It's the same with the "apply directly to forehead" commercial. I've seen so many complaints and references that I almost feel left out. I pulled it up on youtube once just to see what all the fuss was about, but I guess it just isn't the same when it's not repeated 10 times during a 20 minute episode of television at a volume that's loud enough to make you reach for your remote.
That one I think I was lucky enough (ahem) to have in my area for a very short while.
However I do remember people complaining about it much later online and wondering why they were talking about something so old. I guess it plastered longer in other areas.
Both "giving almost no money to kids" and that the recipients (mostly adults) it did benefit were "based on religious affiliation" seem fairly surprising to me. If I donated a car, I would feel mislead by both.
The identity and entity matters. It's not a random group who did a random thing for a random reason, it's a specific group who did a thing for a specific reason.
No one else made them behave in the way that got them called out. There is no religious persecution going on here. It's not a case of "But why does it matter he's black?". The act was specifically performd by a religious group, specifically for the benefit of that religious group only, under false pretenses of being neutral.
The people you are implying are being prejudged, are in fact the ones who commited the prejudice and discrimination.
They stumbled into the perfect spot with the iPhone, then IAP sweetened it.
Since they found money they support it. But in the process they’ve really destroyed gaming on the platform unless you want casino games or candy crush/clash of clans things designed to extract money and show another ad every 12 seconds.
Yeah they show Resident Evil VIII and Assassins Creed Whatever but they don’t sell much. And the race to free IAPs created mean good games can’t sell even at a single $2 purchase.
Apple Arcade is the only sanctuary. I haven’t heard good things from the dev side, and it’s 80%+ old games from before things were destroyed or IAP riddled games with the IAPs removed, at times not even rebalanced.
I use it because it’s about all that’s left. But iPhone gaming is a shadow of what we had in the early years.
And at this point there is no competition left. The smart phone ate everything. And as far as I know Android games are in the same mess.
Given how popular Steam Deck and fiends have gotten I wonder if companies would avoid it because it could noticeably hurt sales until it’s added to proton.
I was wondering about the significance of the returned value 0.63739. Best explanation I found was this HN post [0]: "Referencing a US telephone keypad, it spells NERDY"
Test the API kernel calling convention when dealing with 64 bit IEE754 doubles on a 32 bit CPU, especially when dealing with MSB vs LSB processors.
Also, a long time ago (pre 486DX), processors did not have FPU circuitry instead it was a FPU coprocessor. When dealing with a kernel context switch, you'd have to copy all registers to a stack. With a coprocessor, you'd have to make sure those registers got copied as well. Which was slower with coprocessors ... So for a time some real time kernels did not allow context switching of FPU. To support that, you'd get the performance hit.
These days its all integrated so you dont have to worry about it ...
I guess they were regional and never in the Midwestern areas I’ve lived in.
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