I think the problem is more that there is a significant amount of research and politics that actively fights that conclusion. Why? “Meritocracy”

Eh, I don’t think anyone would’ve called Russia a democracy after the end of the USSR. It was a complete shitshow during the whole 90s

Adding a bit to that: most “fast” crops will take 7 to 8 months to fully grow before you can harvest. To get enough to live off the land, you’d need to plant and harvest enough to sustain you for a good 4 months at least. You’d also need several different crops so a number of them would be ripe every month of the year.

Being completely isolated is dumb, so being on good terms with your neighbors so you can trade any surplus or work is essential as well.

I can totally understand not wanting a bar or tavern nearby. In Brazil, those always have excessive loud music and if you live nearby, you won’t sleep. Drunkards are the least of the problems, surprisingly.

If I say anything civil, whether right or wrong, they’ll think I’m any of the mainstream chatbots. If I speak like a typical 4channer, they’ll think I’m elon’s AI.

That works out to 12 hours per day, Monday through Friday, which Brin calls the “sweet spot of productivity.”

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAH get fucked, assclown. The sweet spot of productivity is 6h per day, tops.

Besides, “torture yourself 12h a day so we can be the first to bring AI overlords into our world” is less likely to entice the workforce than “we’ll suck 100ml of blood off all of you in order to keep my skin young”

“We’re happier than libruls”

Must be the whole “Ignorance is bliss” as well

I wonder if that’s the most expensive Doom. 75 dollars, yikes

Perhaps twice if they happen to function like a broken clock!

The save as option is greyed out for me. I’ve even inspected the element, removed a class="nodownload", but no dice

It seems anything that isn’t the Unix way of doing things can be questioned.

I think Unix is the thing that indirectly gets questioned most often, because everyone wants to be on the “right” side of how to unix things (see latest rust in kernel for a very recent example). When I think about it, unix alone feels like a recurring xkcd standards comic

And, the next ultra-big step: How would a non-techie figure this shit out?

They wouldn’t, because the people calling the shots in the tech world create UX with a focus on it sucking for everyone

History repeating itself as a literal farce this time around

To add on the “play by their rules”: they don’t play by the rules and they know it. They always pretend to be victims at the slightest criticism. Fuck the right and their bullshit victim play

It’s the downside of being such a massive asshole, if he stood straight he’d fall backwards.

That and it always looks like he’s about to badly touch others

What are you doing, step-god sama?

I think nobody would complain if you pronounced it “Cha Cha cat”

I guess the joke can’t run Crysis

What those leaps do result in, however, is major performance gains.

Which many devs will make sure you never feel them by “optimizing” the game for only the most bleeding edge hardware

Then there’s efficiency. What if you could run Monster Hunter Wilds at max graphics, on battery, for hours? The first gen M1 Max MacBook Pro can comfortably run Baldur’s Gate III. Reducing power draw would have immense benefits on top of graphical improvements.

See, if the games were made with a performance first mindset, that’d be possible already. Not to dunk on performance gains, but there’s a saying that every time hardware gets faster, programmers make their code slower. I mean, you can totally play emulated SNES games with minimal impact compared to leaving the computer idling.

Saying “diminishing returns” is like saying that fire burns you when you touch it.

Unless chip fabrication can figure a way to make transistors “stack” on top of one another, effectively making 3D chips, they’ll continue to be “flat” sheets that can only increase core count horizontally. Single core frequency peaked in early 2000s, from then on it’s been about adding more cores. Even the gains from a RTX 5090 vs a RTX 4090 aren’t that big. Now compare with the gains from a GTX 980 vs a GTX 1080

Final Fantasy 4 (2 on USA)