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Steam predates all those platforms by years. The only platforms that I can think of predating it are long dead and didn’t have the same concept of ownership (gamespy, gamestorm, AO…

Why would you allow notifications from most apps? What could the McDonald’s app possibly offer to warrant allowing it to dictate your attention for even a fraction of a second?

That’s a cool historical fact but the modern colloquial usage is synonymous with poor (financially) countries.

And when you work on a really big codebase you start having multiple files and have to learn tools more advanced than ctrl-f!!

The comment you are replying to was replying to a comment that was more akin to “the ceramic bits on the floor were caused by your parents meeting” though

These dosages are off the charts for what most people ever do. A typical estimate is 15 mg psilocybin per gram of dried mushroom so for a 200 pound person that’s 90 grams of mushro…

People like free and the “greedy corporations” found a way to give them what they want. Google search is trash now (for reasons that aren’t entirely in Google’s control), but for t…

Funny you mention Seattle’s light rail. The first part of New York’s subway system was built in 4 years and had more stops than Seattle’s light rail does after 15 years. We (Americ…

The idea that it costs nothing somehow is bizarre. If you divide the NHS budget for 2024 (192 billion) by the UK population (67 million) you’ll find it works out to just under 3000…

Plea bargains account for over 90% of convictions in the US. Part of the cause is prosecutors can and do offer deals that rational actors would have a hard time refusing. As a triv…

I’m not a CS academic or a mathematician, but don’t Godel’s incompleteness theorems preclude a formal proof of correctness?

Surely you can’t believe the outer space treaty will be followed once interplanetary travel is actually possible. If someone like Elon Musk were to liquidate all their earth assets…

While the world’s resources are finite I think it is excessively pessimistic to suggest we’re consuming anywhere near all that is available to us. It’s possible to call out externa…

My recollection is in Europe (or at least Spain circa 2016) Mountain Dew was much less intensely colored than in the US, and the neon tint was mainly from the bottle.

Teams has the advantage of being able to juice their numbers by counting everyone with an office license as a customer.

The Kinect was released in November 2010. Are you suggesting they’re still running it? My understanding is it died ~six months after the Xbox one released (early 2014) when they st…

Thanks for writing this. I cringe every time I see someone drop the phrase “there’s no direct English translation” as if it means there is some unique insight only able to be expre…

El Pais is a well knownand reasonably reputable Spanish newspaper; at a tier equivalent to the New York Times or Wall Street journal in the US. It is unlikely they are producing AI…

For context apple offers 0% apr financing on many of their products with the Apple Card. If one has the means to buy a new iPhone with cash, why not take the free ~40 bucks you can…

Tabs vs spaces has been a viewer setting for decades for tab users.

I have a very strong distaste for our based future, but saying ads are “paying to spread disinformation” is like saying joining the army is only for people who want to murder other…

I’ll allow that I’m entirely misunderstanding the goal, but why is it important to stick close to the semantic meaning of rust code? How does this differ from implementing GC in C+…

1. Medicare only covers the most expensive in terms of health care costs demographic. Knowing nothing else I’d expect having more people on Medicare to correspond with higher costs…

The problem here is the open market insurance is all garbage compared to basically any employer plan. Especially for those of us in tech.

Where are you staying? That has not been my experience with any Airbnb in the last 5 years. I’ve stayed in airbnbs in New York City, San Francisco, Berkeley and Corvallis. It costs…