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My initial experience with Perplexity was it citing AI blog spam as a primary source so consistently I immediately dropped my subscription. (this was over a year ago, I haven't re-evaluated them since)

At the same time we have to value domain experience when it is a cornerstone. Ive worked for "middleman" companies that at face value seem superfluous only to realize we handled relationships or bureaucracies much more effectively then our clients could and thereby provided concrete value well beyond our cost.

I was unable to access this post without logging in. I kept receiving a page whose only text was “sorry.”

Jagex is an interesting finance story if you look into how they're passed around between private equity as one of the UKs largest game studios.

As a product the inside scoop is that the recent success of the game is in large part due to the community itself. The community development of Runelite, the OSRS wiki, the 117 HD plugin, and YouTube personalities.

I don't have high hopes that the status quo between Private Equity and the community will sustain itself.

Not really. He was trying very hard to get onto Epstein island.

“What day/night will be the wildest party on your island?” Musk wrote in an email to Epstein in November 2012. In another in December 2013, he asked, “Will be in the BVI/St Bart’s area over the holidays. Is there a good time to visit?”

[1]: https://time.com/7362868/elon-musk-epstein-emails/

" In emails, Epstein wrote that Bill Gates had come to him to facilitate trysts with married women and to get medication to treat an STI from "sex with Russian girls."

Epstein also claimed that Bill Gates wanted to try to give that STI medication to Melinda French Gates in secret. "

[1]: https://www.npr.org/2026/02/03/nx-s1-5697080/melinda-french-...

And you're just hitting the surface.

Without a 200gb download size how do I know this game is good? How in 2026 does a predominantly single player game not have additional forced downloads for its multiplayer mode? I am a pro gamer, why is there no deluxe version priced twice as high as the base game without additional content? Speaking of deluxe versions, how am I supposed to buy more virtual currency packs to speed up my leveling? No Battle Royale Mode placed above the fold in the game menu?

This is single-A at best.

My advice? Wait for the remaster 5 years from now. Or re-purchase it on the next console generation to at least get a AA experience.

“The real way to make money with Salesforce is being its signage or printing supplier.”

Grief is not simply a function of one’s iron.

Except her lawyer was there to explain court procedure and implications.

In vigorously advocating for her client, who expressed a desire for maximum sentencing, the laywer presumably would have explained its pikely effect (biasing the judge).

List of countries with public executions: Iran, Afghanistan, Yemen, North Korea, Somalia, and the USA.

> what exactly did amazon do with those billions in tariff refunds?

Plan expensive weddings in Venice. And we're all doing our part paying as consumers and tax payers.

That would be less immersion breaking then some of the recent Strange New World episodes.

Surely that price is being subsidized at launch though, and will ratchet up faster then even the Streaming services currently are?

How do you explain the brand segmentation Facebook is doing with Muse? They're keeping the Meta / Facebook brand very far away from the Muse product.

Doesn't that imply Meta itself believes users care?

Don’t be obtuse, the intended audience is developers with enterprise credentials sprinkled throughout their environment.

Its a different threat model. You should not curl bash.

> you can point to a government organisation and say hey look were not liable thats their job

While simultaneously donating tens (hundreds?) of millions of dollars to an Administration gutting the very agencies that would be regulating them.

Creeps.

Can your team read and audit Rust code as fluently as Go or Python?

I realized all the Rust code produced meant squat if it couldnt be audited well afterwards.

Acknowledging voter suppression exists is an understated way to communicate the severity of cultural shock events that transform entire societies.

Yeah its not a panacea. IMO there is no full turnkey solution that doesnt involve cobbling multiple services together (ie jellyfin, seer, etc). Then you have high cloud prices that, in order to save money, would require a local setup with old hardware to be cost effective.

You shouldnt be spinning up cloud resources to host your media stack. You should be buying used hardware off cycle and cobbling it together. All of which costs time to operationalize it, ie tweaking gpu drivers on linux to get that old hardware working.

It only really makes sense if youre a real enthusiast, or amortize it across your family, friends, etc. But then youre breaking a bunch more laws and as a working professional that just isnt worth the liability for the value provided.

The real answer I think is simply to consume less content.

AI could either help or ruin American education. But the Department of Education is being shutdown. Many parents are relatively absent. And functionally all tech companies, and especially startups, are rapacious in pursuit of education funding.

I think the most likely outcome is AI makes American education worse, not because if the technology, but because of the “leaders” building and implementimg it.

I think you’re discounting how much historical and cultural imperatives influence the electoral zeitgeist.

Like Germany being touchy tracking religious affiliations post WWII, post civil-war America is touchy about voter supression - im specifically referencing post civil war voter suppression conducted in what was then a Democrat stronghold in the American South.

Many argue that shame has never gone away and is still being conducted today through modern tactics.

Many would argue such a shame should never be dismissed at all.

For all practical purposes VSCode is a vessel to sell AI, im using vscodium for now but expect a cycle reset for it this decade (someone makes a new lightweight IDE etc)

Imagine if their was a department of the federal government dedicated to pursuing justice against large corporate entities.

It could even be prestigious enough to attract the top legal talent of the country.

Further, if you "cheat" your first tranche of sales you're potentially burying a valuable negative feedback loop for your product and sales development. The real hurdle, afaik, is mid-market and enterprise sales which is a big jump from getting your buddy to sign a small one year contract.

They cannibalize their social group. For example, they will make a lot of immediate small deals with other people in their cohort, incubator, or investor circle, and then use these deals to get to their next round of investment. Functionally those early sales are just there for signal.

That or they just lie on socials.

> Microphones in tvs are a useful accessibility feature

Made nearly moot by the presence of microphones in most (all?) modern remotes.

I say nearly moot because its worth noting the ability to operate a physical remote may itself be prohibitive to some.

So in effect, there are a multitude microphones in a modern LG environment.

Apologies my comment was very tongue and cheek. I understand what you're getting at with regards to dedicated DB style teams being a potential bottleneck and not effective for every organization, as for example most orgs get by fine with a simple RDS instance with minimal management and optimization.

What I'm calling out practically is a de-specialization in roles and the trade-offs it imposes.

For example, the "jack of all trades master of one" that was already propagating under the guise of "Full stack engineer" or "DevOps" is further exasperated when those consolidated roles are also delegating critical knowledge acquisition to LLMs.

Further, as we consolidate roles and delegate knowledge acquisition to llms, we're also paying people less, giving less job security, lowering the general quality of life not just for developers, but for operations staff and users, and generally promoting total consolidation within big tech.

Instead we're... listen to this... we're going to take a software developer right. Just a normal developer right. We're going to make them be the database expert right. And the cloud expert. And we're going to put them on call. We're going to have them debug linux logs, and optimize our AWS costs. They'll be there for client escalation work. And big sales calls. From time to time we'll even have them do front end work.

And get this. We pay them the exact same.

Or c) family bundled consumption. Mom likes netflix, dad needs live tv, kids are into youtube, and everyone likes hbo.

Its hard to cancel a subscription when you know it brings joy to an infirmed parent. Youre effectively locked into paying whatever, like $350/mo for xfinity tv simply because thats the only UI they can handle on an old remote.