They are for marketing but not in the obvious way. Achievements really exist to tell game developers what parts of their game people are actually playing. Sure, some obscure achievements may be very hard to get and thus not tell them anything useful, but a lot of games have super basic checkpoint “achievements” like “start the game for the first time” or “play through the first level.”

With enough of these, a game developer can tell what parts of their game were entertaining and engaging and what parts were not. Sometimes this information can be used to decide how to improve the game. Other times it may only be useful as a lesson for future games (by that developer) to learn from.

And classic cars with carburetors and naturally aspirated engines will be illegal too.

“Sir, do you have any Raspberry Pi’s in the vehicle?”

Funny thing is, memory compression is now built into the Mac’s OS.

You can’t force anyone to take accountability for their actions. Either they voluntarily take accountability for their actions, or you police their actions.

Schools are already being completely destroyed by AI. Our entire educational system is going to need a ground-up rebuild to deal with this issue and we haven’t even figured out a plan for it yet!

Right now, teachers are essentially stuck fending for themselves against children armed with trillions of dollars in VC funding. It’s one of the most lopsided battles in human history. It’s like this scene from Letters from Iwo Jima:

They’re quite common if you use iOS. The autocorrect changes 2 regular -‘s into one — em dash.

Accident and deliberate aren’t the only two options. I think the most likely cause is gross negligence on the part of intelligence (who may have been relying on outdated information).

Gross negligence carries culpability. It’s still a war crime because the responsibility for due diligence is on the attackers.

To show that it was deliberate is another matter entirely. There’d have to be evidence that they knew it was a school full of children and that they ordered the attack anyway. Why would they do that?

You know that white stuff that the seeds attach to in chilis? That’s the placenta! It’s the spiciest part of the whole pepper!

It’s the same dynamic as with Walter and Skyler White from Breaking Bad. People love the escapist element of coming along for the ride with a bad guy who is on the war path. They don’t love the character who tries to drag them out of their fantasy and back to reality.

At least Breaking Bad had the decency to make you really regret liking Walter as the show went on. That was its real genius: to lure you into temptation and then riddle you with guilt.

Yes I know exactly what you mean. The mechanics have a very visceral feel to them, like a living machine. Solid state machines feel much more smooth, refined, and high tech, albeit somewhat sterile.

I think this difference is also why people get nostalgia for classic cars over EVs.

Oooh! Really nice! I want to get an EM pinball machine at some point. Sounds like a really fun project!

Hope Tubby calms down enough that you can befriend her!

Exactly. This is the big thing you can do about it!

And before anyone thinks about defending the news: these people are making pretty much all of their profits nowadays selling ragebait bad news for maximum engagement.

Come on Hungarians! You know your future is with Europe, not with Russia.

I don’t want an “approved OS”, I want to run my own customized Linux. Forcing everyone to use an approved OS is draconian.

This is part of the war on general purpose computation, which could and should be viewed as an attack on human freedom in general.

Cory Doctorow was talking about this over 15 years ago.

I think it’s a personality based thing. The clock interacts with a person’s natural tendencies in a way that causes constant pressure and stress. These folks need to be away from clocks in order to relax. They see SDV’s rather rapid daily clock as a fatal flaw in a game that should otherwise be quite relaxing.

Lil old manbaby!

Confirmation bias is an incredibly stubborn human trait (and a near universal one at that). The particular issue this post is engaging with is called attitude polarization: two groups of people diverging more and more in their opinions despite being presented with the same evidence.

Why are humans like this? I think it’s a survival trait that people conform to the opinions of their in-group and are reluctant to let go of opinions that are most central to their world-view. They’ve already invested a lot in both their in-group and their world-view, so rejecting all that is more costly to them than rejecting the truth about some particular fact (that they may not even care about that much).

When you consider that beliefs and openly held opinions have different costs and different benefits depending on which group you belong to, it becomes a lot less obvious that abandoning a position is the right move.