This, among a few other nuggets of which I was unaware, are described in Snowden’s book Permanent Record (although briefly, it’s a biography first and foremost) which I enjoyed.
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For one it felt too easy. Some of this was likely console controller vs. mouse - and so maybe not the game itself’s fault - but it felt like point-and-click turned into just click, making it more one dimensional.
And two, I felt less weight/permanence in character building decisions. One of my favorite aspects of d2 is specialized builds, that you can screw them up, and generally delaying spending skill/stat points until certain. I thought d3 character customization felt more cosmetic and like my choices ultimately didn’t matter as all builds were so strong. Like it didn’t matter how I allocated points on my tree in the same way it felt like navigation and attack, described above, had lost some nuance. And that seems off to me when every character pretty much plays as a gear-independent caster.
But I’ve really lost trust in the company and have a hard time imagining Diablo 4 being much better than Diablo 3.
Diablo 2 Resurrected looks intriguing and seems to be going about things in the right way, involving the community, etc. but I believe it’s a contract job by a third party? I have a hard time imagining Blizzard proper ever making a single-player, offline-friendly game.
I think they must have recently changed playback sync to be cloud-first, as jumping back 10s in a video has recently been badly glitching for me both in Chrome and on the iPad app. Often jumps back 20 mins to the start of a video, or where a prior session’s playback had been saved, thereby losing progress you’d made. Not the end of the world but frustrating when you’re watching a lecture and want to catch a detail you just missed. Really breaks continuity.
I’m sure maybe it consolidates implementation making each client simpler and probably satisfies a couple buzzword checkboxes from the business side but why would I possibly trust picking up playback across devices when I can’t trust it on one?
There are plenty that teach elisp the language or that demonstrate consuming elisp packages, but it seems like not many in using elisp to modify the environment. By that I mean, okay I want to write a major/minor mode and have it update on.. keystroke? Any state change? And knowing which hooks/emacs internals to inspect/modify accordingly.
To be fair, I think Xah does a great job of this and most of this can be learned from reading source code. But sometimes I wish there were more direct answers out there.
Anyone know of a “cookbook” of sorts for common design patterns when implementing your own elisp packages that assume you know the basics of elisp?
They might be getting better but I don’t think they’re anywhere near good enough to warrant how common they’ve become.
At times I feel like they’re among the most inhumane technology that we suffer through because it can save their deployer a buck.
I see zero reason Apple can’t afford to have a person answer the phone.
I’ve gone this route before but found it burdensome. Perhaps there’s tooling that makes it easier?
I understand everyone’s doing it and you as a company feel entitled to a slice of whatever podcast pie.
What I don’t understand is how that can take focus when your audio player has been getting steadily worse - corrupted offline download, buggy buffering, choppy audio after jumping back 30s.
If your bread and butter - what I’m actually paying for - doesn’t work I’ll gladly save a few bucks and go to the public library.
Are physicians morally beyond reproach? Why include them in the first sentence if they’re the only group without a follow up.
Unrelated to the above but an earnest question: why are real estate agents paid percentage based commissions?
The focus is more on international, rather than inter-state, arbitrage of legal systems by persons/corporations but is there really that much difference between the rationale for putting an HQ in Dublin and incorporating in Delaware if the goal is selectively operating under favorable legal frameworks?
Bonus, I’d never put together that offshore is just a socially acceptable alternative for the word pirate a la pirate radio.
My favorite case is empire earth, where there’s randomness in resource clustering as well as natural terrain. Depending on your strategy/units (and your opponents’) it’s increasingly grey whether a locale is even a choke point.
The homogeneity of, for example, Starcraft maps and limited unit options always made me feel like we were playing on an excel spreadsheet.
How does the duckduckgo mobile browser compare to safari on iOS with regards to privacy though?
For anyone curious: https://www.grammarbook.com/blog/definitions/compel-vs-impel...
say you’re trying to find a ChrisStuckmann review for a particular movie.
Sometimes even when you explicitly include a channel’s name in a search their magic excludes it from results.
The same query from within YouTube search and from Google search can lead to different results.
And YouTube’s search within a channel from that channel’s page is even worse.
Worth a read?
Are there any viable alternatives out there? Vimeo?
I'm not particularly knowledgeable on video streaming, is cost the main barrier?
> "That's the only kind of book I can trust", he said.
> "It's not that I don't believe in contemporary literature," he added, "but I don't want to waste valuable time reading any book that has not had the baptism of time. Life is too short.
- Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood