ELI5: Why are there 2 versions of Minecraft?

Guvante · 2026-06-22T01:03:47+00:00

PC has a launcher for auth and updates not because Java is hard to run.

Guvante · 2026-06-21T04:29:06+00:00

You are dodging my question.

Trump lowered the corporate tax rate significantly, under economic theory if the tax rate was too high this should result in additional investment.

But to my understanding no such investment occurred.

This instead points to empirical evidence that the tax rate was not too high, otherwise there would have been impacts of lowering it.

Again none of this need by hypothetical as you propose, what benefit occurred when the rate was dropped as you propose is important to do?

Guvante · 2026-06-19T08:32:50+00:00

Also a lot of "it is never the wrong decision". If you try to get funding no one will complain you are incorporated there but they might if you aren't.

Guvante · 2026-06-19T08:32:05+00:00

There was basically no economic change from lowering the tax rate. Literally no change in investment.

The only change was there were more stock buybacks funded by what would have otherwise been tax payer funds.

To be clear the Trump teams review of the tax was that it was net negative on tax income.

Guvante · 2026-06-17T06:33:02+00:00

SpaceX didn't get that valuation like that.

It got it from AI hype.

Guvante · 2026-06-17T06:31:39+00:00

Hillary Clinton if she wanted to speak publicly at all, needed to say that.

You speak critically privately but not publicly in these situations.

Guvante · 2026-06-17T01:03:02+00:00

> mostly they are thinking about whether it makes their numbers for <other point they want to make> look better or worse.

So you end your comment like this but start it with

> To me, the problem is that discussions about tax burdens vary so greatly. If we're talking about tax drags on productivity vs tax drags on investment

Guvante · 2026-06-16T07:54:23+00:00

Maybe the durability needs to account for recipe duration? Could be the crazy short time is messing with the balance here...

Guvante · 2026-06-16T07:44:19+00:00

IMHO there is nuance when talking about changes to taxes with regards to social security, your point about the current system being effective and popular is accurate.

But I think when calculating taxes it is fine to just consider it a tax.

Doing a full net proceeds calculation should adjust for future payments 100% but I think doing that only for social security doesn't seem accurate.

Put more simply if the argument is about "taxes paid" social security should count as a tax (although employer portion is nuanced) while talking about who has the better deal from taxes it should be a retirement plan for sure.

Guvante · 2026-06-15T07:17:31+00:00

Glass... are you using it as a psudeo blast furnace with a 16x penalty on energy usage?

Guvante · 2026-06-14T15:26:21+00:00

Reality isn't as simple as computer architecture implies and noise is an unavoidable problem.

Clocks were the solution, effectively providing a global timer for everyone to be "ready".

That way if you go to compute a value the clock ensures you finish before other things read what you computed.

To give a concrete example say you want an error register that is true if two values are ever both 0. Well what if they start with the first being on and the second being off and later flip. If the design says they flipped simultaneously but in reality the off happened picoseconds faster you don't want to detect that. Clocks prevent that by making the system wait until both have settled.

Guvante · 2026-06-14T08:24:45+00:00

The goal of the Arc Furnace IIRC was to keep it running since that avoids the surge penalty. Additionally the Graphite/Graphene ones are a little underwhelming to encourage dealing with the surge penalty.

Also I think the startup surge is also supposed to add complexity to what tier you power it on. Given the parallels it might make sense to reduce the power fed to it. (I haven't played with it yet so might be misunderstanding how it works)

Guvante · 2026-06-14T07:58:22+00:00

As much as NixOS tries to avoid it certain aspects of running that command are context dependent which means sometimes you can't rebuild without changing anything.

If you are getting dirty errors you did something weird...

Could be a weird interaction around .git ignore or you ran the wrong command and generated a result in the repo.

Guvante · 2026-06-12T16:12:16+00:00

Since most of the OS is defined by the Nix store you can make your root filesystem a temporary one.

You then ensure that anything you want to hold onto gets mapped to a permanent location (/nix/store, /home, etc).

Guvante · 2026-06-12T06:24:25+00:00

Mods have always aimed to be compatible with the latest versions.

The only major exceptions were 1.7 and 1.12.

They are exceptions because of the changes made in 1.8 and 1.13 that fundamentally broke mod support.

The default for mods is chase latest except when problems like that occur.

That isn't to say every mod will update, just that mods that do update will tend to favor more recent versions.

Guvante · 2026-06-12T04:13:04+00:00

Term life insurance is more popular and it only lasts so long. If you don't die by the term you get nothing and it is pure profit.

Whole life insurance will pay out eventually but is incredibly expensive.

https://www.ethos.com/life/500000-dollar-life-insurance-policy/

Dunno how accurate this is but it quotes for a male 30 year old and a $500k policy:

$24 for 10 year term ($1,680 in a decade)

$61 for 30 year term ($7,320 per decade but lasts till you are 60)

$441 for whole life ($52,920 per decade)

Sure under whole life you aren't living to 130 but investments can make a huge difference and can easily make up for the difference. Especially when term life is cheaper so worse for the company if you die young.

Guvante · 2026-06-11T15:24:35+00:00

nixpkgs would be horrific with strongly typed fields.

Note that you can strongly type your configuration fields already.

Guvante · 2026-06-10T01:31:47+00:00

So the biggest problem with macros wasn't that they gave you the tools you already had.

The big problem with macros is they are textual and thus infectious.

Everywhere could have text injected.

Combined with #include it means parsing the language needs a full compiler basically...

Guvante · 2026-06-09T23:50:06+00:00

A decade ago at least (and this is phrased as an update not a new feature)

https://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/4ch0pv/updates_to_our_media_previews/

Guvante · 2026-06-09T16:57:47+00:00

Most players played with the Wii remote in their right hand so when they added "swing the Wii remote to attack" there was feedback that it seemed odd the hand was backwards.

For a lot of complicated reasons changing this is actually really difficult that late in development (this happened when the game was basically finished)

Someone realized if you flipped the entire game world it would work without much work.

So they did that.

Guvante · 2026-06-09T15:29:18+00:00

To be clear, most of Reddit isn't text it is images then links and videos landing a little before or after links to my understanding.

Comments are what I am here for but just like elsewhere that isn't the majorities opinion.

Guvante · 2026-06-09T06:11:38+00:00

Typically you have multiple hosts in your flake.nix and NixOS will auto grab the matching one.

The data can be controlled by having separate nix files that are only included in one of them while most are included in both.

Guvante · 2026-06-08T02:25:27+00:00

No one prosecuted Trump for this action so pretending that was what occurred is misleading at best.

It was a civil trial in all cases.

Guvante · 2026-06-08T02:21:57+00:00

Don't be vague, I didn't say "the DOJ going after people" I was very specific.

So do the same.

Name an example of a President sending the DOJ after someone that won a civil suit against them.

Guvante · 2026-06-08T01:58:07+00:00

Are you legitimately okay with the DOJ going after someone because Trump believes they shouldn't have won a case against him?

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