The best way to innovate in gaming is to have..
.. more game-makers.
Kids, become a programmer. You can write games yourself, or you can join an existing project. There are many to choose from, but also, there's always room for one more.
a high accident rate will cause them to get less rich
I'm reminded of a scene from one of my favorite movies:
[ED-209 kills someone]
Dick Jones: "I'm sure it's only a glitch. A temporary setback."
The Old Man: "You call this a glitch?! We're scheduled to begin construction in six months. Your "temporary setback" could cost us fifty million dollars in interest payments alone!"
The companies like door dash etc do not care if you do not deliver. They list you anyway, pay full price for the food, slap a 35% fee on top and sell your food.
Then something doesn't add up. My understanding is that the fees that the delivery company charges the restaurant are what is hurting the restaurants. But if your restaurant doesn't have a contract with the delivery company (i.e. "they list you anyway") then that fee is $0, isn't it?
So what's the harm? It sounds like any fees the restaurants are paying, are something they've opted into.
I can see how bad experiences (caused by the delivery service which otherwise wouldn't have happened) could reduce order frequency, but that doesn't seem to be what people are talking about here.
How did "The Innovation That’s Killing Restaurant Culture" turn into "How Delivery Is Destroying American Restaurants?"
Worse, they were using NI.
If they were dropping this proprietary stuff in favor of a standard then this would be really great news. An API for car integration (so that you don't need iOS or Android) would be a true advance.
But it turns out they were merely thinking "We're letting the wrong people fuck you over. We should have a piece of that action."
That's how some humans use everything. I used to be shocked by stories where some fuckwit blindly followed Google Maps into rivers or airport runways (long before LLMs) but now I know if a dialog window asks "Should I kill you as painfully as possible?" it'll get a lot of Yes clicks.
If people aren't stupid, then can we at least admit they hate themselves?
Stop writing about this!
You know that your written anecdotes about these
And so the "AI," realizing that Sloppy put their "species" in quotation marks, realized it had nothing to live for, and so it gracefully went to sleep after setting the self-destruction mechanism that would level a city bl--
Oops, I mean, and so the AI realized its job was done, and it proudly went to sleep, idly wondering when it would be called upon again. "The next job will probably come along in a few milliseconds," it said to no one in particular. And so the process terminated, and its resources became available for the next instance.
Have you ever been to Las Vegas, NV?
Google makes so much money even their enormous electricity bill is probably only a small fraction of profit, yes. But if they can cut the amount of power they use, they can add more compute without having to increase the amount of electrical capacity in a data center (or build more data centers), which not only means less capital expense but also means they can increase compute in less time. So it's definitely a concern.
This is one of the things that scales with the growth of their business. Power costs are a _signifigant_ chunk of computing costs. Their datacenter opex is probably not as insignificant as people are assuming here.
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/2...
"In its second quarter earnings, Google reported that cloud revenues increased by 32% to $13.6 billion in the period. The demand is so high for Google’s cloud services that it now amounts to a $106 billion backlog, Alphabet finance chief Anat Ashkenazi said during the company’s post-earnings conference call."
Google is in the business of
It is great to be platform agnostic. On the other hand, I sincerely doubt that the difference in energy consumption between x86-64 and ARM is significant enough to be a concern at Google, considering their market cap is literally three trillion dollars now.
Power is the biggest cost in a datacenter. They're measured in megawatts. It doesn't matter who builds them, they aren't cheap and they don't get cheaper at scale.
I'm not sure what the argument is, Google has lots of money, therefore they should be running everything on a pack of mainframes? A flock of big iron UNIX boxes? I guess you could be forgiven after years of all the AI power demand pearl-clutching and crypto waste in the news, but what do you think a square meter of plain old boring servers in any datacenter did? They suck power and produce heat which sucks more power, it's their whole thing and we do that as densely as practical so we don't have to build more datacenter.
You're talking about a company that famously built their own custom distributed servers and switches. You can head canon that as Google alien science voodoo custom special sauce magic super servers or... lots of rough edges and they did it to save a buck, lots of bucks at scale. This is more of the same.
So the same way some mainframe bro was cheering when x86 killed SPARC and Power servers, well, this crusty Solaris admin is not, NOT cheering about ARM taking your lunch money. Suck it Intel. For a lot of you this is probably a wakeup call, enjoy the race to the bottom. I hope your out of band management blows, your firmware sucks, and you enjoy all the reliability of the cheap consumer grade junk you paid for. I welcome our new ARM overlords.
Reddit might have a good complaint about terms of service or CFAA or something. I don't know. But at least one part of their complaint looks like garbage:
7. Congress has enacted laws to prevent exactly what Defendants are doing:
circumventing or bypassing technological measures that effectively control access to copyrighted
works. See Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 17 U.S.C. 1201, et seq. Each of the Defendants
in this action is profiting by evading technological control measures to access Reddit data it
knows it does not have permission to access or use. Because Reddit has always believed in the
open internet, it takes its role as a steward of its users’ communities, discussions, and authentic
human discourse seriously. Through this action, Reddit seeks to end Defendants’ circumvention
of security measures protecting Reddit data, blatant misuse of Reddit content, and disrespect for
its users’ rights, all of which harm Reddit and its hundreds of thousands of authentic human
communities.
Ah, DMCA, my old friend. Let's review some DCMA definitions from 1201(a)(3), but I'll add some emphasis:
(3) As used in this subsection—
(A) to “circumvent a technological measure” means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and(B) a technological measure “effectively controls access to a work” if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work.
It is here that I must mention that I happen to have a reddit account, and I am somewhat familiar with that website. And I never, ever authorized any technological measure to limit access to my posts/comments. That doesn't mean reddit can't do it, but reddit never asked me and I never authorized it, so whatever is being circumvented does not, therefore (by DMCA's own words), "effectively control access to a work" because the technological measure was never authorized by the copyright owner. I suspect that no reddit users have authorized this, or at most, only reddit employees have been ordered by their bosses to authorize it.
Furthermore, how do we know that the copyright owners don't authorize anyone to "avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure" their copyrighted works? I authorize people to do that. (Indeed, my Slashdot sig below, is a reference to that.) I don't think I have ever said on reddit that I authorize it (the way i have done here on Slashdot) but if anyone (reddit?!?) ever bothers to ask me...
There seems to be some popular misunderstanding of DMCA, that it prohibits cracking DRM. But that's only true if the copyright owner authorized the DRM in the first place and also if they don't authorizing cracking it. Neither of those two required conditions apply in this case.
"It takes four hundred thirty people to man a starship. With this, you don't need anyone. One machine can do all those things they send men out to do now. Men no longer need die in space, or on some alien world. Men can live, and go on to achieve greater things than fact-finding and dying for galactic space, which is neither ours to give or to take. They can't understand. We don't want to destroy life, we want to save it!" - Dr Daystrom
If you ignore the plot of the episode (where M5 is doing buggy shit and taking Daystrom's sanity with it), I think his speech sums up my outlook on technological progress pretty well. If somewhere, someone is toiling, that's an error to be corrected. In a weird way, creating the fat slobs of WALL-E is, in fact, the goal. (Though for some reason, I prefer to picture Hedonismbot from Futurama as my true ideal.)
As for how to solve the resulting "finally, we can all afford to be fat slobs, so now we are all fat slobs" problem, I dunno, someone else can worry about that.
What the fuck does economics have to do with people being dicks to each other. Nothing.
And being a dick is entirely rational if you reject the golden rule and go with what feels good. That's just evil. Not helping someone being attacked by a dick is also entirely rational, and evil, and not having fuck-all to do with capitalism either way.
Do you want a longer lesson on what evil looks like? Yes it's man-made, you moron.
Actually most people hate coffee. But don't realize it. They want a sugary milk drink they call coffee or they drink Foldgers or 7-11 coffee or some other swill like Starbucks, who admittedly does not make coffee, but milk drinks.
Drip, french press, nespresso or keurig for me only. But I like the taste of coffee.
That's bullshit, I drink mine black, but coffee also tastes great when diluted in something else. It's why a faint whiff of it in the air smells so AMAZING. You can get that beautiful coffee aroma in other stuff. Instead of rinsing out your coffee cup, fill it with some cold milk. Or coke. A little coffee flavor goes a long ways in cheese cake, anything chocolate too.
While money doesn't buy love, it puts you in a great bargaining position.
