Readit NewsI think there was another one with a similar name but I can't think of it's name.
0: https://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/, check the TOC https://www.spinellis.gr/codereading/toc.html
what are y'alls recommendations for cyberpunk-y books?
mine are,
• Neal Stephenson - Snow Crash
• Daniel Suarez - Daemon
• Daniel Suarez - Delta-V
• Shamus Young - Free Radical
niche tip for german-understanding people is 'Reda El Arbi - [empfindungsfæhig]'.
didn't finish Neuromancer yet, but i gotta start over because it's been too long.
But! If you like it, the rest of the sprawl trilogy is just as good, and the bridge trilogy is probably better.
My friends and I spent many hours playing games on NG and screwing around with flash. Feels like a completely different world at this point. Glad they're still around, and I love that they're running events like this to remember the good old days.
It's one of my favorite things when tiny ideas (memes, in the original meaning) keep propagating. The Necronomicon itself being one of the most successful ones.
A jet like the Gripen can move basically instantly to basically anywhere and then it's hard to find, especially because it can just move again
I was under the impression a few attacks on air bases happened, but a lot more drones were aimed at refineries and other infrastructure.
The EU has already agreed to one of the most lopsided trade deals in history as a result of all of this. It's a business arrangement just like any other, and at this point it's pretty clear where the leverage is. It's not with the EU.
But the truth is: there is no concrete deal beyond the tariff. There are supposed investments and expenses the EU will do which have not been specified and would need to be approved by national governments.
This will be a nothingburger, cause all Trump cares about is the announcement, not any actual effect.
You may know this cause even in his first term he made a deal to export beef to the EU, which sounded big, but was effectively un-impactful once the details were hammered out.
I agree that plenty of good has happened because of the profit motive but SpaceX is not patronizing the sciences, NASA is.