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Cake day: December 9th, 2023

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  • Interesting! I had not even realized that this was a problem, though it makes sense now after your description. How realistically feasible is this type of approach, though, given that the manufactures can always just ignore the kernel’s request to reprogram them and continue to access the bus and memory directly?





  • The biggest problem with Stadia was not the technical implementation but the business model: you had to pay for both a subscription to use the service and additionally a license to play particular games on the service (though there were also some free games). And of all the companies to even attempt such a business model, it is harder to think of a company that had the least chance of making it work than Google because almost no one believed that the licenses they paid for would be good for anything in a couple of years. In fairness, Google did refund these purchases when it shut down Stadia, and this was absolutely the right call, but it is also befuddling because, if they had been planning on doing this anyway, they could have told everyone at the beginning and made people a lot less wary of spending money on Stadia!


    Edit: The above was my understanding at the time, but the responses below, which I appreciate, would seem to indicate that this understanding was incorrect.



  • I don’t think that Biden decided not to ban it after all so much as he only had 24 hours left in his administration when it took effect, and there were higher priorities than immediately commencing enforcement in that time given that the next administration would have stopped it anyway.







  • That is an extremely condescending way of saying that you did not personally find the movie to be funny.

    Different people can have different senses of humor. There are lots of comedies that I absolutely cannot stand; that does not make me right and the people who enjoy them wrong.