Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
I tried playing Motherload with ruffle on Linux the other day, and it was laggier than on the spyware bloated early 2000s used office PCs in the school computer lab.
Was flash just magic? How can we not emulate it even with vastly more powerful hardware?
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
I never really liked the "tier 1-3 units" thing in supcom. Just seems like complexity for complexity's sake. I know StarCraft has unit tiers too, but they're implemented elegantly and your late game composition will always include "tier 1" trash units like zerglings and zealots.
"Lurker 'ling defiler" is a base of low and mid tier units that synergize with the high tier one.
Ignore marines ofc.
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
More storage is always good. 2tb nvmes are as cheap as they're going to get right now (as is ram: big memory chip oversupply), so you may as well buy plenty of both. As long as your mobo has m2 slots for the drives ofc
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
Ah, that explains why Barclay says "installer" with a hard r, and how they manage to install units with casings live at 240v to earth.
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
Done any installs of r32 units yet?
I'd encourage everyone to check out that voxpol site. English-toothed Experts on Hate Speech from the Hillary Rodham Clinton school of Swansea University. Keffiyeh wearing college girls from American liberal arts schools writing about censoring White Male Supremacist Terrorist Speech.
We've had three conversations lately about laundering leftism into public policy as fake expertise, and these guys are the best example I've seen yet. Brilliant find man.
That's the example I always use with libs.
An evil polluting capitalist owns a concrete factory on the US side of the Mexican border. He needs to sell concrete to pay for his real goal of killing as many cute dolphins as possible with pollution. Captain Planet forces Congress to pass a law banning pollution forever, and mandating that only nice green dolphin-safe concrete is made in the US.
But the evil capitalist just moves his factory to the Mexican side of the border, and keeps selling cheap concrete to the US to pay for his dolphin murdering pollution!
If only there was some sort of "trade policy" to restrict the sale of evil concrete from Mexico to stop the capitalist's evil plot!
It doesn't help obviously: they agree wholeheartedly and then just forget the next day. But it's funny to watch it happen.
China and the other successful Asian economics used protectionism to target specific industries for development (often picked through pure cronyism of course, see Japan and Korea.)
The two secret ingredients are a) going for stuff you can get cheap capital and inputs for, and b) imposing the costs on workers who are already poor and won't really notice how much the policy is hurting them.
China started by importing old labor-intensive machine tooling from Europe, and heavily subsidized their light manufacturing exports. The workers were coming straight off of disastrous collective farms and didn't notice or care that much of their output was going towards American consumer surplus and the dead weight loss of the subsidy. They kept this ball rolling one industry at a time all the way to where they are now, at the cost of still being heavily export-dependent with depressed domestic consumption.
(One reason tariffs against China are good policy rn imo: they have overinvested in a ton of export manufacturing, and have little choice but to eat most of the loss themselves or let too many well-connected investors and pension funds lose their shirts/heads. Their whole EV battery industry is hemorrhaging money and so desperate for overseas sales that battery prices kept dropping after the tariffs.)
That doesn't really work in the US when workers would face huge reductions to their current quality of life to make American manufacturing competitive.
Especially trying to do it for everything, all at once.
We could get rid of migrant farm labor by subsidizing/tariff-exempting cheap automated farming equipment from China. Or we could expand immigration to get cheap manufacturing labor, bringing all those Mexican border factories to the US side and taxing competing imports. But doing both at once is impossible.
I just found out the other day that after Napoleon was captured by the British (for the second time), and exiled to an Atlantic island under heavy guard for the rest of his life, he kept his personal fortune and distributed it in his will without anyone trying to confiscate it.
I'd say politics has gotten a lot more confiscatory. Courts fining political enemies 500 billion dollars on a whim, government spending making and breaking fortunes entirely through political connections, etc
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
On that topic, what do you think about Trump's solar tariffs on Vietnam and Thailand?
One thing to keep in mind is step up basis. Keeping most of her money in stocks means her heirs don't pay capital gains on the value accrued during her life. That's especially important if you and your siblings are high earners.
My old man's portfolio is all stock. If he ever needs cash I'll gladly cover it so he doesn't have to sell stock that's 3xed, which will magically drop to zero capital gains when I inherit. But the math on that is easier as an only child.
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
I'm saying that the US might feel like it can maneuver to make a first strike feasible.
Just reverse the name and call it the Needle Space. Simple, and neatly inverts the optimistic futurism of the original.
Imagine telling someone in 10 years it used to be called the space needle and having them go "space? Who cares about space? Why would we ever name something like that? It's always been the needle space, you must be a fascist trying to Undermine Community Wellness!"
We just came off of two years of police being allowed and encouraged to mace grandmas for not wearing masks at the beach. Do you really not see how that works? And isn't the entire leftist theory about the police that they are "descended from slave-catchers" and only exist to oppress acceptable targets?
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
So why was an ms13 gang member being legally shielded from deportation again? What system did that, and why is it legitimate?
Especially when they'd get run down by the mounted police posted to keep them out of the pikes place tourist zone. Do they still do that?
Imagine owning a business around pioneer sq and being told "you have to pay taxes so the police can herd all the vagrants onto your doorstep so politically connected businesses can actually make money at your expense"
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
Less of a gamble when you have missile defense that could stop the first X return shots. Then it's just a matter of degrading the enemy's second strike force by 1-(X/#)%
The bigger all the numbers, the less of a gamble it is.
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
I'd really like to hear about the day to day procedures, clean room process and whatnot. And an overview of stuff like how new your machines are, what's needed to switch to making different chips, etc
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
Wait how many motters do you know IRL? Are you running meetups, or did you just know both of them already?
Forget martial art gyms, our power company does that. Bubblegum Crisis was right: Boomers are a menace.
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
The ones I know that are still sane just use it to talk to the grandkids and schedule their book clubs, mostly.
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
it's never about fiscal policy or foreign policy
This is literally just that one reddit meme that they change every time there's a new sacred cow
About 6 sqm of panels at STC, probably more like 12-18 realistically (2.4-3.6kW, plus at least 10-15kWh of batteries. The math gets brutal for critical uptime off-grid solar, but some people have more than that on an RV these days. So it's not really presenting a much larger target than a road-mobile human would be (at least one with the comms and computer gear needed to do a similar job)
And the machine brain is always going to be vastly more optimized for multitasking than a human.
Gooofuckyourself
1mo ago
We don't see any waymos driving on the sidewalk to dodge traffic jams, so we can disprove the Artificial Indian hypothesis.
Oh that sort of thing shifts overnight. In 1940 American leftists were singing songs about how the US entering the war was a capitalist conspiracy to kill surplus American workers, because Germany and the USSR were allied (Pete Seeger's "plow the 4th one under').
A month after Barbarossa their Soviet handlers had them singing about the glory of war and crushing fascism. And days after Pearl Harbor they were doing war bond tours.
Just needs the right mini series on Netflix and you'll have Googlers happily coding automated killbots to identify target ethnicities.
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