If it was a real currency, it losing value would generally be considered a positive. It means the sale of a good would earn more of the stuff. But this is where the bullshit hits the road. Its not a currency, nobody is using it to facilitate economic trade. Its just a shitty ponzi token. And the favor of the market has moved on from Dunning Krugerands to AI slop.

I wouldnt underestimate the complexity of an MMO. They are genuinely some of the most complicated software assemblages ever created, and usually involve teams of hundreds of people working for upwards of a decade just to get a beta out the door.

Creating a cloned server is a hell of an achievement.

Eh. I think he's a miserable c*** but oh well.

It'd be fun to be that rich, but it seems to do a number on peoples head to be that divorced from the grinding reality of regular folks.

People should watch Dark Star. "How do I know you are not false data?" "Doesn't matter, the concept is valid no matter where it originated from".

Anecdote only from me of course.but for what it's worth...I'm left-handed. Subconsciously I consider left = "towards what I know" and right = "going further out". This applies to walking, driving...all of it.

I know it's not actually true of course, but if faced with an unfamiliar t-junction while driving or perhaps I'm just out on a walk to get some distance in, that's how I think of it.

It's testable, I agree. However as a left-handed person where my dominant side is the left...I always go left if I can.

Interestingly, though admittedly this is purely my anecdote so take this as such, this translates to driving too. Unknown place, just driving for fun, reach a t-junction and have to choose? To me left = "towards where you know" and right = "going further out". Even if that's not actually the case, that's just how my mind sees it at first glance. Wonder if that's also looked at, and also if it's affected by location (I'm in the UK, so would drive on the left).

If an invading army has been running genocidal ethnic cleansing on your own soil, then I'd argue that the gloves are off.

Imagine if , say, mexico invaded the united states (Hear me out, its a hypothetical). Would you be offended if the US responded with strikes on mexico? No you would not.

How is this different? Evil can not be tolerated. Ukraine has every right in the world to do whatever it takes, to defend her citizens, including retaliatory strikes.

Linux and ARM would disagree. Probably loads more too.

...and then the reveal that you can't have it unless you have an M3 chip or later, plus 12Gb of RAM. So that's all the new Neo owners out then isn't it - that's a serious miss.

Maybe? But it seems like its just more in line with the "californian landmarks" naming scheme , which they adopted after running out of big cats to name OSX releases after.

Am I a bad person for somewhat enjoying the way crypto bros and AI bros seem to prey on each other. A fool and their money, and all of that.

It just seems like the worst people are all out to steal from each other. Fine, just leave my boomer parents out of it.

The chinese have picked up on something that Tesla missed: That consumers dont want to be standing out in a weird spaceship, but do want the cool shit. The other day I saw one of those BYD pick up trucks. It looks like something one of the farmers we have as clients would drive. Its basically a hybrid F150. If the cybertruck was THAT, Tesla would have had a winner. Instead they tried to build an ugly moon rover that nobody wanted and slapped the word "Cyber" on it. I'm sure it impressed the wall street wonks, but it alienated the people who want electric AND want a big honking pickup truck, AND can flip back to gas if the power runs low.

The template to succeeding with EVs is there. We just need to get over our cultural cringe about buying from asia. And if we cant do that, maybe at least figure out why the chinese are succeeding where western EV brands fail.

Let's not forget ObjC and the sheer amount of stress and madness it caused.

Objective C was what C++ would have looked like if it had a sane design instead of being 10 incompatible languages stapled together. The syntax was wonky, but it was an absolute delight of a language.

Hold on, I might be wrong about that. I remember hearing a news story about that several decades ago, but can't confirm it now.

Good stuff with the self correction. I wish people did this more often when they catch themselves out with a confabulation (which everyone does from time to time. Memory is an imperfect mechanism).

That's actually not as far away from ours (UK) as I expected. I just did a rough calculation and I make it $8.43 here (converting £1.66 per litre into gallons and USD).

My EV I charge overnight and draw 22kWh per night given my commute, for 7p per kWh. My range is 90 miles, so a spot of converting tells me I pay $2.06 for 90 miles of range.

Seems ok to me.