‘Baldur’s Gate 3’ Prepared for 100k Concurrent Players, They’ve Gotten 700K - https://www.forbes.com/sites/paultassi/2023/08/06/baldurs-gate-3-prepared-for-100000-concurrent-players-theyve-gotten-700000/

The First Big Antitrust Trial of the Century Is About to Start - https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/the-first-big-antitrust-trial-of

Ironically, Zoom tells employees to return to office for work - https://nypost.com/2023/08/05/zoom-tells-employees-to-return-to-office-for-work/

Offshore wind potential in the US is huge but untapped - https://www.theverge.com/2023/8/1/23815450/us-offshore-wind-potential-berkley-report

I Went to 50 Different Dentists: Almost All Gave a Different Diagnosis - https://www.rd.com/article/how-honest-are-dentists/

China's Zombie Economy - https://newleftreview.org/sidecar/posts/zombie-economy

BBRv3: Algorithm Bug Fixes and Public Internet Deployment - https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/117/materials/slides-117-ccwg-bbrv3-algorithm-bug-fixes-and-public-internet-deployment-00

Awesome AI-powered developer tools - https://github.com/jamesmurdza/awesome-ai-devtools

Jupyter AI - https://jupyter-ai.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Lisp in Space - https://corecursive.com/lisp-in-space-with-ron-garret/

Grokking AVL and RAVL Trees - https://photonlines.substack.com/p/grokking-avl-and-ravl-trees

An airline said her bag was lost, her tracker said otherwise. She flew to get it - https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/airtag-lost-luggage-flight/index.html

Discord Rolled Out Yubikeys for All Employees - https://discord.com/blog/how-discord-rolled-out-yubikeys-for-all-employees

Replace Peer Review with “Peer Replication” (2021) - https://blog.everydayscientist.com/replace-peer-review-with-peer-replication/

Zoom terms now allow training AI on user content with no opt out - https://explore.zoom.us/en/terms/

MS Build of OpenJDK now with enhanced escape analysis enabled by default - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/java/openjdk/release-notes

Code Smells of Desperation - https://www.os2museum.com/wp/this-code-smells-of-desperation/

CEOs' pay climbed before layoffs at tech giants like Alphabet and Microsoft - https://abcnews.go.com/Business/ceos-pay-climbed-layoffs-tech-giants-alphabet-microsoft/story?id=101665156

America’s Truckers, Cargo Pilots and Package Carriers Are Fed Up - https://www.wsj.com/articles/americas-truckers-cargo-pilots-and-package-carriers-are-fed-up-1543bfee

Driving is more expensive than you think (2020) - https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/01/massachusetts-car-economy-costs-64-billion-study-finds/