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That is exactly what happened with third pound burgers.

https://www.snopes.com/news/2022/06/17/third-pound-burger-fractions/

That’s the difference, they hoard wealth and not currency. The value of assets do not go down when currency loses its value with inflation.

Wealthy have little to no cash that would lose value with inflation, they just buy everything on credit and have their wealth tied to assets and investments that probably gain value at least at the pace of inflation.

“smart” devices aka Internet asbestos

https://classicprogrammerpaintings.com/

I have become so clumsy with the wires, it was less wasteful for me to buy wireless earbuds with wire only between them. The modern codecs are high quality and I only use them outside, so the nuance would be anyway lost.

Smart speakers I do not have. I feel weird talking to devices and I would have to do it in English because they support my native language poorly if at all. I’m not sure if they even are officially available here.

Everything unnecessarily connected to the Internet should have this on them, because they have very little security auditing and all support is dropped very early on the lifetime of the appliance. https://kissa.depili.fi/internet_asbestos_52x32_cmyk.pdf

I have had some people refuse to even try Baba Is You, because it looks ugly.

I had The Hex a few years even installed, so I have tried it, but only after getting familiar with the style of Daniel Mullins’ games with Inscryption I pushed far enough to get interested. Still very clunky, but worth it.

Failure should lead to something interesting or fun when possible instead of just “you can not do it”. Like you fumble the picking so bad the lock jams. And it is expensive, so now you not only owe the locksmith the bet, but he is also angry and you need to do something to deal with the situation.

Failure shouldn’t be a stop in the story, only a twist.

This. Not Scottish, but I wear a kilt whole summer everywhere. Fortunately our company does not have a dress code at the office.

Metal Gear Rising Revengeance

I really like the name Pinguini Tattici Nuclear. The music is good, but not quite something I would put on my playlist.

Baba Yetu always gives me chills.

I have never been good at remembering lyrics and often kind of ignore them. I have been surprised multiple times about what songs that I have listened for a while are about when the lyrics finally click in my head.

I enjoy more the sound of the artist and in good music you don’t need to understand the words for the emotion to come through.

Like Memories of Dust is one of the most emotional songs even though the lyrics are in [human language]

For me also. Eurovision has been very meh for me, but this year I actually liked many of the songs and Germany really didn’t deserve the last place in finals.

I don’t like the style Käärijä’s albums are produced, but live he is awesome. Cha cha is even better when he can do his own thing instead of worrying the choreography.

https://areena.yle.fi/1-65740787

I’m not sure what you mean. Do you have a source for more complete explanation?

H.261 is way older than Doom and already uses motion compensation and inter-picture prediction.

The aformentioned demos work by recording all input control states for every tic and then replaying them later in-engine. But I don’t think that parallels video encoding.

EDIT: Sorry, I misread. But yeah, Doom does not send deltas but the multiplayer also works by sending those same input states every tic that demo recording saves.

Multiplayer obviously, Doom has had multiplayer since the first one

Doom also invented recording demos, because there was no chance to record or share videos at that time

Priorities shifted, “we’re doing good” became “we need to reduce the workforce” over weekend and most of the people who they would have liked to keep decided this is a good time to look for something new.

I probably owe most of my navigation skills to the original GTA games. I cannot orient myself if the map keeps spinning with me. It’s easier to me mentally keep track where everything is relative to each other on a stationary map facing north and I am the only thing moving and turning. Also when the originals had only a paper map where you had yo first find yourself and until San Andreas only showing your current location and the locations of points of interest on the separate map menu without any indicator of direction you should head while actually driving, I learned to prefer the simplest path instead of trying to find the shortest way. Least number of turns and clear landmarks where to take them is the strategy I keep utilising to this day in real life also, so I don’t need to keep my eyes or ears glued to the phone and blindly try follow it.

Mainstream users value ease of use in a way only a centralised service can offer. Also any social service has the hurdle of being where everyone else is, so every other person in your circles must follow what the simplest and laziest one bothers to use. If you have to resort explaining anything how the platform technically works to use it or to find you, you have already lost.

But I think these platforms are crossing the critical mass (if not already happened) to be useful and fun for those who choose to overcome the tiny hurdles of using the platform. It may be even their strength that not everyone and their mother is active there.

You are thinking of a gross oversimplification what atoms look like.

They aren’t “solar systems” like this

They are clouds of probabilities like this

Atoms and celestial bodies also work by completely different forces.