> If anyone at Sony is reading this, please consider that you have (in my opinion) two equally good options: either let it be, or shut this thing down and get a real remaster going.
You definitely don't need to be logged in. I used it in other browser sessions sometimes and you just have to scroll down about half a page and click "Explore" and it works fine.
Fox News is the same level of journalism as guardian, verge and nytimes. As well as Wapo and CNN. I guess people are choosing to be in a bubble of the trash they like. Maybe because they don't know the billionaires that own the other media they think they are decent news sources.
Other surprising trash to me is people want to see: rtings.com and goodreads.com.
I really tried hard with Goodreads and never found good book recommendations there.
And the NYT is publicly traded (The CEO has an estimated networth of only 10mil)
Verge doesn't really do journalism that makes me worried about who owns it.
> Other surprising trash to me is people want to see: rtings.com and goodreads.com.
rtings does colour profiles of plenty of slightly less popular monitors that no one else does. It's been an invaluable resource for me.
This comment is genuinely nonsensical. I'd think that it's obvious that rich owners tend to push a conservative economic spin to preserve their wealth.
> I really tried hard with Goodreads and never found good book recommendations there.
Most people end up on goodreads from search to see the reviews people left for the book....
ALL abstractions are leaky - this is an objectively true statement.
As others said it's not for beauty, it to make sure if there is abstraction it fits the problem. If there is encapsulation it doesn't get in the way. For some coders they can get it on the first try and there is no reason for them to rewrite code. For the rest of us mid coders we need to explore first as well as make sure all cases we desire for Lib/API work.
I think sometimes it's a good idea to use a language the company doesn't use internally to prototype. Like we don't use python or node in production, but a lot of stuff can be POCed in those languages/frameworks without a learning curve.
It forces you to throw out the old code and forces you to think the problem out in different ways.
Also, in my experience the POC does enough that it turns into just use POC because of the illusion that it would be faster to use than to rewrite. Then it's a span of time fighting edge cases and added features thought of afterwords till it passes all testing. Then you have a battle tested piece of code you can't get rid of, difficult to understand, and ridged for changes.
COVID was one place where their lack of skepticism really came through. Early reports of how COVID spread would have been deemed unrealistic quickly based on a basic understanding of statistics. The early reports of how long the virus lived and how easily transmittable it was should have meant the virus would have spread to a high percentage of the population immediately. Pfizer saying the vaccine prevented transmission even though it is a leaky vaccine should have raised skepticism to incredible heights. Instead, media used these reports to create panic, fear and division. I highly doubt it takes too much work to regurgitate other news outlets, Pfizer, and government organization talking points.
They do it very incompetently. The quality of reporting anymore is ridiculously low.
It's not about being an expert in the subject but having a fundamental understanding and being logically minded enough to perform fact based and critically thought out reporting.
Now everything is so trashy, economics is how they can bash their least favorite company or billionaire, law reporting is one-sided story telling for bashing or cheerleading someone in court, same with politics. It's mostly story telling anymore geared for entertainment or outrage.
This part is great:
> If anyone at Sony is reading this, please consider that you have (in my opinion) two equally good options: either let it be, or shut this thing down and get a real remaster going.
> I'd love to help!