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New comment by copperx in "Walt Disney Company is the most successful at monetizing human nostalgia [audio]"

copperx — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 21:29:45 +0000

The amount of trivia that you must handle to be able to understand the latest movie is mind boggling. Disney should do education, because I would need to watch and study all the previous movies, which is probably a year worth of work, before I can watch subsequent releases. Perhaps not as hard work as studying linear algebra, perhaps, but still a lot of person hours involved.

The amount of information that the average fan retains about Star Wars is mind boggling, compared to their, say, knowledge of world geography.

I am also in awe of sports fans in a similar way. They command large swaths of dry, boring information such as world series stats with great enthusiasm.

New comment by copperx in "Pledging another $400k to the Zig software foundation"

copperx — Mon, 22 Jun 2026 19:13:27 +0000

Don't you miss the crazy configuration options that iterm2 has?

New comment by copperx in "Temporary Cloudflare accounts for AI agents"

copperx — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 17:13:52 +0000

I thought there were no rich swes anymore?

New comment by copperx in "Think of the children: How to force real ID for all internet traffic (2023)"

copperx — Sat, 20 Jun 2026 02:17:18 +0000

The police? Wouldn't that be the FCC?

New comment by copperx in "How many of the 170k English words do you know?"

copperx — Fri, 19 Jun 2026 22:38:09 +0000

How did bartending improve your social skills? On the surface, it looks like a regular customer service job.

New comment by copperx in "Emacs 31 is around the corner: The changes I'm daily driving"

copperx — Thu, 18 Jun 2026 16:05:12 +0000

As a contributor, of course.

New comment by copperx in "Apple's weird anti-nausea dots cured my car sickness"

copperx — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 20:10:58 +0000

They might be useful for working during earthquakes.

New comment by copperx in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

copperx — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:38:17 +0000

Carmack is the one over analyzing the praise he hands out.

New comment by copperx in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

copperx — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 14:36:04 +0000

Sure, but what are the consequences of not being accurate in this case? praising someone undeservedly? Saying someone is better at something than you?

That's unacceptable! Bring out the surgically precise praise!

New comment by copperx in "I admire Fabrice Bellard. He is almost certainly a better overall programmer"

copperx — Tue, 16 Jun 2026 06:18:42 +0000

"He is almost certainly a better overall programmer than I am."

Hedging the claim with a lot of qualifiers. What's wrong with admitting someone is a better programmer? even giving someone else the benefit of the doubt?

New comment by copperx in "Anthropic pauses credit change for Claude Code"

copperx — Mon, 15 Jun 2026 23:38:46 +0000

> Agent SDK, claude -p, and third-party app usage continues to work with your subscription exactly as it did before today

So it doesn't?

New comment by copperx in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

copperx — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:30:02 +0000

Snake oil worked about 30% of the time, so the comparison is more than apt.

New comment by copperx in "Claude Fable 5"

copperx — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 18:22:47 +0000

Only three times, if fables are right.

New comment by copperx in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

copperx — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:17:24 +0000

Are you talking of Apple Records? They're mostly valuable because of the Beatles. Vinyls rarely break under normal usage.

I'm sure you're not referring to the flaky accessory company.

New comment by copperx in "WWDC 2026: Apple is Folding"

copperx — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 16:12:51 +0000

Electric car drivers have range anxiety, and I assume foldable phone users have fold anxiety. Do the OS integrate some counter versus Mean Folds to Failure?

New comment by copperx in "Life is too short for a slow terminal"

copperx — Tue, 09 Jun 2026 12:36:42 +0000

That's why you should optimize only the things that matter to you.

New comment by copperx in "APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs"

copperx — Mon, 08 Jun 2026 04:05:11 +0000

It seems to me that Teenage Engineering's greatest achievement is the wholesale adoption of Jobs's reality distortion field.

If you re-read your own comment, do you experience cringe? If the answer is no, that's worrying and worth looking into.

New comment by copperx in "The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern""

copperx — Thu, 04 Jun 2026 14:03:57 +0000

And the Windows Phone 7 had a hard realtime kernel!

New comment by copperx in "New Texas Instruments 5532 chips are not the 5532s we’ve used for decades"

copperx — Wed, 03 Jun 2026 19:43:18 +0000

It's not clear if the SMT version is also bad?

New comment by copperx in "DeepSeek makes the V4 Pro price discount permanent"

copperx — Fri, 22 May 2026 21:19:53 +0000

I love oh-my-pi, but I'm not sure if it's "better". Maybe just as good.