It's handy if you run a service and the internet runs clients you didn't write to access said service. (or vice versa)
Also handy if the internet is running a DDoS reflector and you're being targetted.
Otherwise, usually no sense of urgency for fixes I did for me/my employer and want the rest of the world to benefit. My problem is solved now, everyone else can get it when it ships.
My dad had trouble getting the Panzer General / other General Series to run.
iirc, the installer is 16-bit, there's problems with too much disk space and/or too much ram, and then there's cryptic error messages. Oh and the please don't run this on WindowsNT message.
We did find something 3rd party that uses the assets, so all wasn't lost, but ...
Windows has a reputation for amazing back compat, and it's pretty good, but it's not really surprising to find things that don't work. Especially games from that era, there are common issues that come up a lot, but afaik, there's no microsoft compat option to lie about disk space, ram, or vram ... or it doesn't automatically trigger at least.
> I won’t say I think outer space is easier, but the problem space is very different.
You didn't even mention pressure. Space is only 1 atm off of sea level. 100 meters below the surface is 10 atm more than at sea level ... all sorts of cool stuff you might want to explore is way deeper than that.
Less of a problem for robots than people, but still a problem.
There are a lot of tricks to deal with pressure, related to filling electronic “bottles” with 1 atm of pressure via nonconductive fluid. You are correct though, pressure is also a phenomenon that has to be accounted for or you’re gonna have a bad time.
In southern california, they have santa ana winds[1], which are often hot and very dry. When I lived there it was pretty unpleasant when they were strong. A hot wind in a place that's much warmer would be a lot of heat stress for people.
I thought I had disabled animations on android, but it looks like I have it set for half duration.
Probably because I had run into some apps with bugs when animations are disabled, and making them run twice as fast as normal is more compatible and reduce the annoyance enough that I forget its enabled. Apps that animate at normal speed in defiance of my settings get deleted.
But I also set windows not to show window content while moving or resizing, because I find that to be annoying too.
Reducing duration or eliminating animation is one of the first settings I do on a new install.
All of my professional jobs have been contingent on background checks and validating (to some degree) the things I put in the record. If I say I have a degree, they call to verify. They called to verify work history, although not being able to reach previous employers wasn't a deal breaker. I don't think just claim you have a degree when you don't works.
If you have a degree from a 'good school', that gets you some credibility by itself, but mostly a 4 year degree says 'this person can commit to doing difficult things without an immediate payoff for around 4 years' which is a valuable thing for employers.
I left WA in 2019, while the business api program was still very early, but that looks pretty close to pricing for SMS. Which makes market sense (imho) because it's a substitute good. SMS pricing varies wildly by destination country, sometimes by destination network.
Skimming the page, also note that the quoted prices are for marketting messages, other types of messages are much less expensive.
> but that looks pretty close to pricing for SMS. Which makes market sense (imho) because it's a substitute good
People switched to whatsapp because:
1. It was free unlike SMS
2. It was ubiquitously available like SMS (unlike BBM)
3. It was genuinely a good product.
This feels like Whatsapp (Meta) is rug pulling the users once everyone has moved to Whatsapp, almost analogous to what Uber did. Drive Taxis out of business with predatory pricing, and then increase the prices.
As a whatsapp user, I am quite happy that marketing messages are expensive. Puts a price on spam, which means I get less of it. If they want to send me something actually useful that usually falls into one of the other much cheaper categories
Would be nice if there was an easier way to get an API to message a small number of people though, without the ceremony meant for businesses that want to message thousands or millions
For SMS, the access to a specific consumer is often gated by a monopoly (that user’s telco provider) so they get to charge whatever they like. Therefore you see the variance (the greediness of individual telco). When WhatsApp join in the business messaging game, they want to maintain good relationship with the telcos and they also like the sweet margins they see they are making there.
Mario games have reduced the difficulty a lot, although you should probably compare Mario Wonder with SMB 1-3. Odyssey is more comparable with Mario 64.
One of the things though is when most peopley play SMB 1-3 today, they're playing with input lag. Mario Wonder was designed with input lag in mind, SMB 1 was not and it increases the difficulty.
Mario Wonder lets you choose to use invulnerable characters, etc. There was only one level I remember needing to try many times to beat. OTOH, there's lots of difficult levels in smb 1...
Also handy if the internet is running a DDoS reflector and you're being targetted.
Otherwise, usually no sense of urgency for fixes I did for me/my employer and want the rest of the world to benefit. My problem is solved now, everyone else can get it when it ships.
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