I'm convinced that every single business out there eventually gets run from an Excel spreadsheet. At the end of the day, they're just rolling up rollups all the way to the top, where some guy is looking at Scenario A vs Scenario B in Excel

Exactly. The web of yesteryear where you could make a living one-manning a website is practically gone. If you told me 20 years ago that I'd pine for the days of blogs, I'd have laughed. Now who's laughing...

I was doing UNIX/Windows cross platform development during the first .com wave.

So I had to deal with Solaris, Aix, HP-UX, and Windows NT/2000.

We also rented servers for in-house development.

Their rates were just like everyone else on the Fortune 500 world.

even a capacitor.

Awww... so sad to see this. I know phones have basically eaten everybody's lunch except serious photographers.

It's the march of progress, but their mirrorless cameras were solid. I have a couple Fuji X-series bodies myself, and I wouldn't be surprised if they announce something similar any time soon. Amazing body, amazing glass, amazing software, amazing photos... but at the end of the day, the incremental increase in quality and/or flexibility doesn't make up for the form factor. And now that camera software is so damn good, and we're utilizing multiple lenses with multiple optical ranges to make a composite photograph...

snapshots are all that 99% of people ever needed, but I really thought the mirrorless cameras would eventually supplant dslr.

it's not reimplementing it from scratch. it's developing a runtime engine that can read the original diablo 2 files. It says right in the README with big letters. You can't use this unless you have a legal copy of diablo2 and an expansion.

This thing is more like an emulator than a game.

If it gets big enough, people will make free asset packs to replace the official ones, much like there are for Doom

OpenRCT2 is pretty mature, but I doubt asset packs for that will be wholesale remade either.

Assets aren't like software in this regard.

OpenTTD went the same route, but has a free asset pack these days.

This is a game engine reimplementation, not an emulator.

You obviously don't know what an emulator is.

And OFC is reimplementing from scratch. Everything else is not code, but data. Get your facts right.

I've been taking notes in Markdown for years. Your search and linking functionality to make it a great hybrid nodes-wiki system is fantastic. I'm gonna give this one the 'ol college try. It seems to hit my sweet spots.

I'm curious about the dramatically increased mortality rate with diabetes. Given America's situation, especially with insulin prices at a perverse high, that could be catastrophic.

It's the "without escape" part that's important. It's like the song "Common People" (by Pulp, made famous by Mr Shatner). Nobody likes a tourist.

As long as you can call your dad (or your broker, or your brother, or whomever) and get reliably bailed out, it's just tourism.