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This is kind of beside the point but... Shouldn't the the evolutionary metaphor be the opposite of how the author's using it? They go on about how we've settled in the trough, but …

It seems we're largely on the same page. I would point out though, sometimes those seemingly minor tweaks can be pretty important; they're not always at the level of typos in a boo…

> The question isn't whether a game has updates available, it's whether the un-updated version feels like a complete experience vs a compromised one. Exactly -- a game released a w…

There's a spreadsheet [0] tracking Switch games where you can see which ones have 'complete' versions on carts. It's roughly 1/4 for both first party and third party titles, though…

I've looked into it, and there doesn't seem to be any existing solution. You can transfer updates from one Switch to another, though, so if you have two Switches that opens up some…

Not a great article, but a very real phenomenon. I recently picked up a banned Nintendo Switch Lite for cheap -- meaning it can't download games or updates off Nintendo's servers, …

The difference here is that new emojis replace older designs. If designing a new font meant Times New Roman could no longer be used, that would be a problem.

This is the sort of thing that should / will be decided by courts, I think. We have many fuzzy laws where evaluating on a case-by-case basis makes more sense than deciding an arbit…

Main article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gangs_in_the_Los_Angeles_Count...

~2.5g of psilocybe cubensis is considered a standard dose; according to this [0] study, ~10mg/g is a pretty typical psilocybin concentration in mushrooms, so 25mg of pure psilocybi…

Since the map just has two states - land or water - I wonder if there's a way to represent the same information more efficiently bits rather than bytes.

A beautiful animated short about the Night Witches (artistic, not educational): https://vimeo.com/224657277

Nit: movies with sound were around as early as the 1800s; 1927 is just considered the turning point when they became commercially viable and widely available (with the release of T…

That's just not true. Off the top of my head: SMBX, Pokemon Uranium, Ocarina of Time 2D, AM2R. A few years back they mass DMCA'd hundreds of fan games on the site GameJolt, none of…

The article is pretty light on details. Essentially, the tree is first pruned to create a wide and sturdy base; once that's stable, subsequent shoots from the branches are pruned t…

The Nintendo 3DS has two cameras on the back, so you can turn its 3D photos into wigglegrams. I made a web app that does this automatically, it has a few demos where you can mess w…

Wow, this completely crashes Firefox for me. Don't think I've ever seen that before. Super cool though! Works fine on Chromium. I liked Pass the Ball, and it was really fun contort…

This is a longshot, but -- I have a lychee tree that's fruiting right now, with more fruits than I know what to do with, and I'm about to go on a road trip from Florida to the midw…

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One's perspective on this discussion really hinges on the question you raise: if an animal has a 'better' life in captivity by various metrics -- lifespan, access to food, safety f…

I dunno, it kinda freaks me out. For thousands of years we've been selectively breeding another species to love us unconditionally, and be so subservient to the point of dependence…