It's designed for the wrong atmosphere, wrong g, wrong instrumentation, probably the wrong nav system.

Oh, and it is the reference model for some currently deployed devices that can't be physically accessed for diagnostics.

It has the nice attribute of already existing, I'll give it that.

I will be happy to be wrong, but domestically I do not see meaningful change happening in the US without violence. The religious right is not going to let go of power peacefully.

Internationally, you can't really sanction the US - it's just too big and interconnected with the majority of the world. It's also true that the current management and culture is unsustainable and if it doesn't change course nobody will have to sanction it because it's going to collapse economically.

But a computer I can't load my own code on is no longer a general purpose computer - it's a walled-garden appliance and I'm not going to buy it.

I'm OK with stupid when it is self-defeating and self-harming.

I'm not OK with stupid when it tries to force the rest of us to come along for the ride.

> If a company (imagine a developer-owner, one-man show) stops hosting the only live server for a game because he's taking care of an ill spouse, why should he be obligated to make significant software modifications, host those patches, or create documentation instructing how to create and host a the game via a private server. And if he doesn't do so, then he has to refund everyone at the HIGHEST PRICE for which the game has sold in the last 12 months?

Like it's not child's play to include the capability from the beginning? Or to carry business insurance against the liability?

Release the server code and documentation (which you should always have and always have up-to-date), and a client patch allowing arbitrary server addresses (which you should have planned on and therefore it should be a simple patch).

Then it's up to the public to figure it out.

They did it in the pre-release software knowing that the issues would get picked up by the tech press. Remember this was Windows 3.1 era. Most Windows/Dos users were not internet users.

People relied on what they read in things like PC Mag and Byte, yes even corporate IT decision makers. Microsoft knew that those sorts of publications would leap on the opportunity to test pre-release Windows, would actually try it out on a variety of PC hardware and DOS versions. These were monthly publications at most and would be unlikely to give space to a second review until after the RTM version hit store shelves.

The message would be clear, for a smooth experience on the new Windows, you better plan an upgrade to MSDOS 5. I know a lot of people jumped from MSDOS 3.x to 5.0 at the same time they bought Windows 3.1[1]. So it worked..

By the time everyone figured out Windows 3.1[1] was just fine on DR DOS, they'd already switched MSDOS or already paid to upgrade to MSDOS 5, so Digital Research was not getting the users back.

So be part of the owner class.

You can get treasury's that pay almost 5%, you can get CDs that pay more. You can buy index funds.

Got one of those 3% mortgages, good stop paying anything but the minimal monthly and start buying debt at better rates with that money.

Even better rent your current place and move somewhere cheaper, you work from home anyway right?

The simple realty is the current generation of American's largely likes to complain they are not winning but they can't be arsed to play the game.

That is also interesting given the source.

The EIT (earned income tax credit) is more or less UBI. It is probably the most effective program we do have in terms of improving people's economic situation. Okay it is 'means tested' so it is not truly universal but functionally it works similarly in practical application.

Given the other arguments about income insurance etc, I am not sure why we would not look at EIT expansion, including state level implementations, and maybe temporary enhanced credits for classes of displaced workers. We have a thing that works, why not do more of it?

Again I come back the source and my suspicion is there are not enough strings attached, you got a job and stayed in the work force isn't enough, I am sure she wants to make sure you take some sort of Green/Woke/Nonsense job...

"ailing economy"

1) with near full employment
2) consistent consumer spending
3) stable interest rates
4) slightly elevated but certainly not alarming inflation levels
5) solid market growth year of year
6) easy access to credit

literally the only problem this economy has is consumer sentiment and regardless how people answer the polls its evidently not even enough to make them stop spending. If it wasn't for all the "negative covfefe" people would recognize the economy is doing great.

Its a bunch of ex pols grabbing money so they can have nice job where they don't actually do anything.

They will write up some policy position papers (well they'll have chat GPT do it) and make some websites where companies like MS can put their logos. The companies get pretend they are doing something for PR reasons for a few million, literally less they retaining a handful of salaries would cost them.

It is just 'learn to code all over again'

Grifters gonna grift.

Answer - It does not matter because

1) we have one atmosphere
2) People are going to buy stuff
3) China is a going to make stuff people want to buy
4) regulators in Washington and Brussels don't control how China makes things.
5) Everyone decided 'derp tariffs bad' so (2) will be filled by China, and poorer client states

This is all before we even explore the energy economy.

People need to come to grips with the fact that we are NOT going to be doing anything that is actually effective about carbon emissions via policy. Policy is a flat head screw driver, and the problem looks like a hex-head bolt. We'd be better off just not using it at all we will only injure ourselves and damage the work.

The only thing that will address emissions (if they really matter and work like most climate scientists have concluded they do) is technological advances. That is it, nobody is just going to shrug and abandon the lifestyle we have all enjoyed the last 50 years.. Its just unrealistic. That won't stop smaller groups and some local municipalities from slitting their own writs in self sacrifice, but those will be the losers because they are going give up the things they have, and be left to deal with any consequences of climate change.

Yeah, climate change is a bitch when it happens on human timescales. "You shouldn't live where it's too hot" isn't really that fair to say when the place starts changing during your own lifetime.

People really shouldn't live in places where they die if modern technology gives out for a day or two.

In a cold climate you can revert to burning things, but if it's too hot and the power goes out, it's a much bigger issue. Worse if there is too much demand on local water sources or importing food from far away because it can't grow in the local climate.

My solution is manually forcing checkpoints. I ask for a specific correction, then a full code dump. I keep an updated copy of the basic prompt plus the latest code and dump it into a fresh session to lose all the baggage.

It's clunky, but I get better results than trying to reason with a mindless AI.

>Video games from the 1980s.

Probably not all of them, but it is surprising how many ROM images exist out there and how available emulators are to run them on modern computers, if you look hard enough.

I've seen every game I ever played on my C=64, and I've seen a lot more for every console I've ever heard of except ColicoVision. I assume those exist as well, somewhere.