I'm a couple years younger than you, but a lot of this resonated for me. Custom installers were some of my early inspirations for making apps that didn't have the traditional gray box aesthetic.
However, I will say that Kenshin was a thing in the US. Samurai X was only the name of the OG movies where he was still lethal AFAIK.
I love to score games. I only do it on select games (opening day, in person games, rival games, or playoffs) but it is weirdly satisfying to fill out a score card in your individual style and create your own artifact of the game. It keeps you loosely focused on a game in a very pleasant way.
I think this is from Graeber's essay "There Never was a West", and he does such a good job assaulting the idea that there is some coherent vision of what "The West" is in comparison to everyone else.
The underlying thread in all of his anthropological anarchism is that there are a thousand ways cultures have made (and thus we could make) society work, we just have to decide to change. If this sounds obvious to you, that's good - because it doesn't sound obvious to the horde of people clinging to capitalism as if divine market forces are sacrosanct and all human suffering derived from it is inevitable.
I agree that this is extremely simplified, however your radio example implies physicists only do physics for money and nobody would have explored the applications of radio waves without a profit motive which seems at odds with... Well, literally every scientist I've ever met.
You don't think people would volunteer to maintain sewers or collect garbage if the alternative was shit/trash everywhere?
To me it just looks like an easy way to do your community a service.
Fuck you, Ellison and Paramount. I'd rather watch the franchise die than turn into fanfic for fascists anyway.
No, that women will dress provocatively and then shame people that actually look at them.
I really don't have any problem with any of these types of achievements in general. Even the super basic ones that you get by starting a game are useful to determine what percentage of people who own the game have actually played it beyond the menu screen.
The best achievements are ones you get for being clever, skilled, or dedicated. Or when it's an unhidden achievement for something you didn't even know was possible. Like the BG3 achievement for saving the goblin Sazza - just seeing it was possible made my next play through more interesting.
I do appreciate long ending achievements, but only if they indicate a significantly different playthrough. Good ending vs. bad ending works when that's the result of many decisions and not just an option you chose ten minutes from the end.
Eh, it makes sense for Steam share, this data is entirely gaming users. It would be a mistake to try to relate this to overall market share though.
Yeah, I picked that up, but is that so novel it can't just be a layer on DBus or something? Again, I don't know shit, it's just rich IPC seems like a solved problem at this point.
This is cool, love to see the Haiku / BeOS lineage playing nice with Linux. The graphics stack is ripe for experimentation in the KMS/Wayland era, although I don't have enough knowledge of the architectural differences to know why this makes sense as an alternate stack and not just a compatibility layer built into a Wayland compositor...
I haven't interviewed anywhere in nearly a decade, but damn, the human interaction part is so important. These are your potential future coworkers, a vibe check goes both ways.
I don't think I'd even do the first automated interview, tbh. If a human is going to be involved in hiring me down the line, they can damn well be present while I'm answering their questions.