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Roses are Red, Google is Unassailable ERROR: (gcloud.compute.ssh) Could not fetch resource: - Policy checks are unavailable.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

Kieran Culkin's publicity team deserves an award because I did not care about that man six months ago. (No, I did not watch Succession)

submitted 111 days ago • 2 comments

This bit from thediff.co extends out to fiction as well - there isn't really a need for genai fiction because there's already more fiction than there exists appetite for it, and people often read specific works for paratextual reasons as well.

submitted 114 days ago • 1 comment

The period of 'Consumers expect computers that talk to have human-like intelligence' and 'Computers with human-like intelligence are really expensive' probably would have been lethal to Alexa had it not been an 'Amazon terminal', but now quality tokens are cheaper, but still squeezes Alexa margins

submitted 114 days ago • 0 comments

This bit from Dave Wiens (Siemens) reminds me that there are a lot of jobs that are in v high demand but 1. It takes some level of industry knowledge to know about the existence of/train into them 2. It's not clear if the demand will still exist after retraining semiengineering.com/what-scares-...

submitted 119 days ago • 1 comment

2027 US administration policy will be the annexation of Jamaica over bauxite /alumina

submitted 120 days ago • 0 comments

1/7 WSJ: "The top 10% of earners in the U.S. now account for 49.7% of all spending, a record in data going back to 1989. Three decades ago, they accounted for about 36%." What is driving their disproportionate spending seems to be surging stock and property markets. www.wsj.com/economy/cons...

submitted 122 days ago • 3 comments

The Brothers Karamazover.

submitted 124 days ago • 0 comments

it is this cold in chicago

submitted 155 days ago • 0 comments

brandon johnson plz

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

One of the key problems with making indie games is discoverability. I am someone who is fairly plugged in, but I miss all kinds of stuff. This is a thread for me to recommend games you might not have heard of going forward. Here we go:

submitted 220 days ago • 11 comments

I did something dumb

submitted 197 days ago • 78 comments

So, in Splinter Cell: Pandora Tomorrow, in response to players ignoring bodies, they instead made it so that, if any are not hidden when an invisible script trigger is crossed, an alarm will sound. 3 alarms means a game over - and these triggers are placed in a manner that could be called 'cruel'

submitted 199 days ago • 1 comment

17 years later, Caves of Qud 1.0 is here store.steampowered.com/app/333640/C...

submitted 202 days ago • 9 comments

I think AI is eating tech employment from both ends. Gen AI doesn’t just make software programming more productive, reducing the need for new hires. It’s also INCREDIBLY expensive to buy GPUs/data center space/run inference, so the capex budget could easily nibble into the new-hires budget.

submitted 202 days ago • 10 comments