VyseofArcadia

Ahh, I always forget Atari Corporation and Atari games were different. Thanks for the correction.

This article ignores the fact that aside from being barred with manufacturing unlicensed NES games, Atari also failed to compete with any of its subsequent consoles after the VCS (although it did have some success with its PCs). The consoles were all flawed in some way. They were underpowered, didn't offer much over the previous iteration, or simply didn't have a strong enough library of games to compete. Atari was famously slow to realize that maybe people want more out of a game console than home ports of decade-old arcade games. On top of that, their original games that weren't home ports were mostly lackluster or were just outside of what gamers of the time were demanding.

Hard to say that Nintendo putting the kibosh on one arm of Atari's business "bled them to death" when all their other arms were bleeding from self-inflicted wounds.

EDIT: As pointed out below, I have mixed up Atari Corporation and Atari Games, so not all my criticism stands. Atari Games, publishing as Tengen, still largely put out ports of arcade games, but they were at least contemporary arcade games.

Well, there was the Amiga, but in all fairness it was first conceived as a game console and then worked into a computer.

I have a self hosted calendar solution. It was $15 at Staples, and it hangs in my kitchen. It wasn't a complete out of the box solution, though, I had to do a little work to customize it. I placed a pen cup with a few pens in it on the counter near the calendar to ensure it is always easy to modify.

It's fiction, but the NEAL Stephenson novel Anathem explored this idea.

I don't mind the existence of baggable handhelds. I own both a Switch and a Steam Deck, and the Steam Deck won't even fit in the oversized pockets of cargo shorts. But I wish there were room in the market for both baggables and pocketables[0]. I'd 100% buy a scaled-down Steam Deck that is roughly 3DS XL-sized.[1]

[0] For a while Nintendo was claiming that the Switch wasn't their new portable console, it was just a console that happened to be portable. There would still be a successor to the 3DS at some point. I guess you could argue that's the Switch Lite, but I still feel a little betrayed to not get a smaller next-gen handheld.

[1] I'm aware there's a flourishing market of mostly Chinese arm64 devices running Android and loaded with emulators for every system you could imagine. But I want an x86 device to play my existing GoG and Steam games.

The max size I want a gaming device is probably that of the 3DS XL. Anything bigger than that definitely won't fit in my pocket. So screen size, what I really want is as big a screen as you can fit on a device that size without making it uncomfortable.

Older millennial here. The "we're only hiring seniors" thing has was also true when I entered the job market. Nothing new about it.

Why hire a junior when the market is flooded with people with 5+ years of experience?

Prompt

> I am going to present a new word, and then give examples of its usage. You will complete the last example. To habogink a hammer is to remove a nail. If Bob haboginks a car, he parks the car. Alice just finished haboginking a telephone. She

GPT-4o mini

> Alice just finished haboginking a telephone. She carefully placed it back on the table after disconnecting the call.

I then went on to try the famous "wug" test, but unfortunately it already knew what a wug was from its training. I tried again with "flort".

> I have one flort. Alice hands me seven more. I now have eight ___

GPT-4o mini

> You now have eight florts.

And a little further

> Florts like to skorp in the afternoon. It is now 7pm, so the florts are finished ___

GPT-4o mini

> The florts are finished skorp-ing for the day.

A lot of my childhood memories are of being frustrated at how stupid adults seemed to think I was.

If you work with children, don't underestimate them.

They did the Sapphire Bullets trick in the show I saw. It was pretty dang impressive. I love that they tour with a horn section now, and hearing new arrangements of old favorites that make use of the horn section was great. (And of course new favorites written with the horn section in mind from the get go were also great.)

I also enjoyed that they introduced Birdhouse with "Please rise for the They Might Be Giants national anthem."

My wife and I saw TMBG a couple of months ago. I'm a big fan, but she mostly just listens when it's my turn to control the radio. Over the course of the concert, she kept shooting me these surprised and baffled looks. I asked her what was up with that afterwards.

"I thought those were weird songs you made up to sing to the cat! Who writes a song called Dr Worm?"

I can't imagine how surreal it must be to see a band play your spouse's silly cat songs in front of hundreds of cheering fans.

Yeah, I've seen similar in pro-level software tools, CAD applications, MATLAB, etc, but those tend to be large and mature organizations with the expertise and manpower to e.g. backport bugfixes to released versions.

I liked the old "pay for updates" model. Nowadays, that seems less viable because security updates are so important[0]. I think the middle ground model would be something like security updates are free, feature updates cost money. Something like pay $x for version n+1 or a discounted rate for a subscription.

Sounds like a bit of a hassle on the logistics/release engineering side, though. That would need to be handled with some care and planning.

[0] Which I'll admit I don't 100% buy, but I'd love for a security expert to weigh in.

> The ultimate feeling is one of aimless ambition. I want to do and achieve, but wherefore all the effort when chilling brings almost the same result?

Surely you have more you want to do and achieve than just that one side hustle? Have you never wanted to write a novel? Learn a musical instrument? A language? How to speedrun your favorite video game? Contribute to open source? Plant a vegetable garden?

There is so, so much to do, and instead I spend all my time working to keep a roof over my head.

I recognize that I have been pretty fortunate in life, but I've never been "overnight success, will never actually need to work again" fortunate. I struggle to sympathize with "I got everything I ever wanted, and now I'm depressed". That framing for the article does not exactly have me chomping at the bit to play his newest game.

I was pretty amused when I saw the headline, thought to myself, "oh, there must have been some reveal for the new Atlas robot" and then noticed the url was newatlas.com.

You say that, but what comes to mind is the scene from Hot Fuzz where Simon Pegg's character needs a translator to understand a thick West Country accent.

https://youtu.be/Hs-rgvkRfwc?si=X6BjrTzK4hcKadeQ

That's Teams. MS Lync was rebranded as "Skype for Business" which was then rebranded as Teams.

Intra-continental I don't think anything beats high-speed rail. Inter-continental I don't think high speed rail is viable, unless you have a transatlantic locomotive in your pocket that you aren't telling anyone about.

I'm from small town Alabama. I'm pretty confident that this needs to happen across the state. These are just the guys who got caught.

Not to be confused with Slashdot, the tech and tech-adjacent news aggregator of yore.

I quite like mine, but I haven't done any work work on it. No typing or anything. I've read a couple of books on it, I've read some manga (perfect match for the monochrome screen), and I've taken some notes on some papers that I'm working through. I'm impressed with the battery, and I've been using it every single day since I got it. Mindblowing? No. Just a nice reading experience. Perfect if you want something larger form-factor than the kindle with more apps to side-load, if that's your thing.

As for the UI, etc, it's just Android with a non-standard launcher. They didn't even write the launcher, it's a launcher you can get off the app store. It's pretty vanilla except for the gestures for back/home. Whether or not this bothers you is probably a function of how much you like or dislike a pretty vanilla Android experience.

If we get to the point that the government mandates I open a Twitter account and start verbally felating ICE, I think I will emigrate.

I suspect we're entering a "if you don't have anything nice to say, keep it to yourself, especially if you dislike what a battering ram might do to your front door" period in US domestic policy.

I just straight up refuse to drive into the nearest big city. I will happily take public transit[0] rather than spend 10 minutes looking for a place to pay $20/hr to park. And I'm the only one in my social circle like this. Everyone else will just spend the time in the money, even if they could have, for example, parked for free at a commuter rail lot and ridden in for $5.

[0] which I acknowledge I'm lucky to have

Right, but how much does the display itself cost compared to $15 to print a poster out and stick it in a frame?

I am a little skeptical of this application of e-ink. Is this really cost effective or environmentally friendly? Compared to an LED or OLED panel, sure, but how does it compare to ye olde poster behind glass? If you're willing to give up on snazzy animations anyway, how many times would you have to change the poster before the color e-ink is cheaper?

Off the top of my head, let's say the file you want to stream is Ogg Opus, but the device you're streaming to only supports FLAC and MP3. You could transcode to MP3 and get all the artifacts that come with a double lossy encode, or you could transcode to FLAC which doesn't buy you any bandwidth savings but it does avoid double lossy artifacts.

It does on the surface just seem like it's selling those sudoku and crossword puzzles you see at the grocery store checkout to people who aren't grandparents. But also, that's like comparing the modern board game scene to Monopoly and Candyland.