The jewel in the post is the rejection of Vannevar's acolytes and their hand-wrought memexen. Biology already gave me a perfectly good memex in my skull. If its shortcomings give you anxiety, take 2 YAGNI until productivity resumes.

This older survey similarly has them playing fast and loose with the statistics to get a flashy headline. In their own data it's clear that online dating has cannibalized dating at bars, and shares a near identical divorce rate - 20% vs 19%. In other words the survey is a nothingburger. All it shows is a shift in dating channels. But that's not the headline they pushed.

If their clickbait strategy isn't clear to you yet, don't take it from me. They claim this is their goal on their own website: "Time and again our research department has injected reality and hard evidence into this debate with eye catching research which the media have broadcast."

Some of their other research: "Rock and rollers twice as likely to divorce" https://marriagefoundation.org.uk/research/rock-n-rollers-tw...

Hopefully next they will look into the impact the Devil's Lettuce has on marriage; or Harry Potter.

I've been trying Firefox Focus but it's barebones, ad-centric, and doing nothing for cookie popups. Now with these Google popups infesting the web it feels like the 90s again and has made me stop browsing the web on my tablet.

If the problem is as bad as these articles claim, then these facilities will need to clean up their act or willfully hand over a slice of the market to competitors. We've even already seen this play out in the bread industry with gluten. A bunch of new brands started taking shelf space away from the big brands and a few years later those big brands have their own gluten-free lines. The same could happen with sesame in time. To form an opinion on the new law this early is a recipe for sour milk.

Kitchenaid is not a good brand. They haven't made top-of-the-line anything in decades

I think the author doesn't understand that there's a tier of disposable goods for just about everything and if you don't shop wisely you'll take some of it home.

Appliances for example: don't buy them from web pages and don't listen to Wirecutter. This is just letting marketers tell you what to buy. Instead go to a showroom that also repairs appliances. They'll know exactly which contemporary brands are crummy because they'll have been fixing them.

Specialty stores will also have the entire price range for the product so you can see what quality costs for that good. Marketers prey on us during times of inflation, making their cheap goods look high end before we adjust to inflated prices. If you've only ever shopped appliances at places like Target, Best Buy, or Home Depot, you may have never seen a high quality appliance in your life. And if a brand you like starts showing up in these stores, run. (Famously, Levi in Walmart.)

In this situation you can stream movement waypoints from remote clients and lerp between those waypoints locally to simulate movement. If latency is low enough you can make predictions about the next waypoint and it won't look bad when you're wrong.

If you're PvE, you're done. Nobody needs to know precisely where their teammate is as long as the game feels fair. (The AI players on the other side won't complain.)

In PvP the opponent will complain, and they're also a customer, so you have to do something about it. This is an entire technical discipline within gamedev if you want both accuracy and player freedom.

Don't be afraid to let technical constraints guide your design. If you don't want to spend your life building remote physics validation or latency-aware consensus algorithms, make your players interact with the world via clicking so you always know exactly where they wanna go next. One of the super powers of being a programmer + designer combo is making trades across disciplines to maximize your output.

If the show was doing well HBO would have signed a fourth season and they'd have left enough room in the third for yet more surreal diversions headed nowhere. Online review aggregators are meaningless.

I agree with your deconstruction: these shows are optimized for selling an engaging pilot episode with only a back of the napkin roadmap for the rest of the show. The finale comes only when there's no more money to be made.

I'm very excited by writers like Baran bo Odar and Jantje Friese who are able to write interwoven plots comparable to LOST, but with cohesive endings. Check out Dark for an example.

My theory is simpler: it was too hard to add new features to the taskbar (like wide search bars and now text fields) when you had to think about a tall and a wide configuration. So they cut the tall way. Now they can cram all sorts of features into your taskbar.

It represents a shift in MS philosophy, closer to how Apple mandates progress in their OS.

Which is a sort of silly thing to complain about, but Windows 11 has a lot of taskbar feature regressions. You can't even pin the thing to the left or right edge anymore. So I understand why users are frustrated.

This all represents a philosophical shift in Windows ("the taskbar is Microsoft's, not yours") and it will be a painful adjustment for power users.

NYT has published data about the growth of CSAM due to tech companies. [2]

Would you engage with the point of my comment if I called the domestic terrorism non-linear growth, and the CSAM growth exponential?

edit: politeness

[1] https://www.csis.org/analysis/evolution-domestic-terrorism

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2019/09/28/us/child-sex-...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_law

People with poor information diets hear the FBI is involved with Twitter and immediately think it has something to do with red team blue team politics. These are the people the Twitter Files content is produced for. It's written vaguely enough to give potato chip peddlers creative license, so they can monetize attention.

Also for reference the last Superbowl was watched by 100M viewers.