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Four thoughts. First, I was reminded of the Toys that Made Us episode on MotU. How when the brand died out in the 80s as part of the blame game someone accused the girl division of being at fault because She-ra made He-man less cool in the eyes of the boys. Then it is not just men that...

I feel deja' vu

TIL That Gary Kildall (Of Computer Chronicles, CPM, and GEOS fame, and "could've been Bill Gates but took a leisure flight instead" infamy) wrote the instruction set simulator for the Intel 8008 and 8080 microprocessors.

Here's the point. IMO if you are playing solo, at that point why not write a novel with random dice if you feel like it? or grab a few dolls and play pretend with them...?

Joke's on you. In here we skipped summer altogether.

Call center bots are expert systems. They have to be programmed manually.

Like a Holodeck, without the Holo, or the deck...

Between them, I find the flavor of the Zero more palatable. Regardless, I cannot drink any version of it because of the phosphoric acid. No Coca Cola for me anymore. Sometimes I make myself feel better by thinking I could drink Pepsi instead, but then I remember it is Pepsi and ughh Pepsi.

And the early 80's microcomputer race to the bottom. Didn't go well for any of the companies involved. It got prices as low as $99. The only survivors were Tandy -by making the switch to clone IBM PCs-, TI -which retreated completely from PCs- and a dying Commodore -that got a lifeline in the...

They only made Coke Zero because Diet Coke had been marketed so hard towards women that men refused to drink it. Not a problem until men started to be health conscious and Coca-Cola couldn't sell them their existing sugar free drink, so they made a new one and made it "manly".

There's a funny story behind the 4004. The chip was created for a contract with a Japanese calculator company. When the engineer sent to oversee the advances -Shima Masatoshi- arrived at Intel, he found they had done basically nothing in the last few months. He was very pissed and began yelling...

Not necessarily, technology development isn't linear nor steady. Right now we are at peak "gold rush" stage of the cycle. Investor money is subsidizing the development and the operation of the AI models. Outside of very specific applications, no real "killer app" use has materialized to justify...

Remember kids, Baphy Snarf is evil...

I also thought of that, I'd be saying goodbye forever to everybody in my life younger than me minus six. Starting with my youngest cousin, but also all children in my life. I would also have a hard time meeting again all of my friends. The odds of landing in the same classes than half of them...

These few weeks the same meme question has been circulating through Spanish language Reddit (and maybe Facebook). The meme basically asks the reader to choose in a thought experiment between a)$10,000,000 in cash, and b)restarting your life at 6 with your current knowledge. While a few people...

IMO, solo gaming is play pretend with extra steps.

Finding enough people interested im roleplaying at all and with enough overlapping free time can be very very hard.

These last two weeks I learned about scissor flats. Apartments that exist in more than one floor in the building in a spiral arrangement. One appartment starts down and moves up, and the other starts up and moved down. They have a lot of benefits as they allow windows to both sides of the...

At least you can coordinate to meet together. This stuff can be like herding cats.

Well, it's important.