VindictiveJudge @ VindictiveJudge @lemmy.world

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Vantablack is a specific chemical product, not a color. If you can get something just as black via a different process they can't do anything.

You don't want to put all your eggs in one basket.

Exactly. You need documentation to figure out how to do anything in a CLI, and if you forget it's back to the documentation, but a GUI exposes all its commands immediately, allowing the user to find things on their own.

Except the iOS UI, which is heavily reliant on gestures with varying numbers of fingers, pressure dependent touch commands that are difficult to pull off consistently (seriously, how the hell do you deliberately do the multi-select drag thing?), and hidden menus that are exposed by dragging in from specific portions of the screen at specific angles with no hint that they're there.

My experience has usually been someone with a very thick accent and an incredibly crappy microphone.

I mean, legitimately, unless you’re doing power user things, you don’t really need the terminal.

This is a fairly recent development, though. Last time I tried Linux I was using the terminal several times a week just browsing the internet and playing games. I've been pleasantly surprised by how infrequently I have to use it now, but I was surprised given my previous experience.

Or they could get an actor of the same caliber as Christopher Reeve, who completely sold the idea of Clark not being immediately recognizable as Superman.

Same with Paradox games. 4X in general is just really hard to get right on release because of how many interlinking systems there are, so waiting for balance updates at a minimum is never a bad idea.

It's a reference to the first level of Halo 1.

They're talking about opening car doors for her.

It was on an episode of Home Improvement. Not sure if the show started it or if it was just referencing the existing fad.

They're probably trying to take control of the party back from Trump. They did push back against him during his first term, but fell flat on their faces and started losing viewers to Newsmax. Now they're trying to back it with data. They've spent the last few decades training their viewers to ignore data, though, so we'll see how that goes.

By Grabthar's hammer, what a movie.

Also colonization of North America with Vinland, integration into the Roman/Byzantine Empire, and possible contact with China. For as relatively small as their population was, they sure explored a lot and went interesting places. Possibly because their home was unpleasantly cold.

The seemingly nonsensical information in the pokedex, like a pokemon that's hotter than the sun or size to weight ratios calculating out to absurdly high or low densities, actually makes more sense when you realize it's all written by unsupervised ten year old kids who are pulling numbers out of their asses.

Bethesda has actually been consistently supportive of Skyblivion, Morroblivion, and Skywind.

And why Rise was so incredibly by-the-numbers after 2013 shook things up.

I genuinely didn't know it was still big. Everyone I know who played it quit ten years ago and expansion launches no longer hit my feeds.

Specifically, she wrote the 2013 game and Rise of the Tomb Raider. Studio and publisher interference on Rise was so pervasive that she permanently quit writing for AAA games and someone else took over for Shadow of the Tomb Raider.

This is a much bigger part of it than a lot of people in this thread seem to think. A lot of these diseases were extinct or close to it in the US and people have forgotten how deadly they are. The worst viral infection a lot of these people have ever seen is either a bad cold or a mild case of influenza. A good number of the younger ones have never even seen chickenpox.

It's like people who try to pet wild animals because they've only ever interacted with domesticated ones and thought they were all like that.

At least denazification worked on Henry Ford. Someone showed him footage of the death camps and being confronted with the reality of it gave him a stroke that almost killed him, and which contributed to the cerebral hemorrhage that did kill him.