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It's a bold move. Educational material -- particularly frontend -- is an ever-shrinking pie, so Geoff is betting on claiming a very large share of that. I hope it pays off.

This article falls into the same trap, I dunno what to call them, artsy-upper-class-society-and-film reviewers often do; writing vague yet meaningful-sounding things about the obvious subtext of a movie as if it was a revelation, yet without any specific observations about it.

Yes, this is a documentary about a person. And how the documentary is presented will color your perspective of the person. This should (hopefully) be apparent to anyone who's watched a documentary about a person before.

But how does it do it? What tools does it use to that effect? I appreciate that this film remains relatively neutral/ambiguous, but what makes this unique from other documentaries that deal with ambiguous subject matter?

Really depends on the land in question. Some forests have thick underbrush, some are almost completely clear. A lot of undeveloped land isn't even forest - swamp, desert, rocky mountains. Sometimes it's far easier to navigate than a parking lot, IME.

[1] very clearly just cherrypicked some particularly popular posts from before the Ukrainian strike, and some particularly unpopular and/or very new posts from after.

Show me some graphs! Some actual data! Not just the 6 exact posts necessary to make the point.

This argument consistently comes up in techie circles when it comes to regulating or outlawing, well, just about anything, and it really gets my goat.

Making something illegal is the prerequisite to enforcement. These are separate parts of the government. You can't build enforcement infrastructure around something that isn't yet illegal! You don't even know what that would look like until you know what the laws you're enforcing are. Enforcement is the goal of these processes, the laws are the foundation from which enforcement stems.

It is true that simply putting a law down doesn't mean the problem is solved. But solving these problems doesn't happen all at once, so there's no reason to criticize the first step for not being a leap to the finish line.

Actually, would you elaborate on your last point? This perspective is interesting and I'm curious how you see things progressing.

You've misread/misunderstood the book review. It's saying the exact opposite, and the same thing as you; that in the book, the aliens are more like westerners, and the humans Chinese.

The thesis as given - "The real aliens are the Chinese people" (note the 'real') - is saying that, to an American reading the book, the portrayal of the humans feels more alien than the extraterrestrial aliens, while the extraterrestrial aliens are closer to familiar western culture.

With all these new Jev-like models popping up, has anyone actually started building anything with them yet? It's odd how quickly they've multiplied despite being relatively niche in their use cases, as far as I can tell. I suppose they're simple and cheap enough to make that it's a sort of 'why not' thing for a lot of these companies.

Good news, they've been working on adding C# support for a year or two now. I think it's still experimental, but from what I understand they already had a robust extension system that supported C/C++/Java/etc., so fitting C# in wasn't much of a stretch.

(it is only extension support -- not scripting -- but the extension system is such that it can be used for any game logic AFAIK)