jameskilton

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by jameskilton 7d ago
In a lot of ways, World of Wacraft survived because it perfected the genre, and in doing so, kind of killed it. Final Fantasy 14 is successful because it copied a lot of WoW's patterns. Today, though, it's really hard to sell a ga
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by jameskilton 8d ago
A few weeks ago I was golfing with a 21-year old wearing a Trump hat. Didn't ask him about it, it could have been ironic, but I realized something: He's never seen a healthy America, probably doesn't even have any concept of
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by jameskilton 14d ago
Then you've never actually Pair Programmed. It's not "someone looking over your shoulder", it's literally two people writing the code together, one person at the keyboard and the other person saying what's next
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by jameskilton 15d ago
No, I'd much rather have Idiocracy than the orange buffoon we actually have in office.
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by jameskilton 29d ago
A good article, but missing one very important word: trust. Civil society only exists when there is a collective general trust that most people are trying to do the right thing. Said society also finds it incredibly important to remove or n
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by jameskilton 1mo ago
The entire concept of "for-profit incarceration/detention" should not exist. Such a system only incentivizes cruelty.
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by jameskilton 1mo ago
I mean I can't have much sympathy here, it's Texas. They voted for this.
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by jameskilton 2mo ago
Did Arko ever explain why he was trying to sell access to Rubygem's web access logs?
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by jameskilton 2mo ago
And some things always are malicious, like "prediction markets", which is just gambling reworded to sound like something else. This was never, ever going to end well. There is no good use of "prediction markets".
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by jameskilton 2mo ago
Which is a people problem! The Internet is already a decentralized network. Anyone can hook up a computer to the Internet and others can immediately access it. Centralization comes from people building bigger and bigger companies which cont
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by jameskilton 2mo ago
The state of the Internet today is a people problem, not a tech problem, and trying to throw more tech at it won't solve anything.
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by jameskilton 2mo ago
Same thing happened the last time we went through this circus. I'm only surprised it took this long for them to shut off access.
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by jameskilton 2mo ago
My personal photo backup S3 account, with a budget limit of $10, now going to cost me .... $1,299,988,247,332.56! That was a fun set of emails to wake up to, figured they had to be phishing for how outrageous of a number it was. But nope! F
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by jameskilton 2mo ago
If you're ever asking "Is it just me?", the answer is "no".
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by jameskilton 2mo ago
It isn't and never has been about the children.
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by jameskilton 3mo ago
Bitcoiners pivoted to AI so hard when they saw actual money to be made. Now AI is turning into as bad of a bet as Bitcoin, so not surprised that the "Bitcoin Policy Institute" would write something like this.
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by jameskilton 3mo ago
Don't ever let a Republican, and especially a Trump voter, complain about the current state of affairs. They voted for this, and have been voting for this for decades. They have two choices: own it and admit to themselves that they do
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by jameskilton 3mo ago
Or how he was mailed a box of Calvin and Hobbes plushies to try to get sign-off on the quality of the toys. He mailed back a picture of the box on fire. IMO Calvin and Hobbes will always be special because of Watterson's integrity. It
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by jameskilton 3mo ago
There is nothing more evil in this world than the pursuit of power and wealth.
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by jameskilton 3mo ago
After a certain size, one of my favorite Civilization quotes kicks in: "The bureaucracy is expanding to fill the needs of the expanding bureaucracy." This burned me right out, and I don't plan on ever working for any Silicon
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by jameskilton 4mo ago
> At Anthropic, we build AI to serve humanity’s long-term well-being. If Anthropic actually cared about humans, they would have the best customer support (staffed by humans, for humans) and communications team (again, staffed by humans,
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by jameskilton 4mo ago
A reminder that every line of code written is a liability, not an asset. If I had any inkling of giving GitLab a try, this killed it.
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by jameskilton 5mo ago
Flock is pure cruelty. All justice, no mercy. It needs to go away.
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by jameskilton 5mo ago
Nice, they have availability numbers now on their status page, but they aren't aggregating. If you multiply all current numbers together (as of Apr 28), you find out that GitHub has a 97.26% uptime. One ... single ... 9. They can do be
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by jameskilton 5mo ago
Never underestimate the lengths and depths people will go in the name of a salary.
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by jameskilton 5mo ago
As the American Justice system is fundamentally broken now, if Interpol decides to "disappear" Trump to the Hague next time he's in Europe it would be greatly appreciated.
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by jameskilton 5mo ago
Why do you think Melania started talking about Epstein again when she did?
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by jameskilton 5mo ago
We are in a really bad situation, of our own making no doubt. We actually have no idea who's in charge of Iran (the stated ruler has yet to be seen and probably was severely injured in the same blast that killed Khamenei), but it'
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by jameskilton 6mo ago
Are you expecting "mentally sound behavior" or "strategic coherence" from today's administration?
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by jameskilton 6mo ago
Why would you go to LinkedIn to play puzzle games? There's thousands of other places to do so.

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