We're in a bubble.
Oh, absolutely!
Readit Newssimlevesque commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
simlevesque commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
That's already over ten years ago... Wow CS:GO is still the new CS for me, that never catched on and everybody played 1.6
It's a new game now, CS2. CS:GO isn't accessible anymore. But the loot carried on to the new game.
simlevesque commented on Counter-Strike: A billion-dollar game built in a dorm room nytimes.com/2025/08/18/ar... · Posted by u/asnyder
Heads up to those who played CS:GO years ago and like money. I was a pretty active player from 2012 to 2014.
Back then I got dozens of crates that I didn't open, now worth as high as 31$CAD each. I looked it up last week and it's worth over a thousand dollars in Steam. I cashed in on almost half of it and now I have some cash to buy games for my family and friends.
simlevesque commented on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-... · Posted by u/Maro
I think this broken feedback cycle is one of the biggest isues for communist regimes, yet I don't see it mentioned often. :P
The exact same thing happens all the time in capitalist regimes.
simlevesque commented on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-... · Posted by u/Maro
> (obviously I drove him to the gun shop that evening)
Why would that be obvious?
Yeah to non-americans this sentence sounds so weird.
simlevesque commented on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-... · Posted by u/Maro
Can you prove that any other economic system isn't going to end the entire human race.
You're the one saying that capitalism is better. I didn't claim anything. Never said I knew what's best for the world.
You said you do. So, tell us ! Claims require evidences.
simlevesque commented on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-... · Posted by u/Maro
> While nazism and its crimes were condemned after World War II [...] this has not happened with communism.
This resonates quite deeply. In my country nazis go straight to jail but communists walk our soil completely unpunished. They have half a dozen political parties, are well coordinated, are popular and are constantly elected by the population when they promise them heaven on earth. This is especially ironic since nazism is short for national socialism.
Communism is alive and well in Latin America. Brazilian president Lula declared to CNN his intention to install communism in my country not even a week ago. It has been his intention for over 40 years. He and his party has been in power for over 20 years. Yet people act as though it was fake news.
It's not fake news it's good news.
simlevesque commented on A brief history of the absurdities of the Soviet Union laurivahtre.ee/empire-of-... · Posted by u/Maro
I can imagine a lot. In every possible scenario, the end of capitalism means disaster for the entire human race.
Can you prove that capitalism isn't gonna end the entire human race ?
I'm sure you can imagine anything but that's not really helpful.
If I understand correctly, the author is managing to run this model on a laptop with 64GB of RAM?
So a home workstation with 64GB+ of RAM could get similar results?
Not so sure. The MBP uses hybrid memory, the ram is shared with the cpu and gpu.
Your 64gb workstation doesn't share the ram with your gpu.
You have to understand that I don't really care about the internals of my DE. The same of true for 95% of Linux users and 99.999% of general computer users, so when I see a huge amount of effort goes into basically seemingly pointless refactoring, instead of tackling issues that are actually important to users, it is disappointing to me. I just installed KDE Manjaro and guess what? It stills uses X, and no one has an answer to what benefit Wayland has for me.
Security.
You said you did your research so I have to believe that you don't care about security.
But most people care.