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You don't think GitHub working on seven different interfaces to copilot and vibe coding PR page changes filled with bugs are a good use of engineering time?~

My favorite example already from the trailers was "the lady wearing mirror shades was already done in the movie Johnny Mnemonic in the 90s" and getting to explain that it is litera…

I still love the parody of contemporaries Vangelis, Wendy Carlos, and Moroder in the Adult Swim "Infomercial" called "Live from the Necropolis: Lords of Synth": https://www.youtube…

There's an interesting bellwether in mobile games right now. There are two easy statistics to track when trying random free-to-start games: time to first ad (TTFA), time to paywall…

Related music note that Molly Lewis released a song of the title specifically on August 4th, for reasons of thinking about the story, which includes the story text: https://www.pat…

Section 230 should have never applied to ads. Ads are a commercial relationship. Facebook and YouTube gets paid by these scammers so why would they want to accurately police them? …

The top of the article addresses this a bit: yes, Android in theory is AOSP [Android Open Source Project] which is still Linux based. (For now, lots of rumors every Android release…

I have autocorrect and predictive text on on the iPad and off on the iPhone and it is fascinating how much better it is on the iPad. One of the things that particularly killed me w…

It's what felt like what really killed Windows Phone. Too many things became "only available" through an iOS or Android app. Windows Phone was free as in beer towards the end and t…

It reminds me a bit of an anthropology question I've heard brought up a lot that's sort of the dark inverse of xkcd 1053 [0], that many things that "everybody knows" tend to get lo…

The proposed feed solution looks a lot like the CouchDB replication protocol, as another object in a convergent evolution space to consider.

Using conventional explosives is a real thing that exists: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explosion_welding

Using the Project Orion spacecraft to get there, of course. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Orion_%28nuclear_propu...

This alloy is naturally the macguffin in a Godzilla and/or Sentai film.

Ironically, Xbox One support for true offline play was gutted when Xbox gutted a lot of planned Family Sharing support when Sony claimed the Xbox One was not going to allow you to …

You avoid people problems by interviewing soft skills as soft skills , not building elaborate mazes of "technical interviews" that are really soft skill interviews testing how peda…

I had an interviewer once interrupt me and say there was no way I would have studied gray codes in college. I still don't know if that was some bias that I went to a "provincial sc…

The big one on the list that wasn't AT&T was microwaves and that was a contractor to Nasa [0] in the heat of the moon race and a similar "Do stuff. Then we'll see if we can use it"…

Depends on the company . The US maintains no requirements, federal holidays are a suggestion , not a mandate. A few states inside the US upgrade federal holidays to state holidays …

I feel it is a net negative for me. One of my hobbies has always been fiction writing. The LLM reflections of my own writing become slot machines to me for cheap dopamine hits. It'…

I think that LLM's are a broken mirror or maybe disco ball. What you get back is almost always a reflection of what you put in, just garbled through and with the reflections of so …

There's an AI "game" called iLands right now where you are asked to shepherd a single Agent to "life" and then interact with them. They run "agentic" talking to each other and each…

Stamp costs don't stop snail mail spam, either, unfortunately. I would be concerned if we added something like bitcoin fees to email delivery rather than curtail spam it would just…

Can we use DMARC to ask Gmail to close registrations? Google Calendar to allow far fewer people the ability to send invite notifications? Firebase to close registrations? Azure? Mi…

ScummVM refers to that Broderbund engine as Mohawk [0]. It's interesting all of the other games that used that engine, including several major Carmen Sandiego games. A lot of those…