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You reminded me of the 10 years I spent loading up Achewood every week after it was functionally ended. (Although recently I discovered Onstad has a Patreon, and is regularly drawi…

Steam has existed for an eternity compared to any console specific game store. It's not great that you can't resell what you have on Steam, but at least you get to 'keep' it.

As soon as I read the quoted paragraph, I rapidly scrolled to see how much more was written, then closed the tab. Generating a lot of code might be 'free' now but the generated cod…

The reports of AI powered 10x development speed are greatly exaggerated

The eternal September began long before any of the things this post is eulogizing came into existence, things which I also remember fondly. There's still room for creation.

I enjoyed Good Work's recent coverage on this subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ltbBby9FU

Is this implying that you don't believe people will hire programmers anymore?

Someone claiming to be the creator of Dark Castle says they are working on a 40th anniversary edition in the comments of that video.

If you can cure a cancer by framing it as a data analysis exercise that doesn't seem to be a bad thing.

Children generally have these things called "parents" who are supposedly responsible for their well being. Oh hey, suddenly there isn't a contradiction.

I'm not as good as Fabrice Bellard either but I don't let that bother me as I go about my day.

From the article: Historically, it would take a reasonably long period of consistent effort and many iterations of refinement for a good developer to produce 10,000 lines of qualit…

The first one is pretty funny because Gmail search itself has a lot of issues.

Vague nonsense

The newly released footage is truly a political Rorschach test. It is unbelievable to me that anyone without diminished mental capabilities could believe that exonerates the camera…

Not that your comment is relevant, but why is there a narrative of obstruction when you can visibly see Renee Good wave another truck by moments before she was killed? https://www.…

Don't the invested dollars poured into infrastructure that won't yield gains represent a loss of value? Especially if the same investment could have been put to work somewhere more…

The parent comment is talking about outsourced lead battery recycling. What is the middle ground there? I think your very abstract argument about over regulation probably belongs i…

Is the suggestion here to remove environmental regulations that make outsourcing to countries without regulations appealing? I'm not sure what problem that solves. Of course withou…

Maybe software updates could contain things users actually want, that provide a competitive incentive for users to choose to buy the phones from specific makers?

It's good at tasks if you have a competent and _critical_ human editor selecting outputs and pulling the prompt slot lever again as needed.

Tricks of the * Game Programming Gurus :)

Would your parents have picked you up if real time location sharing existed? I understand your story is emotional and personal, but using it as an argument why you want to share yo…