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Procedural Content Generation?

Prices must raise a lot to make self hosting mainstream or at least fairly popular. Yesterday a coworker posted on a customer's Slack the specs of a box he is planning to buy to ru…

But maybe no customer will be there to actually buy, because cash flows could crash their businesses. So options on chips? Call or put?

About increasing welfare, I am not sure about that. Workers pay taxes, companies not much. Welfare is often paid by taxes, especially for people that can't find a job. If more AI l…

So a lot of problems will be solved by 2049 (overpopulation) and probably many others will arise (we never had worldwide decreasing demographics.)

Ah I see! Maybe that problem of discovery could be fixed by displaying some labels on controls before starting to fight. Move, Aim, Fly (not boost)

I did my socializing in real life but I guess that if kids are not allowed to get out anymore, they must do it with screens.

I'm attempting to play from my phone. The game says that's better to play from desktop but what can I do? This is my experience: The left button is a kind of joystick that seems to…

The Milan Monza railway too, horse drawn until 1900 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan%E2%80%93Monza_tramway

Two insights. One from the article itself > In our day-to-day work these threats appear rarely. Two: IRL the attacker pays a small amount of money to a low salary employee to exfil…

So Rails or some PHP framework. It was slightly too early to go full Node. Django was a little unusual too among the developers I knew. Java was still a thing but more for finance …

No way. You get to the rim and only then you realize how huge it is. And then you still have to go down into the canyon.

In any city I saw there are people crossing the road with a green light in front of cars that would have turned right on red so those cars wouldn't go anywhere until they get a gre…

> That’s different for small-town low-traffic areas. The two towns close to my home (10k and 5k people each) have 3 and 2 traffic lights. It's a different world with different prob…

However I can see my 80 yo self driving a car (I know plenty of them that still drive) but I can't see my 80 yo self riding a bicycle in winter, especially on snow. I know some 80 …

You sell less to people living in the cities but maybe you sell more to the operators of fleets of rental cars, even self driving if that really becomes mainstream. Not enough to m…

I optimize for the longest continuous lines because it takes less time and effort to mow in that way.

How often did you mow the same grass to have to care about the direction of the previous mow? I mow my garden between one to two weeks, according to the time of the year and someti…

I never saw one on this side of the Atlantic Ocean (Europe) but I do see a few of them in the malls. I asked to a high school professor and she told me that she does not even know …

Mario Kart, definitely not. It's only approximately a racing game. I played it only once, last year at an esports/sports event and managed to get third in the overall championship …

I'm not sure that I fully understood but: > Probably should have spent another 3-5 years getting the first release in better shape instead of spending 3-5 years flinging flaming tu…

As a data point: I'm using Claude Pro inside Emacs right now. I can copy/paste better than when I use it inside the terminal. I never installed a custom IDE since maybe 2012 (my la…

You have to buy a Chromebook to run ChromeOS, right? You can install Linux on your PC as dual boot. The investment is far smaller. However you have to buy a Mac to run MacOS so may…

I'm still perfectly happy with my solo racing games on PS2, not that I play them much anymore (or I would have bought ought a PS3 4 or 5.) I never understood why I should prefer dr…

The original developer of a Rails project I inherited decided to seed the test db with db/seed.rb and tie every test to the content of the seed. There were a lot of tests so rewrit…