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Yeah but they changed it to a dropdown now so others won't be able to follow in his footsteps.
LucasArts kept them alive for a few more years :)

But also, you die aplenty in a FPS game.

Blocking ads should not make my fans spin at full blast.
oh, a stinkier compost? sign me up!
Re:OpenAI and Broadcom unveil LLM-optimized inference chip on Wednesday June 24, 2026 @01:12PM (#48662873)
Who's IPO? Broadcom and Google are already listed, obviously.
So we can call this one Chen's Fence
what could go wrong
Re:Every layer of review makes you 10x slower on Tuesday March 17, 2026 @11:41AM (#47414232)
For all the people talking about 5 hour PR review delays... This reminds me of some teams that rotate the "fire extinguisher/emergency bug fixer" duty every day/week/sprint to a different developer. One could rotate a dedicated "first review duty" person. That developer would be in charge of focusing on rapidly starting PR reviews as their priority, with option to request other reviewers if necessary. Spreading the duty around would make people be respectful of the reviewer because if they send unreviewed slop to the reviewers, it's likely that people will send them slop too.
Re:How to hack Discord, Vercel and more with one easy trick on Thursday December 18, 2025 @08:15PM (#46321151)
> alongside, we can poison the nextjs cache for everyone for any site,

What??

Oh so that's why my bank app said it thought my old device was rooted when it wasn't...
It's not impossible that the Pentagon could have thought "alright, we want these readings. is there a civilian use for this kind of data and decided to see if a civilian project could be sprung up... Though that's more of a Cold War conceit. These days they would just do it themselves, it's probably an easy and cheap project.
Re:Is there a purely technical term for 'monkey patching' on Thursday May 08, 2025 @01:39PM (#43928892)
On the origins of the term "monkey patching"
Re:Surnames from nicknames nobody has any more on Monday February 10, 2025 @02:02PM (#43003866)
Imagine the chaos if English had a phonetic spelling reformation like Spanish had a while ago...
Blame HN users for upvoting the story, not this chrome page...
Re:Gladiators in ancient Anatolia lived to entertain the masses on Thursday November 07, 2024 @10:24AM (#42077435)
So, WWE more than war-like fighting
Re:Stripe increasing "instant payout" fees by 50% on Monday May 20, 2024 @11:37PM (#40423816)
These are words
Re:Make Invalid States Unrepresentable on Thursday April 25, 2024 @05:51AM (#40155441)
Okay but the solution here is to identify and parcel your cases into discrete entities. The article doesn't say "don't accept anything odd", it says "clearly identify what you accept". If you have to accept odd cases, identify them so it's clear what's happening.

So this isn't about purity, it's about being declarative. i.e. make your code say what it accepts, instead of writing board/implicit acceptable inputs that inevitably forget cases and crashes.

If you limit what you accept as inputs then you can stop worrying about downstream error handling and debugging.

It's probably worse in warm climates, but macbook cables were disintegrating everywhere for the longest time.
Half of developers in North America, and especially those at top tier companies, use Macs. You can't buy that kind of top tech mindshare with marketing. Also now with the M-series CPUs, Macbooks aren't PC Clones anymore, they're back in the game of being an exclusive platform, which will get even more exclusive as they add other specialized chips. Their sales share of the market and as you mention, their profit share of the market keeps increasing, so even on that alone, why would a bean counter decide to drop them?

Don't forget Apple's size... the AirPod business, stood alone, would be a Fortune 500 company. Even if an Apple business is a bit small compared to the iPhone, it's still a humongous business by any other comparator.

I'm not an Apple fanboy (e.g. I use an old Chinese Android phone) but I'm still awed by their business.

Re:New PFAS discovered with novel testing method on Monday December 18, 2023 @05:06PM (#38689025)
Okay but if I was living downstream from these plants, I'd still take my chances on bottled water that's coming from elsewhere. :P
So lesson of the story, avoid the AAA named companies because they've been in the respawning business for a long time
Re:Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:24AM (#38164652)
I wasn't asking about your feel of things. I was asking about whether you're serious about thinking that no one cares about page load speeds.

Anyway, it was a rhetorical question, not one that needed an answer.

Re:You've already been eating lab-grown meat for decades on Monday November 06, 2023 @11:22AM (#38164624)
That's not "lab-grown meat" means, course. Count on a headline writer to muddy any issue for attention...
Re:Firefox Got Faster for Real Users in 2023 on Tuesday October 31, 2023 @01:08PM (#38088052)
Are you serious?
Re:Wait, What's a Bookmarklet? on Wednesday October 25, 2023 @12:37PM (#38014694)
I post to Facebook and Twitter using bookmarklets and i just made a bookmarklet to use newsproxy.ca to get around Facebook's news blockade in Canada.

These you posted are really great

You stopped hearing about it because the chips Qualcomm made were dreadful.
Re:Mozilla.social is live and open to registration on Thursday September 28, 2023 @09:31PM (#37698244)
> (despite them doing their best to squander their reputation with releases like this)

...how?

Re:Nearly 500 Brands Exited Smartphone Market During 2017-2023 on Friday September 22, 2023 @02:41PM (#37615957)
Not to mention GOOGLE

Back in 2000/1, I had such trouble taking them seriously, with that name and that colourful logo, I was like, whuuuut? But then I started using it and obviously it was miles ahead of everything else. That taught me a good lesson on whether you need a clever brand name or not. The product makes the brand name, not the other way around.

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