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I noticed the gradual shift from program to app over time since the iPhone took the world by storm, but then again it was never incorrect. Applications are synonymous with programs so an executable on your windows desktop is an app as much as it is a program.

I've never come across anyone referring to a Reddit account as an app but I can definitely see someone who interacts with Reddit exclusively using the Reddit app referring to both the platform and a means of accessing as the same thing both out of a conscious choice for convenience or ignorance and actually they'd be right either way except in the latter case only accidentally since it you say "I really love using that app Reddit to look at memes and talk to people" despite not actually knowing the app isn't the platform, your sentence would still be correct.

The activating thing, I jimmycrackcrack declare that I will allow it. Look it's a sneaky hardware manufacturer and provider term to imply the device doesn't work until you give them money but then, as a piece of language with utility, well... your phone doesn't work without a sim, at least in the common understanding of what "work" means here. Since a phone of any stripe, dumb or smart is pretty useless without a sim card, getting that message across to consumers that you have to do something to make it functional, to "activate" it is necessary. You could choose to frame it as unlocking but then again if you're selling these things you probably don't want people thinking you locked them up and then sold them the keys and in fact, the manufacturers kinda didn't, it's the service provider that doesn't provide service to a functioning device until they're given money, who are doing that and given they're a business, that's sorta how they have to operate.

This'd be great since it's a whole lot less morally compromising when it wasn't even us bumping them off.

Would they have any money to buy anything?

I'm sure it was great but I gotta say this arrangement of foods and the lighting and the white balance have come together to make the weirdest image. It's somehow really unreal. It's like an artist's impression of food. I think it's mainly the colour and lighting, the avocado is somehow so green it looks almost fake, and the bacon is somehow purple and then the unexpected left turn with the boiled eggs when my brain saw "bacon and eggs" in the title and built an expectation for the typical fried eggs.

Anyway, this is no critique of the food, hope it was good, it sounds good. The image is just somehow hilariously incongruous and strange.

Wonder if that person maybe has some kind of a problem that makes it difficult for them to concentrate and focus their attention when someone is talking to them or something and they just totally missed the detail about the medicine being prescribed. Maybe they need to see a doctor about it.

Yeh man, SatansMaggotyCumFart is right, some word choices are just inappropriate.

Do I misunderstand emby or does it just not seem like a good deal on the basis of it being an ongoing subscription? I use the free version of emby and it's really great. There was at least one feature that required payment to unlock. I like emby already and when I tried using jellyfin, the core features that were on both it and the free version of emby worked far less reliably and the paid feature on emby that was free on Jellyfin, worked extremely unreliably. Obviously resources and development had been spent to make something that worked very well and their paid feature probably would too. I use emby to make it easier to cast media locally to my chromecast and to access media on my computer, from my phone in my bedroom, so for me, it's a fancy file browser and media player. The feature I wanted was to do with free to air tv streaming and I was thinking I'd be happy to pay for the Emby software to unlock this since they made good software that works. But here's the thing, it's FREE to air TV and yet they want me to pay, ongoing, in a perpetual arrangement to use it. I don't get it. I use it to play media, but the media is my media stored on my machines. I understand software development isn't free, I was happy to pay ONCE, but why would I keep paying when they don't actually produce the media I use it to play? That seemed unjustifiable.

Yikes

Or quicksand for that matter, I was really expecting that to be a much bigger problem. Especially after reading all those Tintin comics.

Loved old school paint. I used to try and recreate 3d renders of Nintendo characters that I'd seen printed in magazines and on my Gameboy pocket pouch by doing a kind of primitive dithering technique that 10 year old me thought up drawing 1 pixel blocks of specific colours in alternating patterns to try recreate shading or gradients of colour and I'd draw whole rows of them with the line tool which naturally had a staircase effect to it. Used to save it all on a zipdisk.

Bits of it were good. Seems like something went wrong in production or they ran out of money or something. Some of the effects were really good and there was a real mood to the post apocalypse world but it was very uneven especially the way the entire process of civilization ending was just a montage of newspaper headlines. It's ok to be post apocalypse of you don't want to show the apocalypse but that was just cheese. Also there were the odd shots that were of just such a lower standard than the rest of the film. Like this scene where a guy climbs up a watertower and stands atop it getting ready to throw a spear and for some reason after the effects extravaganza up until that point in the film it looked a cheap television blue screen that was super awkward. I guess they wanted it to look taller than in reality and show the desolate landscape but it's so weird that after all the aerial dragon combat they'd pulled off pretty well for the most part that THAT was somehow difficult. I seem to recall storywise there was some very disappointing ending too but it's been rather too long for me to recall it now anyway.

That's not totally disingenuous. If you're cooking for yourself rather than eating out or buying ready made things and you plan to do that a lot of it, some outlay on things that get used across multiple recipes over long periods (can be years with spices) is reasonable to expect and also not to be costed in recipe estimates. What exactly is reasonable to expect someone to have in their pantry already for a recipe is very subjective so what to me seems fair to assume won't seem so to others, but there are assumptions you can make. You wouldn't for example criticise a recipe for failing to incorporate the cost of a pan if it tells you to pan fry something or a spoon to stir it or the cost of the water out of the tap. Most of those examples are equipment but I think there's an extent to which you can write recipes with similar givens for ingredients as well, otherwise it becomes untenable to estimate costs. You don't typically have to use the same spices as recommended by a recipe either. For some it's essential but for many it's just what you like or what you have so, don't buy 80 quid of spices for one recipe, but if you can figure out which are most important for that recipe and which you also really like the taste of, buy just those and use them in that recipe and many others going forward. You gradually add to your collection as you try new things and when you have some spices and a recipe calls for you to get more, it's not such a stretch because you're not buying a ton of them at once just the few you don't have and consider it worth trying. It takes a long time to get through spices and eventually you get to a point where you have most of the spices referenced in a given recipe or decent substitutes or you only need like 1 extra one that will help you cook more things in future. If you're sure you won't use a spice outside of the one recipe you're looking at, just skip it.

I really appreciate the recent trend of some cooking websites to do this on mouseover. Best of both worlds for readability and convenience. Not great when you're in the kitchen and not using a mouse, I'd hope a mobile or printable version just writes it out like you did there. Love Auto scaling recipes too where you can click to adjust number of servings, bonus points if they have some logic so they don't tell you to use .71 eggs or something.

Reign of fire. Don't know if that's what you were referencing in the picture but it's immediately what came to mind when I saw the drawing.

That's an extra weird one because usually I thought these dudes were all about a return to a mythical time when according to them, everything was great until things like women having rights ruined it all. But when has the state ever given people a wife? Even when women were considered property it didn't work like that. You always previously had to demonstrate at least some semblance of appeal even in paternalistic societies with arranged marriages since even then the parents at least needed to be persuaded this was a good idea.

They actually somehow managed to dream up a dystopian system even worse than "the good old days".

I'm more unhappy with messaging apps that notify people if you've read a message. It did have a positive side effect in that with Facebook, once they introduced that feature sometime around 09 or something, it caused me to reduce my use of the messaging capabilities significantly but frankly I'm not sure that's really what Facebook or I really wanted. It's a common feature in messaging applications and I fucking hate it. I need to read the message to decide if I want people to know if I've seen it and I can't do that without telling them I've seen it.

The pepperoni slice 3 from the left and 3 from the top is especially pretty. Curled itself into a little star ⭐

You know, I wish I could remember what it was, there's something a little sad about it being the last one and me not even remembering what was on it. I think I would have burned what will likely be my last ever DVD quite a lot more recently, probably about 2018 or 2019, but CD, that's a way's back.

Oh my god THAT'S why his face is like that and THAT'S the joke. I really didn't get this comic.

In Australia Clive Palmer is famous for constantly sending out texts during his campaigns, people complain they got multiple per day. I wasn't aware there was any law against it here, in fact I thought people had been saying it OUGHT to be illegal.