That looks indeed awesome. I didn’t know Elite was developed for the BBC Micro… 22 kB for a 3D open-world fighting/trading/mining flight simulator using only 8-bit integer addition operations. I had no idea…

Oof, I hope everything turns out great for you! (And since I just now noticed your username: thank you for everything you’ve been doing for us!)

Happy… bleedivus, I guess!

But seriously, I don’t think the AI was very wrong here, depending on how severe the bleeding was? Did the doctors say anything?

Oh god, the AIs are now training people…

Yes, it’s guaranteed!

Oh, you said “not”…

Ok, I didn’t mean for things to get insulting. My first comment to them was a neutral attempt at telling them there is something else they could do instead. Their reply was a rude “no!” so I wrote back more reproachfully.

I realize it’s a bit of a fight against windmills. People will do what they please and the platform will float towards whatever the natural equilibrium position of such platforms is, so I’ll just let it go.

There’s a certain cost-benefit imbalance in these habits: sure, it’s not a great cost to leave some litter around. People can just step over it. But while one person marginally benefits from it, hundreds more pay the (also tiny, admittedly) cost of the unpleasantness. When you multiply it like that, the negligible becomes gligible.

You’re like those dudes that park across four spots because it was just simply more convenient for them.

You can just save posts. It’s a star or bookmark sign somewhere, depending on what interface you’re using.

Lots of international manufacturers skip model numbers 4 and 9 because of Asian superstitions. Silly, yes, but they affect sales and even birth rates.

At least in Japanese, 4 sounds like “death” and 9 sounds like “suffering”.

Unpopular opinion, but the judge was right. There would be zero benefit to society to reward this absolute cybersquatter. There’s an almost zero benefit to reward a corporation. Both bad, but the corporation should get it in this case.

He meant “lost it” as in outran a pursuer? (I thought lost it as in “the thing is broken” at first).

I see… TIL, thanks.

You mean because Twitter is an SMS-based messaging app?.. The character limits are arbitrary, not a technical limitation. Which is why they doubled them at one point, I believe.

The limits were meant to act as a micro-blogging enforcement measure, for micro attention spans.

Agreed. Unnecessary and obscure reference thrown in because it’s obscure but “intriguing”.

“A small amount of such material can be almost like Hermione’s handbag in Harry Potter. It can store huge amounts of gas in a tiny volume.”

Sounds like a job for dirigibles, tbh.

Toilets flush in a direction determined by how the water is poured into the bowl. For other vessels the pre-existing motion of the water, the shape of the vessel, and the shape of the drain dominate the direction.

“Who’s signal is this?”

“Oh, it’s that guy with the metal strips. His address is on a post-it note somewhere around here.”

Meh. He only had $23.50 in his account.

I’m all for the “SLEEP 8 HOURS” bit though. I need more of that in my life.