theandrewbailey

> Most of our oxygen comes not from forest but from oceans (specifically from phytoplankton, algae, and photosynthetic bacteria). Between 50-80% of it in fact.

That fact checks out: about 70% of the earth's surface is covered by oceans. It follows that most photosynthesis, thus oxygen comes from oceans.

> there's no logic to solving them so you'd have to resort to clicking everything and with 5 playable characters

Are multiple/simultaneous playable characters a common feature of adventure game design from LucasArts alum? I played Broken Age and thought the idea was novel, but recently played through Day of the Tentacle for the first time and thought the mechanic made things too complicated. So many people say that adventure games are nostalgic, but the ones I played growing up were Kings Quest 6 and Myst (games with only one playable character). These other multiple character adventure games are nowhere near enjoyable for me.

> P.P.P.S There will be a GOG version.

Very good news. GOG provides offline installers so you can always backup, install, and play your games forever.

Then buy a used or open box one. There's plenty of people who try switching to Android and buy Pixels, but go back to their iPhones in a week.

I thought monitors lost those over 15 years ago, but a few years ago I got a Samsung gaming monitor that happened to come with a brick. Ugh.

I work at an e-waste recycling company. We get Dell monitors all the time. Their basic office monitors seem fine (~24" 1080p), but all our clients are too cheap to go for the more expensive models.

This. I bought an open box Pixel for a mild discount. I have a friend that used to work at Best Buy. He said so many people would try to switch from iPhone to Pixel, but decide they didn't like it and return the phone.

You put a sticky note with the duress PIN on your phone. When detained, the officer notices a PIN in plain sight on the phone, enters it, and the phone wipes itself. You were never asked for a PIN.

Could you be charged with destruction of evidence?

This is a link to the entire JavaScript specification. It does not succinctly answer "What's new in JavaScript?"

> But the services in a distributed monolith are also often called microservices (at least in my company).

I thought that was a "microlith".

For reference, this is what Minecraft used to need, back around 2013[0]:

Minimum Requirements:

CPU : Intel P4/NetBurst Architecture or its AMD Equivalent (AMD K7)

RAM : 2GB

GPU : Intel GMA 950 or AMD Equivalent

HDD : At least 90MB for Game Core and Sound Files

Java Runtime Environment (JRE) 6 or up is required to be able to run the game.

Recommended Requirements:

CPU : Intel Pentium D or AMD Athlon 64 (K8) 2.6 GHz

RAM : 4GB

GPU : GeForce 6xxx or ATI Radeon 9xxx and up with OpenGL 2 Support (Excluding Integrated Chipsets)

HDD : 150MB

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20130124012851/http://help.mojan...

Product owners were promised that LLMs/AI is a magical genie that can do anything, so they make it do everything. The trillions of dollars spent on data centers and thousands of layoffs has to be justified somehow.

> Constraints on consumer memory could force developers to care again, and you’d hope they could leverage AI-augmented tools to increase the efficiency of their code more easily than ever before.

I've been wondering that for a few months. Why don't developers put in their prompts to write code that reasonably uses the least amount of memory?

It has subtle 3D cues with insets and bevels, making it instantly better than most UIs today.

That's part of the divide between classroom teaching and boots-on-the-ground experience. Between them, I'll take the boots every time.

It's not just about em-dashes. It's also about specific sentence and phrase constructions.

See what I did there?

We've been getting flatter over time. Win9x (and even 3.x) styles have subtle 3D cues, like the edges of buttons, window borders, tabs, and text boxes. There were gradients. Apparently, these are technologies that we've lost.

I'm usually running Debian everywhere, and currently running OpenMandriva on my desktop PC. I work in the refurb department of an e-waste recycling company, where I install Linux Mint on most of what I sell. (If it has a touchscreen, it gets Debian with KDE.)

If you think the AI bubble and its infinite memory demand is going to last beyond 2030, you're delusional, but a lot of people are paid to think so.

X-Frame-Options: DENY is obsolete. Use Content-Security-Policy instead.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Reference/...

We're going to keep maxxmaxxing forever.

Don't fuck with scroll, please. Present the information as a normal page.

I was an avid fan of 64k demoscene intros, so this fills me with joy. In fact, 96k is plenty of space for fun, even 20 years ago: https://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=12036

Charlatan Wonder is one of the channels I watch on YouTube. For the past few years he's been signing off every one of his videos with a rant against "content" that largely mirrors this blog post. He tells people to not describe what they do as content. It is art. Content was a word made up to feed your art into a slop machine that makes someone else's line go up.

https://m.youtube.com/@CharlatanWonder

For me, its "learnings" and "performant". We've had "lessons" and "fast"; what do those words not capture?

> While the US and EU patents around MPEG-4 Part 2 expired in recent years, until today there remained one patent still active in Brazil.

Since MPEG-this Part that is hard to keep straight, this is the MPEG standard backing Xvid and DivX codecs. So let's encode video and torrent like it's 2002!

Given what this is, your readme could use a screenshot.

Merchants almost never pass along interchange fees to the customer. Instead, it's built into the prices that every customer pays the merchant, regardless if the customer uses a credit card, which means everyone pays for credit card rewards.

> No. One charger. One cable. One standard.

USB-C being "one standard" is a bit of a stretch. It is the Unintuitive Serial Bus, after all. Most will charge. Some faster than others. Some will supply data with 2.0 speeds, others 3.0, yet others will do more. Some will only work with the other devices they came with. Few cables will tell you which is which, unless you have a tester.

Looking both ways before crossing the street slows you down too, but it's done for good reasons. Ignore reading code at your own peril.