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Really enjoyed this read, but also couldn't help but feel sorry for the author still trapped in the labyrinth. "Just one more CMS and I'll be free..."

The jewel in the post is the rejection of Vannevar's acolytes and their hand-wrought memexen. Biology already gave me a perfectly good memex in my skull. If its shortcomings give you anxiety, take 2 YAGNI until productivity resumes.

It's a group that took statistics from Wikipedia articles of famous people to then run the headline "rock and rollers twice as likely to divorce." That headline is misleading. They didn't study rock and rollers, they studied celebrities.

This older survey similarly has them playing fast and loose with the statistics to get a flashy headline. In their own data it's clear that online dating has cannibalized dating at bars, and shares a near identical divorce rate - 20% vs 19%. In other words the survey is a nothingburger. All it shows is a shift in dating channels. But that's not the headline they pushed.

If their clickbait strategy isn't clear to you yet, don't take it from me. They claim this is their goal on their own website: "Time and again our research department has injected reality and hard evidence into this debate with eye catching research which the media have broadcast."

Rather than swallow the headline, ask yourself what a church-aligned think tank has to gain out of smearing online dating in the press?

Some of their other research: "Rock and rollers twice as likely to divorce" https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/research/rock-n-rollers-tw...

Hopefully next they will look into the impact the Devil's Lettuce has on marriage; or Harry Potter.

What content blockers do people use alongside Safari on iOS?

I've been trying Firefox Focus but it's barebones, ad-centric, and doing nothing for cookie popups. Now with these Google popups infesting the web it feels like the 90s again and has made me stop browsing the web on my tablet.

I also got a chuckle because the author is a professional AWS architect and still couldn't avoid accidental charges. Well, architect isn't salesman! Thankfully the mistake was corrected by paying the bill in full.

This is my thought too. We are reading articles like this at the onset of a new law because it plays well to crowds who want to have Online Opinions about government oversight.

If the problem is as bad as these articles claim, then these facilities will need to clean up their act or willfully hand over a slice of the market to competitors. We've even already seen this play out in the bread industry with gluten. A bunch of new brands started taking shelf space away from the big brands and a few years later those big brands have their own gluten-free lines. The same could happen with sesame in time. To form an opinion on the new law this early is a recipe for sour milk.

Kitchenaid, Cuisinart, these are the kinds of brands I'm talking about. They had their moment last century but the brand has been transferred to a new owner, or they've switched to volume sales in a big box retailer, or both.

Kitchenaid is not a good brand. They haven't made top-of-the-line anything in decades

I just don't see it. My pens and my matchsticks work fine. My gloves are still gloves five winters later. Potato peeler, peels potatoes.

I think the author doesn't understand that there's a tier of disposable goods for just about everything and if you don't shop wisely you'll take some of it home.

Appliances for example: don't buy them from web pages and don't listen to Wirecutter. This is just letting marketers tell you what to buy. Instead go to a showroom that also repairs appliances. They'll know exactly which contemporary brands are crummy because they'll have been fixing them.

Specialty stores will also have the entire price range for the product so you can see what quality costs for that good. Marketers prey on us during times of inflation, making their cheap goods look high end before we adjust to inflated prices. If you've only ever shopped appliances at places like Target, Best Buy, or Home Depot, you may have never seen a high quality appliance in your life. And if a brand you like starts showing up in these stores, run. (Famously, Levi in Walmart.)

Don't make your goal to be accurate state across the internet. Game making is all about lies, cheats, steals, and fudge.

In this situation you can stream movement waypoints from remote clients and lerp between those waypoints locally to simulate movement. If latency is low enough you can make predictions about the next waypoint and it won't look bad when you're wrong.

If you're PvE, you're done. Nobody needs to know precisely where their teammate is as long as the game feels fair. (The AI players on the other side won't complain.)

In PvP the opponent will complain, and they're also a customer, so you have to do something about it. This is an entire technical discipline within gamedev if you want both accuracy and player freedom.

Don't be afraid to let technical constraints guide your design. If you don't want to spend your life building remote physics validation or latency-aware consensus algorithms, make your players interact with the world via clicking so you always know exactly where they wanna go next. One of the super powers of being a programmer + designer combo is making trades across disciplines to maximize your output.

The Leftovers is indeed aware of the show formula I'm critiquing, it's even in the theme song: "guess I'll just, let the mystery be." This is Lindelof indoctrinating the viewer to accept his style of writing, which doesn't burden plots with conclusions. He's still frustrated we asked 'why' of the LOST plot, to which there was no good answer. The Leftovers similarly offers no good answer to 'why'. Making that the point doesn't stop me from asking.

If the show was doing well HBO would have signed a fourth season and they'd have left enough room in the third for yet more surreal diversions headed nowhere. Online review aggregators are meaningless.

I avoid anything by Abrams or Lindelof at this point because they are emblematic of this writing formula. You can see it in Lindelof's The Leftovers, Abrams' Star Wars, and of course LOST. It's also present in any pilot they help create, for example Once Upon A Time.

I agree with your deconstruction: these shows are optimized for selling an engaging pilot episode with only a back of the napkin roadmap for the rest of the show. The finale comes only when there's no more money to be made.

I'm very excited by writers like Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese who are able to write interwoven plots comparable to LOST, but with cohesive endings. Check out Dark for an example.

That's not how Microsoft historically operates. Programs I wrote 20 years ago still work on Windows using ancient apis that they carry, because they care about backwards support. Whatever obscure msc or exe you ran in the 90s is still there, still runs, and still configures the OS. To this day you can check weird boxes deep in your disk config to put buggy behavior back into Windows, because it fixes a bug a single customer had decades ago.

My theory is simpler: it was too hard to add new features to the taskbar (like wide search bars and now text fields) when you had to think about a tall and a wide configuration. So they cut the tall way. Now they can cram all sorts of features into your taskbar.

It represents a shift in MS philosophy, closer to how Apple mandates progress in their OS.

The thread is about removing the label, not the whole search box.

Which is a sort of silly thing to complain about, but Windows 11 has a lot of taskbar feature regressions. You can't even pin the thing to the left or right edge anymore. So I understand why users are frustrated.

This all represents a philosophical shift in Windows ("the taskbar is Microsoft's, not yours") and it will be a painful adjustment for power users.

CSIS has published data on the rise of domestic terrorism. [1]

NYT has published data about the growth of CSAM due to tech companies. [2]

Would you engage with the point of my comment if I called the domestic terrorism non-linear growth, and the CSAM growth exponential?

edit: politeness

[1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/evolution-domestic-terrorism

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

I've always thought that TiVo was way ahead of its time. The company is still alive but it feels weird to talk about it in present tense when we've got Roku, Chromecast, Firestick, and Apple TV. Even the era of cable provider DVRs made me feel like TiVo was ahead of its time!

Social media products have been critical to the exponential growth of domestic terrorism and CSAM. So I definitely want the FBI being proactive on these platforms and to have a much, much, bigger team than 80. It should be 80 per state.

People with poor information diets hear the FBI is involved with Twitter and immediately think it has something to do with red team blue team politics. These are the people the Twitter Files content is produced for. It's written vaguely enough to give potato chip peddlers creative license, so they can monetize attention.

I don't know about the metal portion of your question, but I ordered from the OP site just fine with a US shipping address

The post is about the economics of eSports. One of the big revenue sources is advertisers. The viewership numbers are inflated with low value incentived users so that the gaming companies can misrepresent their true audience size and get more advertising revenue

eSport viewership numbers are untrustworthy because the games incentivize players to tune in with special in game rewards.

Also for reference the last Superbowl was watched by 100M viewers.

There is one lot of 10 jamboard stands, which makes you wonder where 10 jamboards went

The extension would need both the all_urls and webRequest permissions to do this, since you can only spy on requests to origins your extension has a host permission for. The review team discourages all_urls permissions and scrutinizes them more, so theoretically getting a spy onto the store with the right permission combo is hard. If you trust the review team.

Note that these regulations were established for MV2, and MV3 doesn't do anything new to address this. So there's still no benefit to MV3 on this topic. As far as I can tell, and I work with these APIs for a living, the privacy claims of MV3 are bogus.

It's in the Kool-aid recipe

I think you missed the point of my comment. I don't believe the author's premise at all, that population will decline. The population is still growing as it always has. Why would it stop now? The author makes no argument that it will and the data shows it hasn't. To lerp the declining growth rate derivative out a few decades is as ridiculous as the people who lerp the population count directly. This is Henny Penny stuff.

So instead I critique the author's views on society. It's not women having careers, prevalence of safe sex, or tinder usage to blame. Has anyone tried blaming the avocado toast yet?

Kid-having emerges. This (western biased) article is blaming the victim.

An entire generation bled dry by student loans for useless degrees, unable to buy homes that their elders view as retirement funds. A thousand and one more entertaining things to do online which don't risk creating 18-year bundles of debt. And absolutely no idea how to break the cycle for your offspring.

Pick one thing to fix and spend your life addressing it and maybe you'll have it solved in time for when the population reaches 9 billion.

We didn't need Satoshi after all

Back in my day we cheated by playing Oddjob in Goldeneye since he was shorter than all the other characters.

No he's made a few mistakes. Yes the political tribalism you describe is in play. But also there's the brutal layoffs, ridiculous work demands, withheld severance, and botched feature rollouts.

All have had negative impact on Musk's personal brand. Viewpoints regarding worker (mis)treatment depend on people's beliefs about classism, which doesn't map cleanly onto political tribalism. The botched features get flak because many people are just like Elon and (wrongly) think they could run Twitter better than everyone else.

This could be fun for spectators streaming the match at home, who could see the top engine move in real time while the players are considering their next move

Along the lines of letting the market sort it out, we could vote for the government to end meat subsidies, or generalize them into protein subsidies available to alternative proteins.

Given the history of IoT botnets, the remote control aspect is exactly why this is a bad idea. Cops are not more technologically savvy than the average person. There's no way to tell at a glance if a death robot is controlled by good guys or bad guys. You just see a shotgun on tank treads rolling through the school hallway.