People love to dunk on hacky looking gamedev code. Some of it is pretty ugly, e.g, VVVVVV's famous gigantic switch statement, but if it works and makes a fun game, that's the actually important part.
The parting of the waters in the USA is such an interesting landmark for just how uninteresting it actually is in person. Looks like any other split in a forest river, marked by a sign on a tree that you can only see after a long wilderness hike.
Yeah, YouTube's UI lets you set where the ads go. The creator tools let you set how many, and where midroll ads will play. However, most creators just click the "insert automatically" button.
> However, most creators just click the "insert automatically" button.
That seems like a good opportunity for a neural net feature that's smarter than simple scene cut detection. While most theatrical films lack many good spots for commercial breaks, there are certainly a lot of "less bad" spots. Sadly, I doubt YT will bother since they no longer seem to care about viewer experience in recent years.
Non-centralization is enough for me (I love archive.org, but always worry about them flying too close to the sun one day and getting shut down), but this does also have a different UX, and has a more direct focus on videogame history, which should help them surface things in more interesting ways than a general purpose archive.
Personally, when I send an email, I feel less time pressure to respond, so I more carefully craft my responses. The metadata is similar enough, but the actual data in email/forums is usually better.
The most annoying bots are the ones that mindlessly slam sites over and over, without doing any filtering. Having these kinds of tarpits out in the wild forcing people to be better behaved with their crawling bots is a feature, not a bug.
There, one of the things they mentioned was that they were hoping that RISC-V in general, and their cores in particular, becomes a platform for academic research. That way, cutting-edge things are shared in the open and the industry benefits globally.
The optimistic view of this is that it's hoping for a better future for all. The cynical view is that open source is much harder to sanction/export control. The truth is probably somewhere in the middle.
But it’s true that most inventions and innovations in the last 100 years have come from Americans (with work from immigrants, descendants of immigrants, etc). China’s progress economically and technologically has almost entirely been copying those innovations and competing on price due to poor labor and environmental laws and conditions. In many cases it literally involved espionage, and in others it involved unethical stealing from partners or even customers (for example companies that used a manufacturer there).
>> China’s progress economically and technologically has almost entirely been copying those innovations and competing on price due to poor labor and environmental laws and conditions.
That may have been true for a while when they were catching up. They are now leading R&D in a number of areas. They do have more issues (fraud, piling on co-authors) in published research, but there is a lot of legit stuff going on too. There are also cases where China has always been ahead of the US - flat panel displays have never really been manufactured in the U.S. for example. A lot of their innovations are also seen as "just cost reduction" on our end, but that still counts and is part of why they're still competitive even as their labor costs go up.
A large chunk of our western innovations are rooted in "1936" german research. US space program? From Mr Von Braun who was allowed on US land through operation paperclip. Axial jet engine?From Junkers Motoren engine propelling the Me 262. Modern submarines? From u-boats type XXI. Assault rifle? MP43. Highways, synthetic fuel, a lot of modern chemistry... So no, US did not come with most of the last 100s years innovations.
My family comes from a village in Belgium where the 12th panzerdivision SS committed mass murder, I therefore don't glorify these people, thank you. But you have to recognize what your modern comfort has to do with these people, and lower your morale standards accordingly. I'll help you: we are bad persons with low standards and a high, unjustified, self esteem.
Its idiotic to focus on the last 100 years. Those american innovations you mention came on the shoulders of innovations from the arabs, romans, ottomans and many other cultures/societies before them. Where is the praise for them?
Why are we so focused on who is the best. We seriously need a population reset. People can be so idiotic and self absorbed.
Oh yeah sure there are many, but "most" feels like an overreach?
Just off of the top of my head I can think of so many. TV, radar, Penicillin, jet engines, audio cassettes, first programmable computers let alone the ARM CPU you are probably reading this on right now AND the lithium ion battery that is powering it, GSM, DSL, Ariane launchers (not to mention the pioneering German work in WW2), DNA, large hadron collider, MP3, electron microscopes, MRI scanners, the human genome project, TFT screens, IVF and ICSI, the atomic bomb, bagless vacuums - the list is long and varied, and that is just off the top of my head.
Sure the US might have more tech giants than anywhere else, but that isn't where everything happens by a long shot.
> Oh yeah sure there are many, but "most" feels like an overreach?
Definitely, that's what I'm saying btw. Before WWII most invention and discoveries were actually made in Europe, and even though the US took the leadership after that point (in part thanks to immigration of Jewish or East-European scientists), it never was responsible for “most” of them.
