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I'm surprised that no-one has mentioned the "magic unlimited magazine" yet, especially with fully-automatic weapons. It's distracting to watch the hero shoot and shoot and shoot and never reload.

Big props to the John Wick franchise for making reloading* a first-class part of their gun-fu choreography.

* ...and badass one-handed press checks that no-one should ever do IRL.

They would make an excellent Beowulf cluster.

I would get one of these in a hot minute except that my HP-16C that I got sometime in the '80's is still going strong! I rarely use it anymore but a couple of years back I was working on an app that involved bit-twiddling and the 16C fired right up and was immediately helpful.

It's difficult to take an announcement like this seriously when it's posted on Twitter.

Everything he quoted is a fact, which can be proven or falsified. Taken together (and if true) they're pretty damning.

You responded with an ad-hominem attack. If you can offer a rebuttal of the facts then please do, otherwise try to refrain from personal attacks.

Also "couch lock", i.e., reduced physical activity.

The real serverless horror isn't the occasional mistake that leads to a single huge bill, it's the monthly creep. It's so easy to spin up a resource and leave it running. It's just a few bucks, right?

I worked for a small venture-funded "cloud-first" company and our AWS bill was a sawtooth waveform. Every month the bill would creep up by a thousand bucks or so, until it hit $20k at which point the COO would notice and then it would be all hands on deck until we got the bill under $10k or so. Rinse and repeat but over a few years I'm sure we wasted more money than many of the examples on serverlesshorrors.com, just a few $k at a time instead of one lump.

> I made an honest mistake; I expect companies to reject candidates who make honest mistakes during interviews.

Follow-up: do you expect companies to fire employees who make mistakes?

I recently received an AI-slop bug report for a small open source project (PureLB) that I maintain, and the slop was generated by DeepWiki. It was very incorrect, but I didn't know what "DeepWiki" was so I wasted about an hour. If DeepWiki is causing garbage bug reports even on tiny projects like mine, I can't imagine how much maintainer time it's wasting over all.

> At what point do these things stop being Amigas?

Ah, the classic "Ship of Tramiel" gedankenexperiment.

I use Firefox but donate to Ladybird and Servo. Mozilla Corp is too far gone but hopefully the next generation of browsers will have less corporate baggage.

The main link returns a 404 - maybe a griefer deleted example1?

I'll defer to Stringer Bell:

> Is you taking notes on a criminal fucking conspiracy?

"Normal CEO things" don't include committing crimes, and they are only a "huge self-own" when they document those crimes.

I'm curious about the pros and cons of Cloudflare pages versus GitHub pages. Given that you're using GH as a repo, would it be simpler to also use it to serve pages?

You control the trackball with the fingers of your right hand, and there's a scroll wheel and right and left buttons under your right thumb.