This $80 wristwatch has an Atari 2600-inspired design, features 4 playable Atari games - Liliputing
I keep seeing opinion pieces like this, but I remain unconvinced. Sure, if his sincerely held intention was to do anything at all positive for the US and its allies, his actions would read as insane. But if he actively, deliberately desires to harm and destabilize both, then he's going about it the right way. Screw Hanlon's razor: stupidity is inadequate to explain any of this.
Reddit probably closed down their existing community.
The big headline is understandably that it crashes into a fake painted wall like a cartoon, but that's not something that most drivers are likely to encounter on the road. The other two comparisons where lidar succeeded and cameras failed were the fog and rain tests, where the Tesla ran over a mannequin that was concealed from standard optical cameras by extreme weather conditions. Human eyes are obviously susceptible to the same conditions, but if the option is there, why not do better than human eyes?
You know what, at this point I'd miss the messages if they stopped coming. I had a two week gap and I was weirdly disappointed about it.
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"We're getting these babies now--strong, American babies--these babies are at temperatures, big numbers, numbers we haven't seen for 60 years here. Yesterday I had... a baby came to me, tears in his eyes, he said 'Sir'--these tough babies call me sir, have you noticed that?--he said 'Sir, you're giving us something in this country that we haven't had in generations.' People are saying they've never seen this before. We brought it back."
Those things aren't strictly related. Lemmy is open source and there are a bunch of apps. There also used to be a bunch of Reddit apps, but Reddit wasn't open source. The important factor is that the Lemmy software provides an API (application programming interface) which app developers can use to talk to Lemmy instances. API access is free, like it used to be on Reddit.
The impression of legitimacy enjoyed by chiropractic is too damn high. I was well into my 20s before I ever heard a single word about it being pseudoscience. Walking around (usually on people's fucking spines) calling themselves doctors, I absolutely believed it was just some sub-variety of physiotherapy, which I guess is the point. In the whole universe of alternative medicine, I think that has to be the practice which has most effectively disguised itself as conventional medicine. It's gross.
Exactly, the joke they are making is simply not racist in nature. At the same time, the idea that using blackface to make a joke about entrenched Hollywood racism trivializes the harm of using blackface isn't unreasonable. It's a layered issue, people can land in different places. Ultimately though, the controversy over Tropic Thunder, then and now, being so minimal does indicate that for most viewers, the joke justified itself.
It's an interesting case. Most of the movie is Cohen doing patently ridiculous things to an audience who just go "Welp, foreigners sure are weird." The joke is mostly on the people who are willing to believe that Borat is an accurate representation of what Kazakh people are like.
There's video of that one as well. The athlete holds it together well.
Testing: Do Lemmy/Mbin support directly embedding videos?
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I'm guessing the joke here is that Hossenfeffer has an underage daughter. They're not suggesting adulterers be reported to the police.
Adding on to this, while this article is fast approaching 20 years old, it gets into the quagmire that is web standards and how ~10 (now ~30) years of untrained amateurs (and/or professionals) doing their own interpretations of what the web standards mean--plus another decade or so before that in which there were no standards--has led to a situation of browsers needing to gracefully handle millions of contradictory instructions coming from different authors' web sites.
Here's a bonus: the W3C standards page. Try scrolling down it.
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Grimes has personal beef with Musk over their shared parenthood, but all indications are that she's still all-in on MAGA. She claims Nazis are bad but also parties with open fascists like Curtis Yarvin who plots to overthrow democracy and install Trump as king for life. She fucking sucks. Pity their children.
As long as we're filling out our fantasy browser brackets, I'm hoping that the Servo engine and browser/s can become viable. Servo was started at Mozilla as a web rendering engine only, before they laid off the whole team and the Linux Foundation took over the project. Basically revived from the dead in 2023, the current project is working on an engine and a demonstration browser that uses it. It's years away from being a usable replacement for current browsers and the engine is certainly the main project. A separate browser which employs Servo as its engine is a more likely future than an actual Servo browser.
Still, you can download a demo build of the official browser from the web site. Currently, it's only usable for very simple web sites. Even Lemmy/Mbin display is a little broken, and I think of those as fairly basic. YouTube is out of the question. One of the sites that's been used to demonstrate its capability to render web pages is the web site for Space Jam (1996) if that gives you any idea of its current state.
Everyone else took all the good critiques of this article, so here's mine.
We’re still bullish on the fediverse, and on Bluesky, if it manages to become a truly federated platform.
Bluesky appears to have reached their goal as far as federation. Users can self-host a personal data server (PDS) which federates with Bluesky. If you want an analogy from somebody extremely unqualified to offer it, it's sort of like bringing a bucket of water to a swimming pool. You can't go swimming in the bucket, but you can pour it into Bluesky's pool and swim in there. If the pool closes down or implements segregation and if somebody else opens a swimming pool, you can take your bucket to their pool instead. However, if nobody else wants to open another swimming pool, your bucket is useless. In this analogy, buckets are only useful to very slightly fill somebody else's swimming pool and for no other purpose. It's a very good analogy.
Bryan Newbold, the protocol engineer at Bluesky, said the following about PDSes and federation:
Overall, I think federation isn't the best term for Bluesky to emphasize going forward, though I also don't think it was misleading or factually incorrect to use it to date. An early version of what became atproto actually was peer-to-peer, with data and signing keys on end devices (mobile phones). When that architecture was abandoned and PDS instances were introduced, "federation" was the clearest term to describe the new architecture.
i.e. In Bluesky's terminology, federation is not a future goal they're hoping to achieve, it's what they're already doing right now.
The (ActivityPub) fediverse is different, because ... damn, I really screwed myself with this swimming pool thing ... it's like a bunch of boats in the ocean. There's one-person dinghies and giant cruise ships, all with different owners. You can bring your own boat, or you can hitch a ride with a friend or a generous stranger. If you want to hang out in a different boat from the one you arrived in, that's fine too. Ultimately, we all float on the same ocean which we all have to share. Crucially, nobody is in charge of the water. There's rules on the boats, but the ocean is just the ocean. If your boat crashes into an iceberg and sinks, the ocean will still be there. You might lose some of your stuff, but there's plenty of other boats to pick you up.
The failure state in both cases is better than nothing. With Bluesky, you lose the swimming pool, but keep the bucket. With ActivityPub, you lose the boat, but keep the ocean. If Bluesky dies, ideally you can take your federated identity with you to an alternative service that exists in the future, but you no longer have access to Bluesky, because it's gone. When a Lemmy instance dies, you pretty much have to start over: register a new account, subscribe to all your communities again, etc. But the whole fediverse is still there: all the communities you were subscribed to, the people you followed, all your old comments, they're still out there floating on the ocean.
The advantage of the N64 approach is that it allows both the D-pad and analog stick to be primary inputs. They're both ideally positioned under the thumb, because they're the only input the thumb needs to interact with. It's a tradeoff between the number of available inputs and ergonomics. Every other controller has to compromise on one or the other. e.g. The DualShock is obviously a SNES controller with two sticks slapped in the middle, but since it was an update to the standard (D-pad focussed) PlayStation controller, they're not at the angle where your thumb naturally rests. Successive PlayStation controllers moved the stick up and out slightly to bring it more in line with the thumb.
The Saturn 3D Control Pad along with other "modern" controllers like the Xbox line, GameCube and Switch have the opposite layout, where the analog stick is the natural resting place for the thumb and you crane to reach the less-accessible D-pad. With the benefit of hindsight, this is probably the "right answer", because most games since the fifth generation are designed around the analog stick, with the D-pad occasionally used as four additional action buttons which you either don't need at all, or only use sparingly. I don't know that this style of game (e.g. tactical shooters with squad orders on the D-pad) really did or could have existed in the N64 generation, so the lack of D-pad access ends up being irrelevant to the kind of games that were actually coming out in the era.
If you released a console today with the N64 controller, that would be a terrible idea, because there are the kinds of games coming out that expect you to have four triggers, two analog sticks and reasonably convenient access to the D-pad. But I can't think of any N64 games that were worse because you couldn't access the D-pad. What games needed those extra inputs? What games didn't get made because those inputs weren't convenient? Coming at it the other way, what games were released for the Saturn 3D Control Pad that wouldn't have been possible on N64?
Resident N64 pad defender here. It's fine to dislike the controller, but I'm never really sure if the "I don't have three hands!" complaint is a joke or just based on people who never played any N64 games or what.
You're not supposed to use all three prongs, ever. It's just a hedge-betting controller. Nintendo was afraid people wouldn't like the new, 3D style of game control and would demand a return to traditional D-pad input.
The N64 controller was their solution: if 3D movement is just a fad that dies out, well, move your hand over a couple of inches and forget about the analog stick. Now you've basically got a SNES pad with six face buttons and better ergonomics.
Obviously, 3D took over that whole generation and there's probably less than 10 games that need D-pad movement, so it ended up being fairly pointless in hindsight. But I can't argue with anybody who starts their design process with "What if gamers hate this new style of input?" because when don't they.
I have one of those external adapters talked about in OP. I don't really follow why an external plug is a problem because I don't spend much time looking at the back of my GameCube, but that wasn't the question so I'll move on.
The interesting thing about the GameCube is that, at least on the original production model (DOL-001), it has native digital video out. As such, these HDMI adapters are able to convert losslessly in the fully digital domain. Notably, this feature was dropped on the Wii, so with zero modifications, you can get a sharper image out of a GameCube than a Wii.
At least on my external adapter, there's no kind of post-processing going on, you're just getting the raw, native resolution (usually 480p) pixels over HDMI, so the result is a very clean, emulation-style pixel-perfect image.
Whether that's desirable will certainly vary from person to person, but even if you don't want that, it's a good starting point to do video capture or add any fancy upscaling or filtering that you want with other hardware between the GameCube and your TV/monitor.
It doesn't look like this is emulating Atari 2600 games, if only because the form factor of the watch (vertical orientation, ballpark 3:4) is the exact opposite of the old console. These appear to be native ports to whatever hardware the watch is running.
Also, is this not just a bad product? Why would anybody want to play games on their watch? Most people already have another device in their pocket that's going to offer a better experience.