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Not sure why you're being down voted here. Silicon Valley folks like Thiel, Vance, and Musk are all huge libertarians who want to burn the current system down. It is not the traditional Republican crowd of the past. They share name only.

They don't share the name, they took the name. It's theirs now. Not yours. Look, I get it, I too wish it hadn't happened, but it did, it's reality now, and I'm not hearing a good reason to deny reality.

Suppose that now is the time for the part of the agenda that will upset the democrats--to keep those people formerly known as republicans from getting too antsy. Later on, we'll see the other half of that agenda.

At that time, when those formerly known as rebpulicans are angry about being misrepresented, are you going to tell them that they're not real republicans because they voted for a narcissist who was flattered into turning the wheel over to people with contradictory goals, and now "republican" means something that they have no control over? That's absurd. A party is a party insofar as it represents the will of its constituents, coups not withstanding.


Not sure I understand. There are three main groups of Republicans now. The first are the traditional neocons like Mitch McConnell. The second are the evangelicals and the third are the libertarian tech bros. They literally share the same party and collaborate, but have different end goals. For example, group two wants to return to the 1950s or enact christian nationalism, while group three wants the nation to be run like a corporation with a board of directors having ultimate power. The latter two groups don't care about the constitution at all.

>"Now she's 13, knows it all, and doesn't want to be picked up anymore. And I tell you, I wish I never had a smartphone at all."

Geez this hits hard. I've been pretty aware of it though, so I try to spend as much time with my daughter as possible without smothering her. I tell my wife almost daily that she's going to regret not getting off her smartphone and spending more time with her when she could. I'm not some soothsayer, but it seems pretty obvious to me.


It's mainly for quants where you couple the array language with a time series database of all your stock quotes. Once you understand the language you can do a ton of analysis with extremely little code. Think of it as a mathematical SQL dialect I guess.

In my opinion, it's very cool, but Python's ecosystem (and R's) is just so much better with scientific libraries and charting and all that. Kdb+ (the database) and K the language are likely much faster than R for general analysis type stuff. R is also free and Kdb+ is not.


I think that got abandoned ages ago.

""Arthur succeeded in getting it to run, but eventually got drowned in device drivers."

heh


What has your experience been like? What are the drawbacks besides the cost and proprietary nature?

I don't want to be too disparaging, so I will just say that the language is exotic. Otherwise, the licensing model is Oracle-esque based on host and core counts etc. The software is fast, that you cannot deny, though it does critically depend on the speed of the storage attached to the host. Also, it's written in C++ and it shows. Had to do multiple (paid) upgrades due to memory leaks.

I'm sure there was a time it was best in class and even now maybe it's the best for a few niche use cases, but unless you're absolutely certain you need it, I would flee from it and save your sanity.


I thought it was written in just plain C based off old Arthur Whitney stories.

Yeah...Oracle licensing sounds scary and having to pay to fix their own memory leaks sounds frustrating.

Thanks for the experience.


You know what, I can't place where exactly I heard it was C++ rather than C and they just ship you a binary blob executable, so I may be wrong and it absolutely could be plain C.

I've only been able to play the solo (single player) RPGs of that publisher. There is a sample one as well that is pretty awesome. I wish I had a group to play the full RPG with.

I read it not that long ago. I agree with the comments that the setting is deeply unsettling.

I see one who has visited Carcosa!

For those who haven't read the King in Yellow:

https://lovecraft.fandom.com/wiki/Carcosa


There's a collection of some of them on Steam.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/570580/Zork_Anthology/


Or GOG if you prefer: https://www.gog.com/en/game/the_zork_anthology

I keep hoping that now that Microsoft owns all of Infocom's legacy they'll do some more interesting packs/anthologies again.

Also, it's not the kind of "platform seller, AAA modern stuff" that Xbox Game Pass is known for, but I still like to hope that if some of these games showed up on Xbox Game Pass for PC they'd accidentally blow up on Twitch somewhat the way old PBS shows like Bob Ross and Mr. Rogers Neighborhood did. Get a bunch of people playing old classic games they'd never think to try by making them "What's New on Game Pass" notable.


How do you play Zork on Xbox? Lots of typing using the on screen keyboard? Auto fill for certain things?

That is why I suggested to focus on the "for PC" part of Xbox Game Pass. (Microsoft's sometimes confusing way of naming things strikes again.)

Though, Xbox speech-to-text isn't awful, would be a wild way to play Zork. And also, the Xbox does support connecting any USB keyboard.


Thanks! I was a little confused. There's nothing that makes using Xbox for text games to be impossible...just seems non-optimal lol.

It's gotten better over the past couple of years. Even Disney+ has a lot of issues like some kid shows will play like 10 minutes of end credits after an episode instead of going to the next one. Not sure if that is finally fixed. In general, Netflix is still light-years ahead of the competition.

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