Ads? Never saw that many, now I only see ONE on the page at all.

Guess you haven't heard of Brave and are still being tracked all over the internet,then.

Well, that isn't too hot. My kiln, in my barn, was running a firing last night that got just about that hot for cone 6 pottery and it can do cone 10, even hotter.

It'll take more than a furnace that can do what the average potter's kiln can do before it sounds impressive.

Ah - yes, I did misread it. Jobs did push people and created the Reality Distortion Field, but he could not have gotten much going without Woz.

And, yes, I was talking about Woz' accomplishments.

Some of his logic designs were amazing. I was learning digital logic when I got my //e and started studying schematics. (The //e was a generation removed, but had some features from the ][ series and I studied those as well.) For one example, the ][ disk drive. Just as a quick and simple example, he had a 7400 chip needed and used 1 ro 2 of the NAND gates on it. He used the other gates as amplifiers from the disk signal. Not something that was at all standard at that time (don't know if it is now). That's the one I can remember, but he was using ONE gate as an amp instead of at least one, if not three more chips. Things like that kept the costs down more than most would think.

I can't remember other examples, but his habits of having to keep chip counts down, so he could make what he wanted when his family didn't have a lot of money, came through in a number of ways in his designs.

Hmmm...

That's being a little bit harsh.

He sold *new* cars! ;)

They really should be honoring Steve Wozniak instead. He's the one that did the work, did the innovation, made a floppy disk drive work for a price lower than anyone else could imagine by innovating. He's the one who did the designs and made it all possible. But Jobs was more visible and knew how to capture headlines.

Seriously, Jobs and Apple would have been NOTHING without Woz doing the kind of stuff he can do.

Clicked to update my password - now the Plex site login won't work at all. I don't mean it won't take the new PW. I mean you can't get the login page.

Not surprised, really. So freaking many bugs in Plex that never get fixed I've questioned their code quality for a while now.

I think the bigger problem is that once people have watched Ted Lasso what reason is there for them to stick around?

Well, as the article is saying, Apple have lots more great shows that people aren't watching. Silo, Slow Horses, Severance - all fantastic.

Guess you never spent time programming the //e or older ][ and ][+. Seriously, you think the gs was slow? Compared to what I started with in college (the //e), the gs was rocking.

Always amazing how people think they're the first generation to deal with or discover things or face issues and have no clue what things were like before them.

I didn't get anything banned, but I left for similar reasons. I think they were going with cheap mods who probably had poor English skills (because they were from whatever country where labor was cheapest by the hour). But in many ways my issue was the opposite: The answers that were getting in the newsletter and getting all the attention and were not getting banned were the ones giving advice that would get people evicted, arrested, or just in court because it would make it easy for the landlord to sue to them or for tenants to sue them as a landlord.

That's been going on for years. It was a problem back when I was active and one of many reasons I left, even though I was a Top Writer (or whatever that title is) in one category. Top Writer? Yeah, still meant not getting much in terms of newsletter mentions when compared to the people giving answers that, if followed, would land people in court, or jail, or out on the street when evicted.

The vast majority of the ones I saw like that were political or dealing with anti-vax or other conspiracy theories.

At one time you could go to Quora for good answers and intelligent discussion on those answers. It's been a good while since that was the case. They've been pushing popular or flame-bait answers for a good while over factual or quality answers. I used to work as a landlord and would work hard to write good answers to questions so I could actually help people. I got thanked for them, but the answers to similar questions that kept showing in my feed, ones that were getting all the views and reactions, were usually inaccurate and often even advised people to do things that they could get sued or sent to jail for. I'd report inaccurate answers or bad advice that could get some arrested for larceny or worse and nothing happened.

Quora hasn't been about answers or helping people or exchanging information for at least several years. If it goes tango-uniform and the bigshots behind it lose their stock equity and get loans called in and lose houses and yachts, it's nothing more than poetic justice.

If you're saying the left is better than the right these days, you are the brainwashed one.

You're right, they're just the same - I remember when Joe Biden gave a speech to whip his supporters up into a frenzy to foment a violent insurrection and overthrow the results of a fair election. And of course, that time when Joe rang up senators trying to strongarm them into finding some extra votes for him, or the time he put state secrets in his bathroom. (roll eyes)

I'm not an American, and as a European following US politics, you appear to have a one party state and a group of contrarian fascists who should all be rotting in jail cells. Instead, they're on TV, spouting hate and stupidity for the dumbest of Americans to lap up.

Suggesting that the US Republicans and Democrats are even remotely comparable is the most stupid fucking thing I've seen on this site in quite some time.

this could be set in some D&D-esque backdrop and they could have saved a lot of money on IP.

I think their thinking was that if it didn't have the LotR name on it, they wouldn't be able to justify how much they were spending because far fewer people would watch it.

Even the Tolkien fans who hated it still watched it to make sure they hated it I guess?

The most basic facts are that the world population is now over 8 billion and still rising quite fast; and that the maximum human population that the Earth can sustain indefinitely is somewhere between 500 million and 2 billion - depending on how resource-intensive a lifestyle they choose.

Is this not begging the question? How do you know that the planet can only sustain a maximum of 2 billion people? If that were the case and there are 4x as many of us as the planet can support, why are we not suffering from resource shortages that would reduce our population?