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From my perspective HL:Alyx basically made E3 moot. I mean, it's not E3, that's obvious from a number of perspectives including abandoned content and so forth, but it serves the same function as E3, which is to continue the HL universe in another game.

I guess you could say there's still an unmet desire for non-VR HL games, so maybe in that sense it doesn't occupy the niche E3 would have. But HL and HL2 themselves were seen as moving game dynamics forward so use of VR is in keeping with that.
> no idea how Google's supposed monopoly of web browsers is worse for the consumer than Apple's actual monopoly on iPhone browsers (they're all Safari under the hood) and on App stores

For the same reason proprietary cables aren't generally a monopoly problem: Apple hasn't been declared a monopoly. Google has [1].

[1] https://apnews.com/article/google-search-antitrust-case-5911...
Every 1-2 months when Chrome updates I get banned by their throttling mechanism because I their extension makes too many requests and they see "unusual traffic"

It can take 1-2 weeks to go away and be able to use it. There's no way to get in contact with anyone. Tried the Chrome extension email, support forums.

It's a good reality check. There's no real support behind it and it can go away just like Google Reader did.

I think the motivations behind it are laudable, but they should not be the answer to the actual problem.
Huh? This isn’t premature optimization unless you consider trying to write correct code “optimizing”.
Interesting question about AI and jobs! Thanks for starting this discussion. AI may affect different types of jobs in different ways. I look forward to seeing insights on this.

1. AI will increase productivity. Many simple workers' jobs will be lost.
2. Automated workflows are the best use of AI. Employees should follow established processes for documents like invoices. Or send it to a client?

I'm always optimistic.
> Google cannot negociate on behalf of their employees or promise they will work somewhere if Google stops employing them

Of course they can. Read your employment contract. It almost certainly can be assigned.
Rehearsed word soup. He clearly knows zero about the underlying technology. If he did understand it in any depth, he'd show a lot less certainty about the future.
> Address space from a library remains tied up even after dlclose on musl, so opening and closing an infinite family of libraries will eventually consume the entire address space and other resources

From musl docs https://wiki.musl-libc.org/functional-differences-from-glibc...
"Hacker News failure caused by two units 12 orders of magnitude apart sharing 2-letter code"
> I don't know if they are too capitalist or too communist. Or both.

Or neither, Valve seems to do just fine as-is. Maybe they should just continue doing exactly what they're doing so far.
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My bet is that this is just lame-duck flailing, and the case will be dropped by the incoming administration.

Alternatively, the Trump admin forces the issue, Google sells off Chrome, and Musk buys it.
What kind of continuity can be expected when the head of the DoJ is a political appointee by the president, and we're getting a new president in 2 months with radically different ideas compared to our current one?
> How else is Google supposed to "integrate" within iOS?

Like everybody else. If the user wants Chrome on iOS, they can install it and set it as their default browser. To link to other Google apps, Google can use Universal Links[0] to directly open Calendar, Sheets, etc or open the corresponding App Store page if they haven’t been installed yet.

Google forked WebKit because they wanted to take it in a direction that was fundamentally incompatible with the direction Apple wanted to go: Google wanted more core functionality (process management, etc) to be written as part of the browser (likely to serve as a moat) while Apple wanted all that to live within the engine itself so third party devs could take advantage of it without having to fork a whole browser (just drop WebKit into your app and go).

[0]: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode/allowing-app...
LLMs (Large Language Models) are one type of model that primarily involves written or spoken text. However, I wonder if there are other types of data that could be transformed into something similar to an LLM. For instance, could gestures or movement be used in this way? Is it possible to create a language that accurately describes human movement? If we could capture and describe enough of these movements globally, could we develop a model that functions similarly to a large language model but focuses on movement? I'd like to hear any thoughts on this.
yeah, the unmentioned factor I was referencing is not that it's small and isolated, but rather that it's quite logical that young people in such a situation, once given the opportunity, would explore other countries -- and need to emigrate to do so. It's not like a small country like Luxembourg where you can live there but are within a couple of hours' train ride of thriving major cities in half-dozen countries (why emigrate if you can spend weekends in Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Paris, etc.).
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If you actually cared about having a meaningful conversation you wouldn't be tip-toeing around my arguments. There's clear dissonance between the words you're speaking and the actual reality of how ATProto/Bsky works. You say you have the same motives yet this is not what the technology shows.

>your argument right now is akin to saying the Web isn’t decentralized because it uses search engines.

Is that really all I said?
I don't see the problem. Trump promised shit - and he's delivering! It's what the people wanted, right?
They may have a flat org structure but their payments are not similarly "flat" across the org. The economic structure is still pure capitalist.
Being owner of even a tiny bit of a brand new company that owns Chrome would be very attractive to engineers already working on Chrome, and it wouldn't be wise for any parent company to piss them off as they know the software better than anyone.
> you need to pay something like 1,000 engineers - and not just any engineers, but engineers used to Alphabet's SF Bay Area salaries and equity packages

Why? I'm arguing you can downsize the portfolio without sacrificing product quality for most users. That should let one get by with fewer engineers and/or ones in lower-cost areas.
It is mostly better advertising compared to what Mozilla was pulling of, the initial edge in performance (at least that’s what people said), integration with google for the android users (Firefox was late to this) as well as some issues if garbage websites didn’t test on Firefox.

Regarding features, things I’d miss include PWA, some APIs like WebUSB that let me flash microcontrollers in the browser and I think WebGPU is still only in Firefox nightly.

Most of those things are very specific to what I do. Most people don’t need PWAs. Most people have no need for WebUSB and most applications run on WebGL so that’s mostly an issue for developers.

It’s not like Firefox is bad but I think Google just managed to capture the market and now the userbase doesn’t have a good reason to switch to Firefox (most people don’t think about privacy if it’s not in their face. Very few people will have no passcode on their phone. But even less people will think twice before uploading the images of stranger’s kids to Google Drive because they happened to be in the background when you made a photo of your own kids even though google has no reason to respect your privacy).
Another point to remember in all this, is that in the early to mid 2000s game companies were obsessed with the idea of "episodic content".

There were many other games in this time period ended in the same trap, that promised a number of episodes following the main release but gave up after the first couple - Alan Wake, Deus Ex HR etc. No one really even discusses the term "episodic content" in the industry anymore.

I suspect the vast majority of Episode 1/2 players did so because it came bundled in Valve's famous Orange Box release, not because they bought the expansions separately.

A quick google turns up this article discussing the same thing:

> https://www.howtogeek.com/whatever-happened-to-episodic-game....
> only reason I still use Chrome is because I already use other Google products and they integrate well together

This is the point. Google's products integrate with Chrome better than non-Google products. Including its ad platform.
The Russian oligarchs have no say in any of this, they never have, people in the West still repeating this mantra almost 3 years since the war in Ukraine has started for good is a big part of the reason why the same West is close to military defeat there, they just refuse to acknowledge how Russia really operates.
True. But is that market really that big? Once you've fallen behind a few releases you just don't care for the latest, and the not-latest lack any of that novelty appeal that video games tend to rely on quite a bit.
^This. Apple's lock on the mobile market is far worse for consumers. Break off the App Store from Apple, a company that would actually be valuable.
> I've not seen anywhere how this figure of 20% is determined.

A lot of people are probably just repeating a number that is big enough to impress management but not so big it sounds far fetched. Otherwise evaluating Copilot should be no different from evaluating any other tool claiming to improve productivity. How would you evaluate Excel vs. pen and paper? Self reporting, estimating time saved per action or common scenario, counting how many actions are taken per day, etc.
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Kind of related: https://browser.engineering/
Why trust either?

What would a guy who has been living and breathing movies since the 1990s know about AI? Zero, and it shows. Did you trust newspaper guys in the 1990s too?
Stuff like this. It feels like there's less of a case here than with Microsoft. In the 90s, Windows nearly became _the_ OS, especially had Apple folded like it nearly did. There really wasn't an alternative in the emerging home computer space as well as the OEM shenanigans among other things. Threatening to pull office for Mac if Apple failed to include IE.

I'm struggling to see how Google is truly behaving monopolistic here. Chrome is available for compile, and is part of other browsers like edge. It's like suggesting linux has a monopoly because almost all web servers run on it.
It's to entice companies (esp. MS shops) to jump on the bandwagon - try it for less - and switch to annual if you like it...
> however, youtube prefers pushing VP9 over H.264. Maybe your computer cannot use hardware decode for VP9 and can for H.264?

No, even if I download the 4k 60fps file using yt-dlp with forced h264 codec settings locally to my harddrive, Firefox still can't play the mp4 file smoothly.

So it's not really a streaming issue or h264 vs VP9 codec issue. The Firefox core engine doesn't seem optimized to playback 4k and 8k high-frame-rate videos with low cpu utilization. Even VLC for 4k and 8k isn't as smooth as Chrome. I don't know what the Chrome team did but they really optimized that code path to play back hi-res videos.
What a weird example to choose. I (and many others) continue to enjoy rewatching The Matrix even though the third one has some boring elements.
> once you have enough to have your needs met

you missed this part
Maybe it's nostalgia but I would absolutely pay for a new Half Life. I would like to see the story completed.
That is one perspective, but not the only one, and it certainly isn't true that video games fundamentally work in the way you claim. Many people are perfectly happy to enjoy a story in a video game which isn't driven by the technical, interactive bits. The entire JRPG genre is like this, for example, as are visual novels. By your logic those genres shouldn't exist, and yet they not only exist but are very popular.
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I simply don't believe you.
The ratio between power usage and GPU cost is very, very different than with CPUs, though. If you could save e.g. 20-30% of the purchase price that might make it worth it.

e.g. you could run a H100 at 100% utilization 24/7 for 1 years at $0.4 per kWh (so assuming significant overhead for infrastructure etc.) and that would only cost ~10% of the purchase price of the GPU itself.
While this looks astounding compared to where computer graphics was decades ago, it still often looks fake, both the terrain and the characters. Why is that, what is left to improve? Obviously character motion (maybe more variation so every motion captured playback is not identical), but even the cities and nature have some quality that seems fake. Maybe it's a limitation of my monitor, the fact that it can't display true daylight colors with UV? But live film or video looks reasonably real on the same monitor. Something (or several things) is still missing, the results still look Unreal.
That's an old assumption. Modern modelling shows that the southern hemisphere gets it's share from the northern hemisphere relatively fast. Only the shortest lived isotopes won't make it down there. Then there is the dust/smoke/black carbon to consider. If there is much, that will make it down there, too. Causing weather weirdness, misharvests, and so on.
The DOJ has renounced the consumer welfare standard [https://prospect.org/justice/2024-08-09-will-googles-monopol...].
Requiring companies to sequence the genome on every lumber that they buy would seem a bit expensive, especially if they are liable if they get sequencing the genome wrong and sells products produced with illegal wood. The Government could do this as a vetting service for companies, paid through a tax on imported wood, but that would look very much like a tariff. That said, why not give companies and the free choice.

If we are considering domestic companies that are willing to break the law, neither tariffs nor regulations works. A company can smuggle to bypass tariffs, and they can ignore regulations.
> From my perspective HL:Alyx basically made E3 moot. I mean, it's not E3, that's obvious from a number of perspectives including abandoned content and so forth, but it serves the same function as E3, which is to continue the HL universe in another game.

Unfortunately it's in a medium that is extremely niche, and as a result will almost certainly be played by a much smaller number of people than Half-Life 2 and have a much smaller cultural impact.
Oh come on, I for one am excited about the upcoming WebKmem API that allows random websites direct access to kernel memory..
Yes, that's why I said I'm hopeful and optimistic about AI + automated workflows
The Problem With Counterfeit People (May 31, 2023)
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2023/05/probl...

I bet the author, Boris The Brave, could find a relatable account of future events in the writings of Daniel C. Dennett.
The average car in the US? Or the average daily driver car?

Cars just don't disappear, so all vehicles would "polute" the statistics right?
People create new stuff? People remix old stuff. The movie industry is a joke as far as "new stuff" is concerned.
Maybe force of habit from years ago when Mozilla was the dominant non-default browser and chrome rolled in and ate their lunch by feeling so much faster.
https://www.androidauthority.com/chrome-os-becoming-android-...

this is it ... chromeOS is dead
> It sounds like the end goal of this is to enrich other companies, not customers.

In this case, the "customers" are other companies.

Antitrust markets can be defined broadly or narrowly. In this case, the market was "general web search advertising" (among others).

Who are the consumers in this market? People and companies that want their ads placed where (and to who) it matters.
1) does it though? It seems like the Google-specific parts of it are pretty ancillary to the whole experience

2) how is it different to Apples integration with Safari?
MS owns bing. Which isn’t anywhere near as popular but still exists and is large. And effectively owns the profits from ChatGPT’s growing foray into search. Basically every Google competitor uses the bing index under the hood.

MS owns an ad network that brings in ~$10Bn a year. Much smaller than Google, but certainly nothing to ignore.

MS owns outlook/hotmail which is wildly popular.

Does Microsoft own “half the internet”? No but neither did Google. Microsoft does own Windows which is a (already sued) monopoly touch point similar to Android. They own a browser. They own a cloud platform that profits from a growing internet. They own plenty of consumer facing properties and should not be written off in monopoly or antitrust discussions.

Personally, I don’t know if I agree with the idea of spinning off Chrome (but I know Googlers so I may be biased), but I understand the appeal on paper.
Which is about the same a factory worker in Mexico, building the Ford Mach-E, makes. I imagine the purchasing power in China will be a lot higher.

China currently has multiple times higher costs than countries like Vietnam. Cheap labour is not a major factor anymore.
It would be great for consumers. Google would be forced to make their products work just as well with other browsers as it does with their own.

I only use Chrome to interact with Google properties. I'd love to use Firefox for everything.
The point is that there doesn't need to be more, or novel tech to tell a good story. If you copy paste the mechanics of baldurs gate but with a new location/story/characters, it would do great.
Sorry. I meant that I believe the loss ratio to be the opposite of what you wrote. My reasoning is that the artillery advantage should result in a proportional loss ratio to shells fired in a more or less trench war, and that most analysis made are wishful thinking with a lot of hand-waving. I.e. 4 times more shells fired at a side, about 4 times more losses.

However, I feel like I am alone in the world to believe that. So, ye, I might be wrong. But I still feel gaslighted. Which to be honest, I quite often do fell without a good reason.

I don't understand what is happening...
The move to f2p games with micro transactions was done with the help of Yanis Varoufakis, a libertarian-marxist (his own words) Greek economist and politician who once served as Greece's Minister of Finance.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yanis_Varoufakis

https://web.archive.org/web/20140328192036/http://blogs.valv...

https://web.archive.org/web/20140219161902/http://blogs.valv...
> Apple should make a datacenter GPU

Aren't their GPUs pretty slow, though? Not even remotely close to Nvidia's consumer GPU with only (significant) upside being the much higher memory capacity.
Hello, generate can be more than 5s it's because the latency or/and slow internet speed. Maybe in the near future I'll scale the server to reduce the latency.

There are only login with Google and Github for now, but I'll add LinkedIn and maybe Microsoft.

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In English there was analysis by John Wells defining several lexical sets for vowels [1]. Various other linguists have extended that to cover other accents such as Scottish, Irish, and Welsh.

Words in the same lexical sets are the result of splits and mergers. Usually through processes like you describe -- e.g. the Southern English BATH vowel resulted from a lengthening of the TRAP vowel and then changing quality to that of the PALM vowel.

Lexical sets don't cover consonant changes between accents such as rhotic r, the /sh/-/sj/ merger in shore and sure, tapped t, glottalized t, etc.

And on the thing you are talking about, Colin Gorrie has some YouTube videos on doing that comparative linguistics and rule construction. A lot of his videos are doing that for conlangs, but there are videos with real historical accents in several languages.

An example in English is the shift in pronunciation of 's' before 'u' from the /sj/ glide to the /sh/ sibilant so that in accents with that shift <sure> and <shore> are homophones (especially with the CURE-FORCE merger).

There are computer programs that you can use to express these rules and see how the pronunciations change over time. I think Colin uses one in some of his videos and Biblidarion uses one in some of his conlang videos to check phonetic evolution of his conlangs.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lexical_set
https://www.submarinecablemap.com/submarine-cable/c-lion1 for reference
It seems like the real problem was burnout among the rank-and-file, not Gabe Newell's perfectionism. The staff seems to have had more fun with a goofy new IP like Left 4 Dead, versus a serious plot like HL2 where any perceived narrative misstep would be severely criticized.

If they shoved the episode through and lost a lot of staff, then that would be a Phyrric victory. Contrary to some opinions here, Valve did not owe a single thing to HL fans, and they had no obligation to finish the story.
This wasn't someone from MS, it was his estimate. Based on this workflow I'd believe it - he did lots of digging through emails to work out what was going on, but the CoPilot summaries were giving him that stuff straight away on the front screen.

I don't see 20% in any of MS' marketing material. The claim 6 hours saved weekly for a team of 5, so 2.5%. They claim 29% quicker on "completing everyday tasks", but specifics range from 74% faster (summarizing a meeting) down.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-copilot/meet-copil...
> It's for security: It's less risky now to fight Russia then later, after they've conquered more people and territory, and have political momentum.

This is a fair and logical point.

> It's for security again: If Russia wins, it greatly damages the international order which has prevented wide-scale war for generations. Remember the world before 1945.

That very international order hinges on the US being the sole dominator of the entire world. Sooner or later that sort of international order has to crack.

> The lives, freedom, rights, and prosperity of tens of millions of people are at stake.

Pax Americana is paid for (in blood, natural resources, political sovereignty and the fate of every single future generation) by hundreds of millions of people, though outside of the "western, civilized" world. You still consider it some righteous cause? Sounds kind of selfish.
This would be a relevant list, except no one I know who compulsively uses Chrome...uses any of that stuff at all.

Google Meet is particularly Firefox hostile with camera/audio support, but I'm not sure how common it actually is.
Yeah, first movie was sort of "unique", the second one was a cliffhanger for the third one that finally explained what The One was all about. Spoiler for you: Smith is The Zero.
There’s nothing wrong at all with adding features as long as more than one browser/engine actually adopts them.
Indeed, having locations internally represented in software with a resolution of nanometers is as ridiculous as having your calendar's internal times represented as milliseconds since some arbitrary moment more than fifty years ago!
> really needs to be dealt with.

Ignoring the passive voice, who do you suggest should deal with that, more precisely? And how do you suggest "dealing" with one of the two nuclear hyper-powers in existence? (the other one being the Americans)
You can play it without VR.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/04/half-life-alyx-is-now...
> So they had no idea where to go next and were tired.

In my experience, a creative team realizing this and choosing to move on is both important and all-too rare. The only alternative I've seen is to find new project leadership who gets what made the original work, has a vision for extending it in new directions and the energy+talent to execute it.

Obviously, finding that with high confidence is hard to do.
Google Matte. chrome is out of fashion now.
None, lol.
There are a lot of pages that work better in Chrome than Firefox. I say that as someone who always defaults to Firefox.