Reposted by scream-o-lonArs Technica @arstechnica.com · 08/10/2026arstechnica.comR.I.P. Margaret Hamilton, whose code saved the Apollo 11 Moon landingHamilton also coined the term "software engineering" and founded two successful software companies. 151157381
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 08/10/2026Who's doing the 100 nugget challenge, and who're you gonna get to shoot a real bow & arrow indoors? 010
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 05/10/2026I bet this is how actual pilots feel about flight simulators. 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 04/10/2026I do the same thing and sometimes i'll just type random stuff at the end of the thing I pasted and then delete the extra bits, so everyone sees the "... is typing" message. i fully recognize that this is borderline psychotic behavior and yet I still do it. 010
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 02/10/2026this has big "Daaaaaaad, stahp! you're embarrassin' me!" energy. 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026Just thought about the word "kludge" for the first time in a decade. 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 29/09/2026Really wanted to like that game but I found the economy really stifled my enjoyment. 3131
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I am both an artist and a coder. And here's what pisses me off about AI... they took away our magic. 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026This is a UI argument I've been making for years. Since widescreen aspect ratio monitors became the norm, we have a surplus of horizontal screen real estate and a lack on the vertical. And since websites aren't expanding breakpoints to use the width, it only make sense to put UI on the side. 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 25/09/2026I remember watching the return of the Daily Show after 9/11 and Jon Stewart's tearful message about how his view was the twin towers but now it's the Statue of Liberty... in RealPlayer. Do I get double points? 000
Reposted by scream-o-lonRobert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 24/09/2026Effective 2025 federal tax rates paid by these corporations: Alphabet: 8.01% AT&T: 4.6% Meta: 3.57% General Motors: 3.09% Amazon: 1.37% Exxon Mobil: 1.31% Disney: -1.57% CVS Health: -3.88% Income tax rate paid by the typical American: 14.5% This is what a rigged system looks like. 540154367243
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026the XJ is the platonic ideal of a sport utility vehicle. 010
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 24/09/2026The pace of the Haas VF-26 doesn't really inspire urgency, does it? 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026with regard to the discussion of the F1 broadcast seeming to cater directly to giving advertisers more screen time, I noticed that the start of the SpanishGP was framed to show the ad banners prominently and then zoomed in for lights out. 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026People used to pay designers a decent wage instead of generating something with AI and saying, "recreate this as cheap as possible. No, I don't want you to think or improve it, just recreate this in a file I can edit later." 140
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Adobe: "Why are you cancelling your Creative Cloud subscriptions?" Us: "Well, Adobe's core mission seems to be to put their creative customers out of business with Generative AI tools, and it's working! Business is down so we don't need as many licenses." 020
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 22/09/2026And make Bungie a Mac game developer again, fuck it 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 17/09/2026"Sweetie, I need you to listen very carefully to the words I'm saying..." 010
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Everything I learned about dinosaurs as a child was a lie. I bet they weren't even much of a tyrant. 110
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Wow congrats to Carissa on her new job! Also, I can't believe you let Mark hold the baby. Mark's rash is so contagious... 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 16/09/2026The industry lost another real one today. Danielle once wrote a video game review (yes, a video game review) that while quotidian to some, and I'm not exaggerating when I say this, changed my life. 020
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 14/09/2026wait until you hear how "Dafoe" is actually pronounced. 190
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Five. Star. Run. Times. (you gotta know what you're signing up for when you have the Waypoint/Remap folks on) 080
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026lesson: leaving your phone at home causes madness. [ insert Werner Herzog chicken audio here ] 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 08/09/2026never forget that the competitor from turkey turned out to be a piece of crap. 050
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 07/09/2026I'm sorry. I'm sorry it took me so long to spot you as a Tesla cheerleader. Sad life you're living there. Damn tragedy. 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 06/09/2026I’ve been watching F1 since my grandfather took me to the final Detroit GP as a child. The F1 audience was both shrinking and aging under Ecclestone. Now the global audience has grown from ~500M cuml. in ‘14, into the billions now. If you love F1 and want it to have a future, you’re welcome… mate. 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026You’re confusing design intent with corporate need to recover R&D investment into a product that will never reach market. 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 04/09/2026I remain unconvinced. “It’s difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it.” 100
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Those statistics don’t really support the argument. Family cars are still used solo frequently but having four doors makes it more convenient for times when they’re needed. There’s no appreciable cost savings for making a two door. This is an abandoned design for a two door passenger car, not a taxi 100
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 28/08/2026hahaha it took me like three seconds to realize that the voice actor for Run in Star Wars Zero Company is @vicmmic.bsky.social 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 27/08/2026Kinda surprised I didn't hear more about this movie. Motor City (2025) has basically no dialogue, and it seems to actually work. The gimmick gets a little thin over and hour and forty-five minutes, but it mostly works. 000
scream-o-lon @xenolon.bsky.social · 25/08/2026You'll be rev matching perfectly by the end of the day for sure. Also, we expect this to translate into better results for Oberhof. 110