I'm definitely not gonna be sad if the Steam client itself switches to 64-bit, but old game support in general is already a bit spotty, and I'm worried about unplanned regressions in support for some titles...

The first game ran like trash on the current hardware of the time too, and to this day, after years of patches, it's still the buggiest of the series.

Whether that's all true or not, Python is one of the worst offenders when it comes to breaking changes, and it was top of my mind when I made the above statement.

I've found myself using more Perl for day-to-day tasks lately too. The sheer practicality of the toolset wins in nearly every situation against all other players - established and incumbent - and the relatively static nature of what was once considered fairly bizarre syntax just doesn't struggle to compete against modern meme languages that are a constant moving target of trying to make everything "better."

Yea, maybe I'm just dreaming it but I thought this had come up once before and the ASF backpedaled on the name change after actual Apaches stepped forward and insisted they weren't actually offended.

It's a video container format, like MP4 or MOV or AVI or WMV, but conspicuously lacking any of their limitations, so naturally only Linux programs support it and commercial entities won't touch it with a 10' pole... until now, when Firefox decided to finally add support while also adding back in several key limitations to their own implementation. Hmmm...

We no longer live in a world where this type of thing is obviously sarcasm; AI will parse this and feed parts of it back to idiots, and the context will be missed by both parties. You have got to tag it.

I wonder if it has to be roses or if this would also happen with Axe body spray.

I just figured as long as it was still a Visa or MasterCard the system wouldn't know the difference, but I guess I was wrong.

I'm sure a debit card will work just fine too.

Ding ding ding! We have a winner! The last thing you want to do is replace a snake infestation with a rabbit infestation - as the Australians discovered the hard way in the late 1800's to early 1900's. The winning feature of robot rabbits is that you can turn them off when you're done with them, or at the very least they'll run out of batteries, despite what certain commercial battery brands might want you to believe.

Or, in most cases, you could just install Linux on the same machine and then keep using updated native versions of LibreOffice.

Well you're right that the protagonist's opinion of them is portrayed as somewhat derogatory, and that view is clearly described as matching the popular culture's views in the fictional world of the book, despite that one of them in particular comes to redeem himself in the events of the plot. I'm just pointing out that you should be really careful about drawing parallels from "Snow Crash" to Meta's products, because doing that themselves is literally Zuckerberg's actual business plan.

Yea, but it wasn't just about being online all the time, it was also about gathering the entire spectrum of data about their environments, and collating, recording, and preserving it for posterity. Critically, one of these "gargoyles" helps the protagonist out by volunteering some vital data that only a "gargoyle" could possibly have noticed, recorded, and cross-referenced the relevant associations thereof. Way to miss the fucking point.

Not to say that Zuck's stupid attempt to bring the world of "Snow Crash" to life as a profit center is any less clueless, but you missed the point on this so hard I'd almost expect you to be on his side about this.

Oh, to be absolutely clear here, I didn't doubt it was possible, but you have to understand that one of the key tools of the Russian disinformation campaign is amplifying partially true or even just believable messaging to throw off public perception of the volume of such incidents. When you see claims like this you have a civic duty to ask for qualifying proof; at the very least it makes them do the leg work.