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“Berenstein Bear”, but not “Mandala Effect”?
“Berenstein Bear”, but not “Mandala Effect”?
I’ve still got my copy of Windows 3.1 on 3.5" 1.44 MB disks; there are seven in total.
Now, Windows 95, that was a monstrosity on floppy disks.
Lithuania is considered, along with Latvia and Estonia, to be a developed country now. It really took a step forward after being freed from the chains of Russian subjugation.
certainly the man is due respect
How about no?
As somebody who fell into the deep end of a pool when I was younger of my own accord and took a decade or so to learn how to swim after that, I can say that’s the sort of thing that’s gonna fuck that kid up badly. Even today, I’m not entirely comfortable in the water.
I think the PRC lacks something in the soft power stakes; they’ve created some degree of good will outside the West, but they suck at projecting cultural output that doesn’t stem from the imperial Chinese era.
being as thorough and then some as I could ever hope to be
That’s not the flex you think it is.
You hang it out the side of the plane when you want to get out and taunt your enemy face-to-face. Well, face-to-face with a separation of a few miles, that is.
Can we get LLMs to design the engine?
I’m guessing there is also some schadenfreude, at least among some people, at seeing a European country getting colonised by a semi-Asian one.
All this tells me is that Indians’ objection to colonisation is that they weren’t the ones doing it.
I wonder if they’re counting on nobody in the mainstream press paying attention or even understanding how that stuff is embarrassing and just going for the zinger.
The term includes those devs who carry water for the Silicon Valley vulture capitalist crowd as well.
You know, one of the things I resent the most about shits like Thiel and Andreessen and Altman going around with ideas like supervillains from a Saturday morning cartoon is that whenever I try to talk to other people that aren’t familiar with them about their ideas, those ideas are so excessive and ridiculous that I end up looking like a crank and conspiracy theorist just talking about them.
The ultimate STEMlord misunderstanding of culture; something absolutely rife in the Silicon Valley tech-sphere.
I kind of feel like dating apps are sneer-worthy in another context anyway, but this comment does a decent job of summing everything up:
Wow, a new way to rip whatever joy was left in dating through the pursuit of profit!
It’s still something I’d rather have than not; not having it makes for a less fluid experience.
Yeah, the West kept semiconductor technology away from the Soviets for years and even though the Soviets managed ways of importing it through grey markets in other countries, their reverse-engineering attempts were consistently a decade or more behind the West, something that’s continued to this day in Russia.
The T-90 of air defence systems.