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Don’t forget Ashley Joanna Williams

Tesla Coils from Command & Conquer are oddly relevant here: Attack, don't defend. Don't build Tesla coils. Build tanks. Don't let your opponent decide the terms of your inevitable confrontation. Turtling never works.

Fandom (ex-Wikia) has been a dumpster fire since day one.

As a total layman when it comes to air gapping: Would this not be defeated by putting the computer in a faraday cage?

The Pro controller is fully supported OS-side. It even has a setting to flip the face buttons for games that expect Xbox-style controllers

I'll concede that D3D was a dumpster fire.

But, what was actually broken in OpenGL pre-Steampipe update?

The two things I know about were:

1. The different looking water (not worse, just different)

2. In the software renderer some texture sets randomly tiled to make them look less repetitive. It's nice, but I would wager a bet that no one back then even knew about this bug, let alone complained about it.

People also forget that the software renderer was very slow on contemporary hardware, and even a basic 3D card had way better performance.

It just feels wrong historically. When HL came out, people were very enthusiastic about texture filtering and the game was clearly designed with hardware rendering in mind.

Mario 64 was two years ahead of its time, at a time when two years was like 10+ years now. Hardware acceleration, colored lighting, skeletal animation, free camera*.

Quake (World) was a huge achievement graphically but I feel like its real contributions to history ended up being internet play and WASD

Both games were mind-blowing then and are still fun now.

* It's nuts to me that we had to wait until 2004 with San Andreas to get a modern "left stick moves, right stick looks" in third person games. The N64 was 90% of the way there, but didn't stick the landing for whatever reason.

> who have destroyed any possible means of connecting themselves with real information.

See: Special Military Operation. It was always surprising to me that the Russians essentially repeated the same mistakes from the first Chechen war after seemingly learning from them by the early 2000s

Using acoustic data transmission because it is easy and I am lazy, I'd guess comparable to copper wire broadband based on the short distances involved in an average tin-can + string operation.

> Ripping the car apart to install sound insulation might void your warranty.

On my Toyota it only involved basic removal of interior panels, I can't imagine that affecting warranty or resale

> It is quite absurd (but categorically true) that the quality of audio that folks were generally listening to in 2005 was better than what we are doing today.

Comparing Apples to Apples, AirPods are definitely sound better and are more useful than the pack-in iPod earphones that everyone used back then.

For a city that is far away from anywhere:

https://wondernetwork.com/pings/Auckland

Your real world latency is going to be worse.

Like Pantone books, color checkers don't last long before the colors fade, maybe a year or less. I remember being surprised at how much money we were spending on them.

> Wearing gloves and washing your hands five million times is more annoying than just using lead free.

RoHS was more about removing lead from electronics as a whole than health risk to an individual from soldering. To put it into perspective, if you lived in a city before the 1990s, you've already inhaled more lead than you ever will from soldering.

The enforcement threshold is much lower in other countries, but the posted speed limit is more reasonable and matches a safe speed for driving.

The Japanese law doesn't allow criminal enforcement until 30km/h over the posted speed limit, so the posted speed limit is very slow but enforcement for 10km over is non-existent and limited for 20km over (you'll only get a ticket if you are unlucky).

There are many reasons for the gap between the posted limit and enforcement threshold in Japan, but the TL;DR is that the real-world speed that everyone drives at is generally 20km over the posted limit.

> Source: I’m working for a rental car company in Japan

Then you should know the posted speed limit is low for enforcement reasons. And yes, the Japanese government and society decided to have a fake speed limit and a real speed limit, rather than change the threshold at which speeding is a prosecutable crime.

If there is no posted speed limit then the default is (was) 60. Now narrow roads have a default of 30.

In my area, I can’t think of a an example of a road that would be affected by this law change that didn’t already have a 30 km/h posted speed limit.

I thought it was well-known that unmodified C-130s (Look ma, no hook!) can land and take off from US-sized carriers successfully. Ergo, in a pinch, everyone will be getting their chicken nuggets and canned corn.

The common pirated version of Quake was a 20MB pre-release leak that had oodles and oodles of minor differences to the final version. All of the actual levels themselves are playable and completable. The funniest differences are a mean trap that was removed from the final E1M1, and E2M6 still begins with the eponymous oubliette, banished from official releases until 2021 (!).

Mountain Lion dropped support for 32 bit kernel. I only know this because Apple didn’t provide a patch for first generation Mac Pro users, even though the CPUs were 64 bit and could run Mountain Lion just fine.

The former Japan license-holder for Pyrex still makes it as Iwaki

> As a software developer, I am used to finding and fixing the underlying problem instead of relying on the quick fixes these doctors were offering me.

Your body isn't a piece of software.

It can get easily get stuck in conditions that we aren't used to happening in computers. Eg, some injury causes inflammation and pain in a different part of your body, and even after the initial injury heals itself, the inflammation and pain in another part of your body continues of its own accord, and a "quick fix" of some NSAIDs can cure it within hours.

I'm glad you are feeling better, but reading all that great stuff about magnesium could have primed you to think that supplementing it would work, therefore it worked. The placebo (and nocebo) effects are very powerful.

Teenagers learning how to have a couple of beers with a meal would be an improvement on them turning 18/20/21 and going and getting hammered on shots

They don’t call the designer Steve “The King” Ritchie for nothing!

> And would they risk it just because?

Look up the reasons for both blocs in the Cold War withdrawing all of their (numerous) tactical nuclear weapons systems by the 1980s.

TL;DR: MAD and “escalation”

> I feel like there’s some lesson here in building to the lowest common denominator, and giving people products rather than tools (tools are more dangerous, but more useful), but maybe I’m just grumpy.

It's from a culture that says more alarms = safer. Perhaps the people who design these things need an alarm to warn them of "alarm fatigue".

Yes, Nintendo have themselves to blame for the next-gen OoT hype train. In fans' eyes, they promised but didn't deliver.

The computer player would always target your nothern-most structure for airstrikes or nuclear weapons. This persisted to at least Generals Zero Hour (I never played the campaign of C&C3 or 4 so can't comment on them).