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The median household income in the US, as of 2024 is about $80k.

The 25%tile is $40k, so a quarter of American households live off of 40k a year or less.

You obviously cannot work while at an inpatient rehab.

A year of rehab, at $40k a month, would be as expensive as a house. As you mention, a 90 day stay would be ... well, the price of a new truck or SUV.

RFK Jr is apparently still quite high on some high quality shit to think this price range is anywhere near reasonable.

Lop off a zero, cut it in half, now that would be approaching kinda sorta plausible.

I am currently living off of SSDI.

Because I am disabled.

$40k is almost double what I get in a year, for literally all of my living expenses, rent, food, etc.

I make too much to qualify for Food Stamps / SNAP, too much to qualify for most low income housing... but not enough to qualify for the vast majority of studio/one bedrooms... in one of the lowest CoL states in the US.

And this fucking sewage water slurping, brain worm having, insane anti vaxxer man thinks its reasonable to pay double my yearly income a month for rehab.

... Well, at least I'm not homeless anymore, seems obvious now the plan for them is genocide.

Also... isn't the base game's level of fog... more or less canonically justifiable, due to most of Morrowind taking place in... a swamp/bog type of biome?

That or a volanic death zone that could just be said to have lots of gas plumes and such?

Now, that is a very relevant detail!

I did not know LuaJIT was even a thing.

Still probably not as performant as ... C++ or Rust or something, that is totally precompiled... but that would explain how this is even possible, a 3D Lua based physics engine.

Yeah, looks like LuaJIT passes a bunch of the Lua code into C, just good ole C, and then dynamically compiles it, then runs the 'translated' C code.

That makes a lot more sense lol.

The original post on the hacker forum... was purporting to sell 89 million 'accounts'... for $5000.

Thats uh... wildly underpriced, low balling themselves.

I believe that original post is removed now, but uh yeah, this was either a very incompetent hacker, or an attempt to scam people looking to do fraud/exploitation... or a bit of both.

I don't disagree with you that they could have better publicized it.

I think the project got massively more popular more rapidly than the devs expected... and coder type people are rarely also PR type people at the same time.

I know what you mean lol, but Lua is very noob friendly... it goes fairly far out of its way to make many common functions and data types as compatible with each other as possible... so thats another way it is generally more slow, but also more forgiving, won't just totally error out and be frustrating to a beginner coder.

To my knowledge, no, not really.

All his code back from the uh... original X.com, payment processor days... where it all got eventually merged into PayPal, and Elon was forced out, but secured a golden parachute... all Elon's code was spaghetti garbage that had to be thrown out and replaced.

Obviously he doesn't write the FSD code, but he is utterly incompetent at managing its development.

... As a kid he essentially wrote his own version of Space Invaders, called Blastar.... the source code is apparently out there somewhere... I guess it is possible that is somewhat competent code, for the time?

Not sure.

I think the game itself is abadonware?

It may or may not count as 'code in a finished product', depending on how technical you want to get with the definition of that.

I haven't benchmarked anything in a while, so it is possible Lua is more performant now than it once was... but in my (out of date) experience, python is faster than Lua, and nearly every language that is actually compiled is... one or two or three orders of magnitude faster.

Though it is also worth mentioning that Lua is fairly simple to plug in to some kind of database language, which can result in reasonably good performance in situations involving say... dynamically spawning or unspawning tons of inventory style minor items, or containers with them.

Lua has been fast enough to handle a simple 2D physics engine... but this is the first time I am hearing of it handling 3D.

Khajit has bathroom...

... if you have coin.

... Has anybody rewritten California Uber Alles for this piece of shit, and covered it?

I am 50/50 between:

This cannot possibly be real

and

This is exactly what Elon would do

(He is very, very bad at coding, management, etc)