On the whole, achievements encourage players to do stuff that isn’t fun. Sometimes they’re funny or encourage good gameplay, but too often they’re just busywork, mindless random drops, or insane investments in time/skill.

The T-15 is an awesome machine. They’ve spared the Ukrainians from this mighty beast out of kindness, I suppose.

Linux can be intimidating. And there is going to be a learning curve. Especially if you’re the kind of windows user who’s familiar with gpedit and has custom .bat files.

But what get’s left out is the joy and satisfaction that comes with learning how to Linux. I just re-installed my OS a week ago, and I was able to recognize and resolve dependency and permissions issues without having to look anything up. I also finally learned and started using rsync for backups over SSH/SAMBA. I know it’s not much, but it made me feel like a real hackerman.

The only thing I learned in my last few years of Windows was how to disable features that annoyed me.

Because of the massive amounts of data LLMs need, there will always be garbage input. So the overall quality is limited to “average” writing. Punctuation, grammar, and spelling can be imitated rather easily. Quality prose cannot.

Practical power production through nuclear fusion still requires significant developments for it to be realised at scale, though several startups are already planning to deliver it within the next few years.

That is a sentence.

Any game ported to the PC needs to recognize controllers that are plugged in after launch and need to have a “quit to desktop” option.

Doors close and options narrow. The way you think about the future fundamentally changes.

You have to remember not to project your decline onto culture, society, and the world. You have to remember that many, many things are better now than when you were young.

Hi, you’ve reached my voicemail. At the tone, please hang up and send me a text.

The oil companies don’t want to invest because in 10y when production recovers, who knows what oil prices will be? Even if they could pump it out tomorrow, Oil is cheap, and driving it down would bankrupt American oil production.

The logic of “addiction to foreign oil” is outdated. America is an energy exporter.

The problem is that the oil companies don’t want to. The real timeline for actually producing oil is like ~10y. And who knows what demand will be in 10y. Even if they could magically transport it out of the ground tomorrow, oil is already cheap and pushing it down would bankrupt half of Texas.

America is an energy exporter, the days of “addiction to foreign oil” don’t apply anymore.

This special military operation has been compared to Russia for obvious reasons. But one not obvious thing they have in common is the resource plunder is a bad deal for the conquerors. By the time Putin could tap Ukraine’s coal reserves or Trump Venezuela’s oil, there is an excellent chance these resources will be worth much less than today.

Many people have touted the leverage Venezuelan production could have on Moscow or Tehran. But they always leave out that this would hurt Houston just as much.

This might not be feasible. IDK how you could install a whole OS, inside of another, without looking like a serious virus or malware. There are many files that cannot be changed while Windows is running (why it needs to reboot so often for updates). And no sane OS is going to let a program edit things like the MBR.

Everybody forgets this. The time when “a single income could provide housing, transportation, and collage for a family of four” only existed for white men. Thinking this was universal is just lefty false nostalgia nauseatingly similar to MAGA.

M$ has done more to convince people that AI is bullshit than anyone else and I just want to thank them for their hard work.

Some of the first real home/office PCs had only one floppy drive and 640kb of RAM. Fancier machines had a second floppy. If you were a millionaire, you could get a HDD with upwards of 30Mb storage.

Scott Bessent looks like he’s trying to do a Will Farrel impression of himself.

If you think Idiocracy is the future (or the present) you believe in eugenics. It’s a cute move, but it’s writers have a worse understanding of evolution than the makers of Pokemon.

The other day, my mother approached me about Office alternatives. Before she retired, she daily drove Office, but feels like it’s changed so much that learning a new program isn’t any more friction than keeping up with AI bullshit.

The pig who shot Michal Brown said he had to shoot because Brown could have taken his piece away. If you accept that, then you agree that, at least in this situation, the public and the police would be safer without guns.

It used to be: I had to shoot him judge, he had a gun

Then it was: I had to shoot him judge, I thought he had a gun

Now it’s: I had to shoot him judge, I had a gun.