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> I remember usenet where every forum was exactly the same alt.confident.assertion.question.doubt.disagree ;)

In this thread, we pretend that the difficult and time-consuming part of a code review is all the reading you have to do.

Or, since we're apparently playing the game of maybes in this thread, maybe the LLM was only trained on the teams grandmothers' spaghetti recipes, so that new hires can learn to ma…

That headline feels like a really clever metaphor for something but I can't figure out what.

Green bubble is messages you sent via SMS (and so may have been charged by your carrier depending on your cellular plan) Blue bubble is messages you sent via iMessage. All incoming…

I suspect a lot of people 'invented' the effect at approximately the same time. Honestly, the Dreamcast was the first piece of hardware really capable of doing the effect to a high…

As a practical matter, studies about links between major diseases will always always be talking about correlation. To reach 'causation' would require intentionally giving your expe…

I can't stop thinking about this throwaway parenthetical at the start of the blog post: > [...] for many writers, writing a book is about the last thing they should do (unless they…

As a game developer, I'm absolutely not going to risk my players' engagement with the game by putting character personalities, dialog, and (therefore) plot into the hands of an AI …

Not the person you're replying to, but I agree that for me (as another heavy shift-G user), vim-racer having `:relativenumber` turned on is where my own troubles are coming from. I…

Pedantry: "Craftsman" was never a company and didn't "go out of business". "Craftsman" was originally a store brand used by Sears, under which it sold tools that Sears contracted v…

That's so clever! I would have guessed that film reels would be too fragile for that sort of continuous usage, though I'll confess that I have no personal experience with them. I w…

Ah, cool, I wasn’t aware of arcade machines using recorded video before the brief laser disc era! If you have any references or links where I could read up about them, I’d be fasci…

From the description, I'm guessing that the game your father played was "Firefox", a 1983 laser disc game by Atari. The game synced dynamic computer graphics on top of pre-recorded…

It's kind of impressive how rapidly and how many rote processes built up around what began as "[We value] individuals and interactions over processes and tools"

I have started my own company and made a job that I'm passionate about and I think my friends would laugh at anybody who claimed that I wasn't burnt out basically all the time. ;)

Worth noting that while Hypercard was the glue which held everything together, most of Myst's functionality was implemented in native plugins. (or at least that's what Robyn and Ra…

I agree that I've never had a problem with terminal speeds on Linux. If you're using urxvt, that's probably going to do just fine. Where I have had problems has been on the Mac, wh…

It's.. kinda complicated? "Craftsman" was never a company. It was a trademark under which Sears sold tools which they hired various tool manufacturers to produce for them. Black an…

Are you stating that this specific machine actually does this, or are you just theorycrafting that a hypothetical machine could do this?

Good point, yes!

Worth noting that there's an equivalent of epoll on most platforms. On Windows there's IOCP, on Mac and BSD-derivates there's kqueue, and Linux has epoll, but to a first approximat…

Sometimes. It depends on the UI requirement for the game. I have seen some extremely-UI-heavy games which do exactly what you say; building a whole windowing environment entirely f…