Yup, this is exactly it. There are very few software systems whose failure does not impact people. Sure, it’s rare for it to kill them, but they cause people to lose large amounts of money, valuable time, or sensitive information. That money loss is always, ultimately, paid by end consumers. Even in B2B software, there are human customers of the company that bought/uses the software.

I actually would go further and say that collectively, we are terrible at what we do. Not every individual, but the combination of individuals, teams, management, and business requirements mean that collectively we produce terrible results. If bridges failed at anywhere near the rate that software does, processes would be changed to fix the problem. But bugs, glitches, vulnerabilities etc. are rife in the software industry. And it just gets accepted as normal.

It is possible to do better. We know this, from things like the stuff that sent us to the moon. But we’ve collectively decided not to do better.

Dunno what happened. It just fixed itself the next day. I didn’t even restart my phone.

Age of Mythology: Retold. By far. It only came out in September and already it’s my 7th most-played Steam game of all time.

It was never in contention for the goty, by frankly I’m disappointed that it didn’t win its own category at least, because it is just so good. It delivers so perfectly on what it promised. It’s a remake that feels like how your nostalgia remembers the OG game, adding in excellent modern polish and exciting gameplay while keeping the core of what made the 2002 game so great.

Oh yeah, that was probably it.

It got briefly mentioned in the last episode, didn’t it? Or the one before that? Before whoever brought it up turned around and said something like “on, that’s not a thing, forget I said that”.

Because it compares people with down syndrome to chimpanzees, and because it took a good faith serious discussion and made a mockery of it.

Oh, so you were just being a dick for the sake of being a dick? That’s worse bro.

Are you really this fucking thick? There’s more to genetic compatibility than chromosome count. Otherwise we’d be seeing human–Reeves’s muntjac hybrids. Or chimp-gorilla.

Yeah, I don’t think that’s how chromosomes work

Umm, I don’t think that’s how it works.

Yeah fertile offspring is almost entirely off the table here from what I can see.

We’re talking way earlier than cavemen. The last interbreeding between our ancestors and chimps’ ancestors happened (using the most recent estimate I could find) a million years before the least recent evidence of the use of any stone tools. This is not a human that would be recognisable at all as a human.

Homo sapiens are the last remaining species of hominina. Our closest remaining relatives, the Pan (chimpanzees and bonobos) diverged at least 6.5 million years ago. Though there is some evidence early hominina may have interbred with pan after the divergence as recently as 4 mya.

This is more recent than dogs and foxes by a long way, and about the same as donkeys and horses. That, plus chromosomal analysis and some other research suggests it could be possible for a human and chimp or bonobo to interbreed, though likely not create fertile offspring. However, there has never been a confirmed case of this occurring, despite multiple claims.

Edit: useful articles:

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Humanzee
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimpanzee–human_last_common_ancestor

The expression is actually “hear, hear!” A shortening of “hear him, hear him”, an instruction saying “listen to what this guy’s saying. It’s good shit.”

Plus, delaying it in time means people who look at their front pages at different times are more likely to see one of them.

I just find the two clearly very different interpretations of this prompt interesting, based on the poor grammar in hlwnit was phrased.

When did you think someone was lying and was [but you were] embarrassingly proven wrong?

Is how I first interpreted it. But I can also see how others arrived at

When did you think someone was lying and was [they were] embarrassingly proven wrong to be lying?

Both interpretations lead to interesting answers though.

Antz was an excellent example of parallel creation, and the creation and rivalry between the two is a fascinating story and a microcosm of the broader early rivalry between Pixar and DreamWorks. It’s detailed in the Production section of the Antz Wikipedia page.

From context I’m assuming Pennsylvania is where Trump did his Maccas stunt?

Yup, exactly