⚡ Reflecting on a year of Gamedev in Zig | Benjamin G. Thompson's Blog
https://bgthompson.codeberg.page/blog/one-year-zig-gamedev-reflections/
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🪀 Meet Steve Davis, Elon Musk’s Top Lieutenant Who Oversees DOGE | NYT
｢ For more than 20 years, the engineer has devoted himself to fulfilling Mr. Musk’s desires, following the billionaire to his various companies, including the rocket maker SpaceX and the social media platform X. Mr. Davis wholeheartedly believes Mr. Musk will bring about humanity’s progress, according to interviews with 22 friends, former colleagues and government officials ｣
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/technology/elon-musk-steve-davis-doge.html
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saw a link to an open-source project with “AI-powered compilation” and i looked at the code out of morbid curiosity
this was in the diff to their Cursor config file
anyway, brb, i’m going to go yell “DO NOT burn!!!” at the pizza that i’ve had in the oven for the past 3 hours. i’m sure that’ll help
On The Beach 2000 (remastered)
JDownloader.exe
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Many of you Linux users out there are using libraries without a library card.
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🌊 Port of Los Angeles sees shipping volume down 35% next week as tariffs bite
｢ Apollo Global Management’s chief economist, Torsten Slok, recently laid out a timeline where lower imports from China leads to layoffs in transportation and retail industries in the U.S., empty shelves and a recession this summer ｣
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The Rise & Fall of Erlang at Ericsson AB | Imad Alihodzic
｢ But how many remember when Ericsson created a programming language so disruptive, and so efficient, that they banned it? This is the fascinating and little known story behind Erlang ｣
🌊 Port of Los Angeles sees shipping volume down 35% next week as tariffs bite
｢ Apollo Global Management’s chief economist, Torsten Slok, recently laid out a timeline where lower imports from China leads to layoffs in transportation and retail industries in the U.S., empty shelves and a recession this summer ｣
Didn't know that Star Wars had a fighting game.
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#PSA: A *good* VPN and a RaspberryPi media server is a lot cheaper than multiple streaming subscriptions.
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Alright folks, I think that's my day. I've got some things I need to do for NIDC (my website) by Sunday morning, so I'd better get started on that now.
Before I go however, I'd like to mention that while I'm happy to analyze the news for free both here and on the website, I could use your help in keeping a roof over my elderly mother and stepfather with stage 4 cancer's head. Unfortunately due to age and illness, neither of them can work, and their bank has already threatened to take the house if they can't pay their mortgage each month. They just can't do it on their pensions, so I've been helping out monthly by soliciting reader donations adjacent to my work.
You can find the Ko-Fi account I'm using to accept donations for my mom and stepdad here: https://ko-fi.com/anarchoninawrites
Anything you can spare would be helpful and 100% of all donations go towards my mom's mortgage payments and medical care for my sick stepfather. If you can't spare anything please don't feel bad; capitalism and fascism are grinding us all up right now and I understand completely how hard it is just to get by.
Thanks for your time. Goodnight.
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I just read Microsoft's post on how much they love Europe & that they are not the same as Donald Trump. As far as I can tell there is nothing new in there, no new/useful protections, no guarantees. It rehashes already debunked things like the "Microsoft Lock Box". The story mostly serves as a reminder of how worried we should all be about basing our governments & societies on companies far away under questionable legal regimes: https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2025/04/30/european-digital-commitments/
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🚁 China Just Approved Flying Taxis — No Pilot Needed
｢ With a maximum altitude of 9,843 feet (3,000 meters), these air taxis can cover 22 miles (35 km) or 21 minutes of flight on a single charge. The aircraft can carry up to 485 pounds (220 kg) and is equipped with gull-wing doors and fixed landing gear ｣
🚁 China Just Approved Flying Taxis — No Pilot Needed
｢ With a maximum altitude of 9,843 feet (3,000 meters), these air taxis can cover 22 miles (35 km) or 21 minutes of flight on a single charge. The aircraft can carry up to 485 pounds (220 kg) and is equipped with gull-wing doors and fixed landing gear ｣
🐼 China’s ‘Engineer Dividend’ Is Paying Off Big Time - Bloomberg
｢ There is the prevailing sense that China’s “engineer dividend” is finally paying off. Between 2000 and 2020, the number of engineers has ballooned from 5.2 million to 17.7 million, according to the State Council. That reservoir can help the nation move up the production possibility frontier, the thinking goes ｣
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Panic over smartphone security strikes half of Korea - what now?
The Rise & Fall of Erlang at Ericsson AB | Imad Alihodzic
｢ But how many remember when Ericsson created a programming language so disruptive, and so efficient, that they banned it? This is the fascinating and little known story behind Erlang ｣
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