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Cream of the Cool

What do you do when one of your oldest friends passes away? Daniela was such a big and persistent slice of my life. As a friend, lover, co-author, co-worker and playing many different roles for ever so many years. it's so hard to believe she is gone. The grief is nipping at me, but it hasn't had a chance to truly get its teeth into me yet. I suspect it will. 

Daniela was the mother hen to many noders on E2, one of the editors and admins of the site for going on several decades. 

Boomer shooter is a sub genre of First Person Shooters which deliberately eschew more modern shooter elements in favor of older designs. It also includes the games that these shooters are based on. As with most things labeled with boomer it's actually more related to Generation X and early Millennials but if you're going to smear something as old that's the word that gets thrown around. Modern FPS have a distinct vibe and while the exact point of departure is

The Lifecycle of Software Objects is a 2010 novella by Ted Chiang. It's about Anna, an animal trainer turned software tester, who is hired to train and/or create digients. A digient is a digital pet sort of thing; except that pets can't learn to talk while the digients can. They can also scamper about, pick up objects, and otherwise interact with their digital environment. They can also think; but not well. The digients Anna meets are like

Where to begin? Let me start with some reasoning, before proceeding on to the Ad Hominem part.

There is a logical fallacy called the base rate fallacy, that says that when dealing with a specific case, you also have to look at the base rate. That involves lots of math, so I will just refer to it by another term: the waving a metal pole during a lightning storm fallacy or the I am going to smear myself with salmon and wander around in bear territory fallacy. Do you know how many