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About $1B/year.

CS:GO is the highest grossing game on Steam, according to some sources, all agree its top 5.

Why is that irrelevant?


Also consistently the most played game on Steam by a fair margin. That doesn't necessarily make it the most played PC game since some big titles like League and Fortnite aren't on Steam, but it's at least close.


Raid shadow legends is also estimated to make around $1B/year, and there are many such mobile games.

Roblox made $3.6B in 2024. Fornite makes $3-5B/year for the past ~decade.

Genshin Impact is estimated to make ~$10B this year.

Not only in revenue, but all of the above have way more cultural impact/awareness too.

The pond is very big, but it's easy to miss that if you're in a bubble in that pond.


CS is consistently the top played game on Steam every year. Are you saying Steam isn't relevant? That's quite the claim to be making.


You didn't know what you were talking about and got caught in it.

That's fine! I was surprised too.

Something I've learned with age is it's better to have a laugh together than throw out more cover.


Whether or not we used to walk to school uphill both ways, that won't make the resolution fine.

To your point, I'd use my Vision Pro plugged in all day if it was half the weight. As it stands, its just too much nonsense when I have an ultrawide. If I were 20 year old me I'd never get a monitor (20 year old me also told his gf iPad 1 would be a good laptop for school, so,)


One problem is that in most settings a real monitor is just a better experience for multiple reasons. And in a tight setting like an airplane where VR monitors might be nice, the touch controls become more problematic. "Pardon me! I was trying to drag my screen around!"


> (20 year old me also told his gf iPad 1 would be a good laptop for school, so,)

Yikes. How'd that relationship end up? Haha.


Lol, I laughed then 20 seconds later started taking this literally: I think that was July, it had been two years, and it was over by November (presumably due to my other excellent qualities!) (all joking aside, for younger members in our audience, it was sweet and she was around in my life for at least another decade)


It's deeper to note people who know nothing will make the mistake, than "I, an expert, will make the mistake"? :)


Okay broader then?


There's bursts of them and every 3-6 months I see one like this, more practical, and remember I don't need to read the others. Then I forget in 3 months. Rinse, lather, repeat. (to this 16 year veteran of HN, it reminds of early 2010s Haskell)


> X is first class and thus Y [implemented in terms of X] is too.

Is everything first class, then?


I would argue C preprocessor macros are not first class. They are optional.

This anything implements with macros are not first class


In theory it can encode 0 and 1 so anything really, right?


There's no magic wand that can make memory safety unimportant, even doing other important things.


I agree! Memory safety is important because it's the cause of some of the top vulnerabilities, which is precisely why it's great that both Rust's level of memory safety (which is not absolute) and Zig's level of memory safety (also not absolute), both eliminate those top weaknesses!

But once you've taken care of the top weaknesses, it becomes harder to justify putting more effort into eliminating some weaknesses that could go into reducing more common/dangerous ones. If vulnerabilities are the justification, it definitely makes more sense to reduce, say, #4 on the list than #7.


“ Governments that expect some content or other blocked can damn well do it themselves, in their own legal system”

What you are describing is exactly what is going on here. OFCAM’s final action, if taken, is blocking at ISP level. All of the legal stuff is happening in the UK system.

I’m just sort of curious for your thoughts after learning that.

(Also, I’m curious about the SCOTUS decision, I.e. which one? I used to be a law nerd and got a kick out of reading oral arguments for the first time in years this week, would appreciate more material)


No, it's also able to do things like issue fines, which they have, although American law is not amenable to actually collecting those if their assets are all here. I don't really care if british choose to block something on british soil.

Murthy v. Missouri was generally a loss; 6-3 with Justice Barrett for the majority ruling states lacked standing, which is consistent with the Roberts court's informal policy of dodging. Alito dissented, joined by Thomas and I think Gorsuch, and that is worth a read. The more important one was NRA v. Vullo, a unanimous opinion from Sotomayor. Gorsuch wrote a concurrence as did I believe one other justice.


The remarkable thing about Murthy is it was bipartisan, with the 3 dissenters being conservative.


When you put it that way, well, it made me chuckle. (The irony!)


I have spent the last 2.5 years living like a monk to maintain an app across all paid LLM providers and llama.cpp.

I wish this was true.

It isn't.

"In algorithms, we have space vs time tradeoffs, therefore a small LLM can get there with more time" is the same sort of "not even wrong" we all smile about us HNers doing when we try applying SWE-thought to subjects that aren't CS.

What you're suggesting amounts to "monkeys on typewriters will write entire works of Shakespeare eventually" - neither in practice, nor in theory, is this a technical claim, or something observable, or even stood up as a one-off misleading demo once.


If "not even wrong" is more wrong than wrong, then is 'not even right" more right than right.

To answer you directly, a smaller SOTA reasoning model with a table of facts can rederive relationships given more time than a bigger model which encoded those relationships implicitly.


I don't know, man.

I don't have a theoretical explanation, especially one that won't be batted away by another theoretical explanation.

I just feel like there's better ways to clean your coffee maker than putting dishwasher detergent/powder/whatever in it and running a coffee making cycle. Sounds like a horrible* idea.

* I should offer a "why" - off the top of my head: if it rinsed out that quick, why does the dishwasher take so long?


I can understand your reservations, „running a coffee making cycle“ makes it sound as if it is some kind of machine - which it isn’t. It’s one of these percolators, made of stainless steel, that you put on your stove to make coffee. Look up „Bialetti Moka“ and you get the idea, it’s really quite simple.

The reason why the dishwasher takes so long is that it takes time to break down the grime. Same in the coffee maker. There is a deep crevice in the coffee compartment that cannot be cleaned mechanically because you can’t really reach it (clearly a design flaw if you ask me). But remaining coffee tends to build up there and over time it affects the taste. Using detergent and letting it sit overnight breaks down this oily residue and leaves it shiny as new. Then you take the whole thing apart, gaskets and all and thoroughly rinse it. If I put the coffee maker into the dishwasher it would be the exact same chemicals (ok, at 70 instead of 100 degrees Celsius) plus less thorough rinsing. But no one would object.


They may elect to wait and ask Darwin.


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