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I'm not a big fan of these tools myself (although like many people my employer insists on them). But still, isn't it the responsibility of the tool maker to make their software work with new OS versions and not Apple's?
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And you see things like the The Lion King remake or its upcoming prequel being called "live action" because it doesn't look like a cartoon like the original. But they didn't film actual lions running around -- it'
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Not unlike how US folks react to the idea that England is the authority on English -- Brazil and the US are far more populated than the countries that originated their languages and so there are more books and movies targeting them and usin
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Before the pandemic it used to be commonly believed that even remote work shouldn't be done at home and you used to see coffee shops filled with people on laptops (and frustrating people who just wanted a table to drink their coffee an
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's weird that he mentions Snow Crash without even mentioning that it is a parody of cyberpunk that is making fun of the self-serious nature of the genre. I mean Stephenson's hero protagonist is literally named "Hiro Protago
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>or even $20 on a game inspired by Harvest Moon, when I can actually play the original games for free? If by that you are referring to Stardew Valley , while it is indeed inspired by Harvest Moon , it is so much richer and deeper and a
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Indeed. As I recall Computer Shopper's articles were the legally minimum percentage of the magazine to make it qualify as a periodical rather than a catalog (US postage rates between the two differed, with periodicals being cheaper). W
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Well, the timeline of when the apocalypse happened is a bit weird -- like did it happen in the lifetime of Max himself or not? And is Max supposed to be exactly the same person in each movie? I'm not even talking about the actor change
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In a way The Mad Max movies remind me of the Zelda game series in that they'll have recurring characters and themes but aren't really hung up on canon and will cheerfully contradict each other.
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Yeah, and Bradbury himself was known to be a rather poetic writer himself so it is odd that his screenplay does that.
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The movie is streaming for free on Tubi (hot tip: ad blockers still work on Tubi). It's pretty good even if I hate the simplification of the dialogue -- in the beginning Ishmael talks of visiting "the oceans" rather than the
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I didn't like the movie of High-Rise because it changes the whole point of the book. In the movie it was conflict between the rich and poor people in the apartment tower (basically redoing Snowpiercer but in a building). In the boo
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For some value of "gentle". Typically people mean by that stories (mostly British in origin) where the apocalypse isn't too bad and even a bit of fun. I don't think the characters in The Drowned World , The Burning Wor
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by jhbadger 2y ago
True, but I guess what I was trying to say is that things like Digital Derby were trying to look electronic when they didn't have to -- the mechanical/electromechanical arcade games of the 1960s/early 1970s were more realisti
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Related to the idea of pseudo-CGI (in which practical effects are trying to look like computer graphics) was the 1970s/1980s mechanical games like "Digital Derby" that were made to look pixelated for no reason other than to m
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>Bullshitting implies intent to deceive Not in the formal sense. The philosopher Harry Frankfurt famously distinguished bullshitting from lying because a liar knows the truth and is trying to hide it where a bullshitter is simply trying
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The Atari 8-bits were introduced in 1979 and were moderately popular in the early 1980s at least in the US because they had considerably better graphics and sound than their competitors. This was due to (unlike most other early 8-bits) they
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And a copy of "The Young Sea Officer's Sheet Anchor: Or a Key to the Leading of Rigging and to Practical Seamanship" (Dover has a cheap paperback reprint). This is fun because it, having been originally published in 1808, is
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I like David Brin's novels where humans uplift various primates and cetaceans. Do many other authors do that? It seems uncommon as compared to AI-driven futures.
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Not quite as intellectual, but rewatching movies from your youth is similar. Movies that you thought were deep or moving turn out to be rather formulaic tripe -- you just thought they were deep because you hadn't seen the tropes in the
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Weird analogy. The USSR/Russia did discover new elements, and while there was a certain amount of arguing over names (as it wasn't always clear who discovered them first), there was no "not using" them because they wer
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And the Epson PX-8 Geneva, a 1984 CP/M laptop using micro-cassettes rather than floppies. I actually had one for a time that I got a few years later when they were discontinued and were sold for a fraction of their original price. htt
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>Coffee – and what Americans like me mean by that is black coffee, filter coffee, drip coffee – is much more popular in the US than Europe. It became popular after the Boston Tea Party as a more patriotic alternative to the unjustly taxe
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It does when the physical library is loaning an ebook -- it works on exactly the same principal as CDL -- library owns ebook, library loans out to one user the ebook -- that's why there is often a wait list when trying to check out ebo
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We have lots of commuter trains near large cities in the US. Many people who work in NYC, Chicago, Washington DC, and the like take commuter trains into and out of these cities from surrounding towns and cities. The issue is outside these b
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That's a different thing, though. Obviously NeXTStep had a dock for apps. That was probably its primary influence on UI design and why OSX/MacOS has an dock. That's different than "dockapps" which are programs that
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Yes, but you could argue that web browsers shouldn't accept broken HTML either. But they do, and that's why there are so much broken HTML out there in the wild. Same with broken CSV -- basically people's measure is "if E
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Also famous for getting electricity signs wrong, not understanding that electrons existed and had charges that were "negative" according to his definition.
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In the 1980s, professors used to print out the list of exam scores and tape it on their office door so students could check their score (something younger generations would find quaint, I'd imagine). Because people might be embarrassed
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Reminds me of ancient motels (with signage that probably hasn't been updated in decades) that proudly announce that their rooms are air conditioned and have color tv. Not that those aren't nice to have, but they are pretty much ex

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