Wow, this seems like a lot of folks first encounter with a lyrical essay. I won't hold that against anyone. I have heard many things about the American school system. Writing like this is meant to be felt as much as evaluated. The argument matters, but the cadence and emotional momentum matter just as much. The author give you are chance to think about each point that is being said. Our dopamine addicted brains can't deal with this well anymore unfortunatly. Which is I guess why people feel uncomfortable, and don't know why.

It’s uncomfortable for some people to experience an idea they can’t fit in their head all at once

It also reflects how very little some people have read.

You think the US govenment would go for a French typeface?

To be fair, they did choose a Roman one - one with proper Italics even.

A "thank you" for La Liberté éclairant le monde.

Unless you don't know the language well, then icons are very helpful.

Local models are fine for the way we have been using AI, like as a chatbot, or a fancy autocomplete. But everyone is craming AI into everything. Windows will be an agentic OS whether we like it or not. There will be no using your own local model for that use case. It is looking like everything is moving that way.

Hmmm, maybe use a different OS? I would never dream of using Windows to get any type of work done myself and there are many others like me. There certainly are choices. If you prefer to stay, MCP services can be configured to use local models, and people are doing so on Windows as well (and definitely with MacOS and Linux). From an OS instrumentation perspective, I think MacOS is probably the most mature -- Apple has acknowledged MCP and intends a hybrid approach defaulting to their own in house, on device, models, but by embracing MCP appears to be allowing local model access.

Your comment was written by AI, you should mention that somewhere

They are obviously looking for something to meet there future needs, not there current needs. It is free now, but they might be planning to one day tick over the free thresholds.

A programming language could be as simple as a domain-specific-language done in a JSON format. It could just abstract away a bunch of thing, and most of the logic would just be in your "game engine".

So you are not accepting the challenge then. Sounds like you are over thinking or over scoping the problem.

or just keenly aware of their own strengths, weaknesses, and time budget for this? the leap to “over scoping” is wild.

I was just meaning, that if you think you can't do it in the timeframe, then you are making it too big for yourself. The rules are so loose that you could literally make a programming language that has a single command `run_my_awesome_game()` and fully impliment the logic etc in your language and library of choice. Obviously a trivial/useless example, but take it up a few notches and you could have something interesting. A DSL inside JSON can be very powerful.

Might be the biggest example of false equivalence I have seen in a long time.

The fact you can point out specific examples of when Blender is used says a lot. It tells me it is the exception.

Agreed. You haven’t really won until it stops becoming noteworthy and “oh look X is using Blender!!”

Nobody talks about how Linux dominates the server space anymore. Nobody talks about how “git is winning” or getting “battle tested”. These are mundane and banal facts.

I don’t believe the same has happened to Blender yet.