The push seems to be to get native species back to their previous numbers - wouldn't an American duck be considered an invasive species? Or are they only called invasive when they're upsetting the balance?
If I remember correctly, in Light & Magic they talk about how they came up with the design of the M.Falcon (and George Lucas wasn't much involved). In fact, let me check... Ah ha:
Johnston was also tasked with redesigning the Falcon when the original design was deemed too similar to another ship on television. Under pressure and mentally blocked, Johnston was sitting in the kitchen when he spotted plates on the counter. He imagined sandwiching two together like hamburger buns to create a saucer-like ship. The Millennium Falcon started to take shape.
The carbonite thing feels like more of a straightforward copy, though.
I'm talking about people downvoting from all - if you're seeing content from some niche or geographic community because you're viewing all then downvoting something you're not interested in is a dick move.
I haven't watched, but assuming it's good I'm guessing it's idiots viewing the all feed and downvoting anything they're not personally interested in.
It doesn't help that the official Lemmy docs say downvote things you don't like, which is only good guidance when you have an algorithm you're training.
I guess it's the King's English now. I'm always careful to avoid spelling things the US way, because as a programmer there's some things (yup, like color) that I type more often in the US version than international English and muscle memory's a sticky bugger.
I can't see the numbers in future getting any better, unless big changes are made. Many pilgrims are quite old, since some need many years to save up enough for the journey, and of course the temperature's only going to be going up (even after La Niña).
It's part of the rituals to get the timing exactly right, so it's not like it can be moved to cooler months, like has been proposed for the Summer Olympics. It is moving earlier by a week and a half each year (because of the Islamic calendar) but when you're talking 51.8C that's not really moving the needle.
I'd heard talk of health-monitoring bracelets, which seems sensible.
“Their analysts determined that frustrating the user results in more time spent on the app—and more time viewing ads—than if users are satisfied. Remember in ‘The Matrix’ when The Architect tells Neo that the first virtual world the robots created was a utopia, but the people rejected it? It works sort of like that.”
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How long until someone makes a playable version of this? (printer toner is too expensive)
Edit: actually, I can probably do this one in my head