Black Mesa was so good, it made me cry. 🥹

The Half-Life series

• Black Mesa instead of Half-Life. It’s an extremely faithful remake that’s absolute joy and I would play it instead of the original now that it exists. Not only the graphics are updated, but also the last chapter of the original game which got rushed to meet deadlines is masterfully completed in Black Mesa
• Half-Life 2 and it’s subsequent episodes

If it got great WiFi reception, that would be a killer.

Elon Musk’s automaker has been backsliding in China for the past five consecutive months on a year-on-year basis, according to data from the country’s Passenger Car Association. Tesla’s shipments plunged 49% in February from a year earlier to just 30,688 vehicles, the lowest monthly figure since way back in July 2022, when it shipped just 28,217 EVs — and that was in the middle of Covid.

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She goes out to talk about topics she’s not well versed in without doing enough research and says outright wrong stuff. In general, scientists who specialize in a field are often no better than a layman in the fields they have no background in. She’s not the only one who does this. Some scientists merely share uninformed opinions. Others do it for money. They build a persona that is imbued with trust by their existing expertise then they use this trust to keep pumping out other material for profit. That’s Sabine. Also Jordan Peterson. No they’re not the same but the scheme is. Laymen don’t know any better and absorb the material, correct or incorrect, since they don’t have the background to recognize when it’s bullshit.

Sabine is an idiot but she’s probably not wrong today.

This is nice but it appears to be around A55 performance which is similar to the SiFive cores. I’m eager to see high speed cores that match the upper end of the ARM core range. And if they’re happen to be open source…

Link?

Give us Banana Pi with SMIC-made, fast RISC-V processor. That’ll be the beginning of the end for ARM and all the report you need to show.

It’s okay, all they have to do is get a bid from another Big Tech company that doesn’t have home stuff like Amazon. Failing that, there’s always private equity. 🥲

An open source CPU, somewhat competitive with good ARM and x86 cores would be a groundbreaking achievement.

I didn’t assume that. While that’s one interpretation of my comment, there are others.

Well in capitalist countries there’s also the problem of distribution of the value created by automation that displaces workers. So workers have the incentive to not automate since they’re often left out of the value the automation produces.

Is it an official Chinese policy to pursue automation as a means of dealing with population decline or is it just the obvious solution?

Probably a coincidence and/or got some scoop from Meta specifically.

I think you got the wrong link. It goes to an article about chip tariffs.

Hasn’t done sieg heil in public yet. 😂

And they’re likely to do so given how much of it depends on how much capital and energy you dump into it.

Do Black Mesa before that.

Should have played Black Mesa instead of HL. It’s everything HL is but better. It was incredible even having played HL back in 1998. I recommend people who’ve never played HL to just do BM.

As a lifelong Half-Life fan, I really liked some of Frictional Games’ titles. I liked Penumbra a lot and I think Soma was an absolute masterpiece. It’s at a level similar to Half-Life for me. If you don’t know anything about it, don’t read, don’t watch. Install and play.

Good point.

Sounds a bit copyright infringey, but I imagine their lawyers have cleared it. Not that I’m a fan of copyright.

The US has plenty of political prisoners

Yes.

Again, it’s not clear to me what basis there to suggest that USSR or China ratio being higher.

I don’t know if it’s higher I just think it’s not zero.

Originally I replied to this:

Imagine having a Government that uses political prisoners as forced laborers.

It was about political prisoners not general incarcerated population. The aforementioned regimes did hold political prisoners for obvious reasons.

Yes crime skyrocketed after the fall of those regimes.

I’m talking about other one-party communist regimes like the ones in the USSR, Bulgaria, Romania, Yugoslavia, East Germany, etc. Yes I’m aware they’re they’re not identical, including in rates of political prisoners. The one I’m from had relatively few.

Sure but I think it probably isn’t as easy to gather evidence for this in China than it is in the US. That’s why I think it’s fair to assume the lack of evidence doesn’t mean it isn’t happening. There’s evidence this occurred in collapsed regimes of similar stripes. It’s plausible that China isn’t an exception. I’m not at all suggesting whether this is widespread or not. I have no clue. It could be extremely rare.

No question about the incarceration rates.

That’s a funny way to put it, but kinda sorta true. Anti-cannabis laws for majority black users…

System providers should avoid recommendation algorithms that create “echo chambers” and induce addiction, allow manipulation of trending items, or exploit gig workers’ rights, the notice said.

They should also crack down on unfair pricing and discounts targeting different demographics, ensure “healthy content” for elderly and children, and impose a robust “algorithm review mechanism and data security management system”.

Why not both?

OK, so people can use the definition instead. In fact it might be more useful.

Yes. I’m using the standard typing system on an ANSI keyboard which requires pinkies.

Proton

Running useful CLI programs. A non exhaustive list:

• ssh
  • Operating remote machines over ssh
  • Port forwarding to remote machines
• iperf
• ping
• nmap
• pandoc

And its sibling Shelter. Don’t know which one is more up-to-date lately.

Indispensable.

I cannot wait. This will cover a use case the current DND system doesn’t do which would make it perfect.

Did they think that about Telegram? I thought it was quite popular despite that.

Every time I hear SimpleX I think of herpes. Perhaps shows that whoever came up with that name had never had or looked up cold sores.😂

How’s that ruining its reputation?

That pesky phone number requirement saves it again.