I think in this case they’re referring to Chrome on iOS. Apple doesn’t allow any browser engine except WebKit on iOS so to many people that means Chrome and any other browser on iOS is really just Safari with a different interface. Pretty sure I saw something recently about the EU considering forcing Apple to allow other engines on iOS.

We just went up 11.78¢/kWh and that’s highest I think I’ve ever paid

Eventually it sort-of got a rewrite to create RollerCoaster Tycoon Classic, initially for iOS and Android, later for Windows, macOS, and Nintendo Switch. It largely is a rewrite of RollerCoaster Tycoon 2, with the goal of bringing the game to more modern platforms, and the save files for parks and rides are compatible. In this interview with Atari Club, Sawyer says the rewrite was in C++ but even with a team of people still took longer to write in C++ than it took him to write the original in x86 assembly.

If anyone previously paid attention to RCT Classic, it’s been seeing some development work again and is working on Android again. They also made RCT Classic+ on Apple Arcade (basically just the game and all the expansions included) and also updated the regular versions of RCT Classic so they run correctly again (RCT Classic stopped working on macOS when Apple dropped support for 32-bit applications and Atari didn’t release a recompiled game until recently).

Just saw this article recently. Gabe was part of a team trying to convince developers that they would be better off writing their games with more abstracted code/libraries instead of writing their own interfaces (some of which were written by people convinced they were being really efficient but were actually terrible). One thing they did to prove their point was going to id and offering to have Microsoft port Doom to Windows for free. But the experience and seeing the success id was having distributing their own game led Gabe to launch Valve.

TL;DW: it’s talking about North Carolina’s Research Triangle Park. Not exactly something I’d call a neighborhood since up until relatively recently it was basically all commercial/industrial with almost no residential areas inside it. It’s been a phenomenal investment driving economic growth for the region and the state.

I think my parents started me on “swimming” lessons at age 3, might’ve even been age 2. I have read of parents getting their kids lessons even before they can walk. Of course, it’s not learning to do freestyle or butterfly, but enough to know how to hold your breath and get your head up out of the water, and hopefully not drown. I was just talking with my wife today about how curious it is that we can think of 3 shopping centers near us that have pools in them to teach children how to swim. I guess this is why!

Alright, the video is actually kinda funny though

I had coincidentally started reading the trilogy by Jeffrey and Michael Shaara a while back and had finished Gods and Generals and was about to start The Killer Angels when I noticed I was almost exactly 150 years to the day from the start of Gettysburg. I waited and read each day’s chapters on the 150th anniversary of the actual events, which felt more impactful.

Michael’s book was the best of the trilogy, but he was also an experienced writer by that point, whereas Gods and Generals and The Last Full Measure were Jeffrey’s first novels. His later books have been better, although I haven’t read all of them. The Killer Angels can stand alone because it was written to stand alone, but I’d still suggest if you haven’t read it yet that you start with Gods and Generals to build a fuller picture of the war and the participants.

It’s from ClickHole, which is a site The Onion started parodying viral content sites like BuzzFeed or Bored Panda. It was sold to Cards Against Humanity in 2020.

I get annoyed when articles talk about one of hydrogen’s problems being a lack of infrastructure to deliver the fuel. Of course there’s not today since there’s no demand for it. If the cars start to develop as a market then the infrastructure would be built as well. The same thing has happened with electric cars. But it would take some entity investing in the infrastructure and being willing to wait years to see a return on the investment.

Of course, hydrogen has a lot of other problems that mean it’s probably not viable. Lack of infrastructure is just a weak argument against it.

Stop buying lifetime subscriptions to services! They’re not sustainable!

I think armadillos and prairie dogs harbor the disease. Don’t mess with them!

Edit: armadillos might be leprosy, can’t remember for sure right now

This is ridiculous; I love it

I think the fix was to put a limit on the script, just have it run a couple times, the same as it would during the day, not just keep going until it gets stopped.

I think the bug and the cost were not that the cost was different at that time of day, but that by running at night without worry of interruption her script ran multiple times doing upload after upload after upload. If it had been during the day they would only have a few succeed because the line would get interrupted or couldn’t be used. Maybe during the day they’d only succeed on 3-5 calls but at night the script was making 50, 60, maybe even 70 calls.

Yes, normally Neutral Good but will go Chaotic Good if the corral is empty or pretty much empty. I’m lawful good if I only have a free things or there is no corral, but in those cases I try to avoid bringing the cart back to the car.

I’d be more inclined to think teenagers took it for hijinks, but I’m not familiar with the neighborhood where you found it, of course

Spent the past couple weeks in France visiting my wife’s family, and was surprised that most of the stores had the coin locks but were not using them, as in they had all been disconnected so you didn’t need to use a coin to release them. I think the only store we needed coins at was E.Leclerc.

Yes, but you said you were using Resolve for color grading. My understanding is you should still be able to use that on Linux, but I haven’t tried it yet myself.