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ESR: “Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer’s personal itch.”

Whenever I try, I get Ravi Bhatia screaming “How can she slap?!”

I’ve spent a lot of time in RPGs, and the last time I RPed in a G was around the time George Bush’s dad was president.

My experience in going from C to C++ was different: if you’re not converting everything from mallocs with custom addressing systems to the collections framework, you’re not living.

They named the bill wrong - it should be Kids’ Act for Online Safety- KAOS.

Three fiddy.

My last game was exhausting. Years of cryptic lore, mediocre tie-in properties we pretended were good, pvp you could opt out of midstream by switching off your router, a sandbox that one player characterized as “as wide as the universe and one inch deep.”

So, I thought I’d try something completely different, and that different thing, god help me, is Evony.

What’s the underwater game that came out a few years ago? Your spaceship crashes in the ocean of a cold planet, and you explore and make bases, and solve a mystery… SubZero or something?

I’d say there was a period before reddit hit its pinnacle where Quora was significantly better. Probably more than 10 years ago, though, and only for a few years. I remember when I started spending more time on Reddit than Quora.

The gesture for “/*” is very rude.

Try to train a human comedian to make jokes without ever allowing him to hear another comedian’s jokes, never watching a movie, never reading a book or magazine, never watching a TV show. I expect the jokes would be pretty weak.

sccs, rcs, cvs… after that it’s a blur of new systems every year or two

I hope this is cubic meters…

Yowch, Django was 20 years ago? That hurts.

https://youtu.be/oikCkGFK1bk?si=iSGjmhxYXN6OfLEv

Nice seeing Mathematica and Lisp mentioned. I feel like Marvin the Martian after reading.

“Porphyras?” Presumably a purplish color and not the seaweed?

Also got turned on to Wodehouse via Salmon. When I started into Psmith after exhausting Bertie & Jeeves, it felt really similar to going from HHGG to Dirk Gently. I often wonder how many Python-era comedy writers were weaned on P.G.

Jessica went nuclear when they did that. It was inspirational and the FCC’s website got the “hug of death” for at least hours.

I’m in the other camp. The first time I squeezed my 155m spaceship through the tiny mouth of a rotating space station in VR, I wept like a baby. (An Anaconda in Elite: Dangerous)