Legion

Such an odd career path for David Sears, to go from this to being the creative director behind SOCOM and SOCOM II - two wonderful games whose online community I miss dearly, but games Ellison would no doubt include in his categorization of "arcade bang-bang games that turn kids into pistol-packing papas and mamas".

You pretty much have to coach it with a generous amount of "Not Interested", "Don't Recommend Channel", etc. clicks on video recommendations of the sort you don't want.

You overeating doesn't give everyone else around you diabetes.

I'm never going to buy the attempts to equate getting a personal preventable illness with willful and malicious disregard of the health of everyone surrounding you.

We're pretty understanding of a person who struggles with alcoholism. We're a whole lot less understanding when they choose to get behind the wheel.

I strongly prefer the Apple TV UI approach over all the rest.

The whole content recommendation view is contained withing the Apple TV application, instead of the home screen. The home screen gives me an unsullied grid of applications.

If I want to have the content recommendation view be my default, the settings gives me the option of defaulting to it instead of the home screen.

> Is this supposed to be making the case ~against~ jQuery?

It's supposed to be making a case against jQuery if you're pulling in the whole library just to do this one thing.

I've always read the site as "here's how to do it in native JS, yes it's uglier, but if you only need this, you can skip pulling in another dependency."

I don’t think the commenter was criticizing Linux. Seemed more a comment on the manufacturers who lazily slap these products together with minimal effort. Taking a free OS, sprinkling a thin layer of their software on top, and then abandoning their responsibility to maintain the full software stack being a common example of that minimal effort.

So, yes, essentially you end up with a bunch of devices running vendor-specific unmaintained Linux distros on the wide open Internet. The “unmaintained” part of that sentence is the problem, not the “Linux” part.

The killer feature of the Aeron is its ubiquity.

I have bought three used Aerons, and refurbished them with replacement parts.

Because Aerons are everywhere, replacement parts (both OEM and aftermarket) are incredibly easy to find.

Some of these Aeron chairs are 10 years old, and I can find parts for them now. 10 years from now, I will still be able to find parts for them.

Between their overall durability and the availability of replacement parts, I expect that I will be able to keep these chairs going for a very long time. And frankly, that's more valuable to me than any tiny incremental improvements some alternatives to the Aeron might be able to offer.

I love the moments when you can point back to an old post and say, "called that!"

(No snark, I really do love it.)

Enjoy the moment, future seer.

The 12.9" iPad Pro is the first tablet I've used where I can read a magazine in digital format and not feel like I'm reading a shrunken down version of it.

10" tablets were close but not quite there. I always found myself doing more pinch zooming than I liked.

Earthers get their clock. Dusters get their clock. Belters still no get clock of their own.

SSL = TLS version 0.x. Earlier versions of the same thing.

Colloquially we still say "SSL" a lot when referring to TLS.

What a terrible list. It doesn't even have Seven Samurai on it!

Just because it isn't a state secret doesn't mean you have to put the name on blast.

Mavis Beacon early access release.

I think the person's point is that Mozilla is making a complete browser, rendering engine and all, while Brave is basically a shell of stuff on top of Chromium/Blink.

> You should counter bad arguments with better arguments

We've witnessed the fallacy of this argument. It assumes a level of rationality that has been proven to be unreasonable to assume. The problem isn't that "better" arguments aren't reaching people. Rather, we have watched people exercise an incredible ability to discard overwhelming evidence and embrace narratives that have literally zero evidence to support them (or, in fact, have been repeatedly disproven and debunked).

In that kind of environment, "counter bad arguments with better arguments" is hopelessly naive.

People always reference No Man's Sky and praise the state it eventually made it to, but even that updated state was not the game that was promised and hyped pre-release.

Some of the "missing features" were eventually implemented, but MANY were not. Instead, they pivoted into implementing different things that were not part of that initial hype cycle, and implemented enough of them that they hoped people would forget about what the game was originally claimed to be.

And apparently it worked, because people always talk about how No Man's Sky got "fixed" without acknowledging that huge, major chunks of that initial promise were never in fact developed.

Because we don't value software quality enough to prioritize quality over other factors.

Abbath (former lead of Immortal) is a big goofball: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORey8ZYyaQU

Immortal very much was doing the whole black metal imagery thing with tongue firmly planted in cheek. Not parody, but absolutely having fun with it and not taking anything seriously.

I hope HP expands their reach in the VR space and provides more alternatives. They have a winner on their hands with the Reverb G2. I'd like to see them dip their toe into the standalone headset market.

The "(2000)" date in the subject can't be correct if he refers to QuakeWorld as still being in development. This has to be from 1996.

I'm all for archival, but "help us access these files in the future even though people aren't bothering with accessing them now" is an odd request.

The time to access those files and migrate them into more durable and supported formats is right now. Or 5-10 years ago for that matter.

> In a perfect world, someone would write a Mac emulator that lets you emulate a High Sierra Mac on Apple Silicon hardware, just like SheepShaver lets you emulate a PowerPC Mac on Intel hardware.

OR... or... there are computers other than Apple's. Computers which could be used to emulate an x86-64 Mac without having to deal with ARM translation because they're x86-64 based themselves.

The author's viewpoint is so Apple-centric that the idea of this digital archaeology happening on something besides Apple hardware didn't even enter the picture.

This reminds me of people who buy powerful machines, then run the most threadbare Linux environment possible and freak out anytime the machine's RAM and CPU aren't completely idle.

I do miss the lightweight early/mid 90s web sometimes, but I have no interest in artificial constraints that treat smallness as a virtue in and of itself.

Right? My yellow labrador is pushing 11 and he's all but indistinguishable from his 2-year-old self, aside from a relatively minor decline in energy.

We call him the Eternal Puppy. We expected aging was going to catch up by now. Still very little sign that it's happening.

If I had that dog's energy, I would never be out of shape.

> Firefox

Don't give Google ideas.

My wife teaches 1st grade.

Online instructional hours doesn't begin in their school until 1st grade. Kindergarten has learning materials sent to the homes.

Online virtual pre-K is just lunacy.

Sega of Japan didn't remember that even when it was happening.

Monolith vs microservice feels like a higher level case of the expression problem.

Trunk based using short lived feature branches is the only thing I've used that has made any sort of sense in terms of value vs. complexity.