I’d be happy to drop the phone part of the phone switching to mobile Linux if I could still send and receive calls using an app and wifi only without a carrier

Torrents are sometimes organized under an author’s name for their collected works

Archive.org has a bunch of public domain/commons books in e-reader formats

Threading macros, rainbow parens, and paredit style auto closing parens make lisps syntaxes pretty easy to read and manage. I think declarative style languages like ML and Haskell took me longer to get familiar with than lisp style syntax, but that’s probably just because I learned procedural languages first. And I think lisps tend to be more syntactically dense than say Python or C or other languages most people start with.

That’s a good point, my perspective on that is definitely colored by personal experience. Most of the console games I had were from second hand or toy stores that were mostly first party and licensed games, while pc I saw more in local computer stores that would have eclectic selections compared to corporate stores.

Cave story is a fun side scroller and an indie release, same with monster sanctuary & shovel knight. For older ones I think you’ll find more plentiful on pc since consoles were both more expensive for an indie to develop for and less likely to print physical media games from an unknown person or team. Adventure games, fps doom and quake mods and clones, elder scrolls mods, myst/fmv clones like the journeyman project, descent clones were pretty popular too.

Chrono trigger, mass effect 2, link’s awakening, tekken 3, maniac mansion: day of the tentacle

The change that made LLMs more effective than older approaches was the transformer model, and extended to transducers/encoders+transformers for general, non language based models. But I doubt anyone is going to call current ‘AI’ tech transformer models, maybe if it’s shortened to TMs.

There was ai used as the concept for machines that can think and reason as well as humans. I think around when marketers got people to accept splitting ai and AGI for general Intel and ai was left with whatever was left I guess reduced the scope of the meaning that continued to today’s common use of ai for non thinking, non rational models and a bit of a vacuum for the original usage.

I think it was Kodak they stole from, dos they bought

Yeah that game was great a lot of people slept on, there’s another adventure game coming out soon “slime in the ice machine” that looks like it might be good too and I think Josh Sawyer is working on a fallout game hopefully they get the time to make it what they want.

It is a very old strategy for monopolies to buy up competition when there are no anti monopoly protections so they can kill the competition, it’s how Microsoft was founded.

Rip obsidian, I enjoyed pillars, avowed, and pentiment

Don’t use LLMs to learn, if you insist on using them use them to automate things you already can do yourself. Treat university like a 40 hour a week job, you need to put that time in to build knowledge & retain it through practice if you want to develop your knowledge and intuitions. If you’re going to dedicate that time to it you’ll be less inclined to take shortcuts since saving time won’t matter because you’ll spend the same time working at it either way.

They bought a bunch of their competitors for that very reason

And a key mapper to go back to the launcher instead of the home screen from a remote