I saw Junji Ito illustrations as decorative socks today.

The Nagatoro guy has some… archives.

You will live to see manmade horrors beyond your comprehension become billboards.

Well, someone did.

They gotta work on that ten-year load time.

This abusive business model is the dominant strategy. If we allow this to continue, there will be nothing else.

Accidental ring architecture.

It is surprising the switch doesn’t occasionally check for zero-ping echo between plugs.

Denuvo is a cache defeat mechanism. Of course it kills performance. If CPUs still worked like 386s and 68000s, having eight copies of every function and bouncing merrily between them would make no difference. But modern processors are only fast because they spend negligible time waiting for RAM to get its act together. Every squandered microsecond is a thousand cycles burned.

“My dearest Delilah, how I long to sit with you and our beautiful daughter…”

Okay sure but this guy jumped out of a bush with a flaming axe and said he’d eat our spleens. And Vilrod here identified the axe as +1 against spleens.

Dude’s paper is worth a skim, if only to better understand villains in a narrative. He has some legitimate grievances. He makes some interesting points. He then brutally murdered a bunch of powerless academics and random middle-class citizens for no discernible purpose.

For comparison, Osama bin Laden killed a shitload of people, and arguably attained quite a few of his goals. Various assassins throughout recent history have shaped the future within their lifetimes - sometimes as intended, like the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., sometimes super duper not, like the murder of Archduke Franz Ferdinand. Teddy boy pointed high up the chain, said his problems were systemic, and punched some rando standing nearby.

Like leaves we touch!

Moore’s law of mad science: every decade, the IQ needed to end civilization drops by one point.

“Both sides,” says one side.

Every conversation with Bitcoin cranks: “People doubted the internet!!!” A few weirdos did, but most were on-board for obvious reasons. Meanwhile most tech predictions were pessimistic and correct because most tech advancements do not become a whole new god-damn economy unto themselves.

… basic institutional competence?

What’s happening here is not normal or sane.

Cool, great, immediately imprison The Idiot. As an official act.

Is anyone compartmentalizing a browser? There’s enough moving parts that keeping them monolithic is an obstacle. Nobody really needs the option to swap in their own CSS parser or JS transpiler or whatever, but competing implementations could allow independence without each requiring a whole separate version of the complete stack.

Other approaches would be similarly clamped-down. We’d quickly run out of ways to make things happen on a screen in response to pushing buttons.

The very concept of a video game console might still be owned by Fairchild.

Length alone makes them obscene. The classic example in games is minigames during a load screen - which happened in exactly one game, and then belonged to Namco until after we stopped caring about load screens. They strangled an entire subgenre. The feature was not allowed to exist, in an industry built from collective incremental experimentation.

Twenty years is an eternity in computing.

Twenty years ago, shaders weren’t a thing.

Twenty years earlier, video cards weren’t a thing.

Twenty years earlier, home computers weren’t a thing.

The entire RPG genre emerged from dork-ass teenagers wasting time on mainframes between 1973 and 1976. If the concepts involved had been patented and locked away, there would not be games with first-person perspective, overhead maps, generated dungeons, turn-based combat, or inventory, until the Nintendo 64.

Fuck software patents.

Once you pop, you shall not be able to stop.

You won’t unfuck that chicken.