs. Legalize jailbreaking and adversarial interop instead. Disregard American DRM.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/15/beauty-eh/

When we were picking a school district, we looked at school rating sites. But then we found out that those ratings are mostly a proxy for how white the school is.

So we switched to looking at school funding instead.

And uhhh... you're not gonna believe this...

::: spoiler spoiler It's structural racism all the way down :::

Lemme share the tea for anyone who isn’t aware:

• Owl house is a show by Dana Terrace that ran on Disney
• It slowly developed into big pro-LGBTQ themes
• Disney panicked, cancelled the show, claimed it was unpopular despite excellent ratings
• Dana Terrace left with a bunch of others to form an independent studio
• Their first show (Knights of Guinevere) features a floating amusement park that rains garbage all over the workers below, and robots that have orbs on their heads that produce a silhouette strikingly similar to that of Mickey Mouse

Can yall idiots just fact-check for a goddamn second? https://www.windowslatest.com/2023/10/16/no-windows-12-is-a-free-upgrade-and-wont-require-a-subscription/

Edit: Just type "windows 12 subscription" into your search bar. It's fewer words than any of these comments!