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I'm convinced that every single business out there eventually gets run from an Excel spreadsheet. At the end of the day, they're just rolling up rollups all the way to the top, where some guy is looking at Scenario A vs Scenario B in Excel

Exactly. The web of yesteryear where you could make a living one-manning a website is practically gone. If you told me 20 years ago that I'd pine for the days of blogs, I'd have laughed. Now who's laughing...

sun imploded for a lot of reasons, android games wasn't a huge factor. their ridiculously expensive hardware and consultants? much bigger.

even a capacitor.

Awww... so sad to see this. I know phones have basically eaten everybody's lunch except serious photographers.

It's the march of progress, but their mirrorless cameras were solid. I have a couple Fuji X-series bodies myself, and I wouldn't be surprised if they announce something similar any time soon. Amazing body, amazing glass, amazing software, amazing photos... but at the end of the day, the incremental increase in quality and/or flexibility doesn't make up for the form factor. And now that camera software is so damn good, and we're utilizing multiple lenses with multiple optical ranges to make a composite photograph...

snapshots are all that 99% of people ever needed, but I really thought the mirrorless cameras would eventually supplant dslr.

it's not reimplementing it from scratch. it's developing a runtime engine that can read the original diablo 2 files. It says right in the README with big letters. You can't use this unless you have a legal copy of diablo2 and an expansion.

This thing is more like an emulator than a game.

I've been taking notes in Markdown for years. Your search and linking functionality to make it a great hybrid nodes-wiki system is fantastic. I'm gonna give this one the 'ol college try. It seems to hit my sweet spots.

I'm curious about the dramatically increased mortality rate with diabetes. Given America's situation, especially with insulin prices at a perverse high, that could be catastrophic.

It's the "without escape" part that's important. It's like the song "Common People" (by Pulp, made famous by Mr Shatner). Nobody likes a tourist.

As long as you can call your dad (or your broker, or your brother, or whomever) and get reliably bailed out, it's just tourism.

Duh. Nearly everything they've predicted has come to pass, including this. This is just confirmation of a hypothesis.

go troll somewhere else

can't alternate browser makers who base on chromium simply disable that portion? like, I expect identifying users was a key business concern in moving Edge to Chromium. Is there something (other than work) preventing them from making it so it'll report back to microsoft-owned domains instead?

well, when you lack all trust in the current government to do anything that doesn't directly benefit them, that's how.

Oh yes, I'm totally going to grow out of this climate crisis... my, how hard are your pearls being clutched right now?

Uhhhh... Octobox clearly ripped off Google's Gmail.

Flat design with left-side tabs is not a UI innovation.

they'd be surrounded by constant quackery otherwise. ideas are a dime a dozen. clinical test plans and execution are not.

they hit that sweet spot of folks who like to play games but aren't into the graphics as much as spec-heads. you can argue all you want about frame rates and resolutions and shaders, but at the end of the day, smash brothers is consistently more -fun- than any other game. that's why nintendo is basically able to keep selling us the same games over and over with each generation: they're all -fun- to play.

plus, my switch can play skyrim, so...

Prior to Reggie, NOA was just a distribution company. They handled orders and collected their middle-man fees. A vanishingly small percentage worked on actual games.

NOA started taking some cues from Microsoft, and started moving some technology competency into NOA. NCL (the japanese acronym for Nintendo of Japan), of course, saw this as a threat. Even 5 years ago, when I was last there, the entire office had a hidden resentment for the Japanese office. The US office had pulled off some amazing feats, and it resulted in most of the interesting technology projects being yanked back to Japan.

which just makes me hate southwest even more.

It's a feature until apple makes a moral call on software.

they banned all vaping-related software, but this also included apps to control folks' medical dosages of cannabis. while it was (kinda) laudible they didn't want to expose kids to smoking propaganda, I would have about 500 bucks in near-bricked devices just for switching to iOS.

Until I can get a browser adblocker on a non-rooted, non-unlocked iphone, it's not a switch worth making.

firefox mobile + ublock origin is the only way I find the mobile web tolerable.

this is exactly right. folks could likely get by anyway, but it would be dramatically reduced.

until there are consequences for lying online, and as long as there's money to be made by lying, enough people will be assholes and do it.

HN is more worship of entreprenuership with a focus on tech.

funny thing, they could put a molten salt reactor and a solar farm smack in the middle of that thing and likely not have to use petrol ever again.

i've never been so happy to not have a smart tv...

They don't even care about that. They care about their advertising revenue.

at least the packages show up on time. fedex is shitty at people AND shitty at package delivery.

fedex was also caught looking the other way when it came to illegally shipping firearms across state lines. i think they just ended their NRA partnership earlier this year?

they're just a crap company. if you ship fedex, your best case scenario is receiving it on the last possible day of their window.

and according to nearly every ups/fedex/usps shipping center worker, that doesn't compare to the abuse they suffer before they're on the truck.

it's why apple put tilt sensors and shock sensors in their bulk iphone shipments overseas. they can't trust the shipping companies to not do that, unless they know they can be caught.

just like most items are prime shipping after a 2-3 day delay in "order processing" ... 2 day prime coming 5 business days later is not cool.