And where exactly *is* the manual these days? Most of what I see has been mechanistic doxygen style nonsense that isn't crafted to explain why and how, only to restate basic facts about what.

Most of the questions that I find myself ending up at SO with are regarding how to achieve a particular effect, then once a human being actually explains the key points, I can find the rest. Google has become a crutch that has let software developers ignore good docs for the past twenty years, and AI summaries are just another attempt at evading blame.

I was very impressed by Duolingo about seven years ago when they were rolling out a bunch of less served languages (Esperanto, Hawaiian, Swahili, and Klingon, etc) They were working with teams of volunteers (free labor) to build out those courses and only had to provide the core systems that they were already building for the big langs.

But a few years ago, they shut all of that down and removed access to the courses from the volunteers. They still keep the smaller courses around, but they are totally unmaintained and just run on automatic pilot.

It seems like they have chosen to go all in on the same five languages that everyone else does, but with badge chasing. Since those languages have the largest AI training set, I'm not surprised that they are going to boot their paid people after already booting the free volunteers.

I really don't think they will end up rolling out the new license plates (LPv6) as soon as predicted. Most of the existing license plates will just be used behind a NAT.

You would be better off just gene editing bigger chickens. They weren't particularly good to eat. I've previously seen them described as boney and gamey. The article below notes that the meat was described at the time as 'offensive and of no nourishment.'

https://www.sciencefocus.com/n...

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You are all making my point -- Picking up a used Bolt for $18k is from an original MSRP of $24k is hardly "cratered resale value OMG". I think the Bolts are fantastic and will be looking closely at the reintroduction next model year.

But if EVs are such shit that nobody is buying them used, then why can't I pick up a 2022 or so for $10-12k? I can imagine at the high end, a $100k model might go for $50k after two years, but that is just because those aren't designed to be useful, just to help people with too much money get rid of some of it.

This clearly means that electric vehicles have failed and we will all go back to fossil fuels.

Don't forget how EVs have horrible resale value yet I can't find any of these cheap used EVs for sale anywhere!

TFA seems to conflate cement and concrete. Nobody is going to make a 200 ton block of cement, because the main point of the cement is to bind aggregate. Will these carbon fractal wires still form when mixed with gravel?

Gall's Law states that every complex system that works began as a simple system that worked. A "rewrite from scratch" attempts to create a complex system that works in one go, with entirely predictable results.

The way out of technical debt is through saving and wise investment not from buying a RFS lottery ticket.

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IKEA was there first and has infinitely more space ...

The Junethack tournament focuses on the many variants of nethack that have spawned over the years. The November tournament plays the baseline version enhanced with a few challenges. Both run an entire month are much fun!

https://tnnt.org/
https://junethack.net/

junethack is on going now (https://junethack.net/) which I am again getting my a**kicked, but having lots of fun. I love being a wizard, and I know that is probably my biggest issue with not ascending. But I play for fun

Emacs has been my daily driver for about 30+ years for reasons that changed over the years. Tags searching, integrated build and vc, integrated rmail, my own custom lisp extensions, syntax highlighting, and so on.

Some are everywhere now (search, highlighting, build), some are now moot (rmail), but newer editors seem to use the mouse as their primary UI, even if they grudgingly give you key bindings for some things. Or pretend to have emacs bindings to pull in grandpa.

That just busts up my flow. And the constant tooltips in VS is like watching a freaking cable news show about your code. (BREAKING! unsigned int!!) I've used most of them, but keep coming home to emacs.

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Still one of the main reasons I occasionally fire up Basilisk with a Mac II emulator. Bungie and Ambrosia rocked the Mac in the early 90's.

And I respect Bungie for keeping this up for decades:

          http://pid.bungie.org/

I remember Bungie for Pathways Into Darkness :-) Still number one in my book.

I hope they do better than "Top Secret UFO Projects: Declassified"! After the big splash in the press, I expected something more than another History Channel crapfest. Throw some ominous music cues, CGI that you paid a kid with a C64 twenty bucks to make, and interviews with three people in between panels at a Star Trek con, mix well, and repeat until the checks stop coming. I watched five of the six episodes out of sheer morbid car-crash curiosity, but had to do it without sound because I could feel my will to live slowly fading. Never expected to actually miss Giorgio and his Centauri hairdoo!

Hopefully Elon will force them to upgrade at least to an Amiga!