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I don't think that's true. Games are a product of their time and context; if Tetris didn't exist, do you think it would be a massively popular hit today? I can see it being an inte…

That's not suspicious, that's the load-bearing smoking gun.

Do you mean "punctuated equilibrium"?

"Too big to fail" should trigger anti-trust and be broken up.

> You're obliged to maximize their earnings. This is not true. Fiduciary responsibility does not mean "maximize earnings". This one fiction has done more damage in the name of unfe…

That's "this year" [the past 12 months].

That's what happens when you inject a lot of money into a sector/company, it attracts people who only want to maximize money. This is honestly what has ruined the tech sector over …

They fired Opus 5 as their assistant (in part for calling out a LinkedIn draft post as "engagement bait", which sounds like it might have been calling a spade a spade), and moved t…

I'm still using my Thinkpad from 2016.

Hey, cut us some slack, we were raised by Boomers.

Have you tried using this to actually edit anything? The local transcription is trash (slow, tons of repeated words, no speaker diarization, no option to upload a transcript or use…

He works at Tesla already.

I don't think they mean "monetarily". But once you have some reasonable parity you can implement your own features/workflow as you want them and not be reliant on Descript.

I hate Descript, not because of the cost but because of their dark patterns. (I learned recently that their CEO is the former CEO of Groupon, which explains a lot.) So I'd love som…

Your parents didn't have the legal authority to print money. It's almost like running a household is different from running a business, is different from running a nation.

I have been using vi/vim for 30 years and I had no idea about using ^K-M to insert an em-dash.

There are many reasons people might not read your documentation, and "it isn't good enough" is only one of them. To wit: - they don't know about it - they can't find it when they n…

Sorry it felt condescending. I'm sure you think it's obvious that you "did the work" because you know about scientific notation and understand the notation. I thought I had done it…

It feels like that at first glance because you haven't done the work to internalize the notation. This is like someone who uses Roman Numerals being introduced to decimal notation,…

(Author of Mag World here) I'm here to attest that it's worked for me! I see now that I had a fractured collections of number lines in my head (thousands, millionths, billions, and…

RC is a great community and I will be forever grateful to them for introducing me to several good friends that are still in my life 10 years later.

Sorry but this is one of those instances where you have to kill your darling. You can't sacrifice readability for textual content.

Okay, well said. Maybe we should try one year of each and then put it to a popular vote.

It takes more energy to liberate the oxygen than you could ever get from the fuel. You don't need oxygen atoms, you need the oxidant.