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Gell-Mann ammnesia.

Both were by Gearbox, IIRC, probably best known recently for the Borderlands series.

I would say in addition. Black Mesa has rather uneven difficulty which detracts from the experience.

Black Mesa is beautifully done but combat is not as well balanced as the original game; there are odd spikes in difficulty at certain points that will have you cursing.

Players new to the series would be better served by playing the original Half-Life than Black Mesa.

> older devs had to go into management to keep their career trajectory ... FAANG companies seem to have figured it out for people they've already hired.

The FAANG companies and other technology platform companies have separate technical and management career tracks. Only those who want to be managers become managers.

> A perfect vacuum is a perfect insulator.

If that were true, vacuum tubes (used for radio and early computers) wouldn't work.

Email works just fine for that.

The homebrew RFID tags in the articles you link to are LF (125-134 kHz) RFID tags.

The ones described in the video are UHF (860-960 MHz) RFID tags, which differ considerably in design and protocol.

Compilers, embedded systems and similar low level work, reverse engineering where you don't have the binary (e.g. malware), and that kind of thing.

There's the ACM and IEEE already though?

> Didn't Star Trek essentially pioneer the concept of technobabble?

Hell, no. Technobabble has been a staple of science fiction all the way back to its origins.