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Christ, you scared me there. Stallman is not dead.

It's a bit more advanced and complex then gamemaker - when I used it a few years ago a more direct comparison would have been a 2d specialist Unity (although it does 3d as well, an…

Some background on the Adidas/Puma rivalry, which is quite a fascinating story: https://sports.vice.com/en_us/article/mgz97b/the-nazi-siblin...

Yes I am! Thanks!

To be fair, the 256 byte stack can essentially be used in assembly as 256 registers, which is also one of the features (along with indirect addressing) that make assembly on it awe…

Interesting - what would the evidence that current paywalls are/have restored quality journalism be? As in, do you believe this uptick in quality journalism has already happened/is…

I wanted to follow along - your blog looks excellent, I'll check there and micro.blog. Thank you. Incidentally (and rhetorically), how I have not heard of micro.blog? It looks amaz…

How do I get updates on the groups project? Wiby seems amazing - the first three surprise me links were a human powered ornithopter, lego maniacs and a guide to knife throwing. Tha…

Bread and circuses https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bread_and_circuses

I can't comment nationally, but I've been having fish and chips a couple of times at our local and near my parents, both in London, and they're all using vinegar.

Death note is almost a reverse bird box. Bird box has an excellent premise, which turns out to just be a hook on which to hang some character development (I did quite enjoy it thou…

I think it's mostly a psychological barrier in most respects. There's also no necessity to comment - lurking, despite the quite awful name we've given the behaviour, is a perfectly…

To be fair, it was the PUBG developers themselves who called Fortnite a clone: https://www.forbes.com/sites/insertcoin/2017/09/22/pubg-deve... And also Epic themselves stated Fortn…

There was a great list on BoingBoing recently of works entering the public domain this year: https://boingboing.net/2018/12/31/thanks-justin.html Also a rather sadder list followin…

This seems to be a classic example of an argument in which the ends don't justify the means (the means being allowing the lawsuits, the ends being publishers switch to "absolute pa…

That's kind of awesome. How good with names would you say you are now? Also, is that the whole technique? Seems like you'd have to say it for quite a while to get it in to long ter…

Ah, that's awesome! thanks!

Great article. Wish he named some of those "obscure Eastern European computers". I know there are good communities around the Japanese microcomputers, the Sharp X1, the 8801, the 9…

Do you have an online reference for that? I tried this IBM one but it has a terrible clickthrough to attempt to avoid GDPR: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-ppc/index.h…

Whether an individual building performs its function well or not, its still a central tenet of Brutalism to embed the function in the form. I appreciate that if everything was Brut…

I can see how building a process directly into a building can lead to an inflexibility with changing the process. I think the argument you're making lends itself well to a criticis…

That's likely subjective, as I think it's extremely aesthetically pleasing - I've always seen Brutalism as having strong links with the Bauhaus style, something else I have high re…

>They're just making the point that she didn't marry him for his social credit score, even though he happens to have a high score under the system. Yes, that makes sense. I still h…

Just for reference the original title was 'Leave no dark corner'

I'd imagine given her husband is a Chinese civil servant, this is either with approval or she has been asked to do it. There's no way a marketing consultant and a civil servant don…