William H Nicholls

I’m a retired engineer who mostly plays engineering games.

[William H Nicholls @WHNicholls]

@RaymondDoerr The gas tax taxes you on the amount of gas you use, which correlates strongly with the number of miles you drive. The EV tax should do the same, which means they should be reading your odometer. They should not be pulling a random number out of their backsides. Grr.

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@cliffski @lukos86 Wait. So the “game ready” driver is inferior to some other kind of driver? It glitchy somehow? I’d like the other kind please!

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@StephenKing Especially Boris and Natasha!

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@GreatDismal Loved the first season. Looking for a stub in which to watch the second.

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@RaymondDoerr Yep. Introversion software did a fun YouTube video on this a few years back. They opted for green I think.

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@cliffski Or maybe news sites just run cryptominers while you browse.

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@StevenBrust Where I’m from, the second ‘g’ in garage sounds like the ‘z’s in Zsa Zsa Gabor. ZSIF. I like it.

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@letsfixitinpost @shapeshiftFMV Hi Lexi!

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@gbrumfiel I just blocked him, but there are probably ten thousand more.

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@whatisnuclear It was interesting to watch. Thank you for sharing it!

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@cliffski For me, forums are about searching more than talking. Search frequency could be considered.

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@StevenBrust @Ostralopithycus @ZombieOrpheus I would like to see Agyar. It’s my favorite. Very challenging though, so much goes on in his head…

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@whatisnuclear In my memory, green ooze in a barrel came from the game Doom in the early nineties.

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@DavidBrin It’s funny. Republicans care about fiscal responsibility, but only when they are not in the White House. They end up contributing to the Democrat’s good showing.

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@lucy3_li @mmitchell_ai HCl is a noxious gas.

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@WalterBright Nostalgia: in the mid-late ‘80s, I was a grad student at UW. My housemates and I had been playing Empire on the VAX at school and heard you’d been working on a multiplayer version. A couple of us showed up at your door and bought a copy of what you had. We played it for years!

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@PaniczGodek @OwoTizusa @Jonathan_Blow Very nice book!

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@elidourado Queen to B5. Mate

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@ziontree Organic. Oh, I mean the tea bag. Goes in the compost. The staple will rust over time. No one wants paper made of recycled tea :)

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@cliffski Amen. Then UNIX had a sleepover with Windows and .so files were born.