Wow, people still ready penny arcade in the year of our lord 2026?

What’s next, a link to stile project?

While I’d have no real problem with meta being banned for those under 18, or just their business model somehow made illegal

They weren’t selling drugs. They weren’t killing opponents. Making a product so good that people find themselves addicted to it isn’t something you get fined $1.4 trillion for.

Quick google says Tolkien co. allows fanfiction, but not if the authors are trying to sell it at a profit. That a fanfiction author did self-publish his fanfiction book, then sued Amazon and Tolkien for ripping off his plot, and lost the suit because he didn't have rights to publish in the first place.

Isn't that what you'd expect? Is there more going on?

You're off by a factor of 10x.

Starlink is at 480-550 km
Amazon Leo is at 590-630km

At most that's about 30% the distance or about 30% more latency. Also an extra round trip of 300km is about 1ms extra latency.

Even without PlayStation doing this, nobody is buying disks anymore and the 2nd hand market for games made recently barely exists.

And digital downloads / disk isn’t the deciding factor. I can still play KOTOR on a modern Xbox whether I have the original disk from 23 years ago or the $5 download, but my jet set radio future disk won’t run on a modern machine.

I credit most of SpaceX's success to CEO Gwen Shotwell. She keeps things going even when Musk is off on an irrelevant tear somewhere else.

Unfortunately, Musk seems to be on a path to sabotaging her efforts. The SpaceX prospectus showed that xAI (which bought Twitter, because why not?) was the reason they posted a loss in the last fiscal year. Even with all the expenditures on Starship, SpaceX would have been profitable. Like every other major AI company, it is not at all clear that xAI can reach profitability anytime in the near future, especially since xAI is blocked from so many enterprises and doesn't seem to be able to keep up with the big three at all. As Starship production scales up, the costs are going to increase, and they need payload revenue to offset those costs. There's so much focus now on the Pez dispenser and the lunar mission that I haven't seen any hints of the conventional payload delivery version (aka, "Chomper") in a couple of years. Maybe it's being quietly worked on. I hope so, because the big space station payloads that were talked about a few years ago will need it.

That was quite a rant. You put quite a bit of time into defending your brand. U mad that a phone with .5% market share doesn’t get more recognition?

It seems like it should be just theming, but there's a separate architecture to it. Even the APIs are different, with new using a GraphQL-based API and old using a more traditional structure. The core data (users, posts, comments, etc.) is the same, but the pathways are completely different. New has links into capabilities that old doesn't have (especially around abuse and scraping), and old has capabilities that new doesn't always have (especially around mod tools, which new apparently breaks on a regular basis).

"Many users" is going to be relative. I saw some numbers recently that only around 1% of users go through Old Reddit, and in many of the largest subs, it's a fraction of a percent. I don't think it will have the impact that some people think. I prefer Old Reddit on desktop, but it's clunky on mobile, so I stick with the new interface (I don't use the app).

Sounds like you should learn how to make better tests.

Lots of non-gamers here? Nobody buys disks anymore. Games don't play directly off the disks, they need to be installed. I guess having disks helps with the install process, but between how fast the internet is and all the inevitable updates, it's basically the same install process, with or without a disk.

Buying the game on disk basically just means that if you want to play the game, you have to dig out the disk.

For those who don't know:

1) 21 years ago, Sony Music bought BMG, a company which put a rootkit if people tried to listen to music on computers, which nobody actually did. Theoretically it could helped spread viruses, although no it actually didn't.

2) 16 years ago, Sony gave Linux access on a device, although nobody actually used it, and there was no possible reason to use it besides "oh that's kind of cool I guess." Then rescinded it.

Anyway, minor quibbles and they happened forever ago.

Just because they don't make it doesn't mean they can't license the patent to the foundries.

I'm also a teacher...and how do you figure? They're imperfect, there's issues around them...but useless? Ultimately, if you create a test that's even semi-decent, students who know the material well will get an "A," students who have no fucking clue what's going on in the class will get an F, and other students will get somewhere in between. Isn't that what you'd want?

For global energy, that typically includes transportation. As more economies have expanded, there has been more use of cars, trucks, trains, ships, and aircraft, almost all of which are powered by fossil fuels.

Global electricity generation has changed. In 2000, 64.1% of global electricity came from fossil fuels, 16.7% came from nuclear, and 18.7% came from renewable. In 2023, despite overall electricity generation roughly doubling, fossil fuel generation was down to 60.1%, nuclear was down to 9.1%, and renewables were up to 30.23%. Looking at the renewable mixes, in 2000, it was 17.4% hydropower, 0.7% biofuels, 0.2% wind, 0.01% solar, and 0.3% geothermal. In 2023, it was 14.6% hydropower, 2.2% biofuels, 7.75% wind, 5.4% solar, and 0.3% geothermal.

That's still a lot of fossil fuel electricity generation, but it is declining by percentage and their growth curves are flattening. Renewables are up by quite a bit and still growing. Nuclear is declining, and isn't likely to recover in any meaningful numbers. This program is a lot like past programs meant to encourage new nuclear power plants. Odds are that maybe one will get started, and it might not get finished.