A lot of companies seem to automatically delist things that get mass reported, which makes them subject to interference by armies of paid or unpaid trolls. Hopefully the issue gets corrected but this seems to happen more and more frequently.

What do you have against the British overseas territory of Anguilla? Ultra-specific geographical prejudice.

There’s a good 3blue1brown video that walks through the actual math they can perform, which does a lot to temper expectations about what they can accomplish and how much of an improvement they would be over digital computers for certain types of problems.

Here’s the YouTube link, or search for “But What Is Quantum Computing? (Grover’s Algorithm)” on your preferred front-end: https://youtu.be/RQWpF2Gb-gU

Every other genus: “We don’t want her either.”

Yeah, I agree, and that’s what I was trying to get at with the last point. I think morality systems in the sense of a binary choice with a scorecard is exactly why those systems are unsatisfying. Real choices have complex consequences and games are more immersive when they show that versus when everything boils down to a simple “good” or “bad.”

The games that do moral choices well do still give you feedback - alternate endings or lasting changes in the world - but it’s not as simple as one number or slider showing a morality spectrum.

I’d put Witcher 3 and The Alters on the list. Both of them give you choices where it’s not really clear which is the “good” or “bad” one. And if you play through both, you find that neither is one-sided - everything has pros and cons, and even if you judged one option to be morally better in the moment, you still have to live with the negative as well as the positive consequences of your actions.

Maybe you could argue that those aren’t traditional morality systems, but for me, that’s why they work.

Once all your waterworks are automated is when the sandbox portion of the game begins. They’ve added so many features, and in particular aquaducts and overhangs, that you can really go wild with designing your Beavertopia.

Their best and brightest were fired or retired.

For context, the genocide started 80 years ago.

One thing I’ve learned as a socialist is that there is always a purity test by people who consider themselves purer socialists.

Karl Marx himself could post on here and people would accuse him of being a neoliberal stooge.

The fact that they’re not in uniform is closely interrelated with the fact that they’re paramilitary goons and not a legitimate law enforcement outfit. It’s all part and parcel.

The images are being generated by editing photos of real children. It’s not fictional characters. This is discussed in the article and has been widely reported as this issue has been in the news.

Jerry’s more than just a genocide denier.

He’s a genocide denier who was banging a 17-year-old high schooler when he was in his late 30s.

It’s only fair to paint a complete picture of the man.

I bought Sonic 2006 when it came out. It was my first experience with a truly terrible, broken game. I’d played things that weren’t up my alley or were subpar somehow, but that was the first time I was truly blown away by how bad a game could be.

You can also set a group policy to allow no updates at all except when you approve and download them manually.

Ridiculous that you need the group policy manager for the basic setting of “don’t put shit on my PC without asking,” but here we are.

Moore’s New Law: The price doubles and the stock halves

I was thinking irradiate them and give them guns, but your idea works too.

I dunno, but it’s a pain. Hiding low-level components from the user to make it more user-friendly.

I have an old 2014 macbook with a busted GPU temp sensor. The Mac firmware assumes the worst - that the computer is dangerously overheated - and therefore throttles back the CPU by 80% and runs the fans at full blast.

Fixing it on Mac required a number of third-party tools and flashing a custom firmware. I then installed Linux on the device - about ten lines of script that read from the working temp sensor on the CPU die and write a scaled value to /sys/ in response.

So much flippin easier on Linux.

The third line of a haiku is traditionally meant to show a turn or a surprise element, so this is a fine haiku indeed.