Given how his management decisions are impacting Tesla (pushing out buggy, dangerous “full self-driving”, cutting corners on quality, the whole Cybertruck thing, and associating the brand with his junior-sci-fi ideas long after anyone stopped thinking that he’s some kind of visionary technologist, to say nothing of the weird far-right turn and habit of impregnating employees), it could be argued that he’s strangling a company that otherwise had excellent potential, and that at this stage, it would have a better chance under other management. I’m not sure if, say, the suits at General Motors or Ford could have made as much of an impact with it as a subsidiary, but they’d have certainly killed the Cybertruck or at least made it more like a conventional SUV.

Communism: the Party nomenklatura | the workers

At least they didn’t enshittify their existing properties with this crap.

Nice try, Officer

10% is being generous. The parts of “AI” that aren’t just an expensive way of getting exciting-looking but unreliable results are mundane things like autocorrect, image upscaling models, handwriting recognition and such: unglamorous statistical learning in narrowly constrained domains nobody would claim is on the verge of becoming sentient and spawning the Singularity.

“Anywhere but the USSR”

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How do you do, fellow gamers!

Marching band music. Can’t get enough of it.

Judaeochristian settler states stick together

That sounds as bad an idea as the other drink, H2O4U

Given its scarcity, helium should be more expensive, to the point where filling party balloons with it is decadent profligacy.

Truck nuts for audiophiles

A miserable little pile of secrets, but only if it’s featherless and bipedal

They made some shitty tap-the-screen game with collectibles for the iPhone maybe 10 years ago, though the less said about it the better. My guess is that it was a fuck-you to Takahashi-san.

Going by Apple’s transition from Intel to ARM, an ARM-based Steam Deck would be a no-brainer. They could make it a lot less bulky, ditch the cooling fans and still bump up performance.

ARM64 is already here (Apple have replaced Intel with it, and Windows PC vendors are following suit), it’s just, as William Gibson put it, not evenly distributed. Mainstream high-performance ARM devices are imminent in a way that RISC-V isn’t yet.

Oh lawd he comin’

Proof that even God reuses textures

Gameplay can be patented. Namco patented the mechanics of Katamari Damacy, for example.