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New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "U.S. science is in chaos"

BigTTYGothGF — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 13:45:51 +0000

> When words lose their meaning, people lose their freedom. -Confucius

I don't think I believe that this is a real Confucius quote.

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60B"

BigTTYGothGF — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 13:16:21 +0000

Elon Musk has exactly one talent, and it's being the greatest master of financial chicanery the world has ever seen.

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

BigTTYGothGF — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:50:11 +0000

@dang You might want to check this username (put a space between the 5th and 6th letters if you're luckily not familiar with the term).

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

BigTTYGothGF — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:47:11 +0000

> that would be a different world

Yes, it's called "the past".

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Banned book library in a wi-fi smart light bulb"

BigTTYGothGF — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 12:40:44 +0000

There might not currently be but that hasn't always been the case: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banned_in_Boston and the obscenity laws are still in place: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Diana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miller_test. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Obscenity_Prosecution_Task_For...

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Game Engine White Papers Commander Keen"

BigTTYGothGF — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 20:17:18 +0000

From the preface: > Fast forward to 2021, I discovered Fabien Sanglard’s website and began reading his Game Engine Black Books on Wolfenstein 3D and Doom. Inspired by those works, I wondered whether I could do something similar for Commander Keen: open up the source code, explore the files, and piece together a picture of the overall architecture and the clever tricks used. The style, dimensions, and structure of this book are intentionally similar to Fabien’s Game Engine Black Books, as an homage to those masterpieces. To give it a personal twist, I inverted the title and cover to white.

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity"

BigTTYGothGF — Sun, 14 Jun 2026 20:24:16 +0000

There's never been a single one of those parades that people didn't say was full of "degenerates".

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Texas is America Inc's new centre of gravity"

BigTTYGothGF — Sat, 13 Jun 2026 20:41:49 +0000

What parades would those be?

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Software Is Made Between Commits"

BigTTYGothGF — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 21:10:35 +0000

Sounds like "google docs with code formatting".

I didn't see anything in there about branching which seems like a big thing not to have.

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Software is made between commits"

BigTTYGothGF — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 20:13:53 +0000

> A hammer would never ask you to think about it constantly

A table saw does tho.

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee"

BigTTYGothGF — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 19:44:07 +0000

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Mesoamerican_writing_...

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Workers are spending over 6 hours a week botsitting AI, fueling job frustration"

BigTTYGothGF — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 16:24:05 +0000

> Is everyone entitled to a high quality of life

Yes.

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "The Life and Works of Raoul Bott (2002)"

BigTTYGothGF — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 11:37:20 +0000

I got confused because of the use of present tense as Bott's been gone for years. It needs a "(2002)"

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Sequoyah’s syllabary created a written language for the Cherokee"

BigTTYGothGF — Thu, 11 Jun 2026 00:31:32 +0000

Syllabaries are not alphabets.

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Claude Desktop spawns 1.8 GB Hyper-V VM on every launch, even for chat-only use"

BigTTYGothGF — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 20:05:52 +0000

> Gmail isn't outstanding, search isn't outstanding, maps isn't outstanding

They were at the time.

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "German ruling declares Google liable for false answers in AI Overviews"

BigTTYGothGF — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:21:56 +0000

> at the scale that google is at, it doesn't make an ounce of sense to hold a company liable for a potential mistruth

I, too, agree that google is too large and should be broken up into multiple smaller companies.

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Mercedes‑Benz starts large‑scale production of electric axial flux motor"

BigTTYGothGF — Wed, 10 Jun 2026 13:16:49 +0000

Aren't you getting your analogy backwards? American supermarkets have the same role in the story as Chinese cars.

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

BigTTYGothGF — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:37:52 +0000

> I can't see many people passing if they answered honestly.

You're not supposed to answer honestly, you're supposed to answer in such a way as to convince them to hire you.

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

BigTTYGothGF — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 14:23:54 +0000

Let me rephrase that. In your own view, with which component of the test do you think you're having trouble getting through? How many times has this happened, and if it's more than twice have you considered some of the various test practice resources?

New comment by BigTTYGothGF in "Algorithmic Monocultures in Hiring"

BigTTYGothGF — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 11:58:43 +0000

Are you failing because of the dot test or because of the personality test?