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He judged high art by the standards of high art, and schlock by the standards of schlock.

Probably better to hide your microphone in something that is more commonplace and doesn't already have a security hysteria around it.

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What it got right was swiping and pinch/zoom though; five years before the iPhone was released.

Those gestures were completely unknown in commercial UIs of the time; in fact you were lucky to find a touchscreen that didn't take three forceful stabs of your finger before it registered.

Thank you! All of this talk about teletypes, no one is mentioning how hard it would be to draw lowercase letters, monospaced, in an 8x8 grid.

Wait until you hear where "robot" comes from.

"Apple Arcade" apps don't show any ads and have tight restrictions on what data can be gathered.

I don't think you mean cargo culting. Cult of personality?

And a complete overhaul of the "Xen" area, which was the weakest part of the original game.

In the US, a six year old Nissan Leaf goes for 2/3 of the price of a new one. It's a seller's market.

Judging from the anger of the second driver, the scam is to steal the load and resell it on the black market; the driver must not have known what he was picking up? Or maybe they just take an up-front payment and disappear.

Why Tristan bothered taking the loads to the storage facilities instead of just throwing them out the back is a mystery. Or why the storage facilities accepted them without some kind of payment.

From the end user POV, no difference - you still need to provide the original game files in order to play.

From an engineering POV it's great that it no longer needs to call into the old executable; they may be able to drop some legacy code and change some internal types, clearing the road to more changes in the future.

"War for the Overworld" is another game, in addition to Dungeons 2, 3, and (just released) Dungeons 4.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/230190/War_for_the_Overwo...

The local "for sale" groups on Facebook have a huge problem with this kind of spam - posts advertising "Work from home for Amazon, $2k a week!" with a link that goes to to google pages link that does seven redirects. The next week the same account posts "Work from home for Fedex, $2k a week!"

I report them every time, and report the account that posts them, but Facebook seems unwilling to remove the scammers.

Worse if they keep buying paints and models but never even open them.

I don't know that story, but it's a similar premise to "There Will Come Soft Rains"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2552i2Z8sNM

They're old codebases that may use libraries that are 32-bit only for things like sound, video playback, etc.

At 5 years the battery is probably kaput, but you can get a new battery for $89 installed. I just put a new battery in my iPhone 11 and it has a new lease on life. Still a great phone.

I can understand not noticing the extra writes; but doesn't this mean that they were never loading the proper value, always loading the default, if the new key was always unique?

They used to; they're under new ownership now (Another Planet Entertainment) and no longer showing movies on a regular basis. Their schedule is sparse and mostly concerts.

OpenRA will download the campaign and graphics assets for you (not sounds and movies). No purchase is required.

Yes; and we should strive to behave better than other animals.

The strong postwar economy - and soldiers coming home - caused a "baby boom," and those babies were the boomers.

This is why I like to ask "what keeps you busy?" instead of "what do you do for work?" Someone might work in a fish cannery but their real passion is the classic auto they are restoring; I'd rather hear about that.

Today I herd an interviewer ask "what does your joy look like?" I like that one too, as a question we should ask ourselves.

It's not nerfed because the symbol is somehow "tainted" - it's nerfed because the actual content returned by a search is full of alt-right content that YT doesn't want to signal boost.

They don't want to signal boost it because it leads to news stories about how YT is a dangerous place and how the algorithm leads people into alt-right rabbitholes.

This dovetails with another Jobs story -

> After the iPad launch, Jobs supposedly walked into a meeting with the Mac team, carrying an iPad. He woke up the iPad, which happened instantaneously. Then he woke up a Mac, which took a while to come out of sleep. Then he asked something like, “Why doesn't this do that?

Without the iPad there to show it was possible there would have been arguments about memory speed and disk speed etc. And faster Mac sleep/wake put pressure on Windows to up their game.

Noisily works in a browser or they have apps https://www.noisli.com/

Some video editor is getting fired.

I still don't understand. What was the topic of the video, and how was the image/animation involved?

I like to have a "double length" localization mode that doubles the English text; useful for fixing some layout issues while waiting for translations.

A separate toggle to underline everything going through the localization system (or adding some __delimiters__ around it if you don't support rich text) is great for spotting text that is not running through localization yet.

Once you have translations back, a "longest length" translation mode is more useful. It picks the longest translation for each token, no matter what the language. Confusing to look at, but great for seeing only the places where you actually have text-fit issues.