Mobile-addicted. Web-dependent. Digital Plumber. Nerd. He/him. No-coiner.
Citizen of various fediverses over the years, this one since my first Mastodon account in January 2017. Alt-text enthusiast, lover of having his mind changed.
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I not sure when I realized that the primary function of game shows on TV is as advertisement for the fabulous prizes contestants might win, but it was definitely a pretty long time before I realized that the same was sort of true of literally every other thing on TV, it's just usually the products are only during the commercials.
The real brilliance of the game shows is that it's a huge double-dip. Advertisers pay the show to put their wares in it, in addition to the other advertisers who pay the network to put their wares into the spots between rounds of the game show. (The commercials.)
When I was a kid, I recall seeing Flight of the Navigator (1986) and being confused whenever there was a news broadcast on TV that would end with "more at 11."
I was like "why can't they just tell more now? It seems very inefficient to make people who want news wait until 11 for some..."
Turns out "broadcast news efficiency" is not the benefit I thought it would be... #SweetSummerChild
Once again thinking about the fairy magicks employed in using PAR files to generate missing files in multipart RAR archives.
You can generate entire missing files from your archive as long as there are sufficient PAR files—the summed size of which are smaller than the missing file.
They claim it's just math, but as a skeptic, I have a hard time believing them. It's magick.
@tylersticka Share to Google+, lol.
I just had to check to see if Google+ was even still a thing 12 years ago and am completely shocked that it only died 6 years ago. It feels like at least 10!
(Google+ is definitely my favorite of all the corporate social networks that have come and gone.)
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