The release of Jurassic Park is now closer to the assassination of JFK than to today.

More reminders of mortality at profmusgrave.github.io/anotherday

"Oh," the emperor of the galaxy said, "what happened to that monkey world?"

"Our agents infiltrated them some eight thousand years ago."

"Have they taken over the world?"

"Not yet."

The emperor licked a paw and started washing his ears.

"I'll still count it as one of mine," he purred.

How Elon Musk’s Sci-Fi Hyperloop Failed Before his misadventures in government efficiency, Musk promised to revolutionize commuting with a subway that would speed passengers between DC and Baltimore in a matter of minutes. The project was a...

A year long investigation into the Hyperloop found …

“The truth was far simpler, far dumber, and far more prescient: Musk and his lieutenants truly had no idea what they were doing.”

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Don't forget about the DRM-free Humble Bundle from Tor (with Murderbot, Witch King, and more), benefiting World Center Kitchen. The donation is now at over 58,000. It would be awesome to get it up to $100,000.

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I imagined the Chatsubo in 1984. 41 years later I opened its door. Neuromancer is in production.

What a title song, too.

• Al Overview The idiom "you can't lick a badger twice" means you can't trick or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once. It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they are unlikely to fall for the same trick again. Here's a more detailed explanation: • Licking: "Licking" in this context means to trick or deceive someone. • Badger: The badger is a wild animal, and the phrase likely originates from the historical sport of badger baiting where dogs were used to harass

Someone on Threads noticed you can type any random sentence into Google, then add “meaning” afterwards, and you’ll get an AI explanation of a famous idiom or phrase you just made up. Here is mine

That’s incredibly cool.

First time I’d seen it (or anything) recorded live. Lovely atmosphere. Felt like a cliche but “it’s smaller than it looks on TV!”

I guess we’re the happy few to ever see the celebrity ad at the end of the “lost episode”.

They even *literally* got the band back together!

Scott’s post got me interested, but this has really attracted my attention. “Dad RPG” sounds right up my street!
👴🏻🎮💪🏻

That seems like the best way! Maybe we’ll do the same.

Hopefully the sound mixer woke up, at least! I doubt it though.
It was like they got Bane to read out a dramatic script and then put loud music over the top.

We turned on just as Jack Whitehall was finishing his intro. The 75 years montage was “fine” in a corporate sort of way, but most of what I said above was inspired by the Kick Sauber intro/reveal.

Switched off and watched Shetland S01E01.

Wow. The F1 launch event is really terrible. Really long-winded and the sound is so awful you can’t hear what any of the dramatic voices are actually saying.
Turned off. I’ll wait for some actual track action.

A wall with graffiti showing Elon Musk pulling off a mask to reveal what looks like Hitler and the words above it “ELON MASK”

Seen in Padua, Italy 👀

Having played through this “back in the day”, stepping into the VR version on the Quest was amazing. Being “inside the game” with the added nostalgia factor was truly something else.

It’s a properly good port of the game, too. Played it all the way through.

It’s apparently been around for ages, and newspapers have been doing (and avoiding) it for > 100 years.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Betteri...

Hi Andy! I’ll definitely have to find a way to play this. Great that you’ve found your way back to your baby.

Those afternoons in Caltec playing TW were a blast!

You: “Should the computer players hold grudges BETWEEN rounds?”
Everyone: “YES!!”

Good luck!

Maybe ChatGPT models have enough prior art to give you a decent answer if you ask them the high end problem. Maybe start with something like “I want to synchronise a list of items and the item selections between my code and the UI”.

I’ve been away from it a few years, so I’m a bit rusty.

Yeah, I don’t really know the JS works you’re coming from well enough to smooth your transition that much, I’m afraid.

What I will say is that the XAML frameworks are heavily biased toward data binding rather than manipulating the controls directly. IIRC list selection binding was a bit painful.

That would be great! My company has gone all-in on Linux (Ubuntu) as a dev environment and I’ve been disappointed about potentially missing this sort of thing.

In case it matters: Our dev environments are not internet connected, so you’d not see telemetry even though we have 100s of devs.

Sorry… I should also say that slnx support coming to the SDK is great news!

Is it still the case that only the 1xx series will have Ubuntu packages?

When I had to work in JS-land and it was all “just keep creating new derived collections every time anything changes” I was horrified!

GitHub - reactivemarbles/DynamicData: Reactive collections based on Rx.Net Reactive collections based on Rx.Net. Contribute to reactivemarbles/DynamicData development by creating an account on GitHub.

When I was working with WPF I fell in love with a library called DynamicData. It lets you create collections derived from other collections with LINQ-style filters, projections, etc. Changes in the source magically ripple all the way through data binding to the UI.

github.com/reactivemarb...

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My father-in-law worked on it (associate producer), and is very proud of it.

Apparently “everyone” (including ILM, IIRC) told them you couldn’t do blue-screen compositing with video, only film. So the BBC tech guys showed them otherwise! 😀