> Communism is a classless form of socialism.

No need to engage with you any further. Thanks for saving me the time.

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That has nothing to do with socialism.

That has everything to do with authoritarianism.

"Ooga booga Socialism" is authoritarian propaganda. Unfortunately it's very effective against people who don't actually know what Socialism is, such as yourself... for example, you seem to be describing something closer to Communism (but still wrong).
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I think the problem is that gone are the days that a hit game could be created by 1 or 2 guys in a few months. A large game nowadays will take up to a decade to create and cost into 9 figures so they have to recoup costs any way they can or go bust. If you want old style games that are all in one then support small indie companies though the fun of a retro gameplay experience can start to wane pretty quick.

You haven't looked very hard then. Crimson Desert released this year for example is a worthy Skyrim substitute.

The irony is that in the next few years most firms are going to find out that they can run their own subject specific AI models on a beafed up rack server and so won't need the expensive AI cloud infrastructure and the AI companies whole financial bet-the-farm will collapse in a debt laden heap possibly taking a large part of the economy with it.

Wow, a whole field of straw men, its a wonder you can find your way out.

If you think any of the discoveries made by the US space program wouldn't have eventually happened anyway - sure, it may have taken a bit longer - then you're deluded. Necessity is the mother of invention etc. I'm not arguing there shouldn't be a space program, thats a different matter , but saying it somehow lead to a huge leap in technology that wouldn't have happened otherwise? No, sorry. Where was the space program when the steam engine was invented? What about antibiotics? What about the digital computer (no, NASA didn't invent it)?

You got it back to front - if we still defined the second by the earths rotation by definition we wouldn't need any leap seconds.

The return on investment from tech created for space vs that based on direct funding of science and tech is pathetic. Theres almost nothing the space program gave rise to that wouldnt have happened anyway. And HEPA filters? Really? That barrel you're scraping probably has a hole in the bottom by now.

Defining time by the earths rotation? That ship sailed back in the 60s.

Except Rust has to include bounds checking in its runtime slowing it down unless you use an unsafe block in which case its no better than C. There's no free lunch.

And it would be so easy to make C safe with a single extra keyword (eg "safe") that forces inclusion of bounds checking on array access and pointer dereferencing. Hell, it could even be put in a macro so its only defined in a debug build not the production build.

No you pasty faced basement dwellers, a "journey" is when you get off your fat backsides and travel in the real world. Its not just completing a work task however long it might take.

What a load of crap. The black rat is still endemic around the world and if you think there was good sanitation in georgian or early victorian times then you need a history lesson particularly in cholera.

Enterprise customers with slow IT policies take years to make migrations like this. My department has dozens of applications running on hundreds of VMs, and we'll be lucky to get our pivot to Proxmox done in two years. I'm sure there are much bigger, much slower behemoths out there who will take even longer, or just pay because it's easier than moving.

It's still more than fast enough except for games (and I've got a ps5 for those) plus apple thankfully havent bothered to backport their models to x86, probably due to no neural shit in the cpu.