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A few years ago we spoke to their CTO about their data model and were appalled at how cavalier they were about having all customer data in the same database and how that was their …

This is one of the most insidious projects I've ever seen and despite the touted credentials of the backers looks to be completely divorced from the realities of how children shoul…

At a young age SimEarth made a huge impression on me. I think it was the inscrutability and huge manuals that spoke of a wonderful ecological secret, tantalisingly out of reach no …

Always good to revisit his older work, though I admit I did get excited that it was a new post!

https://www.thegamer.com/ubisoft-co-founder-claude-guillemot...

Some interesting parallels to BLAME!, a manga about an ever-expanding colossal city: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blame !

For me SQL has long been the gateway to the world of development. I work in the UK non-profit sector and traditionally this kind of technical knowledge is rare, so for any team I'v…

Looks like someone just pointed an LLM at the PDF and asked it to write a Markdown version. Very poor show.

Reminds me of an old favourite from The Onion: https://theonion.com/yamaha-ceo-pleased-with-current-product...

Given the URL and list of different opt-outs I thought this was going to be a shell script to set all these for you. In fact, I've just had an idea...

I think there's a precedent here: https://www.qwantz.com/index.php?comic=879

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I recommend https://generative.fm/ - the creator also has a nice little intro course on creating generative music systems on Gumroad: https://alexbainter.gumroad.com/l/generative-m…