Exactly.

Also, as Adam Conover (yeah, that Adam from "Adam Ruins Everything", he's also one of the WGA negotiators in that last strike) explains, Netflix deliberately deliberately price dumped for years, telling investors that this was necessary to secure a monopoly on premium streaming, knowing fully well that it was not a viable long-term business model. The other major distributors followed the same business model to try and compete with Netflix and, as expected, failed because Netflix already had the first-mover advantage and the most mature tech.

Now that this monopolistic market position has been secured by Netflix, investors expect a return on their investment; for that, Netflix must end price dumping and turn profitable. That means higher prices and/or -- as everyone in the trade knew since the cable TV days-- ads. Lots of ads.

The article refers to Lionsgate as The studio behind the "John Wick" franchise and "Megalopolis", but that's really inaccurate.

Megalopolis is actually an independent film financed and produced by Copolla himself, spending his own personal finances. Lionsgate made the distribution deal after the movie was completed and made the rounds on film festivals.

The cheat code is &udm=14 now.

Exactly. There is already a very informative retrospective of the xz vulnerability and other projects that the backdoor author had access to.

Spoiler: "As of 9:00 PM UTC, GitHub has suspended JiaT75’s account. Thanks? They also banned the repository, meaning people can no longer audit the changes made to it without resorting to mirrors. Immensely helpful, GitHub. They also suspended Lasse Collin’s account, which is completely disgraceful."

:facepalm:

Speaking on gift for fans, maybe you'd like to know that fans have animated and voice acted the original script from the unproduced last episode.

Pinochet wasn't elected, he spearheaded a military coup d'état. In the 1988 plebiscite, the first time Chilenean people could possibly vote for Pinochet, he was rejected by 56% of the voters.

Sure. But Java's (also used in C#, Go, Python, Javascript and many other modern programming languages) solution, namely Garbage Collection (GC) introduces a non-negligible overhead.

For things like scripting languages, frontend applications, GC is an excellent trade-off because the added security trumps the performance loss. But for use cases that require raw performance, GC doesn't cut it, so C and C++ are still widely used to build operating systems, device drivers, and web browsers (which must run web applications with acceptable performance).

Rust is, I think, the first programming language that started to change this status quo, because even with its memory safeguards (which are not like Garbage Collection at all), Rust can compete with C and C++ on performance.

You're wrong. Knowing your basic chemistry is very important for modern life, even if people don't realize it.

TEN years ago? Try THIRTY years ago. Brazil, whose development status is not as great as the USA, did it in friggin' 1991. This is how the IRS is late to the party.

...would be perfect to listen to the bootleg quadraphonic release of The Dark Side of The Moon.

Unfortunately, Apple can't send the required drugs to enhance the enjoyment of that album, tho

You're right, it wasn't always true, but it became true pretty quickly for some genres. The main example is perhaps adventure games: they didn't really need the same speed and responsiveness that action games needed, therefore adventure game programmers quickly learned to detach the game engine from the game logic.

And so Infocom developed Z-machine (a virtual machine for its text adventure games like Zork) in 1979, which was followed by Sierra's AGI in 1984 and by LucasArts's SCUMM in 1987, among many others.

I thought the same, until I saw it is a PIANO tuning app.

Pianos are notoriously the most fucked-up and complex musical instrument to tune. Piano tuner (as in a piano technician) is an actual profession.

An software that allows a piano owner to do it himself (considering the app does its job well) would be received as having good value, because the alternative is to pay an actual piano tuning professional every now and then.

Exactly. There is a Twitter profile created to simply clone Trump's tweets and measure in how much time it would be suspended.

It took just three days.