I miss the era of pixel art platformers with a cliff face for a difficulty progression curve (also 50-50 chance of being a roguelike)

Oh also another current theme of: Vampire Survivors, but with a vaguely different theme

In the blender? Far be it from me to yuck your yum

Into the blender for a milkshake or smoothie with that one

I may be biased, but those are two indicators of the very best kind of computer toucher

As someone whose brain reaches for rejection sensitive dysphoria by default, you really don’t have to let it devastate you.

Most rejection is rarely directly personal, and if it is, probably for the best anyway

Of course it does, they’re not gonna miss an opportunity to get you into their app from somewhere else

Punctuation is important here

What fuck?

Is different from

What, fuck?

Is different from

What? fuck.

I support this being made into an instant jail without parole crime

What did the Slovakians say before tractors were invented?

Yeah, but as someone who grew up down south and has lived in the north for the majority of my life:

Breakfast, lunch, dinner

Very clear, no fucker doesn’t know what you’re talking about

Breakfast, dinner, tea

What the fuck are you playing at, skipping lunch and having a drink to compensate?

Get in the sea

Tea is important enough in this country to not use the word again, especially not for the second most important thing: dinner

Oh I’m aware we don’t have one global standards org, but generally at ISO, IETF, IEEE, ITU & IEC are all some that come to mind with some level of shared interest, however I wouldn’t say they act competitively to each other and tend to work collaboratively rather than competitively.

I suppose interestingly, to use your HDMI example, this is kind of what happens when you don’t have a central standards body handling this stuff, HDMI came from the television industry and DisplayPort came from the computing industry. There is no technical reason for both to exist, and one could have been adapted to fill the needs of both and become the one standard if it wasn’t for industry groups ultimately trying to profit (HDMI carries licensing fees and requirements, so does DP to a lesser extent).

I guess you’re right though, I probably should have thought it through a bit more before my last comment

Yeah I was going to say the same, this was created by someone with an overly basic understanding of how these things work

Natural monopolies over things like infrastructure and standards aren’t necessarily bad as long as they’re not privately owned nor profit seeking.

For instance, I can’t exactly imagine how a market of competitive standards orgs would even remotely be able to reach the consensus necessary to accomplish the goal of creating standards. It’d just be an endless XKCD 927

Ahh cheers, yeah that one is more in line with the usual style

Not sure I’ve seen that one, but this is the comic artist for The Onion, satirising the style of those right wing comics (e.g Ben Garrison) that show contrived situations with labels all over them to try and make some point badly

I think I already read about drug dealers using delivery robots in cities where they have a presence already.

As soon as one of those Boston Dynamic dog bots can be bought at the nearest hardware store with an arm on them, I would not be at all surprised to find out they were being used for crime

I’m saying this with entirely no knowledge of actually how profitable pilfering catalytic converters is

As long as that password is the one for your password manager, all good

If you mean it’s the same password you send to basically every website you visit:

It is a matter of time before your password is leaked in a data breach, if that’s not already happened.

Title text:

‘Will [ ] allow us to better understand each other and thus make war undesirable?’ is one that pops up whenever we invent a new communication medium.

I love the romance of that scene, and I do enjoy an American dinner, but I’m sorry that coffee is just dreadful

As another commenter says, it’s their custom of making drip coffee and then leaving it on a hot plate to denature all flavour remaining after the aromatics have been cooked off

Americans: how many gallons of milk do you want me to put this burnt filter coffee in?