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utexaspunk commented on 'Lukewarm' and 'lukecool' (2021)   grammarphobia.com/blog/20... · Posted by u/tintinnabula
samatman · 2 years ago
Lukewarm isn't a good candidate for an antonym, because it describes a specific temperature. Not an exact specific temperature, one can't mark "lukewarm" on a thermometer, but consider being presented with two bowls of soup and asked which is "more lukewarm". Either neither is, one is and the other isn't, or both are, lukewarm. In the last case, how do you decide which is more so? Is it the slightly warmer one, or the slightly cooler one?

It's like with cooking steak: you could say well-done is the antonym of rare, I'd agree[†] with that as a premise. But medium doesn't have an antonym, and it makes less sense to describe the antonym of medium-rare as medium-well, they aren't opposites.

[†] If you would prefer "blue" or even "raw" for maximum contrast, that's fine by me, both cool and cold are antonyms[‡] of warm, same principle.

[‡]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/warm

utexaspunk · 2 years ago
I'd say it's kind of like room temperature. Lukewarm may be a little above room temp. The antonym would be any other temperature
utexaspunk commented on E3 Is Officially Dead   washingtonpost.com/entert... · Posted by u/eXpl0it3r
sylens · 2 years ago
It's sad, but E3 is really a relic of a bygone era. In the 90s or early 2000s, you almost never saw media from unreleased games. The best you could hope for was a few screenshots in a magazine (and later a website) to tide you over, surrounded by illustrative writing by games journalists. E3 was there to inform retailers of what products were coming, motivate them to dedicate shelf space to sell them, and lastly to provide a concentrated pile of news for the mainstream media to disseminate. This is why for so long the keynotes/showcases were called "press conferences". You can even find some recorded videos from these older E3's where Nintendo and Sony are presenting pie charts and graphs in a fairly monotone cadence.

Today, with the ubiquity of Youtube, Twitch, and other ways of seeing game footage and content, E3 just became another marketing event. And it was an expensive one at that. Publishers and platform holders chafed at the fact that they would have to do a live stage show where gaffes and demo disasters could occur, and marketing departments hated the fact that all of their effort could be easily overshadowed by another company's big reveal. You saw Sony tap out even before the pandemic hit, opting for its own separate showcases where they could control the message and dominate the news cycle. That became the model that more and more companies decided to pursue.

I will miss it because it was a fun event in the middle of May (and later June) that gave you a nice preview of what cool stuff was coming later in the year. There are also some legendary moments from the live presentations over the year, ranging from Sony getting on stage and only stating the price of the Playstation (which could undercut Sega's Saturn by $100, after Sega had decided to rush it for a surprise launch that day) to J Allard introducing the world to the new paradigm of centralized online gaming in 2005.

utexaspunk · 2 years ago
It's sort of like the PC User Groups that were more or less rendered redundant by the internet. I remember going to the HAL-PC (Houston Area League of PC Users) monthly general meetings as a kid and there could easily be over a thousand people there when they'd do things like having Microsoft and Lotus come and present their latest versions of Excel/123 in a "shootout". There were great door prizes, too. The internet came and there just wasn't a need for that anymore. It's kind of a shame, though, just because it felt like a real community thing.
utexaspunk commented on Scrollbars are becoming a problem   artemis.sh/2023/10/12/scr... · Posted by u/dredmorbius
breakfastduck · 2 years ago
Most plugins used in music software do take that approach. Where the plugin interfaces are modelled to look 'like hardware' in most cases, with nobs, sliders, all the things you'd expect on a hardware compressor / synth etc.

I like it.

utexaspunk · 2 years ago
Knobs on a mouse UI suck
utexaspunk commented on Show HN: Learn piano without sheet music   jacobdoescode.com/piano-t... · Posted by u/jacobp100
layer8 · 2 years ago
The problem with this is remembering what you want to play, for pieces of any length and complexity. The comparison in that case is not talking, but reciting a long poem/article/novel.
utexaspunk · 2 years ago
I mean, I can sing or whistle any song I can think of -surely thousands of tunes- without thinking about what I need to do with my lips. That same mechanism that connected tune in head to lips and mouth can also connect tune in head to fingers on piano with enough effort.
utexaspunk commented on When your classmates threaten you with felony charges   miles.land/posts/classmat... · Posted by u/epoch_100
dahfizz · 2 years ago
IANAL, but the law does not require you to "circumvent" anything[1].

Simply, anyone who "accesses a computer without authorization ... and thereby obtains ... information from any protected computer" is in violation of the CFAA.

If the researchers in question did not download any customer data, nor cause any "damages", I am not sure they are guilty of anything. BUT, if they had, "the victim had insufficient security measures" is not a valid defense. These researchers were not authorized to access this computer, regardless of whether they were technically able to obtain access.

Leaving your door unlocked does not give burglars permission to burgle you.

[1] https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/1030

utexaspunk · 2 years ago
What about just trying the doorknob to see if it's locked. Is that illegal?
utexaspunk commented on The Tetris Effect   nonzerosum.games/thetetri... · Posted by u/Kiro
lkbm · 2 years ago
Frac was the one I had as a kid: https://archive.org/details/Frac_1020
utexaspunk · 2 years ago
Loved me some Frac!
utexaspunk commented on Why do Ivy League students self-sabotage?   movingthelimit.com/why-do... · Posted by u/MovingTheLimit
Swizec · 2 years ago
Another common reason for self-sabotage that the article doesn’t mention is ego.

Failure sucks, especially when it’s because you just aren’t good enough. But if you self-sabotage, at least you were right. You thought you’d fail and you did fail. Ego wins!

And who knows, maybe if you actually tried, you wouldn’t have failed! You weren’t not good enough after all, you just didn’t try. You totally could’ve done it if you wanted to, you just didn’t wanna.

Ego stays nice and safe.

utexaspunk · 2 years ago
It is a common thing among those who grow up being praised for their intelligence. If one comes to base their self-worth on their intelligence and believe it is a static quality they were born with, struggling and/or failing could demonstrate that perhaps they weren't as smart as people gave them credit for and thus decrease their inherent self-worth. They quit things if they don't immediately excel at them or just adopt the "slacker" role and put in minimal effort, brushing off their failures as merely the result of not really caring about whatever it was they were attempting. "Eh, I could have been good at [x], but it bored me" or whatever
utexaspunk commented on Benchmarking Cheap SSDs for Fun, No Profit   louwrentius.com/benchmark... · Posted by u/louwrentius
utexaspunk · 3 years ago
No read performance? Other than being solid state, that's the real advantage of SSDs, especially non-sequential ones. I typically use an SSD for the OS and applications, and then use a regular hard drive for the actual content that I work with which needs better write performance. It may take (very) slightly longer to install the applications to the SSD, but they start up faster.
utexaspunk commented on Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate   cnbc.com/2023/02/21/amazo... · Posted by u/mmurph211
bradgessler · 3 years ago
This is what I don't understand about return-to-office mandates for global software/services companies. Even 10 years ago when I'd visit Google HQ, I'd always end up on a conference room on a Google Meet with other Googler's from around the world. What is the point of going to an office to be on video calls all day?
utexaspunk · 3 years ago
Maintaining the value of commercial real estate?
utexaspunk commented on Amazon employees push CEO Andy Jassy to drop return-to-office mandate   cnbc.com/2023/02/21/amazo... · Posted by u/mmurph211
jonas21 · 3 years ago
> just to sit in a stuffy room and zoom

Presumably, that's what the return to office plan is trying to fix. Right now, if you go into the office, you're spending a lot of time in zoom calls because half the people in every meeting aren't there. If everyone's in the office, you can just meet in person.

utexaspunk · 3 years ago
My company mandated everyone back in the office but everyone still meets via Teams, even when we have offices next door to each other. Making people come is just dumb. Imagine the environmental benefits, traffic reduction and inflation hedge that would result from outlawing return-to-office mandates for jobs that can be performed remotely. Of course, that will never happen because commercial real estate would tank.

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