Landing a man on the moon is way more impressive. Finding several vaccines for a once in a century pandemic within a year of its outbreak is and achievement that in its impact and importance dwarfs what the entire LLM industry put together has achieved. The near-complete eradication of polio, once again, way more important and impactful.

This idea that companies should be allowed to lock down their products just so they can have moats, is how we ended up with printer ink being more expensive than crude oil or champagne.

OTOH, if you fire those workers, it is a certainty that your bakery gets more cash. You can then use that cash to reward your shareholders (a category that conveniently includes you) via buybacks or dividends.

How evil of them to do that. They should have known only the United States of America has the divine right to invade countries and extract their resources. https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c4grxzxjjd8o

> That's called Imperialism and was common among european powers in the 19th century

Fortunately, the USA does not want to revive such practices, as they indicated in this speech: https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/marco-rubio-munich-t...

Yes, I am sure the patients in this hospital were holding guns to Trump's head. https://www.aljazeera.com/video/newsfeed/2026/3/2/baby-and-p...

And while we're speaking of people that hold guns to everyone's heads, there is one country that is waging war all over the world. It's govt also executed people in broad daylight for the crimes of taking their kid to school and helping a person beaten up by the administration's goons. Would you entertain the idea of similar airstrikes against the head of that country?

> Iran is supporting massive conflicts in Yemen, and is building non-defensive weapons capabilities.

You know who else is supporting that massive conflict in Yemen? The United States of America. https://www.hrw.org/news/2025/06/04/yemen-us-strikes-on-port...

> It's all shades of grey, but there are lighter and darker shades.

I'm guessing they correlate 100% with the shade of the skin of the people involved.

Programming languages are written to eliminate that ambiguity because you don't want your bank server to make a payment because it misinterpreted ambiguous language in the same way that you might misinterpret your spouse's remarks.

Can that ambiguity be resolved with more English words? Maybe. But that would require humans to be perfect communicators, which is not that easy because again, if it were possible, humans would have learnt to first communicate perfectly with the people closest to them.

And this company, with all the formidable powers of AI behind them, can find no way to optimize that other than pre loading the app in memory. And that's for a app that's basically a GUI for `ls`

Or, as Cory Doctorow argues, the machines could become tools to extract "efficiency" by helping the employer make their workers lives miserable. An example of this is Amazon and the way it treats its drivers and warehouse workers.

> because most companies will make decisions based on time/effort/profitability, and because client-side anticheat is stupid simple and cheap, that's what they go with. Why waste their own server resources, when they can waste the user's?

And my comment was a response to that statement. In context of that statement, companies are indeed choosing to prioritise their commercial interests in a way that increases the risk to the computers of their customers.

> Not to mention these abstract "the company" positions completely ignore all the passionate people who actually make video games

Irrelevant. Companies and their employees are two different distinct entities and a statement made about one does not automatically implicate the other. Claiming, for example, that Ubisoft enables a consistent culture of sexual harassment does not mean random employees of that company are automatically labeled as harassers.

Coming to anti-cheat, go ahead and fight them all you want. That's not a problem. Demanding the right to introduce a security backdoor into your customer's machines in order to do that, is the problem.

Just like if any human employee publicly sexually harassed his female CEO, he'd be out of a job and would find it very hard to find a new one. But Grok can do it and it's the CEO who ends up quitting.

And yes, there will be times India doesn't agree with the US, and that's normal. It's seeking to be a partner, not a vassal state.

This kind of app should be be open source.

Which is actively customer-abusive behavior and customers should treat it with the contempt it deserves. The fact that customers don't, is what enables such abuse.

As a non American who's having to transit the country during this period, I've nothing but respect for the individuals who're actually doing their jobs and keeping everyone (including me) safe without getting a penny for this vital work.

They could go on a strike and bring all airlines to a halt, but as a brown skinned person, I would then be risking a visit to "Alligator Alcatraz" or some other demented place because I failed the leave the country on the day I was supposed to. So again, glad they're not doing that.