Space Quest 3. Wonderful story, funny, good music, and it always gave me this wistful feeling for some reason.

Addiction is always an escape from something. What you escape to is happenstance, and people who have a tendency to get addicted often just find another addiction after leaving one, unless they can face the thing that they’re escaping from.

But habit is also a strong force. Whatever you do repeatedly will train your brain to return to those thought patterns automatically. Find other associations for your daily events.

I escape from obligations and social pressure by closing myself off and coding. But I don’t really think it has been enough of a hindrance in my life to do anything about it. Often it has been to my benefit (e.g. career) and it’s a way to recharge my batteries.

Maybe you just need to find a replacement addiction that makes you happy. Try tea.

So then they should say that instead.

I’m curious how they define AI. In my view AI has been used for games for as long as games have existed.

Yeah my IT department won’t see that as a feature. They want to be the man in the middle.

Because women are socialized (and possibly genetically predisposed) to be better at building community and having many close relationships, often more physically intimate as well (touching, hugs etc). So men are less equipped to live alone.

Read Ender’s Game.

The first two thirds of that book took me at least a month to read. Somewhere around the last third I couldn’t put it down and kept reading until the end. By then it was 4 AM and I got only a couple of hours of sleep, but it was worth it. Needless to say, it’s not the same thrill when you already know how it ends.

BTW: absolutely do not watch the movie before reading the book. It’s much worse but still spoils the story. You’ll rob yourself of the first read.

Apple zealots trust apple. The rest of us don’t give a rat’s ass what Apple does.

I want the Steam controller to succeed but why do they make it look like it’s from the 1980s

Palantir CEO will be among the first to be lined up against the wall when the revolution comes.

Yeah, but I want it.

fb.com. I bet I could make a fortune selling that domain to Facebook.

threats from Musk to step down if the deal is rejected

A threat is a good start, but is it a promise?

Well FQDN you too

This isn’t new. European companies and governments have been avoiding US cloud providers ever since the CLOUD Act was introduced seven years ago.

I have some exes that I wanted to and could be friends with (one I was for several years). But it just doesn’t fly with a new domestic partnership. I can tell my current girlfriend that I’m going to see female friends, but going out with friends who I’ve previously had sexual relations with is stretching it. I wouldn’t want my girlfriend to do that and so I won’t do it to her.

It makes me a bit sad, but I have effectively ended those friendships by no longer agreeing to seeing them.

I also have exes that I wouldn’t wish on my biggest enemy and I avoid them like the plague.

Typically the competitive multiplayer ones fail because of kernel-level anticheat.

The US has been on this path at least since Reagan was president.

https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/632474-i-have-a-foreboding-of-an-america-in-my-children-s

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

Arrival

I was a trainee in Japan at the time and had spoken in an IRC channel about how I was going home to Sweden for Christmas.

Then I ended up in a disagreement with some Norwegian guy about affirmative action. I felt that in the computer science field it could be a good idea for a time to “jumpstart” female participation in the field, and once prejudice had been torn down you wouldn’t need affirmative action anymore.

He vehemently disagreed and said he would drive down to Stockholm’s airport to kill me with his rifle. There weren’t that many flights from Japan to Sweden so based on what I had said earlier he was able to figure out what flight I would be arriving with. But, well, I’m still alive. It taught me to be more careful with what information I volunteer on the Internet.