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If you get the urge to try Capitalism again, you should take a look at Capitalism Lab [1]. It picks up from the original Capitalism series and adds a lot of UI enhancements / quali…

I still don't understand this one. Yes, clicking a link can trigger what it's linking to. That's the entire concept of links. You can also put a shortcut to a program on your deskt…

Yeah, we also have many highways with a speed limit of 80 and one with speed limit up to 85mph (~137kmh), so you wouldn't necessarily even be speeding.

Unlikely. You wouldn't have a payment method address for any free/non-paid/gifted account.

I wonder what is a "commercially reasonable effort" for a non-commercial website to collect, accurately verify, and securely store everyone's identity, location, and age? Personall…

It's more than that even. AI may have plenty of utility. But does the massive capex on GPUs that will all be obsolete in a couple years? You can still run a train on those old trac…

Over the course of my learning and my career, I've kind of gone back and forth on this a bit. On the one hand, software is like a living thing. Once you bring it into this world, y…

It depends largely on what you're doing with it. True, I would never want to have to talk a customer through setting up and running a python system. I know there are ways to packag…

This is kinda amusing. robots.txt main purpose back in the day was curtailing penalties in the search engines when you got stuck maintaining a badly-built dynamic site that had ton…

Agreed. And it was partly how they ignored or snubbed two+ generations of rising developers, hobbyists, etc. No kid or hobbyist or person just learning was spending $1400+ on a com…

Yeah, I don't even do that. I just copy the files over if/when I want to. (Do people really not know how to use a basic filesystem to copy files these days?) But mostly I don't. My…

Yeah, makes me wonder where the author was during those decades. Guess he never heard of the Rust Belt (or maybe thinks it's something holding up Iron Man's pants after a rainstorm…

I just asked ChatGPT where I could find info about a specific tabletop game that was heavily discussed online some years back and had multiple fan sites with house rules, forum, ma…

Title it "(current star name) Leaked Nudes.zip" and seed a torrent? Every few years, change the title to keep it current.

I was just thinking yesterday, wanting some Christmas music to get into the spirit while wrapping presents, remembering being a kid, when my mom would put on Jim Nabors' Christmas …

People will say it's easier now since there are so many (sooo many!) free languages and tools and frameworks out there. But while that's great for someone who already knows what th…

It's been in use since at least the late 1980s to early 1990s. I believe it was in the Turbo Pascal for DOS documentation I used back then, as well as Turbo Vision and some other t…

Up until the 2000s, ephedrine and pseudoephedrine were sold over the counter at pretty much every truck stop, gas station, and convenience store. Usually at a big display rack at t…

What baffles me is just how many IT personnel in so many organizations around the world apparently just blindly hit the "Deploy this zero-day update to all production systems witho…

Yeah, I checked one near me and it said EMS arrived 1 minute after being notified and victim was transported via EMS air. Time to arrive at hospital seems reasonable for an air tra…

Germany is way farther north though. Houston is further south than Israel, about the same latitude as Kuwait City and the Sahara Desert. The temperature averages 20-30°F warmer tha…

I might consider it when advertisers stop using malware and spyware in their ads. There's absolutely no reason that an ad would need to run a script, contact a third-party system, …

Rarely used because it's invisible and quite awkward to use as a user, basically unusable to most, with no GUI. Also because it will just silently be demolished if you copy to/from…

Even on one monitor, I just use the built-in stuff (Win key + arrow keys to position windows, Win key + tab to get to virtual desktops, right click taskbar to cascade or tile). I t…

I was not entirely convinced by the article, being used to box plots myself for several decades. I've used them in school, college, and at work. But after having read these comment…