What steps can be taken to mitigate this?

Be an employer of choice. What can you do to make people want to work with you, not out of necessity but because you are better than the alternatives. (Pro tip: if you’re paying the lowest rate you’re allowed to without braking the law you better be offering some other incentive)

This is something I’ve taken for granted as per app volume control is integrated into the OS on Motorola phones and I’ve been using mid range Motorolas since the Moto G 4 in 2016 (they offer a reasonable price, reasonable performance, microSD card and headphone jack).

Then I was setting up a Samsung tablet last weekend and was horrified to see I had to use the Samsung store to download Sound Assistant for something I had just assumed was a standard OS feature for close to a decade.

I guess it depends on how general you want it to be. A general ai that could learn SMB, breakout, bubble bobble or Warioware would different from something more specialized that is tailored for only platformers like SMB, sonic, etc.

In Australia they give (from largest to smallest):

Ingredients

• Carbonated Water
• Colour (150d)
• Food Acids (338, 330)
• Sweeteners (951, 950)
• Flavour
• Caffeine

With the numbers corresponding to:

• 150d - soft-drink caramel
• 338 - phosphoric acid
• 330 - citric acid
• 951 - Aspartame
• 950 - Acesulfame potassium

Boltgun is pretty cool

You don’t “buy” music. You buy a license to listen to that music for as long as the license issuer still owns that particular song.

Unless dealing with the artist or studio directly the license issuer also won’t “own” the song but rather have a license to sell and distribute the title.

Tennis for Two was a realtime tennis simulation a full 14 year earlier. Of course there wasn’t really a video arcade industry to bring it into the mainstream in the late 1950"s.

The real question is: did this comic usher Marvel Comics into on to new “plateau of greatness”?

Follow-up question: who is the big man? ??

My first thought was “didn’t they just do that?” But I’ve checked and the Directors Cut was released on Wii and DS in 2009. Its been a minute.

Digger © 1983 Windmill Software

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digger_(video_game)

This is the game from my family’s PC AT that I go back to regularly,. But for convenience I usually use the WinDig port:

Windig, the Windows 95 version of Digger Remastered (87K). This version is rather new. If you are having trouble with it, try the older version (95K).

https://www.digger.org/download.html

I just used web archive to check and it looks like the 87K version and its description as “rather new” has been there for 21 years now. It was built to target Windows 95 and is still working on Windows 11 so at this point i would say its “pretty stable”.

And was re-released last week. I was pleased to see the 2024 console ports still support LAN play.

I think I’ve heard that the USA federal gov is bigger than in the past, as in controlling more of an American’s life than in its history.

My first thought was that this is really two separate questions but then I realised a stat like this might answer both:

the number of public sector employees as a percentage of the total workforce.

1. If we view government’s role as intruding on our freedoms and controlling our lives (I don’t), then the more people they employ the more able they are to assert that control.
2. Its the ratio of the workforce that have their working hours dictated by government, its hard to be more controlling that that.

(Its not considering the non-working population, and with variations to lifespan, unemployment, etc that may be relevant … I don’t know.)

And international comparison is available here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_public_sector_size

For a 30 year historical comparison of US data see figure 1.1 here:

https://www.cbo.gov/publication/60235#_idTextAnchor012

(My reading of the chart is that while total employment has gone up the state and federal public sectors have been pretty flat over that period. This would mean the public sector is currently a slightly smaller proportion of the total workforce compared to earlier in the chart.)

It looks like the Amazon region was experiencing less rainfall at the time with a corresponding shift towards drought tolerant species with parts of the region as savannahs !!

https://earthscience.stackexchange.com/a/2567

With a different rainfall profile the nutrient loss would have been vastly reduced.

For creators that were still active some jumped ship to pre rendered videos, for example Salad Fingers lives on here:

https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PL9383CC2C6DBD902F

A major archival project for the whole flash era is Flashpoint Archive (formally known as BlueMaxima):

https://flashpointarchive.org/?lang=en-US

Fun fact: The ecosystems of the Amazon Basin rely on around 27.7 million tons of Saharan Dust each year to replace the phosphorus that is washed away by the rains. Without this constant input the local soils would have been stripped of needed nutrients and would be unable to support the plants that currently thrive there.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saharan_dust
• https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/nasa-satellite-reveals-how-much-saharan-dust-feeds-amazons-plants/

“Piracy is a service problem.”

Yeah, I agree with that. I just found it disappointing that Sony could buy themselves a monopoly on anime in the western market and fail to provide a competent app for their own platform. Its a classic example of an own goal.

Its a fine line. I try to offer a (legal) ad free experience for my son as a matter of principal. But he asked to watch Naruto and it was only available on crunchyroll.

I signed up and the crunchyroll PlayStation app didn’t seem to have a functional search, recently played or favorites list. The best we could so was pick “all titles” and then scroll page by page alphabetically until we get to “N” then we had to remember which episode we were up to and the navigate to that season/episode. Then it would occasionally crash so we would have to repeat the process to resume playback. It probably only took a few minutes by it felt like an eternity of busy work. Needless to say we canceled that shitshow and torrented, if they are a major publisher and they can’t beat the convenience of casual privacy they are in trouble.

Personally its the convenience and UI that does it for me. I’m not using anything fancy but I have a USB HDD plugged into my home router this is accessible as an SFTP and UPnP media server any device on my network. It won’t transcode or anything but for >95% of content it will play fine on any PC/TV/phone/tablet in the house. The biggest issue is tracking viewing progress which can be an hassle is we do it manually instead of having Netflix/amazon/whatever track it for us. If crunchyroll can’t do that much then they don’t offer any advantage over their free alternatives and not worth an $x per month fee.

I would be happy to use a service that auto subscribes for a month when I play content but also auto cancels renewal.

I’m happy to pay for them when I use them but if I don’t happen to use one for a month it would be great to skip that bill.

But I guess each app would also have their own implementation.

The only consequences would be reputational. Don’t wait until the interview itself, let them know now that you will not be available for the interview.

Definitely cancel over just not showing up, preferably before the day of the interview. Circumstances may change, new positions may open up, you don’t owe them anything but you want to keep things amicable in case you are interested in the future.