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- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 1 day ago:
The question is basically answered now, so I’ll just drop this video here for some additional context about Microsoft’s history of trying to build a file system that solves the problem, and the challenges they faced even in the early XP days:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5d5H92c4Mk
tl;dw: MS tried to understand the context of each file, not just the name. Once you add dozens of pieces of metadata to each of tens of thousands of files (even 20+ years ago), the whole system became too difficult for them to properly index and manage efficiently.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 days ago:
Yeah, my wife teases me all the time about not answering. “Going to the store after work” doesn’t, IMHO, require me to do or say anything about it.
A direct question will almost always get a response.
It’s going to be a little different for married couples, though. Even if I don’t respond, we’ll be talking face-to-face in a few hours tops.
- Comment on Nexus Mods Sale Sparks Concern in Modding Community 1 week ago:
Might be too late. They changed the policy a few years ago when they introduced mod packs. They didn’t want entire packs to fail if one person pulled their mod, so total deletion was disabled.
Folks can still hide their mods and make new individual downloads impossible, but it’s still there in the background.
(All this is from memory. I hope I’m wrong)
- Comment on We went from LEARN TO CODE to NO ONE LEARN TO CODE GET A CONSTRUCTION JOB in about a 3 year span. 2 weeks ago:
As soon as I graduated, ‘too many people are fighting for IT jobs, depressing salaries, meanwhile we’re paying plumbers $100/hour.’
That was 2001. Almost 25 years later, I recently paid a plumber $300/hour.
- Comment on As The Outer Worlds 2 hits $80, director says "we don't set the prices for our games" and wishes "everybody could play" Obsidian's new RPG 2 weeks ago:
I’ve always maintained that the first was a fine game that was tanked by the price. It was priced to drive gamepass subs, not sell the game. At $35-40, it would have been received much better, imo. Years later, now that it’s more appropriately priced, it seems to be more well-reviewed.
Unfortunately the second is going down the same path. It may take 5+ years for the game to be appreciated to its fullest (assuming no glaring issues), through no fault of the devs.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
This is why subject matter experts matter. Support for the vague idea of “deport people here illegally” is pretty high, but any specific method of actually doing it is much more unpopular. Media is essential in getting that distinction out to the laypeople, but they’ve largely failed.
And I’d argue that it’s not just immigration where this disconnect exists. Lots of policies have broad support until you start talking about specifics. People just want to “get things done” but the “how” is either boring or unsavory.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
You can handle what you can handle, and trying to drink from the firehose will only burn you out. Be as active in your community as you can, when you can, then take a break when you need to. Your own mental health matters, too.
- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 2 weeks ago:
Can’t be. I was born in the 70s and I’m only what the fuck?
- Comment on Thousands of years ago, when tools were very primitive, it was probably common to have a favorite rock. 2 weeks ago:
Wasn’t that long ago that people even had pet rocks.
- Comment on Would alcohol be as popular if it weren't a beverage? 3 weeks ago:
For many people, “drugs,” with no other qualifier, is just short-hand for “illegal drugs.” Plenty of people who say they don’t use drugs also take prescriptions or OTC medications.
It will be interesting in the next few years to see where marijuana ends up on that spectrum. Still largely illegal (federally), but if that changes, will people still consider it a “drug” in the same way they do now, or will it fall into a separate category like drugs that are mostly legal?
- Comment on You can now format text in Windows 11's Notepad 3 weeks ago:
What Microsoft says: We’re getting rid of Wordpad.
What Microsoft means: We’re getting rid of Notepad. - Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
IIRC James Cameron intended Terminator 2 to end the series. The monologue at the end was full of hope that everything had changed and the future wasn’t written in stone.
Then the studio saw dollar signs and shit all over the message.
- Comment on Safe to run a box fan face down? 4 weeks ago:
You could always build a plywood box/cube thing to duct the airflow downward, but with an opening on the side so you can use any cheap box fan.
- Comment on WTF is a rural town in the USA? 4 weeks ago:
See also: census designated places, a collection of people with no formal town incorporation/government. My dad grew up in a “town” (CDP) of about 250 residents. It’s about a half hour drive from the nearest real town, for things like groceries and hospitals.
- Comment on New ‘Marathon’ Info: Bungie Morale, Launch Worries And Changing Plans 5 weeks ago:
Bungie is a lot like Bioware in that regard: Some real bangers on the resume, but none very recently. It should serve as a reminder that companies don’t make games, people do. If the right people aren’t involved, or too many of the wrong people are, past successes are entirely meaningless.
- Comment on I have never met a woman named after her own mother 1 month ago:
Do middle names count? My grandmother’s first name became my mother’s middle name. Then my sister and her daughter also got that middle name.
- Comment on Top 10 PC exclusive platformers -- not available on console. 1 month ago:
Let’s not overlook the historical significance of another PC-exclusive (until some much later ports) action-platformer, the Commander Keen series.
The success of the first release inspired the creators to quit their day jobs and start their own company, id software.
- Comment on Every week has WTF in it (MTWTFSS) 1 month ago:
After Monday and Tuesday, even the calendar is like, “WTF”.
- Comment on Why is nobody mad about TGI Fridays taking the lords name in vain? 1 month ago:
TGI Fridays stands for Thank God it’s Friday!
Lol, they can’t even decide if “Friday(s)” is singular or plural.
- Comment on Instead of Orange Man doing Tariffs would it not have been better for him to talk about shopping locally and so forth. And giving more tax breaks to companies that stay and sell in the US? 1 month ago:
It’s harder to do insider trading if you aren’t manipulating markets by posting contradictory statements every morning from your gold-plated toilet.
- Comment on The Brits had an anthem ready for when Margaret Thatcher died. Americans should also be prepared. 1 month ago:
Always eat your veggies first. I recommend asparagus.
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 2 months ago:
Yeah, I don’t remember all the details myself, so you’re probably right. I was basically trying to support your thesis that Bethesda getting nasty over mods would be something entirely new and out of character. The only example someone could even try to point to had a bunch of other (better) explanations than “mod bad, Bethesda mad.”
- Comment on Skyblivion fan project lead reacts to Oblivion remake news with "all love and no hate" 2 months ago:
For all their faults, Bethesda may be the most mod-friendly AAA studio out there right now.
I can vaguely recall a single instance where they shut someone down, and that was over re-used audio assets from an older game. That was almost certainly about contractual licensing obligations to voice actors.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 2 months ago:
On the one hand, it has to be a mistake, right?
On the other, malicious harassment of an immigration lawyer with a “foreign” sounding name is exactly the sort of thing you’d expect right now.
Absolute best case scenario for this administration is that they are prone to making stupid, dangerous, embarrassing mistakes that will end up getting someone hurt or worse. And that’s giving them way more benefit of the doubt than they’ve earned.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 2 months ago:
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Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
- Comment on How likely is it that Trump will be the first President assassinated since Kennedy? 2 months ago:
President Mike Johnson outlaws women going out in public alone and institutes daily Bible reading classes. Attendance is mandatory if you don’t want to end up in an El Salvador slave prison.
- Comment on Forza Horizon 5 Will Require a Microsoft Account to Play on PS5 3 months ago:
FH4 and 5 are effectively MMOs. There is plenty to do alone, and the other players can mostly be ignored, but it’s still a shared world.
- Comment on The world might be a whe different place if Ask Jeeves won the search engine wars 4 months ago:
I was working tech support at my university when all these search engine first started appearing. It was also the era of aggressive typo squatting domains.
AskJeebes dot com was a super hardcore porn site.
- Comment on Where did Captain Planet go when he flew away? 4 months ago:
So what I’m hearing is that we need to throw 99% of our garbage away at the north pole.
- Comment on Microsoft removes Windows 11 24H2 official support on 8th 9th 10th Gen Intel CPUs 4 months ago:
Unless I’m reading this wrong, it’s all kind of moot.
Devices with these CPUs may not be manufactured with Windows 11 pre-installed and may only be upgraded to Windows 11 by a customer.
They won’t sell OEM licenses for chips that haven’t been manufactured for a few years. Users can still update themselves, and retail licenses appear to be unaffected.