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Have you noticed Claude Code now gives a suggestion for what to reply with that you can autocomplete with tab? Wouldn't surprise me if Fable used that concept in some way, whether …

And that's a dangerous game because the cheaper compute gets, the more likely consumers are to self-host rather than pay a subscription.

This is a cool tech demo, not a video game. The fact that video game stocks slid by so much after this release just shows how reactive, speculative and uneducated most investors ar…

Your health is ultimately your own responsibility - it's your body. You have free will, and your appetite for risk is yours alone. You can choose to ignore expert advice and refuse…

I really don't understand the modern hate towards OOP. From my experience over the last few decades working with large C and C++ codebases, the former turns into a big ball of mud …

I really hate the way The Register use terms like "techie" and "boffin". It always comes across to me as anti-intellectual.

Great minds think alike! Here's my attempt using an ESP-based smart watch that clips onto your clothes at night: https://github.com/a1studmuffin/lilygo-twatch-sleepdevice

Plus 2) would require additional design, engineering and QA work to implement the code to drain users' batteries. And it would cause plenty of users to uninstall/complain if Messen…

Hang on a second, you consider Jan 2014 to be "very, very old"? Commercial software often has dependencies on libraries going back decades .

Some people just enjoy their job. I know several engineers who retired, only to return after a hiatus because they missed working with a team on something they were good at and pas…

Hell yes, I use it daily. I'm in AAA gamedev and the codebase I deal with goes back 20+ years. The last 10 years are readily accessible in Perforce and the rest can be found in ano…

Game AI has nothing to do with AGI (or even regular AI) beyond the surface level description OP provided. The reason game AI hasn't progressed in the last few decades isn't because…

I have to agree. Pumping out C++ revisions every 3 years means I can no longer assume a game written in C++ will port relatively painlessly from one C++-compatible platform to anot…

I automated searching for a rental property across all the major property websites in my country. In particular I was looking for properties with certain attributes (bathtub, lock …

Yeah I'm really interested to see the g-forces involved in one of those flights, I can't imagine it's a gentle take-off and landing.

I'd be willing to replace my one-off expensive tech purchases with a subscription model for a specific hardware manufacturer instead. The subscription would get you your device (sm…

if (!is_not_cancer(cell)) { preserve(cell); } else { kill(cell); } Wait, hang on...

I knew a Londoner with an almost identical commute, seems quite common over there. At the time my commute was 60 minutes one-way, and even though it was pretty easy (a single train…

Your mileage may vary. Replacing the battery in an HTC One M8 is like performing eye surgery via the rectum.

I'd love to see an automated karma system that scored posts on correct grammar, spelling and readability. I guess that would discourage non-native speakers of a language from parti…

I'm in the opposite situation, I have all the ANSI art I created but none of the Remote Access database + config files. CRC error. Oh 3.5" floppy disks, how you made storage exciti…

Very novel approach! I can't see this scaling to the scope of most modern games though. Eventually it always comes back to an army of QA testers.

Yeah I second this. I could diagnose a PC problem, pull it apart, swap hardware out, put it back together again without a second thought. But something goes wrong with my car and I…

Don't most smartphones have emergency broadcasts built-in these days? Who doesn't have their phone on them when they're driving in a car?