Antz was an excellent example of parallel creation, and the creation and rivalry between the two is a fascinating story and a microcosm of the broader early rivalry between Pixar and DreamWorks. It’s detailed in the Production section of the Antz Wikipedia page.

From context I’m assuming Pennsylvania is where Trump did his Maccas stunt?

The Age of Mythology campaign. It starts with you heading to the Trojan War because some pirates stole your statue’s trident…

Yup, exactly

Absolutely crazy how this went down. The impeachment vote needs a 2/3rds supermajority to pass. So 200 out of the 300 seats. The Government’s party controls 108 seats to 192 others, so they only needed 8 government Members needed to defect for it to pass. Party discipline would naturally keep people in line, but this vote is anonymous, so a small number could very easily defect without getting disciplined.

So, rather than risk that, the People Power’s official stance was that they would abstain from the vote by leaving the building.

The opposition says they will resubmit this motion every week until either it succeeds or Yoon steps down.

Agnès Callamard, Secretary-General of Amnesty International.

Note that there’s a severe vulnerability that was only patched very recently in 7zip. I’ve seen recommendations to fully uninstall it and then reinstall the latest version.

Butcher birds do do this, but that’s not a butcher bird that’s depicted.

“People called cancer the wolf, because it ‘ate up’ the person.” But this wasn’t just a linguistic quirk. The idea was actually translated into practice. “Some doctors would even apply raw meat to a cancerous ulcer, so that the wolf could feast on that for a while instead of ‘eating’ the patient.

Source

Letters from Whitechapel?

Either that or you buried the lede by failing to mention something rather significant about the hidden character, and you were playing Fury of Dracula. Or my boardgamegeek-fu isn’t as strong as I hoped.

Personally I loved

Ah yeah, that’s the one. I forgot the name. But it’s exactly what I was talking about when I said the other space comedy felt “mean-spirited”.

Radians are the objectivly better way to do angles

Yes, and tau is objectively better than pi. Just remember tau = 360°. Which is a full circle, which easier to work with than half a circle.

Sorry, but did you just say that reality is “a conservative social construct”?

I’ve gotta be honest, I couldn’t disagree more strongly with the underlying premise of this article that Lower Decks did not

[pay] respect to the source material without tearing it down or belittling it

I always found the humour of Lower Decks to be incredibly respectful to the source material. Like a loving wink to fans of Trek. (Very different from that other recent space comedy show which comes across as a mean-spirited parody of Trek.)

That said, the show they say Trek should replicate, Powerless, was really underrated. As a fan of DC who has been disappointed with most of DC’s live action stuff recently, Powerless was funny and clever and it did indeed poke fun in a friendly way at superhero tropes. It also happens to be possibly the last appearance of Adam West before his passing.

Yeah, there’s a reason I added that clarifying second sentence. To be a little more nuanced (but still overly simplistic because I don’t feel like writing an enormous essay right now), I would say you don’t have any expectation of privacy by default in public, but that anything that might reasonably amount to stalking because it’s targeted tracking of an individual, even if it involves footage of someone in public, is certainly not ok.

Yeah well said. UX just isn’t developers’ area of expertise, so they’re naturally not going to develop with it at the forefront of their minds. It needs to come down from the organisation caring about and hiring (or engaging on a voluntary basis) people who are actual UX experts that can work with developers to deliver an excellent user experience.

5 years ago, a YouTuber, musician, and UX designer who goes by Tantacrul made a comedic but accurately scathing review of the design flaws of popular open-source music notation software MuseScore. (He had previously done similar to closed-source Sibelius, and would later address Dorico.) By the end of the year, MuseScore had hired Tantacrul to head up their design team and he eventually oversaw the design and development of a completely new major revision of MuseScore with a professional team of developers. He also had a big part in Audacity’s more recent development, since Muse Group also owns that.

That’s one open source project that clearly really highly values a good user experience. They’re lucky though. It’s relatively easy for them to fund this because the open source software is a keystone element to their paid subscription web service with a very vibrant community of contributors. Not all open source has that.

I don’t even care about the privacy aspect per se. Phone number as user ID is a crappy UX that fundamentally does not work when international travel, multiple devices, or needing to get a number changed. It also doesn’t work for shared accounts or people who might want multiple identities.

Some of these relate to privacy, secondarily, but my primary concern is the UX.

There is no expectation of privacy in public.

By which I mean that things like blurring a house from Street View are unreasonable.