it’s existential horror with absurd comedy elements. Pretty much the definition of “not for everyone”, so it’s not surprising some (most?) people strongly dislike it.

I have never met ADC fans outside of cons, and there they seemed very fun.

if you are not aware of any, then you are at risk.

do you think the US would be a worse place today, if she were elected in 2016?

I read “Code was never the hard part” as “Writing the Code down is easier than the stuff you do before it (like Architecture, Design Patterns, Requirements) and after it (Testing, Troubleshooting, Refactoring, etc)”.

Inflammable is just likely to enflame confusion

:-)

One reason this type of promotion may be becoming more common is that connected cars give automakers a direct path to the driver’s screen.

“Wo ein Trog ist, da kommen die Schweine.”

if you include the sentence before, it paints a very different picture

… a rigorous campaign to ensure their system can be built without any dependencies containing LLM-generated code. This was not a simple configuration change but a manual, labor-intensive purge.

quote from spoiler

a real sense of someplace “alien"

Yes. so much this!

Scavengers Reign

I liked the character writing, and I liked many of the scifi parts, but i was missing the “hard scifi” that the plot should revolve around in a scifi story. i.e. the futuristic stuff doesn’t affect the story much and the character arcs would have worked just as well in 17th century exploration story. Compare that to hard scifi like “the expanse” or “westworld”, where many parts of the story can only work because of the specific way the world works.

if you prefer soft scifi over hard sci, than Scavengers Reign is a strong recommendation.