When did he know she was a spy?

It was a real attack, but the troops were told to pull back so JC could be tested.

Well, I mean, they still are for most of the public.

That doesn't sound like something that counts as an easy option.

If someone is already setting up Windows manually themselves, I believe they're already at some level of technical ability.. but as I pointed out in another comment, my reply was specifically to OP who I made an assumption had some technical ability given that they're here on hacker News. Maybe that assumption is wrong and I recognize that.

That said, the process is:

1) while installing Windows press shift f10

2) a command prompt will open and you type OOBE\BYPASSNRO

When you hit enter the computer will reboot and allow local mode.

I fully recognize that this is a hidden option that most people don't know about, but if you do, it seems pretty straightforward to me for someone that's already at a level where they're comfortable manually installing Windows, but I recognize I have an blind spot due to my own technical abilities.

Those weren't the reasons. For example, you make it sound like he just used the word "gonads" once, but actually, he had an entire 39-minute presentation with multiple references to testicles.

They may not be the real reasons but they're the reasons that were referred to by the organizers.

Personally I was not aware of that and I feel like something like that should have come up during the entire time he was being deplatformed.

But, was he referencing actual testicles or did he just use the term "balls" in a tongue in cheek manner (to mean like, chutzpah or something?)

How will you ever improve if you don't practice?

Respectfully, I find your sentiment baffling. For me, knowing more about something enhances its value.

I proudly stand in the 'interesting as long as I don't understand it' camp!

You mean you have a hypothesis. :) A theory is an entire body of facts and experiments.

"3. a speculative or conjectural view or idea"

(Collins dictionary, noun 'theory')

I would say they his theory is quite supported by my own experience - which is a form of ad hoc experiment.

Surely only in the specific meaning of "scientific theory"? E.g theory of gravity.

I fear that the Democrats will once again fixate on reconciliation and "reaching across the aisle" and "moving forward."

No need to fear it, you can be assured that some version of that will be what happens in this fake theater of the ruling class where their "left" puppet squabbles and fights the "right" puppet in their puppet show. I am sure the Democrats will "investigate" and hold "hearings" that look like doing things and they may even discover how terrible, horrible, no good, very bad the other side is ... so you should donate.

The problem is and long has been that they are all implicated and criminal and traitors to different degrees and using different ways and means; the cat burglar accusing the smash-and-grab burglar of being a criminal beyond the pale.

Until people realized that all the fake "left" and "right", and the "Democrat" and "Republican" is just the two levers of the same ratchet, nothing will change. Unfortunately for us all, the trend and characteristics projected forward seem to indicate that nothing will change until everything breaks and the enemies of the Constitution and its rights everyone takes for granted all around the globe are finally overcome again after 250+ years of suffering with peasants having rights.

> I suspect the economics and 'shape' of the gaming industry to change over the next few years. Currently we're in this strange place with game dev where a large portion of software engineers (majority?) are using LLMs and AI coding tools, but for some reason the gaming industry (or at least it's customers) are vehemently anti-AI to the point studios have to put out statements about AI usage to assuage the mobs online.

Users hate AI-generated assets, and justifiably so because they're often really terrible, and they take work away from artists. Regarding LLMs, users are far less passionate unless the project has clearly been slopped out as a quick-and-dirty vibecoded app.

Sure, but not all users hate AI generated assets, there are some who do not care either way (or can’t tell). I know plenty of artists (designers) in digital who are embracing generative AI and getting more done - granted, they are not artists who generate assets for games. But hey, maybe I’m biased working in the industry.

I can sympathise why many hate gen AI for the jobs it’s taken (and there is nuance here because often it’s not gen ai - it’s cost cutting or misaligned expectations from executives) but I feel like the craftsman who embraces the tool can create more value for the world than the craftsman who does not.

In any case, there will be a market for 100% human made art, media, and games -I’m just not sure we should obsess with enforcing (and gatekeeping), if someone who is a mediocre artist with a great game idea wants to make a game and use AI to accelerate themselves to deliver a better product for the world then that’s great.