I mentioned a bunch of great characters and even acknowledged that I wouldn't mind under represented characters if it was done well. But they don't do this... they seem to think a fish slap to the face is the best way to get their agenda across. Defending this by saying I don't know what makes a great movie and that I'm just all focused on wokeism is just blaming the consumer instead of the producer. Be subtle, we'll get the message. Be bold and we'll tune out.

There are those who know exactly what the problem is and then there are those that go nah couldn't be that... it must be over saturation. Wandavision, Falcon, Loki, What If?, Hawkeye and Moon Knight were all great. The problems started when wokeism was inserted into their movies and stories. They really need to learn how to develop great characters who just happen to be whatever the victim of the day is and focus on their greatness. People don't like being slapped in the face with it and have other choices on what to watch.

Thanks to the SOAP paper link, we can see that she wasn't using octal or hex, just plane old decimal. The instructions went up to 99 and 0-9 can seen in the data fields. Interesting there were some constants defined that sure look like binary to me. So she actually died at age 100. Sure would be interesting to see what she thought of that last 40 years or so.

This is cool but I have to ask why? The point of a sprite was to be a movable object block. You could cycle through them and move them making it look like a character walking as an example. In the case of pong it could be the ball. 24x21 where each pixel was transparent or a color say white. Now you simply update the X and Y and you having a moving ball. If you wanted 3 colors (plus transparent makes 4) you lost half the horizontal resolution. On the upside, sprites is what made me learn binary when I was a wee little lad.

Grid tied solar isn't available during a blackout to prevent power islanding. So I hope these people aren't disappointed when they don't have power during the next blackout.

Agreed. I actually emailed the team to inform them of the rebreather use case and the need/coming need for scrubbing CO2 before it enters scuba compressors. I received a reply saying that they would investigate.

I was a C64 kid back so I don't know this specific program. But I do recall learning lot's of BASIC 2.0 and 6810 assembler. Much by reading manuals and much by typing in programs like this and saving them to tape. I'm pretty sure I would have fixed the bug myself as that was part of the fun of the whole exercise. Find your own typos and understand the authors techniques.

Have you ever considered the cost of war is the price of freedom?

Finally a way to play solitaire without constantly being monetized with ads and popups and other such crap.

If a baker can't choose who to make a cake for, why can a tech company choose who they can provide services too? My biggest problem with this Amazon example is that in a PaaS/IaaS type situation they are just providing infrastructure. It's not obvious to most users what infrastructure a website/app is running on and there is little to no harm to the Amazon brand.

I've had plenty of complaints about the bells over the years but these days I pay $55/mo + tax unbundled for ATT Uverse gigabit fttp with no data caps. They even throw HBO Max in for free with this. With COVID work from home and school from home, we burn through over a 1TB of usage every month. What exactly is the problem? Now I could get a true pass through out of their gateway or just ditch it so I guess I'll at least complain about that.

So MSFT accidentally releases a build to all three rings and the headline is start menu related? I'd be far more irritated at the inept release management / deployment practices. What happens when they accidentally release a canary build to everyone insider participant or not??

I've spent a career automating processes. My first such innovation came in my first year and I remember having these feelings when I realized the consequences of my proposal. I spoke to my manager and she said it was our duty to make things more efficient for our customer and that if we didn't someone else would. There is always someone paying the bill whether it's customers, shareholders, private investors or tax payers or maybe in a more abstract way the environment. We always have an obligation to use those resources wisely. In the end these people will retrain and do something else as evidenced by our current unemployment rate.

Inert gas narcosis on air/nitrox doesn't become a significant concern until past 4ata / 100fsw. For air that's a PPN2 of 3.12. Breathing 100% N2 at 1 ata wouldn't even remotely induce any type of narcosis. This is different the breathing in fresh N2 with each breath. Breathing is controlled by CO2 levels and this method tricks the body into thinking everything is fine by keeping CO2 levels low in the body. Very effective... you never know what hit you. Now why are we trying to "solve old problems"? That's purely a political problem not a technical problem.

From what I've read, the first gene therapy drug approved in Europe costs $1.4M USD. Unless this can somehow get down to $20, this doesn't sound like an end to an epidemic to me. It looks more like a second chance for the 1% to me.