Yeah I think mid last year there where leaks suggesting it was at a beta stage with internal playtesting.

Maybe poor old Alyx can finally stop hanging off that literal cliff lol.

Or its all bullshit. I probably will get me a steam box thingo though. I always had a rule back in the day where I timed my upgrades for Half life releases. And windows has pushed itself past my pain tolerance with its nonsense lately so maybe steamos might get an install out of me.

Yes, however much like AI, Netcraft confirms that BSD is dying. Its just one more crippling bombshell to hit the already beleaguered BSD community when IDC confirmed that BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers

Im fairly sure quite a few of his supporters have been coming to that conclusion.

I'd wager if you got MTG away from a camera and the threat of being smacked by trumps team of lawyers, she'd have some choice words on this matter. (and probably some crazy words on it too, this is after the jewish space lazer woman, but I digress.....)

And vice-versa.

He has complete control of the company. If he doesn't know what is going on somewhere in the company, it is because he isn't paying attention or doesn't want to know.

And this has been his only job. His entire adult life has been dedicated to manipulating people through a screen to make line go up.

Why would he care about people getting scammed when the line can go up?

Dynamic typing is a design choice, trading speed of development for large-scale development features. (Advice: if you demand static typing in your language, never, ever look at Perl...) Doesn't mean you have to like it, but not every language needs to be statically typed.

But if we want to grouse...

I hate python's ecosystem. It is effectively impossible to run multiple nontrivial python applications on the same machine without encapsulation of some sort (virtualenv-type hacks, Docker, separate VMs). And even then, experimenting with anything involving switching libraries requires setting up new throwaway environments to handle, otherwise doing completely normal development stuff risks breaking the "system" python (whatever is packaged and probably used by the package manager).

Just a fucking mess.

I propose Stasivision. All the cool narcs wear them!

This is classic executive lemming behavior. The C-suite almost always ends up full of crowd-followers - "leaders" who prefer to do stupid things as a pack to risking trying something novel that fails.

So Tony here sees the rush to turn everything into an LLM front end and it is literally a no-brainer to him. Doing otherwise means answering questions about why he's ignoring 'the biggest tech story since" whatever. It literally has nothing to do with the user.

RC4, short for Rivist Cipher 4

Nope. It is short for Ron's Code 4

I think you're late to the party.

IIRC, it was Egypt that said they would go to war if any of the other countries attempted to dam or restrict the Nile. That was in the 80s.

Basically holding the other countries in the Nile basin at the end of a gun.

But yes, the wars of water will make the petro-wars seem tame in comparison.

(Imagine the images of Luke on Tatooine, tending to a water harvester, .... but now on earth, that's the future).

I've had fewer problems with PayPal than with any bank, lol. After decades of financial activity.

Look, I know "nuclear device" is correctly generic, so that RTGs and things like them, legitimately count. But let's be serious: right around the very same time this real stuff happened, some really great fake stuff happened too: the movie Goldfinger.

And once you've watched Goldfinger, "nuclear device" is just a euphemism for a bomb. So don't go calling RTGs "nuclear devices," please.

I dunno; it seems to have worked for smoking. Use and demand fell massively, social approval vanished, now pretty much only losers smoke.

It could be argued, but that would be pretty silly, as the demand is clearly there to begin with, and couldn't really be any larger.

it is pretty clear trump would pardon or vacate any fine against a right winger org.

The president does not yet have pardoning power over civil judgements. Maybe a constitutional amendment to do that is coming, but we haven't had a vote on it yet.

Some good has come from promoting more user speech online, but also a lot of bullying, harassment, echo chambers, doxxing, stochastic terrorism, and so on.

You make it sound as dangerous as a 1775 soap box that people like Sam Adams would stand upon and shout from, or a pamphlet-printing-press that someone like Thomas Paine might use, where in both cases the goal was often to rowse the rabble into protest and action.

But is the internet really that dangerous?