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Duffer’s advice highlights a conflict between technological advances and creators' goals. Features like the ones he mentioned are designed to appeal to casual viewers by making images appear sharper or more colorful, but they alter the original look of the content. By asking fans to turn these features off, he is stressing the importance of preserving the director's vision.

is it just me or does this article's last paragraph feel particularly AI generated..

whether the author did use AI or not isnt my main gripe -- it's just that certain wording (like this) won't be free from scrutiny in my head anymore :(

Writing is thinking 12 months ago

We can't really talk about this topic without mentioning the book "How to Take Smart Notes" by Soenke Ahrens

One key takeaway is if you want to learn/remember something better, always rewrite things in your own words as both the act of writing AND paraphrasing makes it more sticky

I just literally spent a week transferring all my authy keys to Bitwarden's somewhat hidden OTP generator feature. nice to see they finally made a standalone app. Now I'm gonna find out if both are integrated..... (I really hope so)

We arrived at the same insight while implementing several digital patient assistance programs across different markets. In PAPs which require doctors to register vs pharmacist registration, the latter outperforms the former in adoption and engagement. Doctors seem to be too damn busy to take time to onboard themselves with the PAP apps even though ultimately they aid the patients in terms of medication cost.

A Google Spreadsheet powered online store SAAS platform: https://www.gridmart.io (still in alpha). We decided to pursue this project after getting an average of 4 inquiries per month from different clients who want to customize/add more integrations to their [insert current ecommerce solution] site

My friend's work laptop is a victim of this same attack... all the way here in the Philippines.

There was a company wide email blast to disconnect all workstations from the internet at once.

Fascinating development

This is the 2nd time it's happened to me (1st time occurred 2 years ago) so I was 99% sure it was a mistake. Still threw a support ticket for good measure

The top comment in that article nails it:

============= Kajisan says: Ultima Online (Renaissance) was my very first MMO that came as an extra with Ultima Ascencion. I played over 3 years, being a Gamemaster for another year. UO is the only game that defines Roleplay. You don't need to grind or leveling up. It was the stories the players created on their own, sometimes with the help of the gamemasters having a global adventure event on certain Saturdays. Everybody played the role he wanted to play. Want to be a magician? Sure.. it took several weeks on our Server to become one..and once you was one of them..you was literally a damn f* Gandalf. You was able to stand in front of 10 enemy players and they can't kill you..because it was not possible "roleplay" wise. The 10 players respected this, and you had to respect other things.

It's something very rare and for me its a bite to the heart that World of Warcraft more or less killed this interaction between players..made them marionettes who gave their wisdom to the current generation of players, roleplaying less than a cow on the field.

Shroud of the Avatar is an attempt to bring back these old goods, but like movies like Dune..or 2001, i think its too slow and hardcore for the actual generation of gamers.

Example? We had a raid on an enemy bastion, and sat a whole night in front of a fireplace - waiting for the right moment. We talked about distant lands..how one of us hunted a Dragon last week, sang songs. You just can't do this in modern MMO's. It's possible..but it needs the right people for it, understanding the base principles of roleplay. I did not had these knowings when i started with UO..and found people who took me aside. I learned a lot about roleplay, about other people and about myself - acting with other people.

Today, i am game developer aside people who worked on UO, and they're good people. It's all about imagination, UO just gave the Pen and the Paper an alternate more colorful form.

Imho, if you're primary purpose is learning web dev, better get a Mac so you can focus on that rather than sidestepping on learning how to configure a linux machine. With a Mac, you don't have to look deep into the web to get things working.

Dont get me wrong, Linux is a terrific web dev OS.. just putting myself in the author's seemingly newbie shoes.

aghillo, thank you for this. Seems that the exercises are comprehensive enough to cover beginner SQL. As someone also starting out SQL, I appreciate all the hard work you put into this project.