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I'm not sure what I find more morally repugnant to be honest. The largest wholesale theft of human labour ever seen, or the company that has made billions from this heinous act disingenuously and cynically trying to claim it as in any way "fair" (whilst simultaneously crying foul about distillation)

Where did we get these games as kids? I was around 6-7 when I played this on our PC. I don't think my dad was installing them, and we didn't have internet obviously.

The only game I actually remember us buying prior to around the windows 98 era was "Cool World" which my dad let me choose at Woolworths (UK)*

But aside from that I remember sooo many DOS games. Some random ones: Wacky wheels, Paperboy, OMF, Pushover, Doom, Heretic, Contraption Zack, Warcraft, Might and Magic, D generation. One called abyss.exe? What was that?

How did I get all these games (and so many more??) some of them were demos, but not all I don't think.

*Probably not suitable for a ~5 year old in hindsight

Yeah I had to paste it first to check it was safe

That "copy instructions got agents" thing is a really great idea. I just used it :)

I've been saying this exact thing about food for years. It applies equally as well to software though

Incredibly advanced technology but I bet it still won't let me integrate with more than one Gmail account at the same time..

As someone who is also into <thing> but maybe not other <thing>, it's really great to sometimes delve into the deep world of <thing> for an hour or so to broaden ones perspective and get a general feel for what other people choose to spend their consciousness budget on.

Definitely one of the better sides of the information age is how easy this is now.

I don't completely disagree with your hypotheses but it feels like the hard part of his TIN stuff isn't BM25 (which has been around for donkeys years) it's all the hardcore storage engine work around it. And is an LLM particularly good at e.g. segment merging under a thousand updates a second? I've had a few situations where I've been told "we've hit the perf floor" by Claude only to have persisted myself and shaved substantial amounts off still.

More damning for the theory might be that I think paradedb's pg_search predates the agentic coding by a few years?

The second skill has this before/after example:

> BEFORE: "There's a problem when a lesson inside a section of a course is made 'real' (i.e. given a spot in the file system)"

> AFTER: "There's a problem with the materialization cascade"

It claims the second is easier reading. Is it just me, or does anyone else prefer the first?

I don't want want you reported (or even to follow the rules for their own sake) I suggested you go read/consider the guidelines as they are a good write-up on internet etiquette in general.

Engaging in a positive way on the internet requires more from us than blindly posting every arbitrary thing that pops into our heads and I think it's right to hold each-other to account. Sorry if that seems sanctimonious

Yeah bit dearer but it's only ~£55 a month and feels like money well spent. They're an awesome company

> Your ISP proactively shares your web history with the state.

How so? I'm with AAISP and I'd be very surprised if they were doing this. What are you referring to here?

Really enjoyed this

You're about 12 years older than me so the post was simultaneously nostalgic and a great insight into what work in our industry was like in the decade before I really got properly started professionally

Thanks for sharing and happy 50th for his year