footnote 3: And by extension: any feature that speeds up the audio or video we consume

I disagree that speeding up something is the same thing at all. Playing something at a constant rate (faster or slower) still maintains the editorial choices that the author was talking about.

I speed up plenty of things I listen to, and it's not (primarily) to get through them quicker.

Across the world it's the case that city folk tend to speak quicker than their rural countrymen. American speak slower, on average, than Brits. And that's fine! However, I find it hard to maintain focus when the speech is too slow - so speeding it up allows me to enjoy it like intended.

I definitely agree that the trim silence feature sound awful.

In Deep Space 9, Jake Sisko (the station commander's son) is a journalist for the Federation News Service. There's a good episode where he ends up in a war zone and the story covers cowardice and PTSD.

This a great answer in a sea of slightly odd food choices. It's healthy for kids to do this, apparently.

Those marine drones are five and a half metres long - so they're like speedboats, not those little hovering ones or those enormous UAVs.

I assume it's just a coincidental interaction. I mean, it's not like yeast wants us to get drunk [citation needed].

I'm happily oblivious much of to (I assume) US politics, so I'm going to read this as if you're talking about Magic the Gathering.

TIL that Takara Tomy (the company that made the Transformers toys) designed the Transformable Lunar Robot LEV-2, aka Sora-Q ("sky sphere"):

I think part of the problem is that even when you're subscribed to the small communities, it's easy to miss the posts. Sorting by Scaled helps a little, but I still often find a post from days ago that I missed.

I'd like an option where you could "super subscribe" or something which makes those posts show up first, or even in the inbox.

I've enjoyed what I've done with it so far, which is mostly little wasm projects. Once they finally get a proper editor I think it'll really pick up adopters.

No, it'll be fine 99% of the time.

Nowadays, feature detection is done within browsers, and the differences between browsers are small enough that servers generally will serve the same version of a page to all.

The fact that it's Nintendo's IP seems the key thing here.

So did Nintendo get Valve to do this, or is Valve just covering its back from the notoriously-litigious Nintendo?

Maybe it'll be like the final episode of Attack on Titan where the last season was split into multiple parts, and the final part was split into multiple chapters. Was it also a two partner? It got stupid, anyway.

Ah, ok, that makes more sense. That also solves any ordering problem if you, say, you're running local and elsewhere commands and a sync means pressing up gives you an unexpected item.

Sync seems like it's going to be more pain than its worth unless you have all your machines configured the same. I'm not even running the same distros between machines...

I like this author's attitude. I scoffed a bit when I read about "joy that can be found in mediocrity" but he's right that you can (and should) just do something because you enjoy it or it's good for you.

They sold that stuff to the Brits (the £27bn in today's money was only finally paid off in 2006).

If memory serves, the US were also supplying the Nazis at the start of the war.

I agree that US involvement was vital to winning WW2, but the idea that they won it themselves is pure American propaganda.

I've just installed this from your recommendation and it's brilliant. I love the amateur graphics, it just adds to the charm.

Agreed - it's 25 minutes without filler or repetition. Good stuff.

I think you linked to the wrong page; that one's about the different types of roots and root systems.

I'm not sure what you're asking. Do you mean Lemmy communities, Lemmy instances, or something else?