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Why not make this a web/browser game? I don't feel like the author explained why such focus on being a downloadable game. Just nostalgia or because they want it included in Steam? …

sounds like the new Microsoft Loop product/service announced a few days ago https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2023/03/2...

Catalina has been fine for me (old macbook and a new iMac), but I do miss some of the old Steam games that no longer work with Catalina (was it a 64-bit thing?). Is Steam or Apple …

```It is a genuine source of hilarity to me that “Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra” is a potentially really useful popcultural-reference shorthand for “a situation where two groups face…

isn't this a problem? https://github.com/baicunko/scanyourpdf/blob/master/convertp...

Agreed. I think. It is interesting how much difference in meaning the space in "a part of" vs "apart of" makes.

Of course its a better idea to pick the version that sounds better. That's what I said; I know both are accurate. My point is that by tying performance to environmental factors, yo…

First of all, great demo, and great showcase for this technology. I think it did a great job of showing its strengths to traditionally backend developers like me. I also appreciate…

Good idea, but I can't help but see this as marketing spin over the alternative title of the same story "Google: Data centers now perform LESS when the sun is not shining or the wi…

Do you recall the name of the book?

If you’re referring to my use of “toxicity” I definitely don’t mean that. In fact I support the crazier subreddits (you know which I mean). And I agree it gets way overused by many…

It sounds like the common reply regarding Reddit quality and toxicity as well. Don't visit the front pages, stay in the curated sub-reddits. I think it is good advice but the low-q…

I play HL1/HL2 every 4 years or so since they came out. I still haven't finished HL2 Episode 2 though :( I can't find anything about "Community Edition of Half-Life 2", what is tha…

Someone mentioned their surprised at the negativity in this essay. I agree, Paul’s frustration is coming through which is new to me as a long time reader of his. It got me thinking…

I dunno. They say that about boats, much bigger than jet skis.[0] Jet Skis are pretty easy to load/unload and store compared to a bigger boat. Also much easier to maintain, most of…

I think that is what Armin was looking for as well, but couldn't find anything that quite did that so settled on the BSL instead (probably because determining what fork qualifies a…

I see that the abstract doesn't say "no evidence". Did anyone download the full paper to see if "no evidence" was quoted there?

Forgot to note that, the money wasn't "missing" in the sense that it disappeared. It was definitely spent, over many projects, over many years. The problem he was trying to point o…

Yes, Rumsfeld did make this speech on the day before the attacks. It's actually a great speech too! He talks about the cumulative bureaucratic waste of the previous few years of th…

describing tradeoffs that would seem reasonable to most people Sounds like "Mission Accomplished" to me! https://xkcd.com/810/ (Transcript...) Cueball: Spammers are breaking tradit…