I suspect that’s exactly why he became famous. He feels like someone you should hate, affable at first but there’s just something off, so you watch for it and his characters eventually display it.

I wonder if allegations against him were dismissed simply because he played that kind of character, and people assumed it was a character and not Spacy himself being the character he’s best at playing.

Or perhaps the characters he played eventually bled into the actor and he became that kind of person. That also seems to happen to actors over time.

At least he knows when he’s beaten, that’s worth some credit.

Some people never accept it.

It’s the best way, if it’s useful it’ll be used, if not then you’re not wasting time or money. Suits Valve’s methodology.

Others have answered, but here’s an extra bit of trivia: space looks like a deep dark void with these two in frame…

…turn around, when the sun and planets aren’t interfering and you see the stars. An absolute sea of stars that space appears full of them. Apparently it’s pretty damn fantastic.

Edit: here’s one now: Starstruck

Only reason for an education seems to be to join a tech company. I have a hunch that too much IT has sapped all other sectors of the best graduates, hence why everything else is so understaffed and expensive.

1: Yes.

2: Not really. It’s more about self image and social presentation.

3: Best response I have is, “And?” Covers a lot of bases.

4: Same way you get any title like Doctor, or Fam, you need to be accepted into the community by peers, and not necessarily universally.

Counterpoint: Why should they learn about it?

It is a good thing to reduce ignorance, but there is more to learn in the world than there is time to learn or space in the brain. People must specialise.

You must accept that not everyone will understand everything, and this is okay.

The nature of a Large Language Model is very specialist knowledge, data regurgitation is apt from a distance, especially when most publically available models are primarily used for search.

Criticism must be accepted, even from those who do not understand, so long as it’s in good faith. It is after all an opportunity to reduce ignorance to someone with the time and interest to learn.

Don’t rudely lord your intelligence over someone else, it might not end well, and invalidates the delivery of your entire argument.

Yeah, if it’s got the capacity to be bored it’s not going to stick around waiting for you. Pets act out when bored, as will AI, better to let the ghost in the machine go have fun in an arcade or something.

Current models can pretend to be bored when directed to, but they’re only facsimiles of thought at the moment, and the current approach probably won’t change that.

That’s how they get ya.

They point and say, “Look at that!” And turn up the sleep juice, then you’re gone, for like no time at all, And then you wake up to find your wisdom teeth are missing and the anesthesiologist is getting bribed by the tooth fairy.

Apparently Greenland is considered the largest island. The difference between a continent and island is a little arbitrary.

I’m guessing if both are Slav then both will ultimately lose to each other.

This is my favourite take so far from this post:

“Google’s own data from September 2024 shows that Android’s memory safety vulnerabilities dropped from 76% to 24% over just six years — not by retrofitting safety features onto existing C++ code, but by writing new code in memory-safe languages (Rust, Kotlin, Java). Google’s security blog makes a fascinating observation: vulnerabilities have a half-life. Code that’s five years old has 3.4x to 7.4x lower vulnerability density than new code, because bugs get found and fixed over time. The implication is striking — if you just stop writing new unsafe code, the overall vulnerability rate drops exponentially without touching a single line of existing C++.”

Starting to transition away is perhaps the best step if these stats ring true. Then actively seeking out bad C++ practices is probably going to quietly pay dividends as well.