The next class war is here. He who owns the robots (means of production) wins. Leasing out pizza robots. Ewww.
There's a historical consensus that Hitler had actually expected France and the UK to back up the Czechs, and was surprised when they didn't. He wanted the war to start in 1938 when he had a major advantage in remilitarization.
That said, we, the west, should be directly involved in Ukraine already. We've had three years.
Canada is announcing ~40billion in additional annual military spending today. I hope this means it's time to push Russia back.
An empty box of garbage bags at the bottom of a garbage bin, that itself doesn't have a garbage bag.
Funding bait
Colour me cautiously optimistic
Susan is just being inclusive. Be like Susan.
LKML and patch: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=0fc810ae3ae110f9e2fcccce80fc8c8d62f97907
He cites his work as being a variant of a patch submitted by another developer, Josh Poimboeuf. It's a team effort folks :)
This sounds like the sort of infrastructure project the Linux Foundation should be supporting.
My third year thermodynamics course opened with a similar quip by the lecturer. Entropy is actually depressing. You can't fight it. You can't not fight it. It just wins.
I bet this is a falling out with Hasbro execs on royalties. BG3 royalties were a cash cow this year for Hasbro, pushing Wizards (as a division) to be quite profitable, while almost all other divisions in their company lost money.
So now the agreement is over, and Larian is like: we will own the IP on our next project instead of paying $90M to Hasbro... And fair enough -- they've shown they can kick ass. Hasbro is probably gambling that it's the IP that made the money, and not Larian being magic in a bottle as a developer. So they'll kick tires on selling BG4 to another studio.
BG3 will go down in history as the legendary game before enshittification. Larian will make a few great games that don't sell as well -- before selling out to a whale that dumps money on the owner's front lawn (see also BioWare). The devs who made BG3 will found indie studios and make cool shit for a decade or two. So the wheel turns.
Utility corridor. Sometimes a "Right of Way".
Depending on where you live, "hydro lines" or "transmission lines" or similar.
Yes. In a world where resources and production are plentiful -- the hypothetical post-scarcity world -- then you could theoretically have this.
But the above article is about a business model that is as far from that future as possible. In fact, going in the opposite direction. It's a late stage capitalism business model and it is met with fanfare from the tech press somehow.
Make robots that produce a thing. Lease those robots to franchisees or whatever. Take a cut, and funnel money upwards while ceasing to innovate or produce anything, and defend the "tech" through litigation. Stock bubble, cash out. New owners enshittify by raising rates, decreasing quality, until product is no longer viable. Sue customers for breach of contract.
It's fucked. And it'll only get unfucked if legislation and enforcement of legislation is not wholly captured by the people doing the fucking.