Dan Riley

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physicist specializing in software for data processing, currently mostly working for an LHC experiment. he/him. Politics snark, occasional photography.

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2024-06-21 00:47:57

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HHGTTG was an Infocom game, with Adams working with Steve Meretzky (who also did Planetfall).
If you want really frustrating, try Adams's Bureaucracy, which is explicitly built around being frustrating. Apparently he liked (designing) frustrating games.
Anyway, maybe now I can figure out what to do with the pocket lint, never could get past that.

2024-05-17 21:11:21

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that seems mostly neither here nor there. The monopoly breakup was done incompetently, and that let incumbents regain too much monopoly power (not just AT&T, see the “baby bells”), but that doesn’t look like an intrinsic feature.

2024-05-17 20:35:37

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I remember long distance charges back in the day. AT&T today is locally pernicious in the way of any local monopoly, but it used to be far worse.