I think the bigger problem is that once people have watched Ted Lasso what reason is there for them to stick around?

Well, as the article is saying, Apple have lots more great shows that people aren't watching. Silo, Slow Horses, Severance - all fantastic.

Guess you never spent time programming the //e or older ][ and ][+. Seriously, you think the gs was slow? Compared to what I started with in college (the //e), the gs was rocking.

Always amazing how people think they're the first generation to deal with or discover things or face issues and have no clue what things were like before them.

I didn't get anything banned, but I left for similar reasons. I think they were going with cheap mods who probably had poor English skills (because they were from whatever country where labor was cheapest by the hour). But in many ways my issue was the opposite: The answers that were getting in the newsletter and getting all the attention and were not getting banned were the ones giving advice that would get people evicted, arrested, or just in court because it would make it easy for the landlord to sue to them or for tenants to sue them as a landlord.

That's been going on for years. It was a problem back when I was active and one of many reasons I left, even though I was a Top Writer (or whatever that title is) in one category. Top Writer? Yeah, still meant not getting much in terms of newsletter mentions when compared to the people giving answers that, if followed, would land people in court, or jail, or out on the street when evicted.

The vast majority of the ones I saw like that were political or dealing with anti-vax or other conspiracy theories.

At one time you could go to Quora for good answers and intelligent discussion on those answers. It's been a good while since that was the case. They've been pushing popular or flame-bait answers for a good while over factual or quality answers. I used to work as a landlord and would work hard to write good answers to questions so I could actually help people. I got thanked for them, but the answers to similar questions that kept showing in my feed, ones that were getting all the views and reactions, were usually inaccurate and often even advised people to do things that they could get sued or sent to jail for. I'd report inaccurate answers or bad advice that could get some arrested for larceny or worse and nothing happened.

Quora hasn't been about answers or helping people or exchanging information for at least several years. If it goes tango-uniform and the bigshots behind it lose their stock equity and get loans called in and lose houses and yachts, it's nothing more than poetic justice.

If you're saying the left is better than the right these days, you are the brainwashed one.

You're right, they're just the same - I remember when Joe Biden gave a speech to whip his supporters up into a frenzy to foment a violent insurrection and overthrow the results of a fair election. And of course, that time when Joe rang up senators trying to strongarm them into finding some extra votes for him, or the time he put state secrets in his bathroom. (roll eyes)

I'm not an American, and as a European following US politics, you appear to have a one party state and a group of contrarian fascists who should all be rotting in jail cells. Instead, they're on TV, spouting hate and stupidity for the dumbest of Americans to lap up.

Suggesting that the US Republicans and Democrats are even remotely comparable is the most stupid fucking thing I've seen on this site in quite some time.

this could be set in some D&D-esque backdrop and they could have saved a lot of money on IP.

I think their thinking was that if it didn't have the LotR name on it, they wouldn't be able to justify how much they were spending because far fewer people would watch it.

Even the Tolkien fans who hated it still watched it to make sure they hated it I guess?

The most basic facts are that the world population is now over 8 billion and still rising quite fast; and that the maximum human population that the Earth can sustain indefinitely is somewhere between 500 million and 2 billion - depending on how resource-intensive a lifestyle they choose.

Is this not begging the question? How do you know that the planet can only sustain a maximum of 2 billion people? If that were the case and there are 4x as many of us as the planet can support, why are we not suffering from resource shortages that would reduce our population?

While I agree completely with your point that superhero movies have gotten samey and repetitive, Man of Steel is Superman - DC, not Marvel.

I had a very similar problem with Ubuntu and the amdgpu kernel module for newer AMD APUs, like the one in my Thinkpad T14. It also affected Chromium based apps like Slack, Skype and Spotify, and they would randomly freeze and cause a complete system hang.

I fixed it by upgrading the kernel to Ubuntu's 6.1.7 stable build. Disabling hardware acceleration in chrome://settings also works.

Firefox is better anyway!

I feel like I really lucked out by managing to get a bit more time than the doctors anticipated. I really wanted to progress on that front too. And for all the rough stuff in the past handful of years I actually got to see humanity pushing for the stars more seriously than any time in my adult life. At least how I measure progress there. This, Tiangong, even getting to hear the sound of wind on mars. I'm really grateful I managed to get to see this.

I'd agree that the evidence is lacking. But I think it's important to note that it's not because of contradictory evidence. It's just that it hasn't been studied outside of those small projects. Other than that we've just got anecdotes. And the fact that I never see slim people drinking soda, diet or otherwise, is at least suggestive to me. I don't think it's a wild proposal to say that someone constantly drinking sweet things will maintain and even cultivate a taste for sweet foods. And yeah, it's tempting to just say "but willpower!". We just don't seem to work that way as a whole though. There are always exceptions. But I generally feel like it's a safe bet that someone drinking diet soda will wind up gaining weight just like the person who only smokes a couple cigarettes a week will escalate the habit.

I know complaining isn't adding anything either. But I was thinking the same thing as I scrolled down past the anti-china stuff and the anti-musk stuff. The article did at least get me to look further into the Tiangong station. Even if not to the point where I feel qualified to really say anything about it. Still though, it's sad that something this amazing gets buried under so much negativity. I mean you can dislike a country's government and still applaud the accomplishments of people living within it. Or even dislike a CEO while still appreciating what the people he employs have been able to create.

That was a far more heartwarming story than I ever expected to read about the economics of GPUs. I don't have much to add but just wanted to mention how sweet this is. It's always cool to hear about tech development in the context of familial bonds.

Elements of COVID were pretty basic. But I think that taken as a whole it was a horrifically complex problem. It's easy enough to determine things in carefully controlled environments. But needing to anticipate the behavior of a huge population who are often performing very different actions to what they report can be insidiously difficult. You can easily determine the effectiveness of X when variables Y and Z are introduced in a controlled environment. But it gets a lot harder when people bring along a thousand other variables. And even worse when most of them will lie about doing so, whether they're aware of the fact that they're doing so or not.