I’m in favor of letting him turn the metaphor literal. Please go headfirst, Collin

How Ben and Luke tell the story of how the latter nearly killed his nephew could’ve used better execution/storytelling, that alone would significantly reduce the amount of discussion on how the movie “killed his character”

Nah, even if it wasn’t Star Wars, it’d be 6/10 at best

I was ok with using the ship as a suicidal torpedo, but I wasn’t ok with a single person being able to fully maneuver the thing all by herself, or the ensuing space rip conveniently doing that V shape and getting all 3 ships.

But the bombing run at the beginning of the movie really set the tone for “Prepare to be sorely disappointed”

I’d go for car mechanic. No idea if specializing in trucks or farming stuff would be more lucrative, though the latter is not viable if you don’t live near farms anyway.

For locksmithing, you should start with Lockpicking Lawyer videos on youtube

And lots of hentai for stuff that is humanly impossible

Lorne Lanning, the creator of Oddworld, did something similar with 3D animation back when that required super fucking expensive computers. He “ilegally” photocopied the manual of the software he was expected to know about, spent the night reading it, then, during the interview, did some bit of animation that amazed the interviewers.

I don’t recall the exact details, but you can get his account from his Ars Technica interview. Almost 3 hours long, but it’s a great listen

Moore’s law started failing in 2000, when single core speeds peaked, leading to multi core processors since. Memory and storage still had ways to go. Now, the current 5nm process is very close to the limits imposed by the laws of physics, both in how small a laser beam can be and how small a controlled chemical reaction can be done. Unless someone can figure a way to make the whole chip fabrication process in less steps, or with higher yield, or with cheaper machines or materials, even if at 50nm or larger, don’t expect prices to drop.

Granted, if TSMC stopped working in Taiwan, we’d be looking at roughly 70% of all production going poof, so that can be considered a monopoly (it is also their main defense against China, the “Silicon Shield”, so there’s more than just capitalistic greed at play for them)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=po-nlRUQkbI - How are Microchips Made? 🖥️🛠️ CPU Manufacturing Process Steps | Branch Education

Fuck, 88gb repacked?

The fact that those things were even allowed speaks volumes about google and their absolute lack of care for quality

Private property. Remove that and many problems will solve themselves real quick, though that will also cause a large number of human deaths before things stabilize

Amazon too, tell him Jeff Bezos is the biggest cloud seller on earth. Elon would jump at the chance to deal with his, uh, rival?

I’m not part of the target audience as I don’t have a cat, but I don’t see the value in this over a cheap red laser pointer. Automatizing play with your pet sounds super dehumanizing, like, you can’t even be bothered to spend 5 minutes entertaining your pet?

Why should I put any more effort in this when you didn’t put any on the initial argument or any other reply in this thread?

The “shameless pedantry” is meant to ensure that the point you’re trying to make is clear and not an infinite exercise of “moving the goalposts”. If the premise is bad, the whole argument fails.

As for the point, the other poster that said “it’s the current reality” made the best reply, in my opinion

It really feels like you’re trying to make any sort of persuasion = advertising, which is just stupid.

Also, calling “a body of techniques” a technology would imply that martial arts and dances are technologies.

By your logic, a political or religious speech would be advertising.

So instead of having problems getting the fucking program to run, you have problems getting docker to properly build/run when you need it to.

At work, I have one program that fails to build an image because of a 3rd party package who forgot to update their pgp signature; one that builds and runs, but for some reason gives a 404 error when I try to access it on localhost; one that whoever the fuck made it literally never ran it, because the Dockerfile was missing some 7 packages in the apt install line.

Or approaching middle age and broke!