I'd argue it already has. I no longer shop there and haven't done so for years, nor does anyone else I know in any of my hiking/backpacking/rock climbing/riding circles.
Knowing full well that they measure their "success" via their membership count, I also bullied them into cancelling my membership several years ago. That was an interesting experience.
REI turned corporate or at least pro-corporate shortly after the pandemic. This all went down probably not coincidentally right after they hired an ex-Amazon exec, Cameron Janes, to be their "Chief Commercial Officer."
They're turning into another profit motivated shitshow and have become explicitly anti-union, hostile to their own labor, and also hostile to their own customers. They did this in the name of making more money, but given that it pissed off swath of their core customer base who are probably more vocal, left leaning, and activist than the average bunch of consumers who all quit buying from them, I'm pretty sure this wasn't a net gain.
It did however at least lead to the pun in the Funimation dub about a "fishfull of dollars,", since they baited Oolong with a wad of cash on a fishhook rather than Bulma's panties.
And also the most likely to allow you to effortlessly curb stomp everyone in the first two gyms, and be resistant to the hat worn by everyone in the third. By then you're likely to have diversified your team significantly.
The Genesis sound hardware is/was extremely simple compared to some of its contemporaries and the exact hardware (or at least the behavior of said hardware) changed over the oodles of revisions of the consoles over time. In particular, basically all of its music is produced via FM synthesis and if you want wavetable-ish tunes like the SNES can generate you have to write your own music engine in software. Because of this a lot of developers used the GEMS sound engine as-is, which to be fair really does kind of sound like crap.
Furthermore, the first generation of discrete YM2612 FM synthesis chips used had a known bug in their output (low volume distortion) that some games deliberately took advantage of in their audio either due to cheekiness or the assumption that it was intended behavior. This is probably where the "first run Genesis sounds better" canard comes from. It probably also didn't help that some of Sega's own published documentation on this chip was incorrect.
Later revisions of the machines used FM synthesis hardware integrated into their ASICs in different incarnations, and of course the exact hardware used in the clone systems, not to mention the behavior of emulation, is all over the damn place. This may or may not make any particular game sound like crap but it can certainly make them sound different. It's not that the Genesis has hard to emulate audio hardware, per se, but it's that nobody can really agree on what the "canonical" setup is supposed to be including developers of games during the system's original lifetime.
Broadly yes, and also including private sales. I will however point out that you can buy a long gun (rifle or shotgun) from an FFL dealer in a state other than your state of residence provided the item you purchase is legal in your home state. Handguns in this situation must be transferred to an FFL in your home state, however. The former you can take with you, the latter you can't.
Wireless optical mice are basically given away free in boxes of Frosted Flakes these days. Is there really any pressing need to "fix" this one in particular via some roundabout method? Like, do you have some sentimental attachment to it, or something? I don't think you're likely to succeed, there. Notwithstanding that the sensors you'd need to buy would be significantly more expensive than a new mouse, but then as you've observed you'd also have to hack up a way to make your operating system treat your new sensors as a mouse input, and also preserve the click inputs from the separate remaining carcass of the mouse.
Really, just replace it. Any nerd should have a whole box of the things. I do; hell, I could just give you one.
The next time you paint a mouse take it apart first. The upper shell is typically quite easy to remove with just a couple of screws and then you can paint it separately from all the electronics to avoid destroying any of the functional parts.
Whatever solvent OP would have to use for this would surely cloud and/or otherwise destroy the plastic lens over the sensor, rendering the exercise moot.
The Leatherman tool company is indeed named after its creator's last name, which is also of course "Leatherman."
I know we all like to joke about that Tim Apple guy calling the shots and fucking everything up all the time at the iPhone-and-computer company, but the owner and founder of the Leatherman Tool Group is literally Tim Leatherman.
when a calculator from the 80s can do the same thing.
1970's! The little blighters are even older than most people think.
Which is why I find it extra hilarious / extra infuriating that we've gone through all of these contortions and huge wastes of computing power and electricity to ultimately just make a computer worse at math.
Math is the one thing that computers are inherently good at. It's what they're for. Trying to use LLM's to perform it halfassedly is a completely braindead endeavor.
Incorrect, only because you're still tacitly assuming that science (or anything else) must have some kind of external cosmic significance outside of human thought.
Science is important to us -- or at least it ought to be -- because it's the method by which we understand how the universe works. Being important to us is all that matters, because we can't think with the minds of anything else.
The flaw in all of this sophomoric philosophic whinging is that it mostly tends to start off with the presupposition that all of these concepts aren't just human constructs. The only reason anything has meaning to us is because we decided it does.
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Yeah, just wait until you get a load of the number of things called "One." Here's a hint: It's a lot more than one.