1. Cyberpunk 2077, just by hours played and number of replays.

2. The Horizon games. I just adore the world and Aloy.

3. Great Gianna Sisters for hours played and the music.

I also loved the Portal games, they might be a contender for third place.

I think it’s that and also more and all of it is wrong and disgusting.

Are you calling yourself cool? That’s so not cool.

And by history you mean the present, right?

If you have the right by law to return something, they must not charge a fee. That cost needs to be included in the original price. If the return policy is optional, then they can charge something. And you can decide to never buy anything from them ever again. And trash that store on social media for its hostile policy.

Moderate. Most of the year should be spring or fall, with a few really cold days in winter and very few hot days (28C max) in the summer.

A group of pigs is called a precinct.

Joke’s on you. I was expecting this and clicked anyway because I wanted to hear the song.

Fwiw, I want as much screen as possible. Why waste space?

Some nursery rhymes:

Bet’, Kindchen, bet’. Morgen kommt der Schwed’.

(Pray, child, pray, tomorrow the Swede will come [from the 30 year war])

and

Eya popeya popole, Unser Herrgottche wird dich bald hole, Kömmt er mit dem gulderne Lädche, Legt dich hinunter ins Gräbche: Über mich, Über dich, Kummer mitnander ins Himmelrich!

(Eya popeya popole, Our Lord God will soon come for you, He comes with the golden cart, Lays you down in the little grave: Over me, Over you, Together we’ll go into the Kingdom of Heaven!)

I wrote a link handler, that allows me to just click on magnet: links or open torrent files and send them to my remote torrent client. I use this almost daily.

I also built a torrent crawler that fetches multiple torrent sites and shows me the new stuff, while filtering out shit quality stuff and things I already have.

And then I built a viewer with search for multiple defunct story sites I crawled years ago.

Those tools I use all the damn time.

I thought “Wait, OJ’s dead?” and found out that, yes, he is dead. He died April 2024. I completely missed that.

I agree with that. It is a bit like SO on steroids, because you can even skip the copy&paste part. And we’ve been making fun of people who do that without understand the code for many years. I think with AI this will simply continue. There is the situation of junior devs, which I am kind of worried about. But I think in the end it’ll be fine. We’ve always had a smaller percentage of people who really know stuff and a larger group who just writes code.

That perfectly mirrors my AI journey. I was very skeptical and my early tests showed shit results. But these days AI can indeed produce working code. But you still need experience to spot errors and to understand how to tell the AI what to fix and how.

A little bit of 5, a little bit of 8.

The first hard drive I got had 20MB and it was glorious.

They just took a photo.

The meaning has shifted to that a looong time ago. Are there seriously people who didn’t notice that or is it just a matter of not being able/willing to accept that language is never absolute and changing over time?

Cool story, but I’ma need some sources for these points. Submarines, for example, predate HG Wells by a lot. They even predate the other major novel about one, by Jules Verne. I absolutely agree that fiction sparks innovation, but let’s use sourced examples instead of just throwing stuff out there.