(not a lawyer). If you bought the game copies that the AIs are playing, then it seems like you’re not making a copy of the game just to have the AI play it.

That kind of assumes that your AI is playing the game through a mechanism like AutoHotKey, generating keyboard or controller inputs that pass through the operating system to the game.

If your AI hooks into or modifies the game code to “play”, then it could run afoul of anti-reverse engineering clauses that are common in the click through license agreements. Those clauses may not be enforceable in your jurisdiction. Legal results on anti-reverse engineering clauses are kind of mixed in the United States.

Edit: for reference, there was a software called “Glider” that played World of Warcraft for you, so you don’t have to grind to level up. Blizzard absolutely hated the makers of Glider, but it stuck around for a long time, before it was ultimately sued into oblivion.

If wasn’t full garbage collection in the spec. It was some infrastructure support in the spec that would make it easier to write garbage collectors in C++.

This is missing a “just right” image for reference, and so everyone can criticize the author’s cookie preferences.

Uranium doesn’t usually glow in the dark? If you can see a blue glow, you need to get the heck out of there, or submerge it in a lot of water.

1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + … = -1/12

I went to labcorp for a while when I needed monthly blood draws for my doctor.

Even worse if you think your idea is just the best darn thing to come along since sliced bread. And then Dr. 1995 comes along and lays out the whole thing in a footnote in a paper on a different topic.

I think a lot of people understand the concept of light-seconds, which can measure distance in seconds.

Allow me to introduce the gravity-second. 1 gravity-second of mass-energy is enough mass-energy to have a Schwarzchild radius of 2 light-seconds.

Set G = 1 and c =1. Then equations like r = 2m make dimensional sense.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geometrized_unit_system

Well you see, in 1793, 'Merica requested the metric artifacts from France so we could be metric too. France sent over a kilogram, but the shipment was lost at sea. And that was a little sad.

All joking aside, US feet, inches, pounds, and so on have been secretly really metric since 1893.

Adding onto this. p < 0.05 is the somewhat arbitrary standard that many journals have for being able to publish a result at all.

Is you do an experiment to see we whether X affects Y, and get a p = 0.05, you can say, “Either X affects Y, or it doesn’t and an unlikely fluke event occurred during this experiment that had a 1 in 20 chance.”

Usually, this kind of thing is publishable, but we’ve decided we don’t want to read the paper if that number gets any higher than 1 in 20. No one wants to read the article on, “We failed to determine whether X has an effect on Y or not.”

Only if the moon is up.

There’s also D. You could just upgrade to D.

When We Cease to Understand the World also touches near this topic.

Magic technology called “a crane”. Let me introduce you to something called the Vehicle Assembly Building.

When Fortran was created, each line was a separate punched card. The syntax made sense for that medium.

C was setup from the start for use on teletypes with fancy line editors like ed.

Process Explorer is still great.

For example, synaptic is a long running front end for apt that has the buttons for update and upgrade.

FYI: I think the estimate is that humans can burn all of the fossil fuels that exist several times over and still not hit the critical tipping point that leads to Venus. So Venus is not really on the table as a worst case scenario.

This paper should cite On Bullshit.