I've been a tumblr user for what will soon be 20 years and this is one of the most accurate exchange I've witnessed in that time

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A glimpse of the hottest gaming PC in 1995 and the hottest mech game of the same year: Mechwarrior 2. But as we can see, not even $3000 worth of mid 90s PC could push SVGA MW2 at anywhere near a smooth frame rate. Which yeah, has been my experience running it on similar spec VMs. #VideoBytes

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There is much capital and energy right now invested in trying to convince you that we didn't have a world where search engines were borderline prescient given a vague query and you could make a decent website in a text editor in, like, 2008.

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It's true that LLM-generated code has wormed its way so deeply into the stack, OSes, foundational libraries, etc., that it's currently nearly impossible to avoid. But we need to stop adopting a defeatist attitude towards that and start envisioning alternative futures for computers.

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Repairing clothing in the US can be expensive — sometimes exceeding cost of the garment itself — bc it's labor intensive. The denim repair above will also feel stiff at first. But results can be beautiful, add to the aesthetic, and allow you to develop better relationship with clothes.

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