Neat, thanks for sharing!

Their Cyborg is really great. Takes some time to get the muscle memory, but it really does the job well.

Do you think we could ever have that future?

That’s interesting, but personally, I don’t see a lot of point. I’m totally willing to learn about other people’s workflows and use cases though. I just have a hard time envisioning a need for two pointers at once other than edge cases like resizing lots of windows or something. Maybe 3d modeling, for better moving/rotating control?

In most cases, it seems like the way to get more efficient is to stop using the mouse and fire up a terminal. If you just want more buttons on your mouse so you can have a full keyboard, maybe try the Azeron Cyro? I haven’t used it personally, though I do use their Cyborg for games.

I think they tend to be more interesting too, yeah.

I’d rate them about the same, personally. Though Brooks is at least just derivative and juvenile; Goodkind gets increasingly self indulgent.

Darknet Diaries. Full of fascinating cybersecurity stories and interviews, with both whitehats and blackhats.

First time I ever saw in-car GPS was arrive 2003 when I was hitchhiking in Japan. Heading the car just give directions was mind-blowing; it was like being in a William Gibson novel.

Bottlescrews and turnbuckles both have one end threaded in each direction.

Forged in the Dark games are great; I haven’t gotten to play Blades, but I’ve run some Scum & Villainy (which is a space opera setting: think Star Wars meets Firefly), and it’s probably my new favorite system

MorkBorg is fun for the aesthetic, but the combat always seems to just drag on, with round after round of damage getting blocked by armor. On the up side, the rounds go really quick.

What you’re asking about there seems like it’s really: “Is something being knowledge vs belief subjective or objective?”

The answer, just like for “is cereal soup?”, is that it’s all semantics. It’s not like there’s some Authority who’s created the Platonic Form of Knowledge that Beliefs cannot partake of, and there’s a clear delineation between Knowledge and Belief. We’re just using these weird shapes, sounds, hand gestures, or whatever else to try to do telepathy and get our thoughts into someone else’s head. Like all semantic questions, what this comes down to is: have you chosen the right word to convey your thought? If people seem to not be getting it, try the other one.

There are lawsuits: https://techcrunch.com/2024/09/02/crowdstrike-faces-onslaught-of-legal-action-from-faulty-software-update/

These things will probably take years to play out.

Where do you put your SSDs, though? If it’s not off-site, it’s not a backup.

Halting State was great. It actually took me a couple of chapters to realize it was all 2nd person. That’s the book that got me into Stross.

I really enjoyed the first three: they were pretty obviously just a bunch of short stories set in the same universe. The later books where he tried to write actual novels were not great though. He could do great short stories, but IMO wasn’t much of a novelist.

I’m in the US, and I bike about 6 miles in to the office; with rush hour traffic, it’d probably take me about that long to drive in. Plus, I get some much needed exercise.

Text of an average book is 100,000 letters;

I’m not sure where you’re getting that value. The low end of word count for a novel is 50,000. If we say the average word is only 5 characters, we’re looking at a quarter million letters and another 50,000 spaces for a short novel (200-250 pages). Throw in some more for punctuation and formatting, of course. If you’re a fan of big epic fantasy/sci-fi you’re probably closer to a million words.

It’s a reference to your username

Cory Doctorow coined it: https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-platforms-cory-doctorow/

That’s a great point, thanks for adding it!

Thanks!