Mozilla had the right idea with FirefoxOS - doing everything as HTML. All the apps people give a shit about are glorified browser windows anyway. What Mozilla fucked up was aiming for a low-end market… with an OS defined by constant power / performance overhead.
Every application in any modern phone could be transpiled HTML5 and you would not know the difference. If it’s not “one o’ them Genshin Impacts” then it probably already is.
They’ll make up all kinds of bullshit for you to deal with.
They put DRM into cables.
Thought that layout looked familiar. I’ve eaten there this year.
The silliest part is, they could absolutely keep milking nonsense forever. All they’d lose is exclusivity. Star Wars would be a genre, the way zombies are, thanks to George Romero’s incompetent producers. And every new detail would still be in that vice-grip for another thirty years! Winnie The Pooh is public-domain and Disney’s still gonna slit throats if anyone depicts him wearing red.
They’re scared someone might make a better Star Wars than they did.
Dunno why, when the thinly-disguised competition is Rebel Moon.
One: thirty-year copyright, no exceptions. Culture belongs to its audience.
Two: noncommercial use is not copyright infringement. Copyright is only a monetary incentive for new works. There is no “unpublish.” Once it’s ours, you are entitled to any money involved, for a time. Take it or fuck off.
“Agreement” is quite a fucking twist on “threat.”
They were innovating new geometry so the button placement could be even less convenient.
I’m pretty sure Prestidigitation already covers that, especially if you convince the DM not to check.
Binary search
On that note: heap sort and total order.
One rich asshole called Lauden Ebon.
Same idea as “the cloud.” You’d draw a diagram and the arrows would eventually go to a squiggly representation of someone else’s problem.
Avatar and icon were similarly stolen from mysticism.
unit tests
You have the bard’s attention.
The instructions are helpfully printed on the scroll.
Trapped wizard: “… how the fuck do I pronounce :q!?”
Lossy compression feels like cheating:
Grog wakes up one night to find them trying to steal his weapon, and the twerp can’t even lift the handle off the ground. He picks up the hammer by the head and spins around to dislodge the kid - which works, insofar as the child flies off toward the mountains, holding some kind of sword. Grog wonders where he got that, and goes back to bed.