😡 😢

R I.P. Heehaw.

I just said this to my girlfriend

She responded: …it’s the 11th.

To which I said: Even better 😎

This was a 00s and earlier thing. There is no prime time anymore.

Now that you mention it it’s weird being of an age where characters flashback to themselves as kids, and it’s an era I know…

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The opposite, even. Tedx Talks … are paid by the presenters to have the platform

That’s completely untrue. If anything, regular TED provides some expenses beyond travel stipend (meals etc), but do not pay for speaking. Neither TED nor TEDx do, and if anything you have it backwards.

Provide a source, because I am certain you pulled that out of your ass.

For TED proper, speakers can receive more than just travel and lodging. TED currently says it also provides a small stipend to offset expenses or financial impact from preparing for and attending the conference. It is explicitly not a speaking fee or honorarium. Source

For TEDx, the rule is much harder: no speaker fee at all. Organizers can cover travel, hotel, meals, etc., but TED explicitly prohibits paying speakers. Source

There have been folks paid by separate programs to do TED talks. But TED didn’t pay them or the folks who paid them. They’re an agnostic platform when it comes to financing.

Boo this man!

Halo 2s terribly hard difficulty was consistent. It did not relent to your failures.

Horrible difficulty is APPRECIATED. difficulty that relents to my failure IS NOT.

Here: (frogarchist)

Brother you can’t say jackals had a balancing issue and complain about them being able to snipe you from a mile away unless you’re young enough that you didn’t play halo 2 on console.

That’s who they are. That’s what they do!

Im convinced most games today have basically impossible difficulties that allow for a win through RNG.

I’ll get absolutely eclipsed by a boss fight 12 times in a row the suddenly I come close. I get wrecked another 4 times, then I get REALLY CLOSE, OMG THERES HOPE! Then, I’ll lose some random number of times, 0 - 10, and then an easy win that made it feel like they handed it to me.

Getting sick of it. Racing games are the worst, but Halo Infinite comes to mind.

TED talks were never paid for. It’s a self promotion platform.

The real barometer.

Responsibilities.

They’re tough to avoid without living a lower quality of life. They come at you fast and consistently somewhere between age 15 and 35, depending on how much money your parents are able and willing to share with you.

Nowadays I just let my typos fly

Well not if you don’t want, but I think that just means you do the tying!

You’re not digesting the content of what I am saying; I’ll just end up repeating myself, so I am disengaging with you here. Cheers.

It’s not that there is no interest. It is that the current paradigm adequately solves the problems for the vast majority of users. Oberons infinite whiteboard will gain market share when it solves a problem users actually have.

I repeat, do not fix what is not broken.

“Program Manager wasn’t broken” doesn’t really contradict “don’t fix what isn’t broken.”

The point isn’t that interfaces should never change. It’s that changes should solve identifiable problems. Program Manager eventually stopped scaling well to how people were actually using computers, and the taskbar/start menu ux we all use today solved most of those problems. It took iterations, but we’ve got something pretty solid these days as compared to Windows 3.11.

If you think the current desktop UX has equivalent problems, identify them. “We’ve used this paradigm for a long time” is not itself a reason to replace it.

Yes. Do not fix what is not broken.

I guess it makes sense that the fastest land animal is a bit skittish.

The hardest part about this is calling something you’re working on “done.”

It’s done now. Check back in a year and there’s glaring issues, how the fuck did I not notice that?