Mind you, the summary says that someone from the front staff has to come back to de-tangle the strings...which is fine, until you keep cutting how many are actually working the front counter at any time.

It'll take half a generation (or the long overdue rise in minimum wage) for this to flip-flop back and have them all going "how can we automate this so we don't have to pay people who don't want to work this crap job at minimum wage?"

I note the one place they mention with the biggest savings is California. I'll wager Texas with its high grid prices in peak season is also problematic. Everybody else in the states generally has stable electricity prices, so it isn't likely to make a big savings difference.

The animations were done by recording new dialog for the missing sequences (this after Big Finish completed the story by having 8 and Romana carry out the scenes instead). They had all the exterior filming done - the strike hit them in the middle of studio work.

Adams combined ideas from Shada and City of Death in assembling the first Dirk Gently novel.

for what, more than 25 years now? You haven't missed a switch yet in all that time, so yeah, the whole process continues just for this tradition... ...and hell, even if they did stop the switch (in either direction), you'll probably still have the biannual post because then we have to talk about how it still sucks, one way or another.

So, there we are. It's all about ranting on /., because if we didn't rant here, we'd feel something more fundamentally wrong in the universe...

He'd laid down the rhythm track and some guitar 'flybyes' - little extra melodic fills in between the vocals to provide some counterpoint. But at they time they hadn't gotten to the point of deciding whether or not to put in an actual solo break - the inability to improve John in the mix stopped the project. Paul finally decided it needed the break and he and Ringo laid down the baseline and the synth, and then worked out a slide solo which I want to say used George's sampled slide guitar sound but I believe was actually played by Paul on a sampler keyboard - the documentary video on youtube and D+ isn't totally clear on that last bit.

They've been doing it in Florida for the last year to control the type of mosquitos that spread Zika.

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...your team consists of members in two different parts of India, Toronto, the Bay Area, West London, and yourself by your lonesome in a suburb of DC?

My going to the office doesn't do anything except give me an excuse to go to restaurants near it that I don't normally go to. My entire collaboration was zoom-based even before the pandemic.

Canceling an unsuccessful show, that's a given (though the binge model preferred by Netflix may be doing more harm than good, because without a common weekly frame of reference, there's no discussion about it without "spoilers" and so a show can't really build a word-of-mouth water-cooler that the weekly shows like the MCU and Star Trek shows can get).

It happens. Sad, really. Anyway...

But the matter of actually REMOVING shows from the service and then taking a tax write-off for doing so (which is something done by both D+ and MAX, and I think Netflix has as well)? That's different. That is actually a sign of a broken law that absolutely needs to be fixed, because now us taxpayers are giving the streamers a gift (a tax rebate) and not getting the product that we are paying for. The streamers are using a vocabulary loophole around "losses" to extract money from us all (not just subscribers) as they take away product.

"I came here to say this."

My FB Post:

Ah, the geniuses at META.

If you activated your IG account by just linking it to your FB account...then you don't have an IG login/password. IG will always auth from your FB session instead.

Threads doesn't give you the "use your existing instagram session" or "use your FB account". You have to enter a password...and it doesn't exist. Your FB password won't work, and if you "forgot password", you'll get an error.

yeah. the other feature not mentioned in this article is that it has full Android Drive as well as Android Auto support. Easily able to play and control things while Android Auto is doing the GPS thing.

The mood and style 'radio' features depend on proper tagging. It does have an extensive DB to match against, assuming your artist/album/song tags are correct, but depending on the popularity of the artist, you may find gaps where some albums aren't included in a genre/mood shuffle when you think they should be.

The metadata can be edited by hand, and you can even invent your own 'moods', but the current Plex UI to do all this can be slow and tedious.

Still, when tagged well, the radio feature works well. I had a "Dramatic Radio" playing off my Disney folder and the song selections (including some background music items) was impressively 'on'.

C (and C++) had the advantage of being the original open-source language. Everybody learned it, everybody wrote in it, so every library you needed to work with anything was implemented in it.

Most of the other languages failed to catch on because they didn't have a *standard* way to access the system or ui libraries implemented in C. If the linkage to C was more standard and portable, say how node.js integrated c/++ based libraries, things might have been different for the others. Python got some of it, but otherwise specialized itself differently.

Most students are (or should be) taught the principles of implementing a simple language or a systems-level library (I had that in my freshmen and junior years). From there, it isn't much of a stretch to consider and imagine creating a new one, if you can find a reason why it might be better than what exists. Often it is a matter of encouraging a stricter adherence to a coding philosophy (e.g., OO or Functional) than the current languages provide as they often, once released, get compromised into supporting multiple paradigms. Others come into being as higher-level abstractions or combinations (JSX being a blend of javascript/typescript + html).

Some of these projects move on from being pet projects or phd theses into actually released into the wild.

Once you can simplify how to connect a new language to an existing system and standard library, esp networking (for server) or javascript/dom (for ui), it stands a chance at catching on. JSX caught on because it combined html/javascript in a way that made it simple to read and generate. Yeah, it mixes paradigms poorly...but it produces readable, working code and that's enough for most.

"The reason people watched Seinfeld was to talk about it at work the next day."

I noted that this was a problem with Netflix's "dump a season at once" philosophy, contrasted with the MCU and Star Trek weekly releases.

When there's a weekly release, cliffhangers matter. Making predictions matters. Talking about it matters. We're all on the same page, having seen the last, and making predictions on what happens next. For Star Trek and MCU (and others), it has grown an entire market of youtube channels.

But the binge and forget model of Netflix, or the existence of the legacy shows today on those networks, gives no place to talk. Nobody's on the same page. One person didn't sleep because they watched the whole thing. Another did 2 eps before falling asleep. Another hasn't had the time but "i'll watch it this weekend". No common ground. And when no common ground, no discussion.

And when no discussion...no legs. Some shows could have gained a lot from word-of-mouth growth, but failed to because they were all dumped...and then on the failure to become instant blockbuster, whatever that requires, they were dropped. Many shows dropped before people had the time to decide to see them...and being dropped, they therefore had a reason to not bother.

Netflix's successes are betrayed by their failures, and I firmly believe the binge model is a reason. A potential cult classic, slow growth but perpetual re-viewings, is cut off at the knees because the show is only measured on the first day's take.

An insane way to manage an investment.

Disney+'s failures are not of product quality, on the whole. They're failures of marketing. They're failures to go back and re-promote older (D+ original) stuff to newer customers. They're failures to make moments to encourage people to watch older stuff together. There are exceptions (the push of Indiana Jones material leading to the new film), but those are far between. Contrast to YouTube which looks at the channels I watch, my past history, and goes "hey, you may have missed this from a few years ago which you might like".

The point of D+ and the other new streaming services is to value the back catalog...but they're doing so little to actually give it value that it all is a waste.

And yet the perception of the defender/shooter that he was being attacked is often enough for a manslaughter charge to get dropped or acquitted. They only had to think they were being threatened, not prove they were.

The contradiction here is astounding.

yeah, like question 1 to me: how many rows and columns?

a physical box can't get any bigger, but this spec doesn't include setting max dimensions (if it did, we could avoid the "col = table[row]; if !col, col = [] and table[row] = col; now do something with col" stuff. i could just implement the full XxY table in the class constructor and then adding/removing items becomes much more trivial.

but not having that, i have to artificially set my internal limits, as i run the risk of someone saying they want to insert candy at row 10300, column 283833.

because as an app developer, I have to expect that my QA is gonna try that. :)