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)
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I wonder if Point Roberts is ... even more checkpoint fucked than usual...
https://wheninyourstate.com/washington/13-surprising-facts-about-point-roberts-washington/
Red line is the intl border, Peace Arch is just north of Blaine...
Yep, Point Roberts is a dangling peninsula.
...
Looks like the tariffs have not been fun:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/point-roberts-washington-trump-trade-war-canada-impact/
... Ok, that is legitimately impressive, from a technical standpoint.
Lua is a high level, not exactly very 'fast', very performant language. It is designed to be very, very human readable, and coding noob friendly.
Getting a 3D physics engine to work ... in lua... is not something I would have thought possible.
Usually you need to use a much lower level language to ... actually do that.
EDIT:
A few other commenters have now pointed out that this is actually using LuaJIT... which passes Lua code to a C compiler, quickly translates and then compiles in C, and then runs in C.
So, that makes much more sense, its functionally running in C, a lower level, compiled code language.
Still impressive nonetheless!
I was able to play HL Alyx with an Index, on... I think it was an AMD 5950X CPU and an AMD 6900 XT GPU... on PopOS!... back in... 2022.
Not saying you are any kind of 'wrong', just saying it is possible now, and was even possible back in 22, to get very good VR performance out of a linux system... full res, maxxed out settings, 90hz/fps good.
You could replicate my old build now for roughly .. 65% the cost as I paid for the same parts back then. 5950x current sale price is less than half what it once was, 6900XT current sale price is a bit more than half, though you have to look a bit harder... GPU market is just generally insane right now.
EDIT: For a long while, generally speaking... AMD stuff is better supoorted and more performant on Linux... because many of the drivers are much much more open source.
Also... AMD CPUs and GPUs synergize and perform better when paired with each other, then pairing an Nvidia GPU with an AMD CPU, or Intel CPU with AMD GPU.
If Intel can pump up its GPU game, it may be able to achieve a similar result, but so far their GPUs... while honestly pretty good for the performance/price range they're in... they just don't come as close to the high end of GPU performance yet.
This isn't just a theory.
Many, maaaaany companies openly admit to posting fake job listings, ghost jobs, and your explanations of why they do this are pretty much spot on.
https://www.newsweek.com/ghost-jobs-rise-1924351
https://www.bbc.com/worklife/article/20240315-ghost-jobs-digital-job-boards
It is of course difficult to get accurate numbers because of regional / industry variance, which platform are you looking for jobs on, and oh of course those job seeker platforms are highly incentivized to not let their users know how prevalent this is...
But uh yeah, between these 3 fairly recent articles, we've got somewhere between 20% to 60% of companies admitting they post ghost jobs / number of actual job listings that are fake.
Yeah. Its really fucking bad, obviously for job seekers, and also in other ways (which you also correctly surmised) because it makes many metrics other companies and policy planners and econ data all fucked... normally, job openings are... you know, correlated to actual hirings?
Yeah thats all broken now, has been for years.
This phenomenon really kicked in to high gear during and after covid.
In fact, probably a whole lot of the Dems 'the economy is fine actually, stop complaining' rhetoric is because they were too stupid to realize this has been going on and have been relying on bullshit metrics.
Its one thing that they're unrelatable policy nerd wonks who have 0 charisma, can't read the room, nor actually do effective messaging.... its another thing that they are also incompetent data dorks.
(I am an unsociable autist data nerd with a degree in econ and career in data analytics myself... and thus this is personal for me lol)
Valve has a long track record of collaborating with and sometimes even hiring very talented modder groups/individuals.
In this instance, the Black Mesa team's work has been so high quality and very much faithful to the original work (HL1) that they were allowed to actually commercially sell their mod, originally built in the HL2 engine, as its own game, sort of making it an ... officially ssnctioned, unofficial remaster/remake of HL1.
In particular... the Black Mesa team essentially completely reworked and expanded all the Xen levels of HL1... these were always seen as kind of rough, rushed, not as well executed as the rest of the levels of the original HL1, at least by many fans...
Black Mesa originally just wasn't even going to do the Xen levels, because they were so wildly different than the others, and when it originally released as just a mod, and also I think the first commercial release... it didn't have the Xen levels.
People generally thought that that version of Black Mesa was pretty good, but janky and rough ariund the edges... Source as an engine was undergoing some radical reworking at about that same time, as it was evolving from the HL2 source engine into the L4D2, Portal 2, etc, Source engine...
... and eventually, after a long time of figuring out exactly what feature set they'd need to portray a truly remastered 'Xen', and reworking the whole game to run on the required Source features and framework... Black Mesa was finally able to do the big, giant, total overhaul, with the Xen levels, in 2020.
I know much of this because I used to occasionally chat with some members of the earlier mod team way back in the day, some of them would experiment with stuff in Garry's Mod and start threads on Facepunch, before Garry nuked the forums.
If you're interested in other fairly high quality, but not as expansive HL2 mods, I suggest Minerva.
Very, very good level design... I think Valve actually hired the guy that made that mod at some point.
'Markets can stay irrational longer than you can remain solvent.'
- Some other hoity toity British Lord
Context
That quote is from Sir John Maynard Keynes, a seminal figure in 20th century economics.
Sir Isaac Newton, after independently inventing calculus, revolutionizing physics and astronomy... was actually the Master and Warden of the Royal Mint, and was thus essentially in charge of English monetary policy during the early 1700's.
Yes, Newton was in charge of the English Mint, the actual Master of Coin... when he made these investments pictured in the image.
I think you mean thats the price they'd need to sell at for Tesla/Musk to cover production costs, cover the sunk costs of already made capital investments (Mexico Gigafactory, etc), cover the ongoing costs of 'Full Self Drive' development, cover the debt of the company, cover a significant chunk of Musk's personal debt from his leveraged buyout of Twitter (he had to finance that), and/or also some actual profit margin, go toward future stock buybacks, etc etc...
The article says, and cites, that there are over 10k unsold CyberTrucks.
10k * 80k = 800m
80k being the MSRP for the base model.
(In the case of Tesla, they own and directly operate their own dealerships, unlike most other car dealerships which are owned independently... thus the MSRP just literally is the only price you can buy them at. Tesla also makes you sign contracts when you buy a CyberTruck that more or less make it legally near impossible to resell your purchased CT second hand.)
MSRP != Cost to Produce.
If that were the case... basically all companies that sell physical things... would be Non Profits.
If you have access to Tesla's internal accounting and finance numbers that can actually show a CyberTruck's actual cost to produce, not only would I personally love to see that, but so would the government of Canada, I suspect, as they are currently investigating Tesla for essentially accounting fraud.
If something can't actually sell at MSRP...
... analagously, if a house sits on market for 6, 9, 12 months, and can't sell at a too high price...
Then the person trying to sell the thing has not recieved any real countable money; the price is likely wildly unrealistic.
... Has anybody rewritten California Uber Alles for this piece of shit, and covered it?