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"Smart: no start-ups put rats on trams." Let's hope this remains true.

People keep telling me to use Dreamweaver but I stick with what works: FrontPage 98

https://web.archive.org/web/20250220174125/https://www.wired... I forget where I read this, but shutting off the cards was part of the playbook when Musk took ownership of Twitter.…

Everything older than me is boomer, everything younger is zoomer.

I wonder how much of it has to do with the reward. In D&D you get experience points, gain levels, get powerful magic items, etc. There is generally immediate positive feedback when…

Stephen Wolfram is a national treasure.

What's trite is often true.

If the elite are defined as those who benefit from the system, then we are all the elite.

> Why would aliens expend the enormous energy required to engineer this? So there are these great big buildings in Egypt...

I've used Backblaze for years and it's worth the money. I've only done a full restore from it once after a laptop was bricked and it was seamless. There have been a few times that …

You can tell what a person is like by how they treat the waiter. That goes double for chatbots.

De gustibus non est disputandum.

Torvalds did name it "the stupid content tracker" after all. You were warned!

You just know that every theater audience will be shouting all the lines along with the movie. That alone will make it worth going.

It's not unhealthy until you buy a Topre.

If you like this, read House of Leaves.

That's funny, I was thinking about that poem just this morning. One of those ones that sticks with you, and rings true for so many domains, whether you want it to or not!

The D&D cosmology is bonkers too. Every solar system exists inside its own separate "crystal sphere" which floats in the chaotic fiery substance called phlogiston that fills the un…

The irony of "don't give people unsolicited advice" always gets me.

> Nothing is too quick for them. Cats even have a faster average reaction time than snakes.

> I like to read the negative reviews on Steam to help talk myself out of purchases. Hah, I do the same thing. On other sites too - the well-written negative reviews have a lot of …

I don't believe that no one predicted the overwhelming success of a long-anticipated sequel to one of the most legendary and deeply-loved games of all time. Maybe I've played BG2 t…

This is really well done. Great concept and execution. I love the Baba Is You style. Only issue for me is that the instructions did not pop up fast enough.

There should be laws & regulations around this type of thing. Critical devices that run your home should always be able to disconnect and continue to run. Any cloud-connected featu…

That's a good one. I've also told it to avoid blanket disclaimers, which pop up all the time if you ask about anything related to nutrition or fitness.