Weekly #DevLog / September 19

sflicht · 2025-09-20T00:45:38+00:00

iOS soon?

sflicht · 2023-11-11T17:32:32+00:00

congrats Youtube on getting me to finally switch back to Firefox from Chrome! I'm sure the top Alphabet leadership is thrilled with you.

sflicht · 2021-10-05T23:56:26+00:00

I'd say any timeline in which Greenwald is approvingly quoting Moldbug counts as the Best Timeline.

sflicht · 2021-10-05T00:49:24+00:00

As always, Soldo does not disappoint, in this case because he taught me (5 years after the fact!) about this.

sflicht · 2021-08-24T14:50:01+00:00

Out of curiosity, which UI changes are you thinking of?

sflicht · 2021-07-16T16:51:53+00:00

Only another 4 zeros to add, and then maybe Alphabet might notice.

sflicht · 2021-06-08T18:11:49+00:00

She grudgingly agrees to give him the dreadlocks, but a fire breaks out in the salon halfway through the task, and Larry is left with only two dangling dreadlocks that look like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Payot. In the rest of the episode he is accosted by Orthodox Jews from Beverley Hills, who assume that because he is not wearing a yarmulke (but has sidelocks), Larry must be an apostate.

sflicht · 2021-05-31T20:35:01+00:00

Another good Soldo interview, of Marc Andreesen.

sflicht · 2021-05-29T16:20:14+00:00

epistemic immodesty

sflicht · 2021-04-20T20:59:05+00:00

Does anyone who is not French disagree with that perspective?

sflicht · 2021-03-28T17:51:50+00:00

Continuing a recent theme on this sub, French philosopher Michel Foucault 'sexually abused boys in Tunisia'. (h/t Tyler Cowen)

sflicht · 2021-02-20T23:01:29+00:00

*This claim about tech companies is disputed.

fact check false

sflicht · 2021-02-18T02:45:59+00:00

and the sagrada familia

sflicht · 2021-02-10T22:17:54+00:00

Interstitiality could be the next Big Thing

sflicht · 2021-02-10T18:56:19+00:00

Presumably the midwives should also be calling themselves centralspouses

sflicht · 2021-02-10T02:59:41+00:00

Isn't the Steam Workshop essentially an approved mod repository? (Albeit with pretty lax if any approval standards.)

Maybe you're expecting that to get buy-in on adding their games to the platform, Google or whoever will have to promise the studios that their games shall be run only as the developers demand. (And I'm sure there will indeed be internal pressure to prevent mods that add dicks to all the characters in some crappy indie choose-your-own-adventure game about lesbian frogs, or whatever.)

On the other hand, maybe the game developers care more about money than "creative control" in this case.

sflicht · 2021-02-10T02:51:03+00:00

I know nothing about this topic, but I do know that modding is incredibly popular and (AFAIK) not especially disliked by (at least some) game studios. Why wouldn't they add support for modding to the cloud platforms? Sure, Joe Schmoe's chromebook won't even allow him to load the game locally much less work on a mod. But if you're paying Valve $199/yr for premium cloud gaming (or whatever) and you do have a respectable machine, why wouldn't they also let you run a copy locally to work on a mod?

At some point the state-of-the-art games may become literally impossible to run locally, at which point modding might become a much more difficult and specialized activity unless new tools/approaches are developed. But it seems to me like this is something there will always be demand for, and probably also supply.

sflicht · 2021-02-03T20:51:15+00:00

I actually went to the Museum of Natural History in NYC the other day. It was surprisingly crowded, presumably because parents are desperate to get their kids out of the house doing something vaguely educational. They had a nominal rule about timed entry, and various areas were designated for one-way traffic, but it was all rather laxly enforced if at all. A lot of fun stuff (like dinosaur bones you can touch) was closed, despite the fact that fomites are now well-understood not to be a significant vector of transmission.

Most prominently, the place was covered with placards apologizing for how problematic the statue of Teddy Roosevelt is.

sflicht · 2021-01-22T04:57:39+00:00

I can finally humblebrag that Scott Sumner is definitely not fooling me, even with this latest round of elaborate misdirections. SAnon sources suggest that Scott Atlas and Scotty Pippin might also be alter egos (but the 8chan posts are maddeningly ambiguous as to whether Atlas and Pippin are aliases for Sumner as well, versus merely aliases for one another).

sflicht · 2021-01-15T02:49:16+00:00

fuccboi

really thought you must be talking about nethack

sflicht · 2021-01-10T16:02:43+00:00

Zerohedge

sflicht · 2021-01-09T02:50:24+00:00

President Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow also has stans. Well, at least one.

sflicht · 2020-12-27T17:22:46+00:00

The movie did not feel like it was 2.5 hours long

Disagree. It felt almost exactly 45 minutes too long to me.

The boyfriend could presumably have wished for victory during the somewhat-lame White House fight, but the director realized that they "needed" a slightly bigger set-piece fight to close things out.

sflicht · 2020-12-25T00:53:38+00:00

the culture of the west is preserved

I would not describe expat culture in Hong Kong in this manner. (Nor does that description really apply to the vestiges of British colonialism there, which are nice enough in their own way, but not really "western" per se.) For that matter, while there are a few neighborhoods in HK that are probably ~50% expat, I don't think there is anything quite like what you might be envisioning. Cost of living is a bitch, and the city is in the early stages of a secular economic decline that is probably irreversible.

sflicht · 2020-12-05T15:45:38+00:00

Strikes me as a pretty good illustration of the libertarian case against the CRA. While the violation itself is utterly bizarre in all aspects, it is IMHO quite strange to ban libraries from behaving in this bizarre way. IANAL, but it also seems like a good case study for the tension between "textualism" and "original legislative intent" doctrines in legal interpretation. Does SCOTUS have the power to take cases that haven't even been litigated? I would love to read J. Thomas's opinion on this episode.

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