If both houses switch then he will be distracted fighting them for the rest of his term; if they don't we no longer need to treat the US as a functioning democracy.

And then what? Things will magically go back to the way they were? I doubt it. The US has seriously damaged its international reputation. It has burned bridges. It has started literal wars. Removing the Orange Danger would be a good start, but it will by no means by the end the problem.

Can you clarify what you mean by "it is vastly more likely someone will actually try that key"?

I'm guessing you don't think there are people calling rdrand in a loop and throwing away the output with high probability except when it is 0, but I can't see how else you imagine people would be vastly more likely to use the output when it is 0?

In lots of scenarios I know the software used to generate the key; the only unknown is the random numbers used. If I am searching for weaknesses it is highly likely I would try keys with different seeds; zero, one, are going to me much more likely choices here then hoping I can guess the right values.

If someone was using RDRAND16 to seed a PRNG, choosing to omit one single value (a zero) from the return value would not significantly improve the generated values, if at all.

Looked at another way; leaving out the zero also dosn't significantly hurt. If the is any risk if it breaking the PRNG why take the risk.

If the keys are selected uniformly at random why are 0 and 1 more likely than other values?

Because I don't want my test keys to be random/none reproducable, instead I will just used fixed seeds to see if any timing etc leeks.

So what has that got to do with rdrand? I literally don't understand what you would get from preventing 0 as output?

this is not how crypto works

Not this quick but better then polling: https://supabase.com/features/supabase-pipelines

All Browsers do use hardware decoding for video though, I doubt safety is a major factor.

The factor is latency. Software decoding takes milliseconds.

Depending on CPU and the video/image resolution, performance drops means the eye perceives lags when the 50ms threshold is reached. For videos, especially at 60fps that matters.

For still images it doesn't.

If it ain't broke why fix it.

Even a half hearted RTS would be better recived, how can they not know that?

Couldn't be more wrong. The market for new RTSs is too tiny and saturated to turn a profit on any new IP. The small existing player base is too entrenched to move away from the old established IPs that are still popular to something new and unproven.

Starcraft III would be as far from a new IP as you could go while still making an RTS. Except for a Warcraft IV, I guess.

Guy you're out of touch

There's quite a few new RTS games coming out

Tempest Rising made more in profits than Marathon, despite selling a fraction as many copies.

Given that Marathon is unlikely to ever make a profit, Tempest Rising technically made infinitely more in profits than Marathon did.

Go on?

Tempest Rising was taunted as the old school C&C RTS comeback and it ended as niche game with small player base and 9.5k player peak on Steam.

Probably best RTS game going on currently is Beyond All Reason, and that's because guys are doing it as an open source clone/followup to Total Annihilation and Supreme Commander Alliances and not actual business (but they started to look for a way to monetize it to fund future development).

Taunted = vaunted?

MOBAs largely absorbed the younger player base that would have been into traditional RTS games. The whole genre came out of a Warcraft mod.

StarCraft 2 is really hard to beat.

This is probably the safest thing they could do with the genre from a business perspective.

There is no one left at Blizzard with any RTS experience. They've long since left for smaller studios.

SC2 is my favorite game of all time and I would love nothing more than an SC3. But if there ever is to be a real spiritual successor it won't be from Blizzard.

Problem is I don't want a spiritual successor. I want an actual successor that would build on the Starcraft universe, but in an RTS.

If you're a fan of single player checkout the mod scene. It's very good. UED First Light is excellent.

An RTS game would generate lower revenue but higher profits. Low risk but low reward.

A shooter is a high risk high-reward endeavor. The track record for shooters for the past 5 years is actually much worse than it has been for RTS games, but the ceiling for success is much higher. In 2026 alone, several AAA shooters have failed in the market. Most of the shooters released in the past 2 years have failed to survive. The few that succeeded made a lot of money.

Financially incorrect, it seems.

Whom they often sue. 100% they would would consider the logo/branding/bottle infringing if they were a competing product.

Sue for using “cola” in the product name? Citation most definitely needed.

Is that what I said?

Fallout 4 parodies the potential legal issue itself in one of its loading screens:

Nuka-Cola's signature rocket-shaped bottle replaced the traditional curved bottle when a rival corporation successfully sued for patent infringement. Fortunately, the public saw the new bottle as an improvement and Nuka-Cola's sales increased.

For when you need another decimal place of accuracy deciding what you should have moved instead of hanging your queen.

It was the being fired that made the news; not the stealing.

What is super wired is they _do_ explicitly and publicly give donors preferential access. https://www.britishmuseum.org/support-us/patrons/sloane-circ...