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That's actually a problem for the business model of mobile games . A consumer can - or very soon will be able to - pick up AI tools and cut out the middleman org churning out these…

Bugs related to concurrency - which is where you get race conditions and deadlocks - tend to pop up wherever there's an implied sequence of dependencies to complete the computation…

The last time I tested it, it wasn't performing differently from other DVCS options when pushing large files - that is, Perforce would still win hands-down. It does have a binary d…

It's a combination of things. The "Pullman Loaf" (as in Pullman railcars) became common for sandwich breads in the 19th century and established a common target for what bread shoul…

Well, then just have the class communicate with the chatbot in study groups, taking turns to type, if "social" is what you're after. The way class time is currently used reflects t…

I can vouch for Krita and Inkscape pairing well as vector art programs and even doing things that CSP, whose vector layers are pretty well liked, can't match. The issue is that dra…

Inkscape has a lot to work on as a "content creation" app, while in terms of being true to SVG, it's done a lot of things the way you'd expect. And I think that's most of the disco…

I believe, having recently installed Python libraries on it, that Debian stable has the best handle on what to do to produce defaults that a mere mortal can debug: Either use what'…

You could definitely argue that it would be better to build off of something like Contiki, a modern small-device OS that gained a lot of fame for its ports to old microcomputers, b…

The article is making the case for unbundling the authoring experience by bundling the browser and making it an owned environment. And that could be a win.

Library environments are often better workspaces, especially study carrels at university libraries. (Stick to public universities if you don't want to be kicked out.) Cafes have mo…

It's surprising by importance but not by size, which is actually a sweet spot for evaluating a new systems language - a small dependency that everything uses.

It's definitely something coming from the top down. I'll watch Peter Zeihan's Youtube because he tends to make arguments that the incumbent elites want to hear, and he did an anti-…

The thing that creates the specific downward pressure in the US is also the thing that makes it very GDP-productive. When business raises their voice, they get to call the shots an…

I think one thing that could be said of "Lost Generation" systems is that they primarily reflect memory size, not other aspects of performance. The graphics on 400/800/5200 could b…

It's just a need to train hand-eye coordination. Practice blind contour[0] on the tablet for a few minutes a day for two weeks and it'll come around. Contour drawing is not taught …

Describing Ramanujan as self-taught downplays that, within colonial India, he had access to some decent resources, and probably more than the median of the era: primary and seconda…

It's similar to issues encountered with previous eras of industrialization: when you have a factory, you can make a lot of one thing. So you reshape society around that thing, and …

There are a bunch of considerations. As resolution and color depth goes up it becomes harder to throw a lot of graphical detail on the screen through traditional illustration, so g…

It would be that hard to do. The state of the art is currently represented by Visual Pinball and Pinball FX. The first is open source and relies all on homebrew content, and most a…

Also a longtime, off-and-on Linux user. Using old gaming laptops instead of Apple HW, though. My latest thing has been Solus Linux. The hardware has "just worked", the package mana…

The front end is where the greatest leverage to control user behavior is. Therefore, demand to add features there is also the strongest. Recall that what got investors excited abou…

The blog is about being a "Recovering Programmer", as in, someone who is trying to cast aside programming as an identity. And I think all the advice has to be taken through that le…

Some people reach this point when they are 18 and their parents abruptly kick them out. Others reach it when they are in their late 20's and "fail to launch", guilting themselves i…

Like with crypto before it, there's a tiny core of good stuff in genai, and an industry of rent-seekers adjacent to that using it for cover. The competition for AI is simply any so…