I know lots of flags have been raised even BEFORE his inauguration. I expect this to continue at pace.

Hey… maybe that’s what the Greenland/Panama/Canada thing is really about!

That’s oil… maybe fatty acids with a chemical change on the end of the molecule?

Probably not; older consoles would be tied to PAL and NTSC colors, but beyond that… well, the NES is pretty well known for how the game developer can swap out a palette mid-frame.

As for modern systems… they’re limited to the output device spec, so you’re dealing with the limits of DVI, HDMI, 4k, 8k, Dolby profiles and HDR.

Why? Because all modern systems use models and shaders, which means they’re likely to use the entire gamut of the colorspace to display objects in-game.

I’m curious though what an oil free cream is made of that would be safe to put on your skin….

Is that you, Neo?

Unlike the NYSE, the LSE actually has to deal with forced labour laws with teeth. Actual people at Shein and the LSE could face fines and imprisonment if it turns out they are intentionally using forced labour and the firm is listed. Career ending type of stuff.

As an aside to this, I knew a girl when I was in school whose mother was Japanese and father was German.

She got hassled a LOT… because the police kept thinking she was too far from the reservation.

iMazing works with old iPods too.

Good point; I’ve used a USB extender that had WiFi at either end to handle the distance thing. Maybe it’s just me, but outside of laptops I don’t generally have a need to move my keyboards around much.

I played both. And Hungry Hungry Hippo too. And The Game of Life.

All of those I only played max 3x before I switched to just using the props and dispensing with the game though.

Take that money you were saving for university and buy Apple stock. Still move to the university town and hang out on campus, but skip the tuition fees and going to class; spend the time while others are in class working for a few years and putting more money into Apple stock.

Cash out some of that money a few years later and use it for a cheap bachelor’s degree; leverage that to get into the field you want to be in.

Then later, cash out some more to buy property… say, around 2008. But keep feeding more money in.

I’ve got a battery-free efficient keyboard already… it uses this cable connected to the computer to supply power when keys are pressed. Very energy efficient. Never needs to charge. And unlike these keyboards with a built-in lithium battery, it will last indefinitely.

I think you may have missed the point I was making though— clubs and other pastimes didn’t make people less lonely; they only distracted people from their loneliness. Today the same distractions can be found via social media, so instead of all those other activities, people just need a phone.

But the anonymizing nature of social media means people feel more free to discuss their loneliness when they do self-reflect.

I think you have something here. I grew up in the country where people had to actively seek out activities and relationships, including with people they may not otherwise choose to be around. In the city/burbs, I actively chose to travel by foot/transit/someone else’s vehicle, even though it would have been easier to drive everywhere (I mean, sidewalks that just… vanish halfway to a destination? No transit east-west on major arteries? City planners obviously are prioritizing vehicle traffic).

But as a result, I’ve never felt isolated AND have the skills to connect with others who aren’t like me. It’s those skills that seem to have been going away as people hide themselves in their social media bubbles and behind their steering wheels. The same opportunities for socialization are still there, but they take more effort than people are used to making because there’s easier alternatives available than there used to be.

Here’s a theory. I’m sure it has lots of holes in it.

Male loneliness has always been a thing. In cultures where it isn’t/wasn’t, there was a strong family relationship and older men modelling how to relate to others.

To hide from loneliness, men were able to join clubs, hang out at pubs, volunteer, or bury themselves in work.

In fact, those same pastimes are still available today.

What’s changed is that it is now socially OK to talk about loneliness (at least in online forums like this), so more people are aware it’s an issue.

Exactly.

It’s weird because it sets you up as the objective authority on what makes them attractive.

With another man, that just comes across as a neutral weird. With a woman, it comes across with a bunch of historical and cultural baggage tied to how a large number of men treat women, and automatically associates you with that group of misogynists.

That’s… extremely useful to know and highlights the issues I have with databases like MySQL.

IMO, a DB should always have a type defined for a field, and if that type is UTF-8, and it means just the mb3 subset, you should only be able to store mb3 data in it. Not enforcing the field type is what leads to data-based function and security issues. There should also be restrictions on how data is loaded from fields depending on their type, with mb3 allowing for MySQL transform operations and binary requiring a straight read/write, with some process outside the DB itself handling the resulting binary data stream.

/rant

Because both already exist?