Blackmist

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Blackmist ,

It was strange being there at the dawn of time, to see Google utterly displace Yahoo.

We were on conenctions barely faster than dial up and Yahoo's homepage was a complete clusterfuck of everything you didn't care about. Weather for somewhere else, celebrity "news", sports in another country. And all you wanted to do was look up a way to run some very dangerous unchecked SQL in PHP.

Google was just search. Nothing else. And it was so fast. You could have that potential SQL injection so much faster there.

And the sad thing is with phones and browsers defaulting to it, and even the word "googling" (I don't remember ever Yahooing anything), it's probably here to stay with it's terrible addiction to ads and AI. Won't be long before I'm served glue at a pizzeria.

Blackmist ,

I tend to agree. The right time to build nuclear was like 30 years ago.

The same people who opposed it then are the same people saying it's the future now. If anybody agrees to build it, the you'll have 15-20 years of renewable energy being cancelled because the "nuclear is on the way".

Blackmist ,

We probably all will.

The justices of the supreme court ruled that Trump was immune and effectively above the law while being president. What is now stopping Biden from bringing a gun to the next debate?

If inciting an insurrection towards their own government is an action without legal repercussions, I don't see how the law would be less lenient about straight up firing a gun at an opponent....

Blackmist ,

His son's borrowing it.

Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket ( arstechnica.com )

The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand "due to a structural failure."...

Blackmist ,

Not for long anyway.

Blackmist ,

And it passes the Acid3 test, which is more than Firefox does.

Blackmist ,

Given that they're still recruiting what seems like the whole dev team, including lead designer, I'd guess none.

This project exists solely in the heads of marketing. Expect a disaster with a begging bowl.

Blackmist ,

It should be a panel of former astronauts who listen attentively and take notes throughout, before slowly turning and pointing at a big photo of the spherical Earth that they took from space before returning to it.

Do this for every contestant.

Blackmist ,

Bruce is a billionaire. He's on their side.

Blackmist ,

They're beaming electromagnetic waves into your eyes, man!

Blackmist ,

Cause lefties can never agree on anything.

Blackmist ,

Do people really think this changes the file type?

Blackmist ,

It's a great little game, but don't be afraid to drop the difficulty down later on. It really does detract from what makes the game special.

Blackmist ,

Yes, tbh. Most missing backstory tends to be from the books rather than the games, and anyone with half a brain can infer what's going on.

Blackmist ,

I got a game over because I sat in an uncomfortable chair.

Blackmist ,

As he counts his money.

Blackmist , (edited )

Smart switch in the UK is awkward because we have no neutral wire in the wall switches.

Blackmist ,

Oh we already had that.

https://segaretro.org/Mega_PC

Blackmist ,

If they haven't been doing so for at least a decade, I'm sure their shareholders will want to know why not.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, it's the reason I cancelled Amazon the day they announced that, while Netflix shambles on.

Blackmist ,

And the product thumbnails that all look like sex toys.

Blackmist ,

Shit, most of Amazon is that as well.

Blackmist ,

Half of them aren't in China though. It's dropshippers, so you still get your cheap death traps, but you get them in a few days, Amazon get their enormous cut, and they get to take no responsibility when it burns your house down.

Blackmist ,

Half Life 2 and it's episodes are always on a massive sale in a Valve bundle.

https://store.steampowered.com/bundle/232/Valve_Complete_Pack/

There's a lot of stuff there you won't play, but it's a must have for the Half Life and Portal series.

Also Wolfenstein: The New Order and Doom 2016 are great.

Blackmist ,

I'm sick of being told what I should and shouldn't be eating tbh.

Seen plenty of scares over the years about fats, saturated fats, eggs, sugars, carbs, glutens, red meat, meat... Now Ultra Processed Food.

At this point, it's just food. If you're too fat eat less of it. If it's actually dangerous don't sell it.

Blackmist ,

And what good did it do for cigarettes? It's not like you're going to look at the pack and go "oh shit, it's bad for me?"

Everyone I know who gave up smoking recently, did so purely for cost reasons and took up vaping instead.

Blackmist ,

Or the funders get bored of waiting after ten years of "no Mars yet" and cancel the project, leaving you with a half finished rocket.

Blackmist ,

I guess whether it's worth it depends on whether you hate writing code or reading code the most.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, it's all on Twitter and Facebook.

Why hang out in the run down Nazi bar when the big chain bars are all accepting Nazis now?

Blackmist ,

The width of these things as well. You probably couldn't fit that in my driveway without taking the mirrors off. If you somehow managed it, you'd only be getting in and out through the sunroof.

Blackmist ,

Ah, the days of needing a 3D GPU and a 2D GPU...

Blackmist ,

I even played Doom and Doom 2 on mine, at some horrendously low resolution.

Blackmist ,

26C is way too hot for me to sleep properly.

Imagine training your whole life for one Olympics where you're at peak performance, then having it fucked up because organisers decided to do this performative nonsense.

No wonder half the teams are bringing air con.

Am I the only one preferring low quality media over high quality one?

I have a very slow Internet connection (5 Mbps down, and even less for upload). Given that, I always download movies at 720p, since they have low file size, which means I can download them more quickly. Also, I don't notice much of a difference between 1080p and 720p. As for 4K, because I don't have a screen that can display 4K,...

Blackmist ,

I don't often go for the full 4K Blu-ray Remux releases, since they're massive and I can't really tell the difference over a 10-15GB rip, at least visually. Just a webrip is fine, depending on the source. Plus even my nVidia Shield Pro struggles with them at times.

US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement ( www.wired.com )

The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group has filed lawsuits in US federal court on Monday morning alleging copyright infringement on a “massive scale.”...

Blackmist ,

But of course. If artists want to fight for their rights, they better get their own lawyers.

Blackmist ,

You'd think so, but who do you think pays huge sums of money every year to be allowed to sell death traps to the public?

Blackmist ,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PyF7YmHYhYc

Blackmist ,

Some automatic conversion is fine.

a=3+0.2

print("Hello {name}. You are {age} years old")

That kind of thing. But the principle of least surprise definitely applies. If you get to the point where you're adding two booleans and a string, I feel like the language should at least say something. At least until the technology exists for it to physically reach out of your screen and slap you.

Blackmist , 
0 == []
>> true

"0" == []
>> false

0 == "0"
>> true
Blackmist ,

Yeah, there's no real costs, because in this case it's a cost of "lost opportunity" in advertising.

As a rich westerner, your eyeballs are worth more than some rickshaw driver in deepest darkest India, because you have more money to fritter away on nonsense.

Never understood how the third world pricing logic holds up for things like video games, since the hardware to play them costs pretty much the same no matter where you are.

Blackmist ,

I gave up trying to figure out what the "bitness" of CPUs were around the time the Atari Jaguar came out and people described it as 64 bit because it had 32 bit graphics chip plus a 32 bit sound chip.

It's been mostly marketing bollocks since forever.

Blackmist ,

I'd imagine 60 million dollars to google is like 60 cents to most of us.

Blackmist ,

Torrenting was blocked on it anyway, as far as I could tell.

Blackmist ,

Exactly. Donald Duck is an infinitely superior character.

Blackmist ,

Will they serve it though? They weren't even present at the sentencing due to "poor health".

Blackmist ,

That doesn't mean it's not higher level than other languages from more recent times.

Blackmist ,

If five people can maintain a service bigger than all those combined, then the big streamers need to buck their fucking ideas up.

Blackmist ,

Go for a walk. Maybe meet somebody to walk with.

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