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birbbarker··on How Age of Empires 2 is helping scientists understand ants [video]
The study: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217973120

Informal explanation: https://www.csiro.au/en/news/All/Articles/2023/August/Ant-wa...

birbbarker··on Computing Power Used to Be Measured in 'Kilo-Girls'
https://archive.ph/eiOjP
birbbarker··on A (Game) Dialogue Pipeline
-> "When I start at a studio, I almost always find myself building or rebuilding a pipeline for game dialogue.

I wanted to write down here some things I’ve learned about that, my reasoning behind it, and where it bridges the gap between other pieces of gamedev. I hope there’s something here you’ll find useful."

birbbarker··on The Myth of Google's Plus
No, not Google+ the failed social media service. I want to talk about the + operator that Google Search used to support.
birbbarker··on Windows 96
Having flashbacks to installing Netware 3.12 from floppy. o_O
birbbarker··on The floppy disk orphaned by Linux
So who'll volunteer as tribute? Someone must be able/want to?