In the words of the Bolshevik who bayoneted the Romanov children, “nits grow up to be lice”

Depends if you’re in a country where ID has to be shown and registered in a database when activating a SIM card.

For TV, cost has something to do with it. Though beyond that, as far as storytelling goes, it’s easier to imagine first contact with a species that looks like roughly human-sized bipedal cat-lizards or something than, say, a swarm of telepathic jellyfish, some kind of fungal rhizome or Douglas Adams’ sentient shade of blue.

Sets a bad example to the kiddywinks. Climbing walls, throwing shurikens, sneaking up on people and so on.

Within a few months, they’ll either retire the Luigi character or rename him in the US (the same way that Ninja Turtles became Hero Turtles in the UK)

Martinaise

Taller, more aggressively-styled SUVs with poorer visibility is the best we can do

Industrial music is dystopian scifi for goth nerds

The original comic, meanwhile, is Punisher for goths

On one hand, yes. On the other hand, this has largely been used in the deep south to ensure that people who openly lynched black people evaded conviction.

The same was the case with nixie tubes, until a guy in Czechia started artisanally hand-making them for deep-pocketed connoisseurs. Eventually, someone will undoubtedly try doing that with CRTs, though the question is how expensive each one will be and will they be able to match the quality of, say, a mass-produced Trinitron.

Looks like he won a stupid prize

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Failure to find joy or embrace the little moments of delight may result in termination

The thing is that Electron apps don’t even look good compared to native apps. They’re slow and janky and, once you’ve seen a few of them, your impression is “the company didn’t care enough to build a native app”. In that sense, an Electron webpage in an app has the same connotations as AI artwork on a Substack essay: it looks slick if you’ve never seen one before, but cheap and shoddy if you know what it is.

“Hand-written assembly” is not more powerful than any other Turing-complete language (including Perl and Python), just more painfully slow and prone to human error to write. (Perhaps if you have a special case requiring speed (such as the processing being done in a tight loop in a financial trading app and the results needing to beat rival trading systems by milliseconds or something equally esoteric), it’d make sense, but in that case, a modern compiler (for, say, C/C++/Rust or similar) would yield comparable results, and if a lot is riding on those milliseconds, you’d eschew code and build a FPGA that pulls the data out of memory buffers in hardware or similar.)

So these days, the only use case for hand-writing assembly language (other than low-level OS/firmware programming or compiler development) is performative Feats Of Strength, where the challenge is the point. And in that case, you’d be trying to do something heroically challenging, like writing an Atari 2600 demake of Baldur’s Gate or something.