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Myst was also bundled with a lot of PCs. Perhaps as a cheap way to show off CDROM capabilities. Getting games installed and working in that era was often a chore. So when people sa…

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Haven't CPUs largely plateaued? They're just getting bigger, more power hungry, and multiplying cores. Physics has hard limits and Moore's law is long dead.

> Where you can request it looks at hotel options in Montreal, and it starts answering in half a second Yet the answers will get outdated quickly whilst the silicon is fixed.

Inflation of certain luxuries may be under control. That's cold comfort to households with two jobs per adult just to make rent+healthcare+food. > in the meantime stock market is g…

Nonsense. We can and do downgrade folks from better to worse employment all the time, even moreso during this administration! Can't have the plebes unionizing or getting more compe…

Cults generally try to isolate and control people, regardless of the motive. Of course there are other criteria and opinions on them vary.

Pg can do array columns, though I don't think it's a good fit for common use cases

As text or XML column type. IME a document store or columnar backend is significantly cheaper if you're not querying it from SQL.

Indeed. Which is why there must be overwhelming survey evidence before we can conclude which direction the arrow is going. Because it's unethical to isolate people and all compound…

Was 60 Minutes always crap? Until recently it seemed to me to be reasonable quality investigative journalism.

I grew up in a family that read almost exclusively partisan media like The Washington Times, The News Herald, and later Fox News. Now it's NewsMax. Worse than knowing nothing, they…

Individuals cannot afford to insure themselves in a vacuum. That's why social safety nets were created as a sort of forced and collective insurance. It's cheaper for all of us to e…

Democratic socialism. The US has quite a few such experiments like the New Deal. And they've been quite a bit better than the grinding, unbridled industrialism that consumed and sp…

Capitalism reinforces individualistic cultures. The reality is humans aren't so different from ants or other social insects. Individuals don't instantly die when alone, yet we surv…

Author fawns over activity they personally enjoy and benefit from people doing. Like kit sellers saying stop reading and go make something.

Cloudflare is probably much easier, though nice to see guides for standards based alternatives.

Companies laundering their CEO's other failing companies is certainly a reason to sell.

They care so little they don't even bother to proofread once, or lack enough intelligence to distinguish a prompt meant for a machine from a speech to inform/inspire/influence a hu…

Is that inevitable? I personally welcome creators moving to rely more on patronage systems (Patreon, Supporting Cast) from consumers, to gain/retain their independence from sponsor…

> What are Russia's reasons not to fire ballistic missiles at those factories, wherever they may be? Russia is already targeting apartment blocks. I doubt they hesitate to attack k…

Sometimes there's just not more than 10-15min of content that even a (significant) niche audience would find interesting. There's also only so much time in a day / week to produce.…

Meh, it's better than nothing. Though not a great interface or DSL.

IIRC, courts in the US ruled it's legal to produce entirely fictional art depicting children in explicit scenes, so long as no real minors were involved in production.