Legitimately miss 3.5, to this day. Peak functionality.

I have been using Firefox since before it was called Firefox, and I’m not sure I’ve ever been happy after an update.

• Inconsistent icon size and texture

No! DISTINCT icon size and texture! Not a row of generic ultra-light squiggles, all the same color, conveying nothing until you look straight at them. The back button is fucking enormous because it’s obviously what you’ll use most. Stop and reload are weird and discouraging. There’s a reason all your plugins use different colors - that’s what icons are for, god dammit!

Complexity is a feature. Visible similarity conveys semantic similarity! 4.0 just took all the nested functionality and swept it behind a button.

What a bag of kneejerk hot takes this thread is.

This tech allows games to render like it’s 2003, and get a one-step filter to look like a goddamn Pixar film.

Foobar2000 works fine.

// what the fuck?

The weirdest part of learning about floating point was suddenly knowing how to use a slide rule.

And none of it came out charred but recognizable.

If the pictured scooter genuinely was the bomb, this is some Wile E. Coyote shit.

All you need is CHIM.

When listing symptoms, don’t lead with euphoria.

Buy low, sell at a 45 degree angle for maximum range.

Whateverthefuck “Tank Girl” is.

Turret tracks a fleeing hero.

“This is for my cabbages!”

2029: leveraging technical knowledge and convincing rhetoric, Junferno rises within the Myanmar junta to do the funniest thing ever.

I saw this and had flashbacks to a thousand Mona Lisas.

Twat.

Apparently I am a fool.

What you’d do is, you pick a representative set of points from a world map, e.g. by reducing it to a low resolution, or by sampling with blue noise. Each point gets a 32-bit integer. For up to 32 circles, you check if each point is inside or outside the circle, and mark one bit accordingly. Every region created by these overlapping circles now has a unique ID for all points inside that region.

Scoring groups points by ID, finds whether each group contains more land or water points, and counts all the points outside that majority. That sum is your error.

… https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hibernation_(computing)

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

Intelligence is knowing I could optimize this with annealing and a decent error function.

Wisdom is deciding not to get nerd-sniped like that.

Stop downvoting people who treat computers the way they ought to work! Needing to restart shit, with any regularity, is a flaw. Some of us are doing work, god dammit, and having to get things set up from scratch is a pain in the ass.

All the stuff I have open is open for a reason. The fact it all gradually stops working is not excused by the fact it can be unfucked by a hard reset. It’s supposed to keep working.

That’s what this post is about.