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BigTTYGothGF··on The Indo-European Family Tree
Sri Lanka's been inhabited for over 100k years.
BigTTYGothGF··on Tocharian Online
> Wait wait wait: so Xinjiang is an inalienable part of Europe

Only in the sense that Europe is an inalienable part of India.

BigTTYGothGF··on Deutsche Bank becomes first foreign yuan clearing bank in Europe
> libtard

Hey. Don't.

BigTTYGothGF··on Pixel Watch 5
> I can see my investment portfolio value change right from my wrist

Great way to drive yourself crazy.

BigTTYGothGF··on Why Target Common Lisp for Code Generation?
Describing oneself as "elite" (or sometimes "l33t") is something people in this field have been doing for a long long time.
BigTTYGothGF··on AI is removing the middle class of software engineering?
> You don’t learn Big-O in Calculus because it requires CS algorithmic concepts

Big O notation was invented in 1894.

BigTTYGothGF··on Nvidia's Risky Business
If you have to ask you're not going to benefit from it.
BigTTYGothGF··on Letter to Governor Abbott on responsible AI infrastructure in Texas
> refineries a few blocks away from residential neighborhoods

Seems like something that ought to be addressed as well, and should not be used as a justification for other lousy things.

BigTTYGothGF··on Defending my own brain against enshittification
There's small children involved, you have to coordinate that kind of thing.
BigTTYGothGF··on 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
> very popular and no one had a problem with them

People certainly did have a problem with them.

BigTTYGothGF··on 'Pervert glasses': Backlash against Meta's smart glasses grows
> retards

Stop it.

BigTTYGothGF··on No one can afford to make Myst games anymore
> It's just too soon

And yet you yourself said:

> I can make a Myst-class game by next weekend

Which of these am I to believe?

BigTTYGothGF··on No one can afford to make Myst games anymore
> Well, not for free.

You said "for practically no money". How much are we talking about here?

> weekend-long indy game jam

There was apparently one at GDC earlier this year but I couldn't find any details about the winners. I did find https://www.genjam.net, the nicest thing about which I can say is that many of the examples appear to function.

BigTTYGothGF··on No one can afford to make Myst games anymore
> I can make a Myst-class game by next weekend, for practically no money.

I don't believe you can.

BigTTYGothGF··on Oracle bans AI-generated code from OpenJDK
I, too, would like to see the results.
BigTTYGothGF··on The Claudyssey: A line-for-line translation of Homer's Odyssey by Claude Fable 5
They called them mudashes back then.
BigTTYGothGF··on Radical Study Suggests Life on Earth Arose Twice
> As I see it life was clearly designed by God

Yes, wide-bosomed Gaia, foundation of us all, this research is about the manner in which She did it, if it was one birth or two.

BigTTYGothGF··on Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029
> Walk in Tokyo and try to find children there

There might a few more things going on there than just density, perhaps operating on a national level.

BigTTYGothGF··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
> early gaming

Gaming got very corporate very quickly. Atari sold itself to Warner in 1976. Magnavox was a defense contractor. I don't have to tell you about Fairchild or Mattel or the Connecticut Leather Company. On the arcade side, Bally, Midway, and Williams had been making pinball machines for decades.

I'll grant you that there were a lot of "garage-start tinkerers" on the home-computer software side.

BigTTYGothGF··on Adults over 65 will outnumber children by 2029
15-minute neighborhoods with bike lanes are exactly the kinds of places good for raising kids in.
BigTTYGothGF··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
Yeah, what a waste that is.
BigTTYGothGF··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
Eichmann never directly murdered anybody either.
BigTTYGothGF··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
> industry of tinkerers and designers

At no point in history was it ever thus.

BigTTYGothGF··on What happens if an entire class of workers loses faith in their careers
Wrongful denial of medical treatment. Delay, Deny, Depose.
BigTTYGothGF··on The BBC Tetris Companion
Unexpected Jeffrey Epstein extended universe crossover there.
BigTTYGothGF··on New Mexico court orders Meta to pay $567m over harms to children’s mental health
God willing.
BigTTYGothGF··on When online commenters detect my art as AI
It is clearly not AI art when you look closely, the problem is on some of them you have to look closely.

The worst to my eye is the Alice in Wonderland one. What's going on with Alice's hair? What's the tea on the left being poured into? What kind of playing card has a 'C' (it can't be a messy Q as the figure on it is male) and why is there only half a heart there? What's with club on the jack next to it? What exactly is that black bird doing? (It's been a long time since I've read the books, what bird is that anyway?) How does the flamingo's body work? Is Alice sitting on it? Why are there buttons on both sides of the White Rabbit's coat, and why is it shaped differently on the left and right?

BigTTYGothGF··on Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership
I'd like to think a democratic president would have the appetite to do that.
BigTTYGothGF··on Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
> (I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt here)

Please expand on why you think it being phony is a benefit.

BigTTYGothGF··on Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
It's a North American fungus and you want to sow it in Australia? You really do need to listen to Joey Santore....
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