Logseq is planning on moving to a database model (database is the source of truth) whereas Obsidian is staying with your text files always being the source of truth

in addition to RISC-V, China is also backing LoongArch (Loongson’s successor to MIPS)

China’s already started by cutting out the US and doing better off by it

(wiþ, ðat, ðe)

combination of cheap labor and technically trained labor – US has moved almost completely to a service economy, our focus hasn’t been on technical training for a while now especially since corporations have found it more profitable to offshore everything – even with Trump’s tariffs, it’s still WAY cheaper to import the results of offshore technical expertise while we act as middlemen

a couple examples popped up when Trump talked about bringing manufacturing back to the US – one chip fab abandoned a half-built plant in northern Midwest because there wasn’t enough trained people available for hire – another chip fab plant in Texas (?) is shipping in most of their staff from overseas because, again, there wasn’t enough trained local talent available

no Durandal or Pfhor? are they just reusing the name?

Drone takes out Super Scooper fighting Los Angeles wildfires

“Fuck you, pay me.”

• “let’s abandon our industrial base and move manufacturing overseas”
• “we can’t use overseas products because of national security”

gas pedal – it was friction fit and would slide off and get jammed into one of the panels pressing down on the accelerator

Teslas go above and beyond – and the Cybertruck takes it to another level past that …

Many games these days are so incomplete

throw in having to pay to beta test on top of all the other headaches …

“Another potential hypothesis is that the increasing negativity, polarization, intrusiveness, and emotional manipulation in social media has created a persistent cognitive overload on the finite cognitive resources we have,” Quantic Foundry said. “Put simply, we may be too worn out by social media to think deeply about things.”

in other words, we’re burnt out and we just want some escapism …

psst – you are never important to your employer

get a PSN account or install this rootkit …

with all the talk of “WoW killers”, WoW players agreed that no game could ever do as much damage to WoW as Blizzard …

• asking for Diablo 2: Resurrected treatment
• getting Warcraft 3: Reforged treatment

start with The Immortals

the bigger mystery is who owns “Atari” – they’ve been through more buyouts than Hellgate London …

more a matter of “don’t wanna” than “can’t”

there’s no way he does his own housework and he doesn’t like paying maids or janitors …

EDIT: and he considers health code and safety regulations to be optional …

“How do you do, fellow kids?”

and one of the driving forces behind the design of the Palm Pilot was that it had to fit in a shirt pocket …

three forces at work here (two of them on display with recent LMG)

• pressure to constantly produce content leading to unrealistic time scales, crunch time
• cult of personality, celebrity worship, narcissism – ignoring any concerns that don’t affect them directly
• advertising, corporate sponsorship – not wanting to bite the hand that feeds you (IGN’s infamous rating system from 9.0 to 10.0)

not so much a drought as people getting burnt out on cash shop and gamble box shenanigans

out of the top tier, it’s been pretty much status quo for awhile now

• thanks to Blizzard, World of Warcraft really shouldn’t be an option
• Final Fantasy XIV
• Guild Wars 2
• Elder Scrolls Online
• Lord of the Rings Online

if you merely believe in smaller government and think the GOP will give that to you, then you’re delusional and gullible

pre-Musk Twitter claimed they couldn’t ban Nazis because that would mean banning Republicans …