Patents, buddy. Developers know things better than you do. Plus other reasons, but I suspect you'll just handwave them all away because you're very very smart. It's definitely not vastly better than JPEG XL.

There's no possible way you're a programmer.

I recall wondering when the pendulum would finally shift back from the siege mentality and we could get on with living.

It never did.

9/11 was so ingrained into the American psyche. Moreso than even Pearl Harbor.

The promise for what might have been compared to what we are has never been more stark.

He would be serving time.

Why hasn't Sam Altman been arrested yet?
Why is OpenAI allowed to continue to operate?
Clearly it's a criminal organization.

Honestly... Since when reshuffling in a company's upper management is of any interest to anybody other than the people working for that individual at that company?

What next? They're gonna replace Bob at accounting because he didn't use AI to format his Excel sheets?

Its reply to me:

"Yes, in large part."

But that is mostly caused by NVidia's lackluster driver support in Linux.

Uh, sure.

Per this, studies are inconclusive, but the most important part Even if streetlights have no effect on crime, they make people feel safe.

Let me try this again [fnord] paranoia [fnord].

Oh god! I forgot elections are coming which means every zealot will do their best to alienate everyone from their side.

You might have heard directives that people should pull over only in well lit areas, or women and the like should stick to well lit areas, etc.

And as people are simply everywhere, that means the entire globe will be lit eventually, your erudite suggestions notwithstanding.

or paranoia, take your pick, but if it is a question of stargazing or crime, crime will win out. Always.

Governments are people.

"These fuckers are why you are seeing less physical switch games as an example"

Buwhaha

Yeah, I know what you mean. I just did it the easy way - dropped out of university, eventually move to Montreal where it was almost *difficult* to be a programmer and not end up at a game studio. Thankfully the industry grew in Toronto as well and I was able to move back after some lovely years there.

I'm an oldhead programmer (still) in the games industry. You're thinking of DigiPen. (I didn't go there.)

it's just a pipeline for techno-oligarchs