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Ouch, yeah. I hate to say it, but I have been using Geforce Now ($130 a year when they run their regular discounts) Premium for most of my gaming needs. I hate the lack of competit…

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I've often wondered if all they are missing is eye tracking and the ability auto tilling manager? I'd love to be able to press ctrl, look at three windows in my zoomed out view, an…

I might be misreading this, but I thought it was a reference to "Full Metal Jacket" => https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoU2hlDJmFE ? Ignoring the military stuff, I feel like it is …

The book https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Windup_Girl was partially about the idea of a post oil world. I remember there being mastodons they were using to wind springs and guns t…

Three points: 1) I think that is a really interesting insight. I have never done the above myself, but often I don't "tinker" with things because the amount of energy it would take…

1) (Neutral) I'd need to see more evidence of that. 2) (Unambiguously yes) If your business does not make financial sense without tips, then it isn't a business. There are many bus…

I'm genuinely baffled that this is your lived experience. I wonder if you only look at a very restricted set of websites?

Seems like there is no POW "solving" if the POW in question is literally solving some sort of mathematical puzzle. It has a bounds and we can just scale the bounds depending on how…

Ignoring whether this is a good business, I feel like this is a pretty terrible way to judge a book. If it took off it would result in everyone just starting their book with a real…

Wait, is this correct? Firefox moved from 5% to 12% in one month? That seems unlikely...

And that worked for maybe, what... half a decade? But eventually the Illuminators all transitioned to being Arcane Scribes, the cost of spells plummeted due to increased supply, an…

Is anyone seeing this? ``` Warning Suspected Phishing This website has been reported for potential phishing. Phishing is when a site attempts to steal sensitive information by fals…

Awesome, that sounds fun. I'll do as you suggest. And good idea about spectating a match to get the flow of things. That probably will reduce 50% of friction.

Context: So I have 3 friends that I have been playing video games with for over 30 years weekly. So we would be playing half (as a team) of a 4v4. Now, we are never going to be com…

I'm only partially convinced. I just can't see how you could really know if a company is using a hidden metric (or some sort of proxy for that metric so that they are not technical…

Also, if you have expectations that future inflation may be high, the leverage of borrowing can make sense as a hedge against your cash equivalent holdings in that scenario.

Do you mean regulating "watch time and comment count" at the presentation (to the client) or the server (business/analytics) level? If the later, how would you even enforce that?

I feel like this is kind of like the gambler's risk of "going bust" but applied backwards? Feels like it would be better to spend just enough so that you have the capacity to scale…

Neat article. I think it is interesting (though I only partially agree) that microwave meals require standardization to scale. Let's say that was true, why couldn't a modern microw…

Just to be clear, I'm visualizing the usage of world models that can consistently render visual and interactive renderings of a specified world. I think interacting with them will …

Agreed, these aren't even games currently. I am just saying that world models will lower the barrier to entry to making games. Which might mean that 1 in 1000 of the lower-barrier-…

I feel like a circular saw is a creator tool, while a microwave is mostly a finishing tool. I take raw material and make something out of it with a circular saw, largely unrestrain…

I read this a while ago ( https://stephencagle.dev/posts-output/2012-08-18-accelerando... ) and I remember enjoying it a little less with every section. With that said: This is a b…