A lot of them just have family, or had family, in the service.

It’s hard to be proud of any historical figures... the more you know about them the worse they tend to fair relative to contemporary values. This is not to say no one did anything extraordinary relative to the context in which they lived... nor that they are necessarily unworthy of our remembrance. We take the bad…

https://www.climate.gov/news-features/climate-qa/why-did-earth%E2%80%99s-surface-temperature-stop-rising-past-decade

I don’t know if one example of tedium necessarily excuses other examples of tedium.

Disagree. They remastered a lot more than just the textures (engine, models, music etc) but it still doesn’t seem to be enough to warrant an entirely separate nomenclature. It just looks like an exceptionally good remaster.

I was just wondering.

Now that you have me thinking along this tangent... I imagine its something like the difference between writing and typing. They both require a certain level of skill to produce something worth reading but the former is, for a long list of technical reasons, much easier. There are various…

This. The actual trend caused by automation is a decline in low-skill labor with a vastly lower uptick in high-skill labor. This not only means far fewer jobs overall but also means a horrifying disparity in employment across classes.

People need to fundamentally change the way they think about economics. Pretty much…

You’re thinking very small and very short term. The efficiency difference between a human driver and an automated driver will become increasingly vast over time... eventually the trucking companies won’t be able to afford not going automated. The companies that go automated will simply slowly put the others out of…

This point is often missed (or under-emphasized).

The trend is a loss of low-skill labor with a relatively small uptick in high-skill labor. It’s not even close to a 1:1 transfer and they are different types of jobs that are distributed wildly unfairly across classes.

While many speculate this will cause a lot of job loss for truckers, I suspect there will remain a need to have a human ‘minder’ in the truck to act as a backup and to handle communications, security, refueling, and other duties, at least initially.

Are these actually paintings (with, you know, actual paint) or were they created digitally?

“Betrayed” and “Walk with Mankind” are beautiful. The rest seem a little... Monty Python.

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That looks fantastic!

I assembled a tabletop raspberry pi arcade cabinet for home (shout out to RetroBuiltGames) but I want to get a portable switch-like setup going that doesn’t require re-purchasing every classic game I’ve already paid for more than once.

I’ve been eyeing the dedicated emulation tablets for years but they are usually a…

I am a little amazed that we haven’t seen a joycon-ish gamepad clone for misc tablets yet. I expected to see something by now.

I picked up one of the new 2017 Fire 8 (the not-quite Nintendo red version, of course) for $80 last week and it is a fantastic little emulator tablet but the only good option I’ve found for an…

Opinion noted.

You’re pointing out the obnoxious fact that in the English language there aren’t any really useful rules regarding the hard/soft g sounds... you just have to memorize each case. That seems like a stupid thing we shouldn’t rush to perpetuate. I mean... we have a letter that spends most of its time making the j sound…

While your point is fair the argument could be made that those words are fundamentally problematic because pronunciation has to be inferred by context. In many of the hard/soft g cases you just have to memorize which g sound is right (a sloppy way to structure a language). These are examples of why English can be such…

Also note they took credit cards. They only do that for people suspected of identity theft.

They mention it in the article... casually... like... no big deal.