So was the last lottery winner. I can certainly improve my chances but there is a huge amount of luck involved.

And importantly, in this analogy - most people here aren't even able to play that lottery. He founded a company based on the research he did whilst studying for a government funded PhD. Most people are not in a position in their life where they could even spend time trying to do research that would result in this type of eventual wealth.

This is one of the easiest paths to gain a competitive advantage that can be monetized. You are much less likely to fall into a pool of money.

Just like becoming a MD has much better odds at getting you some amount of money than dropping out of school. About the same path by the way.

But you can keep playing the lottery if you think it has better odds or even the same odds...

If you don't try you are sure to not win. The rest is about being able to put the odds in your favor. You obviously can't do that with lottery. There is no logical lever.

This has been making the rounds for the years and I think what captivates me the most is the art style. There is something about it I cannot put my finger on. Just like the art style of Moebius or the 90's game Flashback.

To me it has very Habbo hotel like graphics, not the same but it hits the same "itch". Specifically with the dancing.

I thought for sure this was eBoy at first. The style is similar and eBoy has been around forever but looks like it’s just someone else who is really good at this stuff.

https://www.eboy.com/

Silicon Valley (TV show) had a similar themed intro style

Ouch, this now looks dated. Society is in another mood...

The art style reminds me a bit of that of Al Jaffee in MAD magazine.

Theme Hospital

That was my first thought too. I replayed it recently. Still a great game.

The style reminds me of the old Alien Syndrome arcade game

Looks more like Xcom: UFO Defense

I hope this gets incorporated into the existing website. I'm not an active subscriber but I used to be and I always thought there was a very fertile "other articles you might like" grounf that the New Yorker never took advantage of, given it's reputation and legacy.

I’ve happily lost hours to following links at the bottom of one story to the next. The new archive still feels a little clunky (search needs a fair bit of work and the OCR clearly struggled in places), but it’s fun to chase down old classics and they’ve done a great job of highlighting greatest hits from the past 100 years.

Plus the (really high-quality) crossword puzzles often have an Easter egg where the big revealer is linked to an essay from the past.

The Atlantic has this. Related articles going back to the 1800s.

It doesn't work on iOS. All browsers in iOS are Safari with a different frontend. Apple doesn't allow it to be any different.

But many browsers on iOS support ad blockers. Most like Brave and Vivaldi have it built in. Others like Orion and Edge have added support for extensions. Firefox is one of the only that does not have any support for an ad blocker.

I'm not really familiar with Secure Boot too much. Researching suggests that users can add their own keys so they are trusted by UEFI. Won't this resolve for linux users that must have secure boot on?

No, it's not a given that users can add their own keys - certainly in an anticheat scenario they probably couldn't, or at least if they did then key attestation would stop working.

It's usually a giant pia.

Some distros support it, some make it really difficult.

I like to distro hop. I'll often have to try two or three to get to a working system.

I've had no issues setting it up with Fedora and Ubuntu with kmods/Nvidia drivers. I just say I want it, and I have it. It's really easy now.

"user asks a question"

AI: The problem with your question is that...

Occam's razor would suggest that your theory is wrong. Please try again.

Enshittification captures a specific type of degradation - the inevitable deterioration of a product or service under an economic system that is obligated to secure ever larger profits. I like the fact that it is slightly vulgar because there is an element in this process that is revolting - the idea and acceptance that its fulfillment is guaranteed.

The vulgarity also carries with it higher odds of the term detaching from the intellectual sphere and into the common man, increasing awareness and hope of consumer pushback.

If you want to watch all of your team's games you need to a) purchase an expensive monthly cable subscription from the company that holds the football rights. b) pay a sizeable sum on top, I think it's about 50 euros per month to be able to watch the actual matches.

This is just for La Liga games, you'll need to pay extra if your team plays in other competitions.

Does this matter? I want to watch the games at home, with my friends.

Sure. Me too. But I also sometimes want to watch the games at a bar, with my friends. And the rate they charge bars in Europe is extortionately high. I wouldn't be surprised if those are the primary targets in this crackdown.

Would be very interested in hearing what's your definition of racism.

Textbook: discrimination (=unequal treatment) on the basis of race.

And I suppose you don't fall into that definition because you discriminate not based on their race but on their culture?

Of course, who doesn't?

Would you like people who think raping 12-year-olds is fine because their prophet did it, living in your neighborhood, and going from 10% to 90% of the local population?

Some cultures are just better than others. Some are downright evil.

>I mean that is what normal people care about, too.

Depends on how you define normal. I think it's much more likely that the number of people who care about it deeply is extremely small - a small sub-group within the group of people who see gaming as their main hobby.

> I think it's much more likely that the number of people who care about it deeply is extremely small

And yet large enough to support the existence of DF whom has a heavy focus on exactly this. So obviously a market exists.

My sense is that frame rate is a buzzy topic for nerds to nerd out over. The same way that nerds use to nerd out over RAM. Talking about it seems like a high effort status signal. But those can be swapped out for other things easily.

You can't feel RAM, you can feel bad framerate.

You’re projecting.