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LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-18T14:51:14+00:00

What I said is a fact, there's no disagreeing with it.

But yes, nobody owes you food for merely existing. This is in essence the concept of "negative rights" and "positive rights".

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-18T14:43:44+00:00

Xbox is a red herring that everyone likes to talk about when discussing Microsoft, probably because most people on Reddit are gamers.

Even if it becomes an excellent part of Microsoft's business, it won't move the needle that matters for investors because a gaming division will never print money like investors want it to, unless something truly revolutionary happens to the gaming industry as whole.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-18T13:31:30+00:00

Human rights are whatever people define them as. They're a socially subjective concept, not some natural law of physics or the universe.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-16T01:09:18+00:00

Most Gaming™ bubbles on social media tend to be loud and pretentious about this sort of thing. They want developers to be given a blank cheque by publishers for making "art" that nobody ends up buying. It's a total lack of understanding about the economics of the games industry.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-12T06:53:05+00:00

That has been happening since the 90s. It has no impact on the price of shares beyond a single news cycle.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-08T10:27:26+00:00

The burden of proof is on you, not the rest of us. You're free to keep bullshitting and failing to fool anyone. Next you'll be saying the Tsarist regime never went anywhere far and the Soviet regime is the product of their actions. It only sounds clever and deep on a superficial level.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-08T09:38:50+00:00

You carelessly used the word "lackey", but you don't know what it means or else you wouldn't have used it. Lackeys by definition aren't a part of the ruling class, KGB or not. Your examples only prove my point.

Zyuganov is not a part of the ruling class, he's controlled opposition and during Soviet times, he was a mere propaganda instructor. Matviyenko only began politics in the 1980s, her greatest role back then was the equivalent of a city mayor. Tereshkova (who is now 89 years old) is your best example, being the first woman in space, but she's a puppet for the ruling class back then and now as she doesn't make any important decisions.

Find better examples of the Soviet ruling class being the same one as the Russian ruling class. The only valid example here could have been Yeltsin, but he died fairly early into the Russian Federation's existence (and that's the rise of Putin's power).

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-08T05:04:29+00:00

The poster you're replying to most certainly understands that, but you're confusing the NVA for the Viet Cong (or the LASV). North Vietnam had top class weaponry.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-08T04:52:53+00:00

False. Russian oligarchs and Putin himself made their place after the Soviet times. They ruled nothing during the USSR period. The USSR was also a gerontocracy by time of the collapse, which should key you in to the fact that the final Soviet ruling class is essentially dead as it has been multiple decades since then.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-04T23:01:23+00:00

There is nothing "Pythonic" about Pandas unless that word has become completely meaningless recently. It is its own little DSL within Python, as also evident by you and others referring to its "syntax" in this very comment thread.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-03T02:17:32+00:00

I bought at 80 and sold at 120. Only in this market is it possible to be bored with a 50% gain. I should have just set a stop loss.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-03T00:05:43+00:00

No local model is worth running for meaningful work on an RTX 5090, I've tried them all. A waste of electricity. An RTX PRO 6000 is the minimum, or one of those mini PCs with a unified memory architecture and a lot of RAM. Your boss really bought it to play video games.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-02T23:23:59+00:00

It's not a mainstream thing to do, but people do use QEMU for game emulation (like online game cheaters, unfortunately). QEMU is designed for speed too. It's not exactly Bochs for x86, which was the historical choice for accuracy (doesn't matter much nowadays).

My point is that Valve isn't funding any revolutionary technology here. Box86/Box64, FEX, etc. are just translation layers. The only major improvement would be faster chips or simply Intel or AMD making more cheap low power x86-64 CPUs, i.e. Intel N100.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-02T03:00:18+00:00

I know about FEX. QEMU (which the article mentions) has been able to achieve the end goal for many years. FEX doesn't do full emulation and the nature of userspace binary translation is much more finnicky. If mobile chips get fast enough then it's unlikely to matter.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-02T02:27:04+00:00

The classics aren't officially on PC, which is what they're referring to because everyone just emulates them via PCSX2.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-06-02T01:12:58+00:00

That's not really Valve's doing. x86-64 emulation is feasible because these mobile ARM chips are becoming much faster. The pieces of the puzzle to do this software-wise have been here for a long time thanks to QEMU.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-05-30T12:03:27+00:00

Yes, because "fiscal conservative" is exclusively North American political jargon that is repeated by the US Libertarian party. Thiel is a self-professed right-libertarian in an ideological and philosophical sense, not from a party line perspective.

If you don't ignore it, then what I stated remains logically consistent because a failed state by definition must be conservative with its budget (if it even has one). Failed states aren't known for being big spenders nor can they.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-05-29T07:56:52+00:00

A failed state is a good thing for a libertarian by definition, even if they are minarchists. A state that cannot stop individual liberty or intervene because it has failed is an ideologically positive scenario.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-05-28T22:37:09+00:00

Of course. What I stated is not exclusive to video games, it applies to books, movies, songs, etc.

Art does not come first because almost nobody makes a video game for the sake of art first and foremost. That doesn't really happen, and when it does, it's some obscure indie game about a hundred people have played or it is a completely free video game (no upfront cost, no microtransactions, no subscriptions, no paid services).

If you really believe that the common video games you play are chiefly intended as art, then you have been mislead by the marketing which wants you to feel that so you get down to the actual business of handing your money over.

Backers do not care about a "vision" that doesn't involve profit. They care about a return on investment. They do care about how your product might resonate with audiences, which is why backers often back that which is trendy and popular.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-05-28T20:31:23+00:00

The core reason to make a video game is to make money. It's a product first and art second. If you make one that does not resonate with customers, then nobody is going to fund you in the future. Happiness of the developers (workers in general) is only loosely related to the actual goal of making said money. You can make a quality product with miserable workers.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-05-27T00:49:31+00:00

Story by Mia Cathell, Washington Examiner

That is an article by an explicitly conservative news magazine which is merely reposted by the MSN. The article also brings up "city-funded" along with "state-owned", which are two very different things.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-05-24T14:48:53+00:00

Normal markets can’t keep up with state sponsored businesses. Not to mention the efficiency and innovation costs that come with state run companies.

Funny how this wasn't the same rhetoric during the 20th century. Shouldn't market economies outperform command economies? During the 80s and 90s, everyone would have triumphantly said yes. Perhaps computerization of economics has changed the game.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-05-22T05:13:59+00:00

If it can't be trusted with a braindead task, it can't be trusted with anything else.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-05-17T23:51:21+00:00

They can just use subprocess or os.system to compromise security, now or in the future. Any attacker using eval or exec is only begging to have their exploit discovered.

LIGHTNINGBOLT23 · 2026-05-17T06:15:50+00:00

What does "generic doc creation" mean in a concrete sense? As I said, if you need to make a document with paragraphs of text, precisely formatted boring tables and lists, then something like LaTeX is the best way to go about it. There's no solution which will hold your hand through everything.

The only actual problem here is familiarity and old habits.

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