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'What's your salary? I told him, and he said no problem, we'll double. And those days are gone:' Listening to game dev legends reminiscing in 1989 about the 'golden days of computer games' already being over is a trip

This would be like us saying 'Remember the good old days of, uh, 2016?'

Why natural transformations?

This post is aimed primarily at people who know what a category is in the extremely broad strokes, but aren't otherwise familiar or comfortable with category theory.One of mathematicians' favourite...

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Bill Weaver Survived an SR-71 Blackbird Breaking Apart at Mach 3 — Two Weeks Later He Was Flying Another One When the ‘Pilot Ejected’ Light Came On

The SR-71 Blackbird Was a Legend But Even Legends Can Suffer Mechanical Failures  The Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird spy plane (AKA the “Habu”) remains the fastest air-breathing, crewed aircraft ever built,...

The Talk Show: ‘Apple at 50’

Who better to join the show to commemorate Apple’s 50th anniversary than John Siracusa? Sponsored by: Sentry: A real-time error monitoring and tracing platform. Use code TALKSHOW for $80 in...

“ LLM-generated passwords…appear strong, but...

“LLM-generated passwords…appear strong, but are fundamentally insecure, because LLMs are designed to predict tokens – the opposite of securely and uniformly sampling random characters.”

OpenAI against the world

Ben Thompson: Apple’s 50 Years of IntegrationIt’s also worth noting that OpenAI has, in its relatively short life, managed to frame itself as a competitor to basically everyone in tech,...

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The U.S. Navy Will Soon Have 3 Aircraft Carriers ‘Out Of Action’

11 U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers on Paper, 8 ‘Available’ in Reality In March 2026, the USS Gerald R. Ford arrived in Split, Croatia, for repairs following a March 12 fire...

datasette-llm 0.1a6

Release: datasette-llm 0.1a6 The same model ID no longer needs to be repeated in both the default model and allowed models lists - setting it as a default model automatically...

OldVersion is Back, and Better than Ever

You know what they say — you can’t keep a good website down. OldVersion.com, the repository of outdated software that has been serving up old versions of tools you need...

An Introduction to Neo-Panglossian Philosophy

"All shall be well, and all manner of things shall be well." - Julian of Norwich In Voltaire's well-known novella Candide: or, Optimism, Pangloss, a professor of "metaphysico-theologo-cosmolonigology" claims to...

Apple at 50: my most memorable product announcements

Apple turns 50 today, so I thought I'd take some time to think back on some of the most memorable Apple product announcements. I'm relying entirely on my own memory,...

China Just Operated Three Aircraft Carriers at Sea Simultaneously for the First Time — That’s Not the Same as Being Able To Do It Again

China’s Navy Has Quite Few Aircraft Carriers: But It Needs To Sustain Them and Protect Them  China’s PLA Navy (PLAN) has operated three aircraft carriers simultaneously at sea. The three...

Orders of magnitude: use semitones, not decibels

I'm going to teach you a secret. It's a secret known to few, a secret way of using parts of your brain not meant for mathematics... for mathematics. It's part...

Announcing: Mechanize War

We are coming out of stealth with guns blazing!There is trillions of dollars to be made from automating warfare, and we think starting this company is not just justified but...

Following Artemis II’s Journey Around the Moon

NASA is going back to the Moon! We’ll follow the crew of Artemis II every step of the way. Day 1 – Liftoff! After resolving a last-minute communications issue with...

Everyone Thinks Iran ‘Closed’ the Strait of Hormuz — What It Actually Did Is Worse

The Strait of Hormuz Energy Hostage Crisis Explained On March 31, Donald Trump said the war with Iran could end in “two weeks, maybe three,” adding that the United States...

Blizzard is hiring for an 'open-world shooter' using Unreal Engine, which is more evidence that a new Starcraft game could be on its way

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Google's TurboQuant saves memory, but won't save us from DRAM-pricing hell

Chocolate Factory’s compression tech clears the way to cheaper AI inference, not more affordable memory When Google unveiled TurboQuant, an AI data compression technology that promises to slash the amount...