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Carmack didn't invent BSP trees. He read about them in a paper and produced an efficient implementation that could render a 2D map in 3D using integer math on 386-class CPUs. He ha…

> This industry is in _desperate_ need of strong technical help, but unfortunately the "higher ups" tend to be the same people who are "comfortable" with the way thing are and refu…

The problem is there exists a version of Quake Champions where everybody plays equally. It's called Quake 3: Arena. The thing is, Q3A was originally supposed to be a sort of primit…

It'd be glib to say that Smalltalk is a Lisp, but Smalltalk's ideas are similar enough to Lisp's that I would put it squarely in the "Lisp camp". The same is true of things like Ru…

Quake Champions was the Mortal Kombat to Overwatch's Street Fighter. I've only ever seen gameplay vids of it, but it looked a trip.

Funny you should mention autism. I'm of the belief that if I really wanted to, my autism could help me become a very effective AI-assisted programmer, because autistic communicatio…

Appliances like the washing machine literally killed the market for "hired help" in the anglosphere. In-house servants used to be relatively common among the middle and upper class…

As in the title character of Marshall Brain's story "Manna". Or the AI could threaten humans into compliance, as in the 2008 film Eagle Eye .

And yet still in the standard "Jeep Grand Cherokee melted in the sun" shape. I wouldn't mind so much if the popular land yachts of decades past like the 1957 Cadillac Eldorado were…

Windows 2000 was peak. Windows XP was when they started putting the activation bullshit in, which was just a little too much for privacy-brained me. I had migrated to Linux pretty …

But is your solution scalable? Resilient against injection attacks? What about o11y? Is literally anyone besides you going to be running these searches? If so, you're going to want…

Questions like this, and things like Leetcode, etc., are a measure of not only your intelligence, but one of the most valuable skills you can have as an employee: the ability to "c…

Interviewer's notes: anal_reactor is stubborn, difficult to work with, has little regard for others' opinions, not a team player. Do not recommend hiring.

What I think you're referring to is, every process has its own view of the file system. So you can control what a process has access to simply by controlling what the file tree vis…

The 9 in a circle was inspired by a meme about Cirno of Touhou fame; in the manual for Phantasmagoria of Flower Garden , she is labeled "⑨ バカ", hence the memes about her being kind…

Location: Gulfport, MS Remote: Preferred Willing to relocate: No Technologies: C, C++, Java, JavaScript/TypeScript, Ruby, Python, Lisp (if I can get it), PostgreSQL, Kafka, AWS, Do…

See also: Windows XP. Upon release it was a security/stability CF. Today there are retrocomputing forums dedicated primarily to it. What they are gazing rose-coloredly back on is l…

I'm reminded of the hacks for old ThinkPads that read the accelerometer used to detect drops and park the disk heads; by slapping the machine on either side, you could switch to th…

These days "cyber" undecorated usually implies "-security", muddying those waters further.

Blit the iso to a usb stick and boot it. If your PC is recent (made in the past 15-20 years or so), it'll understand it just fine.

Mamdani should expropriate the building and do something charitable with it.

Present-day reality was only conceptualizable as sci-fi less than a decade ago. If you think it implausible that OpenAI and Anthropic could set their models to scrape the web, perf…

It's not about em dashes. It's not about particular turns of phrase. It's about getting the whole picture. Seriously the biggest tell for AI writing is "eighth grade essay syndrome…

(in homer simpson voice) That's not how AI works... so far!

No, he's still a pirate. If he doesn't like what the distributor releases, he shouldn't watch the movie or show at all. Paying for a legitimate copy does not grant you infinite leg…