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"work harder!" shouted the overseer

Should be required reading.

The article should be titled "Life Before the Invention of CAD." There were lots of CAD applications before AutoCAD, and plenty since, as well.

My experience largely mirrors the OP's. I find reading and writing in darkness to be very pleasant with the new backlight, but YMMV. Lack of backwards compatibility with my existin…

It's called phased array. Pretty mature tech now.

I didn't pay for Clear so that I could bask in my social status at the airport. I paid for it so I don't have to go through the PornoScanner™, which is ridiculous, demeaning, and u…

"Full Self Driving," for some definition of "Full" and "Self."

no doubt implemented by a galaxy brained dev working in goblin mode

I think Hardspace: Shipbreaker belongs somewhere on this list. ( https://www.focus-entmt.com/en/games/hardspace-shipbreaker )

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I can relate. I had wanted to write my own version of Asteroids for 40 years. Maybe not as ambitious as an RPG, but then again, I didn't write a straight clone; I made it my own wa…

Spot on. The question is whether Vision Pro is the next iPhone or the next Newton, and I have no clue.

Some editor should be told that "Elon Musk says" is not the click generator it may once have been.

One of the best, most original, innovative, and fun games ever made. M.U.L.E. was a work of art, and I'm so happy that somebody has kept it alive.

If there's anyone I don't need to be "inspired by," it's "rich kids."

"If it looks like magic to me, it must be magic."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyu4u3VZYaQ

So Gradle is not a build tool, it's a tool for building build tools? That's wonderful, but that's not what I want. I am trying to solve problems in my particular domain. I want to …

80/20.

He doesn't name names. It's just "the woke left." I'm pretty left, and I have a big problem with China's treatment of the Uyghurs. I don't buy that this piece, or its author, is se…

What he picked up was that he didn't even have to hide his contempt for the law any more. He can't just flaunt it, yet, but he doesn't have to bother working hard to hide it, eithe…

Can the proliferation of LLMs in the hands of bad actors precipitate a society-wide epistemic crisis? Survey says "maybe".

Because the government doesn't underwrite auto loans and home loans, guaranteeing a return to the originators.

That does suck.

BUD: "I can't leave her car in this bad area. Look I need some helpful soul to drive it for me, okay? She's pregnant. She's with twins. She could drop at any time. All right?" AUTO…