@lain I really like Edward m Lerner. He writes hard Sci fi. Have you read analog science fiction and fact? Long running pulp magazine focused on hard sci fi.
@lain The sad thing is that mtg has a ton of it's own lore. They don't expand it with novels anymore because dealing with "sensitivity readers" was too much of a pain.
Hasbro is going to make bank off this. They've perfectly positioned themselves to take over the (previously community run) commander format. They are going to push power level to sell cards. The new power level tiers will be used to unban the cards that were just banned.
@Suiseiseki@PurpCat I would love windows 10 users to move to linux, but I just don't think it will happen very frequently. What really is the future market of windows though? Most users will be very happy with something like chrome os. I could see a lot of gamers moving to linux thanks to steam. Outside of core gamers, who is running windows? If Apple/Google made it so you could dock your phone/tablet and use it with a keyboard/mouse/monitor, wouldn't that just eliminate PCs for 90% of users?
@sickburnbro No one can stop them from firing nukes, but a hell of a lot of people in the US would have a "are we the bad guys?" moment. It would be a huge miscalculation by the ptb. And there's no way that Joe or kamala could stand in front of the nation and justify it. They would have to stage a huge false flag of they want to go nuclear and not lose the country.
@sickburnbro What? Are we going to sanction them harder? We can't even stop the houthis from shutting down vital shipping lanes. No one in the US would support the kind of force deployment necessary to bring "severe consequences to iran."
@BOB@FloatingGhost@sun I wonder how much of it is shareholders, and how much is mutual fund managers who vote their clients' stocks according to their own agendas. Still ultimately the fault of shareholders for not paying enough attention.
@sun@FloatingGhost Once upon a time Verizon had great coverage because they actually invested in telecommunications infrastructure. This made Wall Street very angry. Wall Street fired the CEO. The End.
@SuperDicq@penny In my experience, very few developers understand source control. It doesn't matter if it's svn or git, devs might know a few commands, but they don't understand how it actually works, or how to do anything but the most basic operations.
@sickburnbro Lots more automation. Self driving cars. There's a lot of stuff that we have the first version of. Future versions will get way better. Vacuum robots. Lawn mowing robots. If there are advances in nanotechnology or quantum computing, then there will e even bigger changes . Another tech that we've been close to for decades: cold fusion as an energy source.
@sickburnbro Cable TV was not common until tbe 80s. Home computers did not exist until the late 70s. The changes we have had in the past 75 years are vast. I would still side with the tech bros on this one. The next 75 will have more changes.
@sun I'm pretty sure there are dlna players on the Amazon app store. Then install minidlna on your media server. It will work with minimal configuration.
@sickburnbro Small class sizes sound nice, but there's no evidence that they actually improve student achievement. We have known for a long time that teacher quality is the number one factor. Teachers unions won't let anyone measure teacher quality. We have to use proxies like tenure. Longer tenured teachers tend to be better, but it's not because they've improved with experience. It's because lousy teachers are more likely to quit.
Teachers are compensated very well, but the compensation is structured to go mostly towards benefits and retirement (again, thank you unions). Most people don't want to work for decades before seeing decent financial compensation.