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Comment Re: Gee, who didn't see this coming (Score 1) 136

Your argument doesn't represent "effort" anyway. We have protestors against Israel because we are funding Israel. We aren't funding Putin yet. When we are, we can have protests about that, too.

Your whataboutism is whataboutism because you're ignoring obvious facts in order to support your argument. What about this? The answer is obvious. But you're sure that there's some other answer.

Comment Re:Give me a break (Score 1) 43

Face it, we're well past the moment where we need to worry about whether or not government and military data is in the hands of big tech.

It's really whether or not government is in control of corporations, and of course the answer is yes. And that's where the "both sides" argument becomes non-fallacious: both Democrats and Republicans are united on giving them that control, and capital doesn't maintain the commons. It only wants to exploit it.

Granted, there were always ties between government and tech, we're just busting down the myth that those ties didn't exist, and giving much fuller integration rights to the tech elite.

Indeed: The military-industrial complex has been the home of technology since time was time. Many technological developments have come out of military research. The space program is also essentially military, so its developments can be counted here as well.

Comment Re:Valve needs to mandate Linux support next (Score 0) 26

You're asking Valve to cut itself off from sales, and make itself unfriendly. What makes Valve appealing to gamers and license holders alike is that games can be on it almost no matter what (they even allow adult games) and there are only some labeling requirements.

What would be more beneficial to me than banning games is to provide in-app compatibility information, so I don't have to go to protondb.

Comment Re:Vulkan windows, Linux, Macos, Android, iOS, swi (Score 2, Interesting) 26

why cant we have a consistent base API rather than compatibility layers...

https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fxkcd.com%2F927%2F

We got here from somewhere else. But for the record, I blame Microsoft, and I blame 3dfx for enabling them. If 3dfx had done MiniGL from the start instead of GLIDE, then we would probably have never had Direct3D. Microsoft had a basic, software-only OpenGL renderer which was famously used for screensavers like "pipes" and would have likely gone with OpenGL if it was already dominant.

But in the early days of PC video accelerators, everyone had to have their own API, and there were a ton of competing GPUs. There were around half a dozen versions of Mechwarrior II which supported different video cards — I had at least two of them, as I bought a whole bunch of those different cards to try them out. Besides VooDoo 1 and 2 in their times, and then eventually tnt, tnt2, and a gf2mx which are all kind of after the period in which this story occurs, I had a Mystique (ugly), and a PowerVR (slow), and a Permedia 2 which was actually the best of all of them at the time but just a little slower than 3dfx. I know I'm forgetting another one that I had as well, and I didn't even have all of them! Now we have all of three GPU makers, and Intel is looking shaky again...

I'm super thankful that we have Vulkan now and didn't start going back to vendor-specific standards. I think you can chalk this up to complexity. Nobody wants to have to support such things when it takes so much work to switch APIs.

Comment Re: Because the taco (Score 1) 142

You're trying to imply that the dude smeared fake blood on his face, and that it was all a setup, including the poor fucker turned into hamburger

Why don't you try learning to read without making things up sometime? I never claimed that the poor fucker turned into hamburger wasn't killed. What I said is that you're a gullible toolbag because you believe that Trump was shot with no evidence.

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