If it takes multiple billions of dollars to create a product that is useful for a niche group of pen and paper RPG players, that product is probably not going to succeed.
But, also, if Facebook didn’t have such an unassailable monopoly on social networking, small, focused social networks that targeted a niche group of people might have a chance of surviving.
And Google built a search engine. Everything else they’ve tried to build has failed, other than maybe Gmail which was just a Yahoo Mail / Hotmail clone. Everything else that has been successful has been an acquisition: Maps (Keyhole), YouTube, Android, Google Photos (Picasa), Doubleclick…
We really need robust antitrust. How many of these acquisitions would be thriving companies in their own right, competing with the big tech giants if the tech giants hadn’t been able to absorb them.
Google+ is an example of what happens when companies have to compete instead of acquiring other companies. Google poured billions into it and it flopped completely.
I don’t think I care enough about Taylor Swift or her songs to care about reviews of them, even if the reviews are funny or whatever.
When people tell me I must know some Taylor Swift songs, I try to explain that I’ve probably heard some, but there’s just nothing in them that catches my interest so I just forget them immediately. This is a good way to explain what I mean. I recognize the pattern enough to say, “yeah, that sounds like it could be Taylor Swift”, but it’s all so forgettable.
Here it is:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VE5JMEu5hZA
Pretty funny, pretty accurate too. But, I can definitely hear the lack of Flea.
For reference, here’s the isolated bass for Californication (which I think is the song they’re imitating, and, IMO, is one of Flea’s least interesting basslines):
Dunno, I don’t see an “about” link or something.
My instance got rid of the tesseract frontend, and I don’t much like the default frontend. I was using the old-reddit style frontend, but it was having massive issues. It was not posting comments at all, then double posting comments, not loading comments, etc.
Funny enough, that was actually familiar from the old Reddit days… though it was never quite that bad.
Anyhow, I abandoned the old-reddit frontend for now because it was just too buggy.
Yes, god is mentioned as an additional clause, but you’re pledging to the flag.
And the founding fathers were divinely inspired geniuses who thought of every possible contingency, despite being a bunch of 20 year old rich kids.
“I pledge allegiance to the the Flag of the United States…”
Unless you think the flag is a god, you’re not pledging to a god, you’re pledging to a piece of fabric, or to the design printed on that fabric. Which, honestly, is a lot weirder. How can one have allegiance to a flag? What about the opposite, is it possible to be disloyal to a flag?
So are all Americans who live outside the USA, and are taxed but receive no representation.
Indeed, if McConnell were in perfect health and a Democratic senator were in this position, McConnell would be leading the charge to ensure they resigned.
No, McConnell wouldn’t “ensure someone resigned”, he’d use some procedural trick to remove them from office and have a Republican of his choosing fill the seat. And, he’d do it even if he knew full well that the person was alive, conscious, fully in possession of their faculties, but somehow unable to defend against that kind of a dirty trick.
The governor of Kentucky should simply replace McConnell, and if it turns out that McConnell is, in fact, up to continuing to serve in the senate, he can fight to get his seat back.
Indeed, if McConnell were in perfect health and a Democratic senator were in this position, McConnell would be leading the charge to ensure they resigned.
No, McConnell wouldn’t “ensure someone resigned”, he’d use some procedural trick to remove them from office and have a Republican of his choosing fill the seat. And, he’d do it even if he knew full well that the person was alive, conscious, fully in possession of their faculties, but somehow unable to defend against that kind of a dirty trick.
The governor of Kentucky should simply replace McConnell, and if it turns out that McConnell is, in fact, up to continuing to serve in the senate, he can fight to get his seat back.
So, it would have been regulated under fascism? Communism? Manorialism?
It’s more that democracy is weak, and the rich and powerful are no longer scared of guillotines.
What would the icon for a “directory” look like?
What makes that different from a “real directory”?
Maybe I remember wrong, but my memory is that at one point MacOS had zsh as the default and then switched to BASH, and then maybe back to zsh again. But, since Internet search is broken these days, I can’t find anything about that.
The ergonomics aren’t great compared to a dedicated camera. The camera sensor not being in the middle is annoying unless your subject is far away. Having to hold the phone so that you don’t accidentally touch the screen, accidentally block the camera, etc. is not ideal. The shutter is never in a great position, even if you do something like use the volume button as a shutter.
Even flip phone cameras were more convenient than that. With those the camera was roughly in the middle, and you could hold the phone in a way that felt less awkward.
OTOH, the thing that killed cameras for me was the ergonomics of getting the pictures off the camera and backed up online. You either needed to remove the memory card from the camera, make sure you had a USB to memory card adapter, plug it into a computer, drag the files somewhere, etc. then wait for that to complete, and remember to put the memory card back into the camera.
For a short while, the cameras claimed to have WiFi, but it wasn’t like you could just connect them to your home router and let the camera connect to the Internet and upload the photos. No, the camera created its own WiFi hotspot and you had to connect your laptop or something to that hotspot and transfer the files that way.
To me, the killer feature of phone cameras (aside from always being in my pocket) was that to back up the pictures I’d taken I had to… do nothing. I’d get home, use my phone as normal, and within half an hour, the photos were already online and backed up.
Was zsh the default at the time? Or did you switch to zsh? AFAIK the new default is BASH, but it was zsh for a while.
IMO, your level of nerdiness is much higher if you change the default shell.
Oof. The first few seasons were good, but it was pretty weak long before it hit season 8, let alone its final season 11.