Chinese Spy submarine.

I’m not watching a 20 minute YouTube video. But I did a quick search, and I’m guessing it’s about Box64, which does static recompilation. I’m still going to say that it’s not going to be perfect or even good enough in many cases (and their website indicates as much). You can’t always directly translate what happens on one CPU to another. Neon/SSE for example. You can do some translation, but some things will need emulating in software, and that’s going to be slow. Even memory access is different. I’m sure any programmer who’s tried writing a lockless queue is going to know that what works on x86 probably doesn’t work on ARM without a lot of futzing with memory barriers and atomic flags. It’s hard. And it’s hard because in order to be fast, it has to be the right code for the job. If you just slap a memory barrier after every instruction, it’ll run correctly, but too slow to matter.

This is why emulators exist, and continue to exist.

I’m a bit out of the loop in the emulation scene. But the last time I was really involved, dynarec proved trickier than expected. I have my doubts that it’s that it’s working well enough to recompile an entire game without a whole lot of hand holding.

One day I really hope to make your dream a reality. There’s just never enough time in a day.

Yes, but the software has to be compiled for your architecture, or you have to emulate it. That’s fine for new games that want to market in China, but emulating every other game is going to get old really fast. Hell, I have an x86 Chromebook that I’m strongly considering dual booting Linux.

Still x86.

Yep. But PC video games are all x86. And I do like to escape.

I REALLY hope something comes of this. But at the same time, I’m not sure if I would buy one myself. Compatibility with x86 is massively important to me, and I can’t really divorce myself of it outside of portables. I just have too much investment in legacy software. Mostly video games to be fair. Which might be part of the reason for the push to RISC-V.

The United Fruit Company and East India Company?

Just had this conversation in real life. I’m so grateful for you all. My little corner of sanity in the world.

The problem is that they fundamentally believe that the US is a force of good. Anything bad it does is a simple misstep. If another country fights back against the US, they must be evil. Anything good they do are simple missteps.

I was largely referring to WW2, but leaving it open to Korea and Vietnam, as they are both arguable (but I agree it’s a stretch).

This is my favourite part of the article. Western logic distilled.

“The Russian army probably has more Javelins than the British Army now,” a British source said, adding that although he and his colleagues supported Ukraine’s fight against Russia, the effort to support Kyiv “was built around lies”.

But I’ve read a few articles about how NATO tactics just don’t work. It’s hilarious to me that after 3 years, they are still insisting that their methods are the best, even though Russia has proven very effective at dealing with western materiel. The sheer arrogance, even though they haven’t fought against a peer in well over half a century, much less won a major war.

I just dropped in to link that article. Nicely done as always comrade!

The article does state that it’s in certain instances. But it does bode well for the future. China’s tech industry has made massive strides in the past few years thanks to the sanctions. I expect them to easily surpass the west in less than 10 years at this rate.

She described Nawrocki, a marine veteran of two decades with six tours in Iraq and two in Afghanistan, as a “smartass” who loved to make her laugh and was driven to fight in Ukraine because of the toll he had seen on civilians.

She did not want her son to go to Ukraine but this “was an unprovoked war,” she said. “This is everyone’s war. If Russia wins, wins over Ukraine, that affects Poland, that affects all the European countries.”

How on earth do these people reconcile these sentences in their head?

But why do all that when you can eliminate melanin instead?

I don’t think that the dishonesty and hypocrisy is actually lost on them. The difference is that the US is always the “Good Guy”, and whatever enemy of the moment is the “Bad Guy”. When the bad guy does it, it’s because they only do bad things. When the good guy does it, it’s because they had no choice. It also makes it easy to just make up whatever you want about the bad guy, such as this garbage, even when they’re actually doing what they claim the bad guy is doing.

Is this laissez-faire?

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The whole thing is morally and intellectually bankrupt. I absolutely loathe how they frame their enemies as surveillance states while simultaneously wiretapping the world.