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by wiredpancake | 2025-08-19 01:23:30+00:00
No.

Valve explicitly says you cannot use that version of the Source SDK to make games on Steam, yet Classic Offensive did just that and subsequently got blocked for it.

Play by the rules and you can public just about anything you want mod-wise for Source.

There is no company that comes close to allowing the sheer content and modability than Valve.

They literally give you a full SDK, near full editor tools for both Source 1 and Source 2. Ability to publish games using some of these tools and for free, host the Steam Workshop and its likely PB's of modded content.

I don't see Activision given rights and modability to CoD Games, they DMCA instantly.

I don't see EA/Dice letting people use the Frostbite engine.
by Onawa | 2025-08-19 01:24:35+00:00
Harris would have had an uphill battle even if she had a full campaign cycle. After quizzing many conservatives, I unfortunately heard entirely too many responses of, "women leaders are unstable", "wouldn't be respected on the world stage", "she fakes her accent(s)", "I don't even know what she campaigned on", and other mind-boggling reasons they wouldn't vote for her.

At this point, I have lost all faith in the American electorate to rise above bigotry and see past social media propaganda.
by scarface_74 | 2025-08-19 01:24:43+00:00
Absolutely no one is forging an ID to vote.

This is the percentage of voter fraud found in the US by the conservative Heritsge foundation.

https://www.brookings.edu/articles/how-widespread-is-electio...

The largest voter fraud ever attempted in the US was actually 2020 with the Republican fake electors.
by sidewndr46 | 2025-08-19 01:24:46+00:00
Why do you think a vehicle with 200,000 miles on it doesn't have 200,000 more miles in most of the components? It isn't remotely difficult to imagine that being possible. One of my ICE vehicles was 299,648 miles when a component in the transmission gave out. The only reason I didn't repair it was around a decade earlier someone had bent the frame. If I had been willing to replace that part, I would still be driving it today.

People replace vehicles because they want and can afford replacement ones, not because they are mileage limited.
by bc569a80a344f9c | 2025-08-19 01:24:52+00:00
Not a movie, but according to the wiki article linked a little further up the book “A Visit From The Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan has metamodern qualities, and I heartily recommend reading it. It’s fantastic. The section in the format of a PowerPoint presentation about her brother that one of the main character’s daughter gives at her school is incredibly beautiful. One of my top five experiences reading.
by odie5533 | 2025-08-19 01:25:15+00:00
The nice thing about SQLModel is they're still Pydantic models so you can use them with custom data mappers like parquet, csv, json, etc. I think you make a good point about keeping the data model pure so you're not dependent on a data source. But I think SQLModel largely accomplishes that, and so does SQLAlchemy's declarative dataclass mapping (though I've not used the latter).
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-19 01:25:44+00:00
To pick something at random: Five Guys hamburgers. Are they political? Sure, they're affected somewhat by politics. It affects the price of their meat, and the wage they have to pay their workers, and therefore the price of their products. So, yes, they are affected to a degree by politics.

But I have no idea whether they lean left or right, blue or red - as an organization, or the owners of an individual restaurant, or any individual employee. Nor do I care. I just really like their fries.

That's not political at all. And I claim that much of life is similarly not political.

Now, you could say that the owner has some political stance, and you could find out, and use that to decide whether you want to eat there or not. You could, but that's you making political something that wasn't inherently political on its own.

Or you could say that the roads I drove there on are the result of political choices. That's also true, but neither Five Guys nor I care. If the city were built differently, I could take a tram there, and they'd feed me just the same.
by gerdesj | 2025-08-19 01:25:45+00:00
That might be where the EV wheels fall off!

CA is notionally EV friendly but it is also a US state and it is rather large, so range is king. CA is mostly very warm so that helps with range. Gas (petrol) is relatively cheap and 'leccy is quite expensive.

The UK extracts rather a lot of tax (fuel duty) on top of the actual market cost of petrol. That's why our petrol/gas cost is pretty extreme. I have no idea how we ended up in this pickle (I have a few ideas), given that we have the North Sea oil deposits nearby. I think we failed to work that as well as Norway did. Bloody amateurs!

You probably have rather more land than me and could consider solar cells. My house conveniently faces south but its a two storey bungalow with three dormers, which means I can't put PV cells on the roof, facing the sun. My garden is also rather unsuitable for PV, being about 1/2 acre with mostly a 30% slope (its quite odd).

The world's climate woes are not yours or my responsibility. PV and EV may help or not. I can manage EV but not PV. You may find that the capital cost of deploying PV in CA might pay off quite quickly.

My IT company has a customer ... . They have a PV (solar panel) deployment on top of a building. This is in Dorset (UK). There are something like 20-30 panels on the roof. I've seen the monitor on a fairly bad day - 2 KW and in bright sunshine something like 8 KW. I'm pretty sure that CA could do rather better.
by wiredpancake | 2025-08-19 01:25:52+00:00
How can you honestly say bullshit like that, fuck me.

It is the most played game on Steam at basically every hour of the day, without fail and has been like that for a decade.

It is one of the most popular games on Twitch and has been for almost a decade.

It is one of the biggest eSports in the world and is the most globally diverse eSport.
by dismalaf | 2025-08-19 01:26:57+00:00
True. Ruby JIT has increased performance for some tasks you'd drop down to C for back in the day...

All the gains Ruby has made in the last few years are pretty incredible. I never picked it because of performance reasons but it's pretty nice that it's getting faster.

Either way though, Ruby FFI is super super easy. Just for fun, because of this thread, I spent a whole 2 minutes (lol) linking an Odin (my new low-level hobby language) library to Ruby. Literally all it took. Credit to Odin for having such easy export and Ruby for having such easy FFI.
by twalichiewicz | 2025-08-19 01:28:34+00:00
I ran into the same problem—my reading list kept growing but I never actually got through it. Feeds are engineered to feel effortless; opening my backlog felt like work.

Instead of blocking sites outright, I tried redirecting attention at the key moment. I built a small extension that sets a daily reading goal, then reroutes me from doomscrolling sites until I hit it. After that, I can browse freely. It’s been a better balance: turning the feed’s habit loop into a nudge for something I actually want to do.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/detour/ogddhmpffcgk...
by tyleo | 2025-08-19 01:28:51+00:00
That seems like bs to me. Normal people aren’t really buying much straws and I don’t know anyone still preferring the incandescent bulbs except maybe in some Christmas varieties.

edit: I looked into it and incandescent bulbs aren’t normally preferred but there’s a small following. Even the following admits LED bulbs have a lot of benefits. It seems they just don’t like all the colors.
by muppetman | 2025-08-19 01:29:13+00:00
There is so much wankery around Obsidian, it's so cringleworthty. Obsidian is a nice/fancy editor for markdown files. That's all it is really. People have created so many addons to bolt so much stuff onto it, but that's all it is at its core. You can search your notes, you can tag them.

Just use the _core_ addons of Obsidian. That's all you need. Then if you find you really are missing something, have a look in the community addons. You'll probably find what you want.

But don't install Obsidian and then spend hours adding addons. You'll get overwhelmed, confused and wondering why all the Influenzers are saying it's CHANGED THEIR LIFE. It hasn't.
by AnimalMuppet | 2025-08-19 01:29:20+00:00
I don't. I just know that there's a lot more to making something actually better than just saying that it's going to be better.

But, in fairness, I may have misread how you meant "whatever we say it is". If you meant that we get to make choices that determine the future, I agree. I would just caution that it takes far more effort, persistence, and political capital than you expect in order to make a positive change.
by King-Aaron | 2025-08-19 01:29:44+00:00
People broadly do still learn and hold good values, for the most part. I would wager an upbringing on Star Trek will give you a far better moral compass than ANY religion would.

Unfortunately what you're identifying here is the effects of unchained capitalism which demands more and more while returning less and less, as it's core function. It is fundamentally unsustainable and the effects you're highlighting here (fracturing of family, fracturing of community) is the result of that pressure.
by lmm | 2025-08-19 01:29:50+00:00
> The XZ backdoor never made it to Debian stable. It is "still lurking in docker images" because Debian publishes unstable testing images, under a tag that is segregated from the stable release tags. You can find vulnerable containers for literally any vulnerability you can imagine by searching for the exact snapshot where things went wrong.

To a first approximation nothing ever makes it into Debian stable. Anyone working in an actively developed ecosystem uses the thing they pretend is an "experimental testing version". It's a marketing startegy similar to how everything from Google used to be marked as "beta".
by maximus_01 | 2025-08-19 01:30:14+00:00
I don't know how I can be more clear about this. It was a thought experiment. Take the very best piece of writing from [BOOK/ARTICLE/TEXTBOOK/JOURNAL] you could ever imagine. Would you or should you be willing to pay 10c for it? I'm not asking about Stratechery in particular (although there are many, many people that happily pay Ben Thompson $15/month that I'm sure most people would describe as intelligent).

You might quibble that you would only pay for a physical book or whatever. I say why? Are you paying for the content (that word again) of that book or the paper? I'd argue the former. So why does it really matter if it was online or not? In the future it seems reasonably likely that there will be a higher proportion of the best writing online vs in books. Sure, a lot may be willing to write for free, but do you think it absolutely impossible that some percentage of them charge?
by rogerkirkness | 2025-08-19 01:30:25+00:00
A lot of modern movies are metamodern. The example on the Wikipedia is Bo Burnham's INSIDE, which is very metamodern. But I'd argue most movies are at least somewhat at this point self aware, fourth wall breaking commentary. Top Gun is an example of a modern movie - not metamodern, where there is diversity but it's not at all self aware, fourth wall breaking or commentary.
by vindao | 2025-08-19 01:30:44+00:00
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by ajross | 2025-08-19 01:30:51+00:00
> I guess I would've thought that Google would drop incognito mode requests and not use them for ad targeting

How would that work without unmasking the use of incognito mode? All the backend[1] knows is that it got a request for a search. There's (by design!) no way to know that that came from an incognito window in a browser that is otherwise logged in to a Google account.

[1] I know I know, this is a(nother) anti-Google rant. But Facebook and Microsoft and TikTok and everyone else does this too. If you flag your interest in $THING on the internet to $SITE, then $SITE will try to show ads for $THING to your roomates, kids, grandparents, etc...
by sokoloff | 2025-08-19 01:30:55+00:00
You get over it by making your hourly rate numerically the same as your annual salary divided by 1000. If you can pull it off, quote only a day rate (that figure times 8) rather than hourly.

Companies readily pay more per hour for contractors.

If your market full-time salary is $200k/yr, charge $200/hr. If you’re offering your services a la carte at $100/hr, you’re going to have a terrible time.
by johnsmith1840 | 2025-08-19 01:31:45+00:00
BPO is a growing industry that isn't shrinking call centers have expanded as well.

If it was true these were replacing anything it would be very clear in those sectors and it isn't. The real effect of end to end automation from LLMs is small to negligible. The entire "boring" industry is still chunging along and growing as it did before.
by mapt | 2025-08-19 01:31:53+00:00
Perhaps if there was, we wouldn't need to have this conversation.

The closest we've got is the zombie husk of liberal George Soros, who is a center-left finance bro from a Holocaust survivor family who isn't fond of authoritarianism. While a constantly mentioned specter of the right (the fact that he's Jewish and talks with a foreign accent factors, for paleoconservatives), and probably the largest single donor to Democratic causes...

He isn't actually particularly left-wing, and his work isn't remotely comparable in scope or in aggression to the ideological warfare waged by the Koch Brothers, or the dozens of other billionaires who have joined hand in hand to establish the durable top-down political infrastructure of the GOP. If a politician or pundit just plays along with these people, if you stay loyal to the cause even in the most tortured argument, you will be a made man. There are thousands of positions held open at endowed economics departments, think tanks, lobbying firms, and captive media to reward people who fight the good fight for the right. Lose an election? There is always the possibility of another campaign in another district. Conversely there is a constant threat of well-funded primary campaigns against anyone who doesn't toe the line and kiss the ring.

The Democrats have no such leverage. Their operational interests conflict with the interests of their political base. They mostly seem to come into politics poisoned by Mr Smith Goes to Washington, or The West Wing, and then the people who survive are the ones with more ambition than ideology who do whatever they need to do to ensure incumbency. Their institutional infrastructure seems to be ~five lobbying firms whose only apparent purpose is punching left when their base comes into conflict with corporate donors, and skimming off the top. The only time you will see money weaponized in a meaningful way is to fight against a primary challenge from the left, to include running independents against the primary winner in eg NYC's 2025 mayoral. So goes the "big tent" party.

But if by chance an angry left-wing billionaire spontaneously occurred (let's say the Trump vs Musk relationship went down a little differently)... There are tortious weapons sitting on the table unused, which could be put into effect dismantling this flavor of "journalism". As long as red America is being fed cradle-to-grave, violently ethnonationalist propaganda we're going to have a tough time persuading them out of their worldview.
by borroka | 2025-08-19 01:32:31+00:00
In the context of high-status individuals, the reactive shameless strategy (so what?) has recently proven successful.

It is more difficult to determine whether a shameless proactive strategy, such as Trump's (harshly criticizing others' physical appearance, openly bullying less powerful peers) would work for others. It has proven to be unexpectedly successful for him. However, it is consistent with his personality. A similar strategy might not work for Macron, given the stark gap between his traditionally presidential demeanor and a Trump-like shameless political and personal strategy.
by andsoitis | 2025-08-19 01:35:44+00:00
> Are the United Nations and the Public Informed? > Published online: 03 Feb 2025

This is the first time I hear of this, but that doesn't mean decision-makers haven't been informed.

One thing I like is that they title the article "Global warming", rather than the more euphemistic "Climate change".

NASA has it posted on their website too: https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/20250001491

As has Columbia University: https://www.columbia.edu/~jeh1/mailings/2025/Hansen_etal2025...

However, the search "United Nations global warming accelerated" does not seem to return results from the UN or the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

But the UNFCCC does have as a top article "Indigenous Worldviews Strengthening Climate Resilience", the content of which is a whole ton of ineffective nonsense - https://unfccc.int/news/indigenous-worldviews-strengthening-...

Looking at the their agenda of their upcoming Climate Week September 2025, I wouldn't hold my breath for the UN to make a meaningful difference in fighting global warming - https://unfccc.int/topics/climate-weeks#Climate-Week-Septemb...
by King-Aaron | 2025-08-19 01:35:54+00:00
The climate report that the Australian government penned is apparently so grim that the experts who have been privy to it have publicly stated that it's far worse than anyone is willing to discuss.

And of course, it's still being blocked from release.

I feel that a lot of governments seem to be accelerating back to full speed with traditional anti-climate practices, and it makes me wonder if those that hold the keys know that the writing is on the wall and have let go of the reigns.
by FireBeyond | 2025-08-19 01:36:06+00:00
> Your individual opinion of Australia, name calling, appeal to group behavior, and vague "things that work everywhere" doesn't negate the fact that not voting is a form of protest (or often just a simple preference) that a healthy democracy shouldn't have an issue with.

You are free to not vote for any candidate in Australia. You are free to write "Fuck you all" on your ballot. All you must do is attend a voting station. And unlike the US, there are many legally enshrined protections to ensure you can.

I'm not sure your complaint. You are the one that tarred mandatory voting with a wide brush. I apologize for offering a counter-argument.
by paradox460 | 2025-08-19 01:36:11+00:00
Always been the case. I have a late boomer early Gen x friend, who will insist that music was better back in the day, and that everyone was listening to Zeppelin and such, and nothing else. You can pull up the billboard charts for any year he waxes about and read off the top n, and rarely if ever find a track from the bands he claimed "everyone listened to."

Survivorship bias is and always has been real. If you don't believe me, think about the last time you heard Tubthumping from Chumbawumba on the radio or in a commercial
by tjohns | 2025-08-19 01:36:35+00:00
There's definitely nuance here.

Pure oxygen puts oxidative stress on your cells. Your body can handle that just fine at 1 atm, but at elevated partial pressures the increased concentration will (quickly) overwhelm your cellular mechanics.

Underwater, the maximum operating depth for 100% O2 is 6 meters (20 feet) - which isn't very much at all. If you dive any deeper than that, you'll be at severe risk for a seizure and unconsciousness, and likely drown. (I'm simplifying, see [1].)

Which is why you don't go diving with pure O2.

However, in this case the freediver wouldn't be breathing compressed O2 gas underwater. They would've been breathing it at the surface, at 1 atm.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximum_operating_depth
by zahlman | 2025-08-19 01:37:03+00:00
This URL doesn't encode your search parameters.

But it shouldn't be surprising that you find a lot of Python projects on GitHub referencing spam, given that the documentation does all over the place as well (https://duckduckgo.com/?q=site%3Adocs.python.org+spam). It's a https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metasyntactic_variable preferred in the Python community, honouring the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_(Monty_Python_sketch). See also https://docs.python.org/3/faq/general.html#why-is-it-called-....
by spauldo | 2025-08-19 01:38:25+00:00
That's a neat idea. But I'm curious how many people actually use native REPLs for anything beyond trivial evaluation.

I'll use a Guile or SBCL REPL for some quick math (assuming it's something that's not trivial in dc) or to test out a quick idea, but I rarely send more than one to three forms before closing it. That's only if I don't have Emacs open where I can just do it in the scratch buffer. Anything that needs more than a couple defuns goes into SLIME or guiser.

So, people who use native REPLs, what do you do with them?
by Nevermark | 2025-08-19 01:38:30+00:00
Well run large companies often waste a lot, in order to (1) hedge risks of being left behind, (2) ensure they have options in the future in possible growth or new efficiency areas, and (3) to start on long learning curves for skills and capabilities that appear likely to be a baseline necessity in the long run.

Bonfires of money.

Predictably. Because all three of those concerns require highly speculative action to properly address.

That doesn't make those reasons invalid. Failures are expected, especially in early days. And are not a sign they are making spurious bets, or starry eyed about industry upheavals. The minimal return is still experience gained and a ramped up institutional focus.

How many of us here speed up our overall development by coding early on new projects before we have complete clarity? Writing code we will often throw away?
by dottjt | 2025-08-19 01:38:58+00:00
I am concerned about those things, but what I've personally realised is that it's more important to use a tool that you really enjoy using + provides the functionality you want, as opposed to a tool you hate using and doesn't resonate with you.

I hate making notes in plain text. It's too inconvenient, not to mention doesn't provide me with the functionality I want. On the other hand, I love organising things into databases i.e. Notion.

So either I don't take notes (net negative) or I take notes (net positive).