I was taught to not split infinities.

You combine two of my favorite things and you fuck it up by embracing the spirit of neither. Displaying individual bricks at tourist locations is literally more boring than using them in a little moondust gas station. I can look at your bricks through glass right here and now on my computer screen. People really have no imagination anymore.

Remember all those "average human" portrait morphs that tended to look very attractive?

  I'm not sure what the right term is, but maybe she just has a very "normalized" or "smoothed" sounding voice. In other words, as with those portraits perhaps her voice sounds like what a computer created average would, and this in turn is considered pleasant.

Because it's the first, cheapest, biggest, and to some extent only thing they can do to prove that they've turned over a new leaf with regards to supporting the things people use. The phones have an explicit stated end of support right now. If they put out a statement that they're going to exceed that, people will notice.

Their API's on the other hand are open ended and generally remain described as an amazing thing to get into even after years on the rust heap and days from being killed. It's basically impossible for Google to release a statement about how they totally mean it this time with their API support and convince anyone. With Stadia this exact issue was openly discussed and became a self-fulfilling prophecy.

Not really my point, but ok, I'll bite.

Google has a terrible reputation with regards to product lifespan and support. For this reason increasingly large numbers of businesses refuse to use Google's API's for fear of either Google abandoning a framework they have come to rely upon.

A way for Google to begin rectifying this bad public image would be to offer support beyond what they had promised for their physical products, especially when Apple's relatively good update support for iphones is a very real reason people chose them.

Dispelling the idea that Google does not care about anything for the long term would help them more as a business than the sale of a few more phones.

I don't like what you have to say, and I don't like it when people treat honesty as a point of weakness to attack.

But I REALLY don't like people who use "overrated: as a stand in for "I disagree". On an unrated comment. Cut that shit out.

Startpage is google results without the cruft. No unwanted, irrelevant, and wrong snippets wasting your time.

Quotidian is pretty much the exact opposite of quotidian. How antithetical.

They were fundamentally a place for the very rich to hear high end pitches on various topics. If you did a TED talk, you were being an influencer influencer. Because of the format and the amount of money involved, you often got very sophisticated sounding speeches. It is and was always about selling ideas to people with more money than they knew what to do with.

I see this as a good litmus test of the companies they are courting. I don't think it's a coincidence that the names given to us in the article are a laundry list of incompetence.

My position is that if it isn't for sale, I can't buy it. Think about how bad Kickstarter is. Then remove every single obligation and protection. That's what my experiences have been like when donating lump sums to free software projects, and that is why I stopped doing so. I give a little to Joplin every month on Patreon since they met a huge need for me and have a clear vision, but that is it.

I wonder if this has anything to do with a growing and desperate desire to have the rest of the world like them more. Bad news for them if this is the case. Honor between nations is strictly a fair weather affair. Oftentimes not even then.

My post was terribly written. The way I worded it could give easily lead one to believe I was trying to refer to those who use the dislike button as crybabies. This was not my intent. I was thinking of publishers such as, say, Blizzard and their highly disliked Immortal trailer as being the crybabies. I was in truth mostly agreeing with your sentiment with regards to larger creators while expressing sympathy for those smaller creators that produce content for highly bubbled topics.

Although I think removing dislikes is purely about cutting down on crybabies whining, it isn't totally without merit. I have seen what happens when smaller creators without a built in "like base" post on a contentious subject. No, I do not mean politics. I mean fanboys. Try firing up a new channel about I dunno, keto, and make a video about how butter alone does not contain all the essential fatty acids you need to live on.

That's actually a good point. Adding the functionality would probably cost less than a single floor mat these days. Hell, my store's 15 year old solid ink printer had a sim card in it.