Certainly appreciate the history of these two in the industry but Romero was canned, what, like 30 years ago because of ego issues? He obviously didn't care about the places legacy that much. Both of them are ego monsters tbh so they really must be soaking in folks asking them for their opinions here.

Carmack also didn't have to sell to Zenimax in the first place and if they were in need of an acquisition to survive then it would have been him making those layoffs instead. He also apparently made the call that Bethesda couldn't use id's engines for Elder Scrolls or Fallout, probably a mistake in the long term i think driven by ego as id had just as much if not more success as a tool develop than a game developer. And then he goes to work for Facebook of all places and threw his lot 100% with Zuck and Palmer Luckey. A talented programmer but obviously suspect judgement. He got his money.

There's a Ship Of Theseus question with game studios, once you've replaced all the key members is it still the same besides the name?

What country are you from

You're really reposting me things from your X feed? Oof you are sweaty for my approval

If you've got 1 bad cop, and 9 "good" cops who are covering for him, what you've actually got there is 10 bad cops.

You have it exactly right. I can see why you didn't post with an identity, you'd get punished by the reich wingers. Wage theft exceeds all other theft combined but maggots are still crying about shoplifters

I find IPv6 is worse than CGNAT for these anti-bot measures. YouTube is a good example. With IPv6 enabled all I ever see is "log in to prove you are not a bot". With it disabled and sitting behind CGNAT, I can usually watch some videos.

It already has been making false positive matches. There have been several stories about people randomly accosted as they entered stores like B&M, with the security staff claiming they were criminals and often breaking the law themselves in the process.

Because the database is shared by several different chains, it's something that you can't ignore if it falsely flags you. You need to get them to remove your face from it, and ideally claim some compensation for the misuse of your biometric data. The baseline is £250, but I'd be looking for at least £750 due to the hassle and embarrassment caused.

But not as fast as I'd have imagined, tbh. 1GW added in 2025, which took renewables from 3 to 10% of Cuba's energy mix. I'd have imagined they'd have put in more like 5GW by now, but I guess they really are pretty small and poor, so it's tough for them to finance, whether at individual, institutional or national scale.

I found both of these articles quite interesting:
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/0...

https://www.aljazeera.com/feat...

32 bit machines are worth a boat load now due to nostalgia and vintage gamers. You should see what a beige 386 clone fetches on ebay these days.

Probably has something to do with having a gun while committing a crime.

Here’s a good video about the site. It’s rather impressive. https://youtu.be/DjQ2PAgUcM8?i...

Since I pay for YouTube Premium, which I think is fair that they offer you a way to just never see any ads. A lot of platforms give you no choice in the matter or worse, they want you to pay and still show you ads.

So at least for me, with the music bundled it's well worth the $20 a month. Way better value than Netflix provides IMO and I don't have to play the cat and mouse game since YT will respond to this in some way.

No judge on anyone who wants to block, I'm pretty sure that's baked into their business strategy anyway, just like companies like MS and Adobe get benefits from a certain amount of software piracy. You're still using the platform in the end.

And as usual they claim that China is only capable of stealing and copying. It's always the same mistake, and the same outcome.

It's because they think they can launch capacity faster than they can built it on Earth. Instead of dealing with local government, grid energy supply availability, water and so on, they can just launch it into orbit. It's all about being the first to deploy the compute capacity and cornering the market.

Of course it also creates lots of business for SpaceX, so a lot of it could be a Hyperloop-style scam.

Thing is they need to deal with the pollution it will create (stuff burning up on re-entry doesn't just vanish), frequency allocations for the comms, and the fact that now everyone wants their own 50,000 satellite constellation in those prime orbits.

The technical hurdles are relatively trivial in comparison.

Yeah, no naturally it was modded down. There are some real luddites around here.