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The problem the article is talking about is that publishers will no longer fund "AA" games with $2-15 million budgets. The game market has bifurcated into low end indie titles ( Th…

To compare the US and UK: In the US, the life expectancy is 76.5 years for males and 81.4 years for females. Annual healthcare spending is $14,885 per capita. In the UK, the life e…

Nice, thanks for confirming that. In practice, can you type on the keyboard without bottoming out the keys, or is it more like a laptop keyboard?

In a 2024 speech, Luckey said "Societies have always needed a warrior class that is enthused and excited about enacting violence on others in pursuit of good aims. You need people …

Great article! I remember reading about the Toledo family's computer systems ( http://www.biyubi.com/ ) years ago, but never saw any specifics so they were always shrouded in myste…

The thing I find most attractive about mechanical keyboards is that they send a keypress when a key is only partially pressed down. When combined with the tactile bump and audible …

> Creating “autonomous weapon systems that can kill people without human involvement” is not the whole point of Anduril. That is against SROE which are controlled by the DoW and it…

The whole point of Anduril is to create autonomous weapon systems that can kill people autonomously without human involvement. When you look at interviews and speeches that Palmer …

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> We should have plenty of precision missiles left today because they should have been used only to clear the way for runs with "dumb" bombs. That's what the US tried to do. The pr…

Even if the magical Itanium compiler did exist, Itanium would have still lost to AMD64. As soon as you introduce anything that doesn't behave in a statically predictable manner (mu…

Here's a good anecdote about that: https://web.archive.org/web/20130806213426/http://blogs.msdn... > I remember wandering over to the Windows group over in Building 3 to talk to Aa…

The BSODs were largely because Vista changed the driver API so everybody had to write new drivers. I remember seeing an article saying that Microsoft's telemetry showed that ~30% o…

> I don’t necessarily agree with Jeff Johnson’s conclusion that major software upgrades are impossible on an annual schedule. Snow Leopard was a refinement of Leopard, and both rel…

FreeBSD is not a GPL OS either.

> ChromeOS jumped down several points in the same time period. So maybe some update of ChromeOS got misconfigured? It's schools letting out for summer. Most Chrome OS users are sch…

> At what point did the German people find it morally acceptable to start killing Nazis? Functionally never, after the war the Allies handed "denazification" over to the West Germa…

> Daylight savings time is bad for our bodies particularly in the winter. Here's a study that demonstrates this by comparing the sleep quality and health outcomes of people who liv…

The stack is functionally very simple, but keeping a mental model of what exactly is on it at each point in your code and how to transform it to perform the calculations you need c…

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From the court decision: "IA maintains that it delivers each Work “only to one already entitled to view [it]”―i.e., the one person who would be entitled to check out the physical c…

For one example of this, around 10 years ago there was a company called Aereo that tried to act as a "cloud television provider". The idea was that they had thousands of tiny anten…

Yeah Forth doesn't seem very good as a teaching language. Maybe the "first lesson" part where you're just showing how you can build a toy program from simple words would go well, b…