This isn’t some weird exception. This is how most corporate demos are, almost without exception. The reason is that generally products are demoed 12-24 months before they are anywhere near ready. Often, they aren’t even in alpha status yet. Good, bad, whatever — that’s just the way it is.
Apple’s iPhone demo actually had more working than a lot of product demos do. Many are little more than a simulation of what might work one day, while the iPhone demo had actual working hardware and software — it just wasn’t that stable.
I’m puzzled by the decisions of Mozilla (over many years) and Apple more recently to make their products substantially worse. I think in large part it is due to the fact that they actually do hate their users, at least a large percentage of them. That is, both organizations despise and disdain their users they perceive as using their products “wrong.”
Though I’m still flummoxed — even though I know the technical reasons — about how very poor Apple’s font rendering is now. And in Catalina, it’s even worse than it was before, when it was already terrible. Way to make a 5K monitor look like a 1280×1024 CRT from 1998. That takes some skills, right there. Apple has gone from far superior to the dumpster disaster that is Windows 10 to being slightly worse at fonts. Only utter gobshites could fail that hard.
Maybe they really are trying to simulate a tty from 1972 with this new font destruction initiative? You know it’s bad when even the normals are noticing, which seems to be happening.
On immigration, both the left and the right are just unbelievably, heinously delusional, believing (or at least virtue signaling in that direction) absurd ideas that don’t and never could work in the real world, that bear no resemblance at all to any possibly reality. At a first estimate I think the right is a great deal crueler, but how the left uses immigrants (the more “undocumented” the better) as mascots and such is also nearly as vile in some important ways. Also, the left is far more likely to ask, “But who will wipe nana’s bum?” when talking about immigration, which just makes me incandescently enraged.
The whole immigration debate causes me to despair of anyone caring about evidence or actual people rather than ticking the right ideological box in front of their peers.
If you need Bank of America to tell you this, you’re years too late. I haven’t used a 60-40 portfolio, well, ever, but most investors should’ve stopped with this back in 2009 at least. If you didn’t, you’re out a load of money since then.
Could we be any more moronic? Sometimes when I see absurdly counterproductive crap like plastic straw bans and this, I think we do in fact deserve the apocalypse.
2010: wind+solar just aren't powerful enough technologies to scale to the problem. 2012: wind+solar are fine, but too dependent on subsidies. 2016: wind+solar are now too cheap, and it's messing up powergrid economics. 2019: let's rip out the old, and replace w/ wind+solar. pic.twitter.com/CzRAEabzcB
I miss files. I still create many of my own, but increasingly, that seems an anachronism, like using a quill rather than a pen. I miss the universality of files. The fact they can work anywhere, be moved around easily.
I agree with this and hate it. It’s the droolers fully gaining control. Once you lose files, that means that your data can (and absolutely will) be taken from you at any time.
I will never, ever, use Google Photos, AirDrop, etc., because it does change your files. It reduces their quality and probably sends them to China, too. Anything that changes my file without my permission is a big hell to the fuck no.
The droolers have won an indisputable victory, I am forced to admit. But I will have the last laugh when they inevitably lose all their data and I have mine still. I will never use any cloud service because that means when they decide to delete your data, it’s just gone.
Let’s talk about Satanic Panic. Another film that a lot of people didn’t understand — the usual passel of progressives and the like. It is, essentially, about the parasitism of the rich on the rest of society, the Boomer abandonment and disdain for their own children, and how the affluent both utterly depend on and despise the lower classes.
Ruby Modine as Judi and Hayley Griffith as Sam. Modine was excellent as the daughter of the coven leader.
For instance, in one scene Rebecca Romijn (great as the villain Satanist cult leader) says to her daughter, “I gave you the greatest honor, and you spat in my face. Your generation doesn’t understand sacrifice.” This “greatest honor” she’s referring to is her daughter having her body torn apart crotch-first as she births the demon Baphomet. Remind you of any rich Boomers you know?
The protagonist gets involved in this mess when she delivers pizza to a rich person’s house and becomes enraged when he stiffs her out of a tip on the large order. A lot of reviewers seemed to see all of this as coincidental or grace notes — meanwhile, it’s all making some fairly obvious (to me, at least) social commentary.
The movie is full of great little moments like that, such as the demon-summoning coven being run like a self-help or MLM group with the cultists chanting lines like, “Are you ready to make an investment in your future?”
The best part is when Sam the protagonist recycles a cheap line some guy had thrown at her to manipulate her into doing something she didn’t want to do. She, however, puts the line into service into tricking a demon into letting her go.
Best lines from the movie: “You go to Mill Basin a delivery boy, but you come back a delivery man.”
And:
“We’re going to hide in here like scared little bitches because they can turn your liver into fire ants. If they find us, they’re not going to kill us. They’re gonna do shit that you can’t comprehend. And they’re not going to stop until you’re strapped naked to a barbed-wire altar with the 15-foot beast of Gehenna and his double-pronged demon dong walking out of your cooch chute like it’s a revolving door of ground beef.”
Also, it was directed by a woman, Chelsea Stardust, which I suspect made it a far better movie given the content and the subtext of the even greater sacrifices women are supposed to make to the patriarchy even at the top of the heap.
Recommended. It’s short, it’s fun, and it has a lot to say.
The Netflix content delivery network passes 100Tb/s at peak.
HOLY FUCK.
That’s 12.5 terabytes a second. For comparison, and back of the envelope, the Netflix CDN passes as much data in a second as all humanity had generated in written form up until about 1960. One second.
1) must be able to train safely and long term (so Muay Thai is effective, but out); 2) Must be able to defeat a large opponent. 3) Must be able to defend against groups.
People attack when they are larger, or outnumber you.
Krav Maga. Yes, all the bros love it, but it works.
The truth is that there is little you can do to defend against groups unless you are a world-class fighter. It’s just not possible. Two people, maybe, if you get lucky. Three or more? No. Your only hope is to brutalize the first person so badly and so quickly that the others lose heart. But mostly, you’re just fucked. Running is really all you can do.
That’s just reality. Life isn’t a movie. You aren’t a superhero. If a group wants to hurt you, most likely they will.
And you thought I was kidding when I said they’d even be coming for your refrigerator and electricity one day.
It’s not a conspiracy in the formal sense, but it is the rich and the near-rich looking out for their own interests — with the full cheerleading and support of the “progressives”. In a world (as they see it) of decreasing resources, the more they can propagandize you to voluntarily relinquish any convenience or luxury, the easier it is for them.
Expect to see more of this. A lot more. It’s already ramped up an incredible amount in the last couple of years. Soon enough, I expect every third article in the NYT and similar to be about eating bugs, living in the pods, giving up electricity and air conditioning and the like.
