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But how many of those games are console shifters? Hell back in the day I finally caved and bought a PS3 because of MGS4. Alright it may only shift say, 60% of the units, but if more of those units included a console purchase too then the onward value is huge.

Uncharted did more for PS3 than MGS4. I doubt anyone bought a PS4 for Death Stranding.

I can accept the authors bias, but all credibility was gone when I read “AccuRev was a fantastic system”. AccuRevs UX was akin to putting your face next to a farting anus and breathing deeply.

Honestly felt like I was missing some sort of satirical masterpiece as the author gleefully declared all the up and coming projects that are going to scatter open source projects to the four corners of the Earth.

Maybe they’ve been so locked into version control tooling as a career they’ve missed the bigger picture, but version control before git ubiquity sucked. Not saying Git is perfect but come on, are our memories so short?


Apple has had a patent[1] for like a decade at this point which involved placing an iPhone into a slot on a laptop so it could be used in a laptop form, with the phone itself serving as the touchpad.

[1]: https://www.tomsguide.com/news/apple-patents-device-that-doc...

Edit to add: the phone itself is intended to be the main processing unit, the “laptop” is just a screen and keyboard.


This company https://nexphone.com/ has been doing something like that since 2016 but of course in a different way, by attaching the phone to a laptop shell or more simply to a USB hub.

Because in Celsius, 0 lets you know the water outside will likely be frozen and 100 lets you know the water in your pot is likely boiling. This is utterly useless information.

It is nowhere near as useful day to day as knowing 0°F means a very specific saltwater brine mixture will likely be frozen, and 90°F is kind of as hot as your insides. Or 96. Or 98.6 as the third revision decided.


Also the 0 and 100 is at sea level.

If you actually measure a boiling pot (assuming you aren't at the beach), it will likely not be exactly 100 degrees, but less (or more, haven't had my coffee so I can't calculate).

So for most day to day stuff, it's equally arbitrary. And pretty much _nobody_ needs a thermometer to tell if something's boiling, you wait for a rolling boil. Or frozen, you wait until it looks like ice.

So again, great on paper, but in day to day use, not necessarily more useful than F.


I find F way more intuitive for weather. The larger scale helps. 100 is hot. 0 is quite cold. Boiling point is irrelevant. 32 freezing is the only thing that feels arbitrary.

Yeah and freezing point is whatever because that moves anyway and also doesn't say a lot about whether or not there will be snow

in celsius:

50 hurts to the touch, your chip has likely broken and given off its black smoke 30 is good for swimming in cold water >25 is worth worrying about sun stroke. make sure to drink a lot of water 24-26 is a nice summer day 18-22 is comfortable room temperature >15 is good enough shorts weather 0-10 needs at least a light jacket <0 you have to be attentive about frost bite, but not worried -5 either wants gloves or good pockets -15 wants a sweater and jacket < -15 you should probably plug in your car -10 - -25 is good downhill skiing weather -20 - -27 is right cold, full winter gear: toque, scarf, mittens, thick socks, the whole kit and kaboodle, but still chic -30 - -40: ski version of the full winter gear, including snow pants, double socks, and good boots. both your warmest sweater and ski jacket

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its really just what you grew up with that will make sense.

like, wtf is 72 and 54 and mid 80s? i have no backing reference to put them into scale, even after living in the states for a decade. 500, 275, 425, 150 do make sense in F for me because thats what ovens list


>like, wtf is 72 and 54 and mid 80s

Exactly what their relation to 0 and 100 would imply. Middle, ~75 percentile, 80+ percentile.


I had no idea “eyebrows” was a term until I started using Claude to generate designs. That model is eyebrow crazy, every section of the output has them.

Even comprehensive design skills like impeccable miss filtering them out (it only detects “eyebrow chips” and not the prolific barrage of basic eyebrows.)


Love the aesthetic. There was another ezine like this years ago focused on cybersecurity, I’ve forgotten its name now but the ASCII art involved was top notch.

Does anyone have any idea? It was definitely when Twitter was still Twitter as I remember reaching out to them about their ASCII art.


Maybe you're thinking of Phrack [1]? I wonder if there'll be another edition of it, and if yes what it would look like, now that the AIpocalypse seems to have reached security research...

[1]: https://phrack.org


Darnet Diaries'episode about the legendary phrack

https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/170/


there will be a new Phrack this year still!


Thank you, that is very reassuring to know :D

(and interactions like these are part of the reason why I <3 HN)


Not Phrack but I did find it, ThugCrowd [1]!

[1]: https://thugcrowd.com/archive.html

Edit to add, apparently one of the ThugCrowd people is part of tmp.0ut so that would explain why my mind immediately went there.


Bailed after the first paragraph, AI is increasingly becoming harder to read.


Those commas do appear to be a load-bearing seam for the sentence — that’s not guaranteed proof, it’s just strong indication.


The honest read: it’s not just AI, it’s annoying!


You mean "smoking gun".


It’s all just ones and zeroes, and maybe a two. You never can tell with these computers!


console.print(“these logs are a load-bearing seam, do not remove”)

It’s foolproof, I tells ya.


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