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The idea of making your own custom characters for video games was one that Nintendo had been brewing in their offices since as early as the NES days. Back on the Famicom Disk System, Shigeru Miyamoto thought it would be fun if players could use the console to create their own custom faces for characters that you could then control after inserting a separate ‘scenario disk’. As outlined by the man himself in a 2007 GDC keynote that charted the evolution of the Mii, a prototype was even developed but when Miyamoto presented his idea to the other higher-ups at Nintendo, they truly struggled to see how this could be turned into a fun game, and so the idea was shelved.

Always ahead of his time ... not just with the suits, but audiences, too.
>I don't really think that's the case. I'd still argue lack of investment from Twitter is what killed Vine.

Conclude whatever you like, my understanding is that Instagram video directly killed Vine after the big creators had meetings with Vine executives about getting paid to stay on Vine. I guess that could be considered a lack of investment, but it can't be ignored that Instagram captured the creator base.

https://www.theverge.com/2016/10/28/13456208/why-vine-died-t...

"Former executives say that a major competitive challenged emerged in the form of Instagram, which introduced 15-second video clips in June 2013. “Instagram video was the beginning of the end,” one former executive told me. “[Vine] didn’t move fast enough to differentiate.” Instagram courted celebrities with longer videos, eventually bumping the limit to a more flexible 60 seconds. (Vines didn’t break the 6-second barrier until earlier this year, and its extended videos never caught on.) Instagram also began promoting celebrity accounts in its popular “explore” tab, bringing them attention that Vine found difficult to match. Marketers began shifting their money away from Vine, and stars followed."
It's very obvious, you're right. I'm French and I sometimes I have to prove people the words are in an English dictionary while they're absolute basic 6-yo level in French.

I remember "ameliorate" that an american friend (an adult) didn't even know (but again this guy mixed Portugal and Porto Rico so maybe not the best sample lol), while for me it was clearly an easy cheat because I had more trouble reaching for "enhance".

Ofc since I'm also an ass, I like to claim English "stole" all those French word then proceeded to misspell and massacre them.
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I edited my comment after posting it to get rid of some of the commentary, since on reflection, I really don't know enough about them to offer an opinion. But thanks for clarifying that.

Are these staffers appointed by the community or by other staffers? I would have expected it to be a democratic process. Otherwise it does give off an elitist vibe that ok alludes to.
Funny enough, a similar thing (using obscure, ten-dollar words instead of simple ones) happens with many Russians learning English. It happens for a totally different reason - obviously Russian is a Slavic, not Romance language. Turns out that most high quality translated material for Russian is old literature and scientific papers. So that’s what the translators are trained on, and that’s what many Russians speaking English sound like. As an example, a friend of mine was just learning English and didn’t yet know words as simple as “stairs”, but would use ten-dollar words like “prurient”, “strumpet” and “veritable”.
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Old open Web 2.0 til infinity heads rejoice.

Sure it's a pseudo-killer app/tech on the net we lost somewhat (yes I know, never went away really) but it's also been there done that.

Firefox had this. Email apps and "Readers" had it.
But we moved to following Twitter feeds and social. And the number of sites publishing out there went down anyways. Yes, there's been an uptick in personal sites and blogs again for sure. But despite what we see in the tech bubble are there really that many sites/feeds out there worth following? That aren't being followed elsewhere already?

Having Options for ways to keep in touch are good sure but history repeats when we'll see again the feature isn't worth maintaining or provides no return for publishers.

Sorry I missed the googleio discussion earlier.
Thanks for the feedback. FourHere is a mobile app, that helps people meet in small groups at local restaurants.

I have a business degree, and software background of 8+ years with Apple, Google, and Tesla. I'm in the process of looking for an angel investor who can help with growth.
There -is- a difference of natively learning a language and learning it later on as EFL/ESL. It has nothing to do with politics, or being perfect. In fact, many ESL/EFL speakers have better grammar and vocabulary than the average native speaker because they have to focus on those things in order to learn the language.

However, a native speaker won't struggle in speech, and they'll know the various idioms used all the time in colloquial speech. Of course native speakers don't have to take the TEFL/TOEFL! They don't consciously think about grammar rules, they just employ them nearly always perfectly in speech. Of course not every native speaker is good at writing at an academic level and we should be aware of that.

This phenomenon is also not unique to English! This article and the one linked are basically following the trend of bashing one's own English; how dare native speakers speak their language like they have been their entire life? Part of learning any language is learning the cultural idiosyncrasies and idioms. Of course, native speakers should strive to make sure they're not overusing idioms with a EFL/ESL audience, but knowing "grammar" and "complex technical terms" doesn't actually mean you can speak [American/UK/Indian/Black American/etc] English.

Humans are just curious when someone has a different accent than the local area. There are various American accents. I've had that question asked a lot when I was living in Korea. Getting upset about it is entirely a personal choice.
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Subtle but significant difference. The company is sentence case now.
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Thanks for that bag link! I bought one that doesn't have a zipper and I hate it.
I've heard from multiple people that learning what words should be singular and plural in sentences is confusing. For example, "garbage" vs "garbages"
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An OLED TV. I work in computer graphics and the image quality of my TV makes me smile every day. HDR is a much bigger deal than 4K. The pure blacks of OLEDs make them hard to beat. Not only for the global contrast level. The pixel by pixel contrast level and absence of light leaking at bright edges greatly improves the clarity of the image.

I picked up an LG C9 a while back. There have been two more generations since then. Not really big differences between them. So, go with what’s cheapest (currently them middle gen).

Other OLEDs are just as pretty. But, some other brands have obnoxious ads in their UI. And LG has good support for 120Hz and other gaming features. So, I’m still happy with my pick.
I never heard of bone-conduction headphones. They seem very interesting and I'd love to try them. Are they OK for calls, or only music? And also - is there any health issue I should be aware?
The Twitter web UI if you are not logged in is purposefully broken. Every so often, it will just show you "access denied" or "you don't have permission". It is the peak of dark patterns.
Hah! You sure you aren't going after Voltaire's mantle yourself?
Micro-services, for example, are pretty much all HTTP + JSON. The only place for HTTP is the browser and purely for historical reasons. Using it for anything server-server is a waste of network and CPU.
It happened recently with Markus Persson and Jonathan Blow.
Highly recommend the amazon knock off which is half the price and… well does the same job. It’s crazy how you don’t need anything fancy for a laptop stand :) been using it for a year and I’m happy I didn’t go full “let’s buy the most expensive thing just because”.
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"“With Vigilante, vital information is unlocked and everyone can do their part,” the company said in 2016, leaving it up to the readers’ imagination what that “part” should be."

Wow... glad they pivoted, but still, that's a dangerous perspective to take imo.
> Ooof, now the (still somewhat) open macOS is thrown under the bus by Apple just to make iOS look good.

Trojan horses for Macs are a thing.

Just as they are a thing for every other OS that allows users to install anything from anywhere.

Malware scanners can never catch all the new variants, but as they are identified, updates to the malware scanner can remove them.

Is it throwing Android under the bus to note that you are much more likely to install a trojan horse when you sideload apps?
> Yes, you could. There is an East Coast Mainline and West Coast Mainline and they competed loads over the London-Edinburgh route.

I've done that route dozens of times in the past. I think it's stretching things to say they are in competition though. For Glasgow it was 40 minutes faster to go up the West coast (if you don't mind the smell of the toilets on the Pendolino) and similarly the East Coast was faster for Edinburgh because it avoided going all the way out to Carluke and back. Of course that missing out the majority of people using those trains were using it starting at an intermediate station, making any competition slightly moot.
Dunno about an extension but there are apps

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1395089205986988043.html
A much more realistic explanation would be that any software that isn't specifically designed in a decoupled way will be coupled at a million points and impossible to separate.
http://pycurl.io/

PycURL is a Python interface to libcurl.
I will chime in with a slight anecdote. I have a direct report that speaks fine English but his written communications are just south of ideal. He asked me to help him by explicitly pointing out issues with his writing. I have been happy to do so but the process has really highlighted for him how refined my understanding of WHAT is right is contrasted to how poor my understanding of WHY it’s right is. More than half the time I’m forced to say “ that isn’t right, this is how it should be worded instead but I don’t really understand why”.

Language is a crazy thing.
No one is doing pilgrimages to his house or stealing his garbage or following him around here..

We're just acknowledging that he is an exceptional contributor to our industry, and that his work has inspired a TON of people.

To have someone of that stature contribute to your project is exciting! There's nothing strange or creepy about that, and if people want to celebrate that in their own way like printing a Git commit or something, whatever!

Imagine being an indie film director and having Kathryn Bigelow show up on set one day to give you some notes and feedback on your film. You might frame that piece of paper.

Imagine being a local chef in a restaurant and having Julia Sedefdjian stop by for a meal and compliment your food. You might get a photo to keep on the wall in your kitchen..

Nothing wrong with any of that, I think you are characterizing things to an unwarranted extreme here.
Second cast iron. We use ours daily - and it's a handmedown from my grandmother who also used daily for 20+ years. Once seasoned properly, it is non-stick, cleans easy. We just be sure to put a little oil on it after each use. Really the only skillet you need.
>they are the "smart ones"

In the U.S. this is often referred to as the "moral hazard". True they may be the 'smart' ones, but I can't help but think there's got to be a system that prioritizes the area of the Venn diagram where "smart" and "moral" overlap.
I know you're joking, but I'd like to see a video of you asking, and of your landlords reaction, for humor :).
I am a traditionally an Apple guy. Sure some VMs for linux development, but the gear is all Apple stuff.

I had Beats Pro headphones that got damaged after a good amount of use so I replaced them with non-Pro Airpods and have hated it. I have to constantly worry about them falling out while I'm exercising and the case gets all gunky. The handoff between the MacBook Pro and iPhone isn't reliable enough for me to trust it, so I always have to reconnect it if I'm at a quiet place like a co-working space. Also, within the first year one of them just randomly died and I had to send the whole thing back to Apple. Apple care covered it, but still.

I miss being able to do more with what's on my head. With Beats I could easily change the volume, pause, skip, rewind and they almost never came off. The only thing that kinda sucked was in the summer the skin around them would sweat.

Shrug. At least my MacBook Pro has been great.
The first section with the foods helps illustrate the class difference: the Germanic words we still use in English to describe the animal, while the Norman words we still use to describe the processed food products from the animal.
> 10 years go by, alice paid off 100k of the 200k loan, house is still worth 200k, bob has 100k of stocks and Charlie has 100k

If we're talking dollars, then it would be incredibly unwise to save them. The very fact that the fed targets some level of inflation at all makes this incredibly unwise.

Housing would never be worth just 200k 10 years later as long as population is increasing and the dollar inflating.

Stonks are stonks. They're fine, but they don't provide the (at least) two fold benefit of buying a house in American society.

1). You pay a high cost for housing either way--might as well have _some_ of it go toward principal.

2). A mortgage allows you to highly leverage an appreciating asset against a depreciating dollar.

The reliance on the state's pension scheme is also terrifying as the schemes tend to increase (if at all) under the inflation of true cost of living.

All that said, I have a mortgage and stonks and crypto (metals soon), but I'll never hold more dollars than I need for a month (I have credit cards if it really came to it.)

Edit: Why downvote? If you disagree, please say why.
All of this sounds like an accurate description of the software industry, and I'm not sure why you think it's unacceptable. You worked hard to become a good developer, you progressed in your career to the point where you can do it very well, but you sound offended that the industry expects you to continue doing it?

I don't think your expectations are realistic. Most peoples' salaries don't increase monotonically throughout their career, they top out around 40, the day you get your last big raise. For most people that's the day they become a senior/top/lead/etc, whether they're a chef or a welder or a doctor or whatever.
that's definitely the vibe i'm getting as well. i bought one of those (azerons, that is) (because i am an absolute nerd)-- the flick-up switches are definitely slightly awk, as they would be with this setup as well imo, but what a super fun and neat device. used it for a while to play fortnite until it randomly broke one day. i think i'd get another one if i could get different switches in it somehow-- something w/ lower actuation (=> faster response) than whatever they put in.
> cast iron skillet

Personally I think these are a waste of money unless you live in a house. Trying to season one of these smoked up our apartment for hours. Apparently we didn't do it right because it's still sticky even with oil, but there's no way we're going through the headache again until we have a house.
This game is so much better than chess in my opinion. Have fun!

Bonus: here’s a tutorial to learn the game https://online-go.com/learn-to-play-go
For those like me that love the mac trackpads, but experience wrist pain from the bad ergonomics I recommend a gel mouse pad.

The gel elevates the wrist to provide better ergonomics.
I don’t think gas stations are set up for this. Who wants to spend 25 minutes hanging out in a gas station convenience store? Cafes or any other place to relax for 25 minutes seems the fuel station of the future.
Personal attacks are off-topic on hackernews.
Uh, it's arguably worse than ever today. It just doesn't happen on the playground anymore. I contend the situation was better when it was out in the open and not on handheld devices.
it's a much bigger problem space with lots of different ways to do things based on hardware capability etc.
GC every frame? Jesus. Gamedevs jump though hoops to avoid it.
As a non-native speaker, and coming from "genderless languages"[1], Persian, it took me quite some time to get used to gender based pronouns. With the new pronoun restructure in the English language in north America, I'm having hard time to understand how to talk amongst strangers (people whom I'm not familiar with their preferred pronouns) .

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gender_neutrality_in_genderles...
Light Dims! http://www.lightdims.com/index.php

Little sticky cellophane pieces, that you can put on the little LED lights on all modern electronics, so that you can still see them but they're not so bright.

Because I hate being surrounded by blinkenlights that are a bit too bright and hurt my eyes in the dark.
The last one did copy in the olden days, but now with copy elision it does not. You can verify this using -fno-elide-constructors
I speak German and Hungarian, and I'm trying to learn Thai but between lockdown and my age it's going very slowly. I'm properly fluent in German but I learned it when I was a teenager and studied German literature at university. Hungarian took me a while (as in years) and there are still bits of it I don't get, but I'm fluent-ish for most practical purposes. It's not an Indo-European language and it has agglutinative grammar and it never had orthographic reform, but it's pretty consistent once you get over the hump, it has a lot of loan words and concepts from German and Slavic languages, and it's a very fun kind of weird.

Thai has refreshingly simple grammar but pronunciation is really hard for Westerners as is comprehension, and the writing system is, um, rich in complexity. Most Western expats simply give up, I hope I will not.

I have heard Polish is pretty difficult. Native Polish speakers, much like Hungarians, take great pride in the difficulty of their language.

AFAICT from spending a lot of time hanging around with natives and learning a few simple sentences, Spanish and Serbian are both pretty "easy" at least up front. I have plans to spend more time in the Canary Islands so I will have to learn some basic Spanish and I do hope it's as easy as it seems.
It's interesting that DW would choose that reference. Germans... they surely love the Balearic islands.
>and to ensure the fraudsters eventually do not benefit (and ideally suffer).

How strong is this expectation? eg. for social security or tax refund fraud, what's the conviction/recovery rate?
Got the first quest and it was amazing. Now I’m wondering if I should hold out and wait for the quest 3 haha.
That seems like a good way to handle the issue.

Btw how do you view panorama photos with it?
Getting an Oculus Quest 2 jumpstarted my workout regime after my gym closed during lockdown. I look forward to my workout time so much now. I got a $15 off brand silicon face cover to replace the cloth one to help with the sweat.
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Many of the Moccamasters can be used with a Chemex. I haven't tried it, but I recall seeing different ones listed as working with the Chemex. I think this was even on the manufacturer pages.
It’s still better than flat amounts.
No I haven't tried Adguard but as far as I know it is another DNS server that blocks ads like pi-hole? To block everything there has to be a firewall like OPNsense in the mix and at that point I might as well use it as DNS too.
Exactly - there's no reason a 30% is out of line if that's what the market bears. The issue with 30% is its a monopoly with no competitors trying to push the price down. There's a chance no other service is able to provide a comparable user experience to the app store for a 20% or 25% cut, but we can't know that until Apple allows competition.
I guess you remember the names who make history. You remember the names of the astronauts who first went to the moon but no-one knows the names of the other people who went to the moon.
I recommend the Home Depot phillips color-changing lights instead. They're way cheaper, only like $20 per bulb. I love them because they're way brighter than most light bulbs but dimmable, let you choose a traditional color temperature, or let you do some fun colors. I don't use home assistants and using the Wiz app is fine.
I guess it happens in all languages. Here in Argentina sometimes you can use some insults as a great compliment to a friend. [It's tricky to know when you can use them, which one, and have the correct intonation and body posture, so don't try it.]

And you can use a compliment like "Muy bien. Te feliciiito." ("Very good. I congratulate you." But with a long ee sound in the middle of the last word) And it means something like "You are an idiot" / "You made a big mistake".
No it's not. My point is that "do the needful" is not a proper representation of Indian English, as the parent comment implied. There are a lot more pecularities that makes the dialect what it is, but people are just not aware of them (yet). A quick google search will tell you that.
Dim? The Hue bulbs I used were a lot brighter than the 'dumb' bulbs I replaced. This was a couple of years ago (before they had Bluetooth), not sure if they've changed the specs in the meantime.
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Why should the purpose be to keep payroll flowing? Why not give money directly to people and let the market figure out where the payroll should be?

The focus on payroll is exactly why corporations benefitted at the expense of people.
IMO: having a menu bar with some moderate similarity between apps is good enough for discoverability.

Consistency is nice but it should never ever be done at the cost of any other features.
Apple coddling it's users is not coddling everyone. You still have Android, Pinephone, Linux laptops, Virtual Machines, and a whole host of other enthusiast platforms.

Even though the vast majority of cars have a plethora of safety features there is is still a thriving amateur racing scene that isn't going away and is a path for those who want to be race car drivers. Meanwhile I get a car that I can turn on cruise control in traffic and not have to think as hard about speed and as a result get a much safer and more enjoyable experience on long car trips.
Absolutely agreed. Just got the AA Wireless dongle a couple weeks ago via an IndiGogo campaign and absolutely love it.

The music is a bit choppy using the dongle, so for long trips, I still plug the phone in. But when out running errands where I'm in and out of the car often, having Android Auto loaded by the time the car turns on with my phone still in my pocket is a game-changer.
Earplugs are fussy things. But usually as long as they're not 'corks'(the old yellow foam cylinders)you should be fine.

Least with Howard Light it's Greens<Pinks<Oranges. Greens should be more than enough and are 'softer' if you've got a smaller ear canal. All of them work well.

You have to ensure you're putting them in correctly. Read the box. Roll the plug in your fingers, reach your other arm over you head to grab the top of the opposite ear, gently pull on the top of your ear, and insert the plug. You should feel & hear it expand forming a seal.

You can reuse foam ones a couple of times(can even get them corded), but be very, very wary of infections. And always put the same earplug back in the same ear(thus you don't spread anything).
Bread Book...which one? Or is the name of the book "Bread Book".

I have been making sourdough for about 2 years as well, but I am looking to expend to more baking using my starter.