Similar to TV that way. Graphics are overblown.

When digital and hi-def TV came out, I was like "eh, seeing the actors' pores isn't going to improve anything. Good plots and characterization would." And so it is with games as well.

I'm not sure what age you think that is, but this semi-old guy won't be watching it because I don't want to. It's pointless and boring.

(And I'm not sure that I know of anyone, no matter how old, who "doesn't know how" to use YouTube.)

Tell Python programmers that white-space block delineation is dumb and braces are better. :-)

The reason people will roll their eyes at you over that is that its an incredibly boring debate that ended 30 years ago. Its pure surface level semantics and it just isn't interesting and tends to suggest people haven't actually spent much time understanding what they are complaining about.

Python has plenty of serious problems. But if what you get hung up on is whitespace, it means you dont know what the serious problems are.

"GitHub claims that 96 percent of its customers will see no change to their bill"

I always love this ploy. "You are part of a small percentage of users whining about this, but our price changes are actually good for everyone else", as if you're supposed to take one for the good of humanity. Or Microsoft.

The word "independent" in this context has specific legal meaning.

Arguing about plain-use definitions is a waste of time; intentionally trying to confuse people with bullshit is malicious.

Someone at the FCC was watching and modified the website right after that exchange.

For those of you playing stupid games centered around the word "independent", I will suspend disbelief and assume you are simply ignorant of what the word means in context.

In a narrower sense, the term refers only to those independent agencies that, while considered part of the executive branch, have regulatory or rulemaking authority and are insulated from presidential control, usually because the president's power to dismiss the agency head or a member is limited.

Exactly that is a big part of the goal - do the same thing to CNN that has happened more widely at CBS.

It is a Hungary-style media rollup attempt. Buy up, intimidate out or (eventually) sure competing voices into submission.

The land of the free, baby.

Yeah I think mid last year there where leaks suggesting it was at a beta stage with internal playtesting.

Maybe poor old Alyx can finally stop hanging off that literal cliff lol.

Or its all bullshit. I probably will get me a steam box thingo though. I always had a rule back in the day where I timed my upgrades for Half life releases. And windows has pushed itself past my pain tolerance with its nonsense lately so maybe steamos might get an install out of me.

Yes, however much like AI, Netcraft confirms that BSD is dying. Its just one more crippling bombshell to hit the already beleaguered BSD community when IDC confirmed that BSD market share has dropped yet again, now down to less than a fraction of 1 percent of all servers

Im fairly sure quite a few of his supporters have been coming to that conclusion.

I'd wager if you got MTG away from a camera and the threat of being smacked by trumps team of lawyers, she'd have some choice words on this matter. (and probably some crazy words on it too, this is after the jewish space lazer woman, but I digress.....)

And vice-versa.

He has complete control of the company. If he doesn't know what is going on somewhere in the company, it is because he isn't paying attention or doesn't want to know.

And this has been his only job. His entire adult life has been dedicated to manipulating people through a screen to make line go up.

Why would he care about people getting scammed when the line can go up?

Dynamic typing is a design choice, trading speed of development for large-scale development features. (Advice: if you demand static typing in your language, never, ever look at Perl...) Doesn't mean you have to like it, but not every language needs to be statically typed.

But if we want to grouse...

I hate python's ecosystem. It is effectively impossible to run multiple nontrivial python applications on the same machine without encapsulation of some sort (virtualenv-type hacks, Docker, separate VMs). And even then, experimenting with anything involving switching libraries requires setting up new throwaway environments to handle, otherwise doing completely normal development stuff risks breaking the "system" python (whatever is packaged and probably used by the package manager).

Just a fucking mess.

I propose Stasivision. All the cool narcs wear them!

This is classic executive lemming behavior. The C-suite almost always ends up full of crowd-followers - "leaders" who prefer to do stupid things as a pack to risking trying something novel that fails.

So Tony here sees the rush to turn everything into an LLM front end and it is literally a no-brainer to him. Doing otherwise means answering questions about why he's ignoring 'the biggest tech story since" whatever. It literally has nothing to do with the user.

RC4, short for Rivist Cipher 4

Nope. It is short for Ron's Code 4