Are these M-class chips available to be purchased on Digi-Key and Mouser? Do they have data sheets and recommended circuitry? I’d love to play with one just to see how difficult it is to integrate compared to, say, an stm8/32 or something.
Has society ever been safe, productive or prosperous? I’d argue it hasn’t. I think smaller collectives have managed to eek out a bit of solace but society as a whole has always been at each other’s throats. Our notion of productivity is mostly moved forward by one hand not seeing the other.
Modern first world countries are incredibly safe, productive and prosperous by any historical measure. You have to have a completely skewed perspective not to see this.
He’s a doctor (psychiatrist) so I imagine he has something worthwhile to say about medical effectiveness. He’s at least as qualified as the economists he’s responding to!
I don't disagree although as a physician he has a bit of conflict of interest in the discussion. I'm not sure it invalidates what he has to say but it's a context that might be kept in mind.
I think this just validates China’s social, cultural, and digital hegemony.
Banning (if you can call it that? Divesting?) a single product like this is a strange move. It’s using a shovel to clear the early crumbs of an avalanche.
I don’t think this is the right move. Yes, it threatens the monopolies that companies like Facebook have established. And let’s assume that Haidt is right and social media and the surrounding ecosystem is a cesspool of negativity being lunged at the youth. I still think that it’s in a way petulant and reactive to pass a bill for this. A foreign country is not responsible for our leaders having failed to nurture us into sensible adults who do not fall prey to these dark patterns and tactics. I will refrain from the angle that our leaders intentionally did not want us to be critical, independent thinkers to further their own agendas by treating us like lepers.
I sympathize with the author even if my gripe is different. I’m surrounded by people who read pop science and regurgitate things they have no clue nor conception of. It’s very difficult to have an honest discussion and to ask “what if?” and say “interesting, I don’t know” with people who read books and think they have it figured out because so—and-so said so.
I should have loved curiosity, but what I’ve found are people looking to justify existing thinking.
I’d love to see the source-code comments over-time as they tweaked the balancing rules in SC… but are these leaks just a snapshot of the file system or does it include the full source-control history?
If you haven't seen it before, you might enjoy Patrick Wyatt's (a lead dev for a time at Blizzard) blog. It is a treasure trove of anecdotes and war stories.
Ah yes - I remember reading his article about the origins of StarCraft way-back-when - when StarCraft was still a low-effort "Orcs in space" re-skin of Warcraft 2, but they went to E3 or CES and got spooked by Ion Storm's demo of their visually impressive, isometric, RTS game - and reinvented SC - released SC - and the rest is history - while it turned out Ion Storm's demo was a prerendered video fake. That's a story right there.
Extremely cool read, thank you for sharing this. The author's other posts are interesting too. I learned they disabled collision for resource harvesting units so they could smoothly fly through each other on the way to/from the base and resources.
