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Her opening set for Github Universe 2020 that used Sonic Pi is still so great. https://youtu.be/LaKT3pli5EQ

I have been playing Cyberpunk 2077, and recently I did a side-quest where you can do something that violates an agreement, and when you reveal what you learned during that violatio…

I got so much networking experience from hosting lan parties with quake and q3. Crimping cables. Installing 10 mbps pci card in people's computers, running dedicated servers with m…

But the answer to bad science is good science.

This podcast about the history of zaibatsu, hardware, and software comes to mind. https://www.disruptingjapan.com/the-forgotten-mistake-that-k... > Software was not viewed so much …

Even with a pseudonym, I worry that spy agencies with AI will have enough information to discover with high confidence who I really am, and that things I said online thinking I was…

You actually can define custom functions as named templates, but they're definitely not pretty, and would almost certainly push you towards the "just allow us to write code using a…

My way of giving my kids access to music without screens was to buy a battery powered mp3 playing radio, then fill an SD card with music and pop it into the player. I put a mix of …

lemmings.exe also had an immediate quit without warning on the esc key, iirc.

One of my favorite UX stories is about my first Mac, a 12" g4 mbp. One of the best things about it was that I could open the lid and it would immediately be awake and ready to use.…

I was recently raving about how NYC's metro payment system OMNI doesn't require an app, so you can use whatever contactless payment device you already have to get around NYC. That …

Oh dang, you're right. Mac OS X was my first Mac OS, but it looks like the Drop Box concept existed long before OS X. Here's a reference from 1991 titled "AppleShare Drop Box: Acce…

I thought it was a reference to the Mac OS X `~/Public/Drop Box` directory, which was a write-only place for people to send files to your user, which has been around since the firs…

Yeah, I forgot to mention that the pay-to-play even applies to multiplayer within your own LAN. I just verified that nothing had changed since I last played: you are unable to join…

Yeah, "think of the children" is a rhetorical technique but also a logical fallacy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Think_of_the_children

Another thing that is crazy to me (and maybe this is a premonition) is that if you play MS games online on Xbox, you have to have a subscription, but if you play on other platforms…

Chaining a switch off the gateway is the best way to do it anyway. If you do that, then when you reboot your gateway, your lan devices do not lose their physical link and can conti…

It sounds interesting, and surely there would be some awesome things that would come from it, but on the other hand, MS could use this to take control of linux APIs through their "…

Adobe did this with their perpetually licensed software. If you install Lightroom 6 today, the face detection and maps features do not work because they didn't pay for perpetual li…

Before electronic POS systems accounted for this, we'd just split the bill evenly. I didn't like that solution either though because it rewarded people who ordered expensive food o…

If you forget to pay when you get back to your car, are you charged the max? That's how it works with other systems like this that I've used.

There is a part of Ghost in The Wires that is pretty close to that: Ring me up, Mate. Neill. That made me smile. But what the hell? I figured: he already knew he had been hustled, …

Oh god, I just disabled dark mode and yeah, it looks awful. Looks great in dark mode though.

> OpenAI was founded as a nonprofit, and is today overseen and controlled by that nonprofit. Does anybody actually believe that?

The 2020 and 2021 versions of The Frame had direct API access for updating artwork. Newer versions apparently have access through cloud services, but I haven't tried it yet. - http…