I like to watch PBS spacetime on Youtube. It keeps me humble.

it’s about cost. They’re more expensive to bury and to maintain.

And it’s not that helpful in storms either because even if the lines near your house are burred, they’re still connected to the above ground stuff that runs along roads, rural areas, and the big transmission lines themselves.

I don’t believe in a soul or an afterlife. And neither do you. The only person I can think of who lived their life like that stuff was true is Andrea Yates. The rest of y’all are just kidding yourselves because you’re scared of dying.

Right wing people fucking love Star Trek and I’ve never understood it. I once heard one of them argue that replicators were only available on military ships because their presence in the general public would destroy society and he was so close to getting it.

I love it that the B2 is a dive bomber now.

Well, then it must have been pretty true to the character because many people felt the antagonists had a good point in that show. In fact, many believe the series failed because of the way this arc was handled in that respect.

Just for those who don’t know: Maj. Bong was the highest scoring American ace of WWII with 40 (IIRC) kills. He mostly flew the P-38 in combat and was killed test-flying the P-80 shortly after the war.

You would have to design the game around an LLM, not just drop one into existing games.

It might be cute for the guards in Skyrim to have unique dialogue, until one of them denies the Holocaust or says feminism is cancer.

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.

This is what happens when you pay too much attention to any kind of taxonomy. Even scientific and rigorous taxonomy disintegrates into subjectivity when you look too close.

The idea of precisely labeling and categorizing things appears to be a human desire imposed upon an uncooperative universe.

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

If you’re important enough, your tomb may become a unisex urinal.

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.

They don’t need you to use AI to make revenue. They need you training AI to make it into a profitable product… that will replace you.

The cliche about how if the service is free, then you are the product is only half true. The other half is that participating in social media is also unpaid labor generating valuable IP without compensation or ownership.

I don’t care about mods or FPS in the hundreds. I care that the games are discounted to a reasonable price, include all the content, and fully patched/ optimized.

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.