Recent content by Cordwainer Fish

Rep-this, rep-that, what's the difference? (I've honestly clicked the wrong one now and then. The very different interface of the result has always clued me in right quick.)

Burglary's the obvious - nothing's here?!

DHL ceased shipping? That implies they ever shipped to begin with - any time a vendor sends me a DHL tracking link a little piece of me dies.

A bark letter is cheap and often works.

There's no pleasing some people.

Y'know, it's funny. Back in the day I really disliked anything that smelled of the sand table. Today? I like knowing where we are vs. where the opponents [1] are. I like fog of war. I even like having to ask if my line of sight on an opponent makes it a keyhole shot and is the referee even...

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The three trickiest things in software are versioning and off-by-one errors.

MUST run on Apple Silicon. If browser based (boo), MUST run on Safari.

Consulting producer, which means next to nothing.

No wonder he got the nod to finish the Wheel of Time.

Oh, his books are deeply grounded in philosophy, as in the kind of philosophy you get a degree in at university. I am absolutely convinced that philosophy is utter crap, of much less than zero worth, and that the world would be a far better place if every single philosopher from Plato to today...

Four? Yeesh. I only finished the first because by the time it had gone from mere excrement to runny, decayed excrement, I was so many pages into it that the road home was through Berlin. (Today I occasionally throw a book in the (metaphorical) trash on the basis of the first chapter. Or...