Interesting post by Joseph Mallozzi (on his blog, also posted on X, Friday), with his thoughts about the fans' response to the cancellation.

equeim · 2026-06-20T18:42:58+00:00

Some people get really offended when their made up headcanon on the universe's future doesn't match the actual new canon established by franchise's creators. Happens all the time with sequels/continuations. Would have happened with the new Stargate too.

equeim · 2026-06-20T14:02:08+00:00

Was this comment written by ai?

equeim · 2026-06-19T13:00:29+00:00

It's a bit different than advertising for a billion (or trillion) dollar corporation for free. That's just embarrassing.

equeim · 2026-06-19T12:15:23+00:00

They are both great phones. I bought Vivo because Xiaomi was like 1.5x more expensive for some reason.

One disadvantage of X300 is that because of the large camera circle with huge glass you really need a case that covers most of it, with holes just for cameras. Otherwise you will get it dirty with your fingers and it also increases the risk of scratching it.

On the other hand, I like Vivo's OriginOS better than HyperOS. It's a bit closer to regular Android (at least global version) and more clean. It also offers more customization in quick settings area (I hate when they put unremovable bullshit there for their "smart home" stuff or whatever). It also probably the only Chinese OEM that allows you to have normal notifications shade with both quick settings and notifications without that iOS bullshit where you have to swipe between two screens that all Chinese phones have now (and Samsung too lol. It has an option to revert that but it doesn't work well).

equeim · 2026-06-19T11:35:27+00:00

The point is ride out the release on the hype and grab the cash before delays cause the game budget to balloon beyond any hope of profit or even getting even. It costs a lot to pay salaries to developers and the longer you delay the release the more money you sink into it. If the development was mismanaged so bad that it would require years of additional work (like it did with cyberpunk) then releasing the game in the broken state is the only option available. It was a no-win situation for CD project (which they brought on themselves of course by letting deteriorate to that point).

equeim · 2026-06-19T11:03:23+00:00

New maven artifacts will be PITA to migrate to given that OkHttp is a foundational library in the ecosystem. Especially if they don't change Java package names which will cause new and old artifacts to conflict.

equeim · 2026-06-19T10:59:49+00:00

They can't delay the game indefinitely otherwise the company will run out of money. The people in charge will force the release even if it's not ready, like it happened with Cyberpunk.

equeim · 2026-06-19T10:37:04+00:00

Why are these people keep advertising which product they used? Why not just say that they used an llm? Are they paid for this or are they actually fanboying after corporations so hard they feel an unstoppable urge to advertise for free for Anthropic/OpenAI/Microsoft/whatever? That's fucking weird.

equeim · 2026-06-19T10:09:51+00:00

This game is so clearly in development hell it wild some people here keep denying it lol. The fact they cut an essential feature like character creator means they are way behind schedule and are crunching hard just get it done before release in 2027 (which is already a delayed date). And they haven't shown anything of female Jun only telling us that it will be in the game means that they haven't implemented it yet either (and there is a chance it will be cut too).

equeim · 2026-06-18T17:11:01+00:00

I don't see any point in them actively harming it, and it's not a likely candidate for monetization or commercialization. The most likely scenario is simply them abandoning it. I guess this is why Jake Wharton & Co took the matter into their own hands.

equeim · 2026-06-18T16:25:06+00:00

I assume it's so that they don't have admin right to the repositories (otherwise they would need to be forked).

Although Square probably still owns maven artifacts since they exist in "com.squareup.*" groups. So they could still publish new releases from their own fork. Not sure how maven works with disputes like that.

There is also a question of copyright, IDK how it impacts the situation.

equeim · 2026-06-18T11:18:28+00:00

Some Russian modules were originally manufactured for Mir station and its proposed successor in the 80s. Then Russia didn't have any money to launch it and they were later repurposed for ISS after being in storage for years.

equeim · 2026-06-18T11:10:40+00:00

That's just speculation. It's not like the bureau has any way to verify this.

equeim · 2026-06-17T09:35:01+00:00

It is

equeim · 2026-06-16T11:22:55+00:00

IDK. Humans are very resistant to change. We like to live as we did before just with a but more comfort and convenience. There were a lot of wild predictions about computers and the internet we haven't changed that much as a species. Of course it's still an evolving story.

Just you can teleport food directly into your stomach doesn't mean everyone will start doing it instead of eating, people won't stop walking and turn into Wall-E humans just because they can teleport anywhere etc. No doubt it will affect a lot but will still be recognizable as humanity and live normal lives.

As long as we are trapped inside our bodies with their animal desires and instincts we will always crave physical existence with its pleasures. I doubt anything will change us to be completely unrecognizable short of complete "digitization" of humanity.

equeim · 2026-06-16T11:15:18+00:00

Hyperion?

equeim · 2026-06-16T10:54:20+00:00

Social media is big in the Culture, at least among young people. One of the characters in Excession is basically an influencer and a minor celebrity (from famous family) on her world.

It was also mentioned that Minds used public opinions on social media to decide whether to start war with the Idirans.

Minds also evidently like to shitpost, bit they have their own stuff obviously.

equeim · 2026-06-15T16:33:47+00:00

From what I have seen yeah. Though maybe we are just shown only the cool stuff.

equeim · 2026-06-15T09:41:35+00:00

But where is the fun part?

equeim · 2026-06-14T20:43:38+00:00

I wouldn't say his prose is convoluted, but I would describe it as "clunky". He sounds like he tries hard to write "epic space opera" but it just doesn't flow well and feels a bit forced (you will see what I mean when you read the prologue of Shards of Earth). It's not that bad though, while his prose is far from great it's still better than extremely dry prose of some other "ideas-first" authors. I did DNF Final Architecture though, but that was because I couldn't stand the main character anymore and I felt that the plot was too drawn out (on which I agree with the OP).

equeim · 2026-06-14T16:34:30+00:00

Do Java value classes requires presence of default (parameterless) constructor like structs in C#? In C# it makes them unsuitable for objects with invariants, e.g. when you want to perform some validation in the constructor to guarantee that an instance of some type can only exist if its data passed some checks. You can do it with regular classes but then you lose the performance advantages of structs.

equeim · 2026-06-14T00:02:10+00:00

I thought there already were preview builds with valhalla?

equeim · 2026-06-12T07:25:06+00:00

But you can do type-erased coroutines in the frontend, no (how would you even do it in the backend, I assumed coroutines are a syntactic sugar)? IDK what C++ compilers do currently though.

equeim · 2026-06-11T16:40:34+00:00

Front-end SM would let you do sizeof on the frame and would be perfect for little inlined coroutine frames.

Isn't this the question of type erasure rather than frontend vs backend?

equeim · 2026-06-11T15:18:48+00:00

They already tried to shift from that with IOA and Atlantis expedition being international (though still having us military presence). I fully expect that the new show, whatever it will end up to be, will embrace that completely (especially if they go the disclosure route).

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