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My first thought was "didn't they just do that?" But I've checked and the Directors Cut was released on Wii and DS in 2009. Its been a minute.

Digger © 1983 Windmill Software

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_%28video_game%29

This is the game from my family's PC AT that I go back to regularly,. But for convenience I usually use the WinDig port:

Windig, the Windows 95 version of Digger Remastered (87K). This version is rather new. If you are having trouble with it, try the older version (95K).

https://www.digger.org/download.html

I just used web archive to check and it looks like the 87K version and its description as "rather new" has been there for 21 years now. It was built to target Windows 95 and is still working on Windows 11 so at this point i would say its "pretty stable".

FortniteInstaller-5.5.0.apk

lol, strong beta version vibes.

And was re-released last week. I was pleased to see the 2024 console ports still support LAN play.

I think I've heard that the USA federal gov is bigger than in the past, as in controlling more of an American's life than in its history.

My first thought was that this is really two separate questions but then I realised a stat like this might answer both:

the number of public sector employees as a percentage of the total workforce.

1. If we view government's role as intruding on our freedoms and controlling our lives (I don't), then the more people they employ the more able they are to assert that control.
2. Its the ratio of the workforce that have their working hours dictated by government, its hard to be more controlling that that.

(Its not considering the non-working population, and with variations to lifespan, unemployment, etc that may be relevant ... I don't know.)

And international comparison is available here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_sector_size

For a 30 year historical comparison of US data see figure 1.1 here:

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60235#_idTextAnchor012

(My reading of the chart is that while total employment has gone up the state and federal public sectors have been pretty flat over that period. This would mean the public sector is currently a slightly smaller proportion of the total workforce compared to earlier in the chart.)

It looks like the Amazon region was experiencing less rainfall at the time with a corresponding shift towards drought tolerant species with parts of the region as savannahs !!

https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/a/2567

With a different rainfall profile the nutrient loss would have been vastly reduced.

For creators that were still active some jumped ship to pre rendered videos, for example Salad Fingers lives on here:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9383CC2C6DBD902F

A major archival project for the whole flash era is Flashpoint Archive (formally known as BlueMaxima):

https://flashpointarchive.org/?lang=en-US

Fun fact: The ecosystems of the Amazon Basin rely on around 27.7 million tons of Saharan Dust each year to replace the phosphorus that is washed away by the rains. Without this constant input the local soils would have been stripped of needed nutrients and would be unable to support the plants that currently thrive there.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharan_dust
• https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-how-much-saharan-dust-feeds-amazons-plants/

"Piracy is a service problem."

Yeah, I agree with that. I just found it disappointing that Sony could buy themselves a monopoly on anime in the western market and fail to provide a competent app for their own platform. Its a classic example of an own goal.

I had a play today and the standout changes are:

• it offers a choice between remixed audio or a recording from the devices used to author the original midi tracks (Probably some Roland device). The menus offering this choice included a preview that sounded pretty good so I picked the remix.
• it offers a choice between 1x, 2x, etc, or maximum scaling over or original resolution. For lots of retro games I find 2x to be the best balance as it allows a small visual improvement for the 3d elements without adding too much clash between any fixed 2d sprites. Despite my usual preferences I found this worked pretty well at maximum so I left it there.

Its a fine line. I try to offer a (legal) ad free experience for my son as a matter of principal. But he asked to watch Naruto and it was only available on crunchyroll.

I signed up and the crunchyroll PlayStation app didn't seem to have a functional search, recently played or favorites list. The best we could so was pick "all titles" and then scroll page by page alphabetically until we get to "N" then we had to remember which episode we were up to and the navigate to that season/episode. Then it would occasionally crash so we would have to repeat the process to resume playback. It probably only took a few minutes by it felt like an eternity of busy work. Needless to say we canceled that shitshow and torrented, if they are a major publisher and they can't beat the convenience of casual privacy they are in trouble.

Personally its the convenience and UI that does it for me. I'm not using anything fancy but I have a USB HDD plugged into my home router this is accessible as an SFTP and UPnP media server any device on my network. It won't transcode or anything but for >95% of content it will play fine on any PC/TV/phone/tablet in the house. The biggest issue is tracking viewing progress which can be an hassle is we do it manually instead of having Netflix/amazon/whatever track it for us. If crunchyroll can't do that much then they don't offer any advantage over their free alternatives and not worth an $x per month fee.

I would be happy to use a service that auto subscribes for a month when I play content but also auto cancels renewal.

I'm happy to pay for them when I use them but if I don't happen to use one for a month it would be great to skip that bill.

Seems to be free on most platform if you already own both titles.

They seem to be offering better performance compared to the port from a couple of years ago. Has anyone tested it out to confirm?

Worse, for xbox at least online is us$20 with the "story mode" billed as an optional us$20 extra.

• https://www.xbox.com/en-us/games/store/grand-theft-auto-online-xbox-series-xs/9NKC1Z4Z92VN/0010/B3DGX86VJR29
• https://www.xbox.com/en-US/games/store/grand-theft-auto-v-story-mode-xbox-series-xs/9PCCGHDBMR1P/0010

But I guess each app would also have their own implementation.

The only consequences would be reputational. Don't wait until the interview itself, let them know now that you will not be available for the interview.

Definitely cancel over just not showing up, preferably before the day of the interview. Circumstances may change, new positions may open up, you don't owe them anything but you want to keep things amicable in case you are interested in the future.

The google servers have access to a lot more resources than our puny little phones.

Its viewed as such.

The control of fire by early humans was a critical technology enabling the evolution of humans. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Control_of_fire_by_early_humans

Aren't those just standard door knobs?

Exactly, those two are pretty standard.options.

As far as door latches go the cross bar and draw bolts probably predate it by thousands of years but I don't use those regularly.

As physical tech:

• we have lever door handles at work and wheel and axle door knobs at home.

As digital tech:

• Comma Separated Values as a notation predates computers. Then CSV has been used as a computer file format at least since one of the Fortran variants added support in 1972.
• The implementation has changed as filesystems evolve but the basic directory/file model of data storage and the associated tools ls/dir, cd, rm/del have been around a while. ls has been known by that name since Multics in 1969, but can trace its lineage back to listfon CTSS in 1961.

Anything that predates copy/paste is doing alright.