I don’t know if I can quite do a TNG-style metaphor. My brain just wants to say “like a balloon... and something bad happens”, thanks to Futurama.

And it’s kind of ridiculous because the original CD format chose 44.1KHz for a reason, which is the Nyquist theorem and human hearing, because that means that the top frequency that can be captured is 22.05Khz, which is approximately the highest frequency that the human ear can perceive as a tone. Having the final…

It’s pretty much been done on any Unix-like still under active development. 64 bit timestamps have been the norm for years and years and any remotely current compiler will ensure that time_t is a 64 bit type. At this point, the problem will only arise on old microcontrollers running some sort of embedded 32 bit Unix…

The SNES was capable of the same thing too. Developers working on games for both systems found hacks for “blasting” upcoming data into memory when the system was doing other things (e.g. drawing a scanline).

I’m not sure, but knowing what I do know about him, I wouldn’t be shocked if that were technically true but very one sided yet very loudly hyped by him.

I think she predated Star Trek. More during his time running “The Lieutenant”.

“Unnecessary snark” is an overly kind description of the absolutely shitty way this article is written.

For most of the time Star Trek was on the air, Majel Barrett *was* one of the women who was not his wife that he was plowing. He was married to his first wife until 1969, but had been cheating with Barrett since at least 1964. (And cheating on her whenever he could.)

There’s also fremdschämen, which is a feeling of embarrassment on someone else’s behalf who doesn’t realize they’ve done something embarrassing .

Ugh. So sick of framing like “hyper-partisanship, and hateful rhetoric on both sides”, when the reality is that with the two parties it’s like if two people were deciding where to go out to dinner and one said “I’m feeling like Italian, maybe?” and the other said “I will only accept anthrax and gravel” and then…

The Criterion Channel has several Anna Biller movies, and had all but one for a while.

Shout! Factory (and their subsidiary Scream! Factory) is a company founded by some Rhino Records people after they sold Rhino to Warner that releases old TV shows and movies. Lots of genre stuff (westerns, scifi, horror, anime, super sentai) and the kind of TV shows that were on Nick At Nite in the 90s. A couple…

What’s in dispute is it’s legitimacy as the “true” Korea. Both countries claim to be the only legitimate Korea, each having a native name that indicates their different view of what Korea is. North Korea calls the country/penninsula the older name, Choson (fancying itself the descendant of the 朝鮮 (Joseon) empire)…

Any fan of Dinosaur Comics will remember that there’s a Utahraptor, T-Rex’s best friend (don’t tell Dromiceiomimus!)

The inflation calculation is more sophisticated than you’re giving it credit. They don’t just pick one asset as a benchmark. They use wage data and a basket of assets that shifts over time to represent consumer spending at a time point. I’m sure it’s still not perfect, but they did think it through.

It would be nice. But she’s dug in deep, to the point where she can’t back down. All we can hope for at this point is that she doesn’t go the full Graham Linehan and do nothing but tweet TERF stuff all day long.

Seriously, Asimov was notoriously gropey for his times. That’s a high bar in the field of SF fandom/writers mid-century. But you read anecdotes about him by other SF writers and they’re like, “That’s wacky old Isaac; grabbing ladies’ boobs and butts without permission. HAHAHA. What a kook!”

I made the mistake of reading the comments on Rocksmith’s Facebook post about donating $100,000, and the comments are largely people snarling that they’ll never buy another Ubisoft product (probably a lie, but still) and that Black Lives Matter is a terrorist organization (an absolute lie), etc. So they’re at least…

Best of both worlds is the CoreGrafx Mini: Same form factor as the PC Engine Mini (but gray instead of white) but with turbo switches on the controller and the same games as the US version.

The downside with any of them but the PC Engine Mini is that the Hori-made official TurboTap and extra controllers only match the…

The CoreGrafx Mini also has the exact same lineup of games as the US version. Same hardware and firmware in a smaller case. Better color too. I ordered one from Amazon Japan a week or so after they came out there.