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now do battle chess

Tempest had the best implementation of this. Every 3-4 levels was a checkpoint and with 3 lives as long as you cleared at least one level, you can start at your last checkpoint. If…

sorry if i'm out of the loop, but i've heard what you describe as GNU/Linux, not Emacs/Linux. did emacs change to be the branding label of things like the compiler, the ---- just s…

Our company had just transitioned from social networking to social commerce, and was starting to build out features like a shopping cart, product listings, etc. So the valuation wa…

I sold a company to Naspers once (the parent company of Prosus). Their philosophy is to let their portfolio companies continue to operate independently. I continued to be the CEO o…

It was the child of a guest at a BBQ that I was hosting. The parents were socializing with other adults while some of the children were playing. They didn't see that the kids had g…

Why do I feel like there is so much more attention paid to every Tesla accident? It's not news when a BMW or Mercedes has a fatal crash when their version of cruise control + lane …

One of the 70 reported incidents happened at my house three days ago. A 4-year-old child got sucked under the treadmill and he got rather severe facial abrasions. Before the accide…

The problem with documentation is twofold: 1. it's broadcast-only. so you have to try to anticipate in advance what the questions might be. 2. it's disconnected from the source. so…

If a hypothetical vaccine could save a million lives, but kills 10 people who get vaccinated, are you arguing that it shouldn't be administered?

The latter is a much smaller version of the former. GEB's central theme has to do with levels of meaning, which is delivered not only in substance but also in form. One has to look…

Measuring intellect is one thing, valuing it is another. Within my lifetime I've sadly seen intellectual excellence valued less and less by society with each passing decade.

We have a couple of black sapote trees in our yard; sounds similar.

It depends quite a bit on what type of product or service you are selling. For us, we expected to find customers in our batch, but when we did not we learned a valuable lesson: tha…

not intending to start an apple-vs-msft flamewar, but this has been a solved problem on the mac since forever. is the experience that bad on windows laptops that you don't want a b…

I'm sorry who is using RJ45 ports on a laptop these days? Seems like that question was asked and answered years ago, and wifi has won.

> Streak: You add points to your streak every time you post. Read and post at least once a week to continue your streak. does this imply that the expectation is that you read a boo…

...or have even more PR functionality with https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=CodeStre...

Al-gore-ithms.

oh please no. imagine if each tweet consumed as much energy as a current bitcoin transaction. that'd be great. /s

There's a huge assumption in this assertion: that you catch the coin. If you let it bounce on a table, it's much more likely to land heavy-side down. Just imagine a very thick coin…

plus vscode, apparently.