This was really useful when looking for product support, as companies regularly pull down or move around pages on their website. Seeing the version of a page at the time google associated it as a result was something I did all the time.
Compared to other brands available in the supermarket, my family finds that Boar's Head deli meats consistently taste better. There is something "cheap" that I find hard to quantify in the taste of generic grocery branded deli meats.
I'm not educated enough to know what the difference is here, but I don't think the fact that Boar's Head costs more is entirely a marketing device.
> There is something "cheap" that I find hard to quantify in the taste of generic grocery branded deli meats.
They tend to be watery and under seasoned. I can only assume it’s to make them as inoffensive as possible to accommodate the widest possible audience - but there’s no character to cheap deli meat, no striking taste.
To my unsophisticated palate, Boar's Head tastes like it has less filler. Will never purchase their product ever again. The findings were so egregious, it makes my blood boil.
Not to discount your experience, but taste is so context sensitive and subjective that just believing that you're consuming a higher quality product is often enough to make it "taste better". There's a great Penn & Teller's Bullshit episode that illustrates this phenomenon for fancy water[1].
Yup, that's completely true. But as somebody who typically prefers to buy "cheap" brands, and is usually completely satisfied by them, the fact that I experience such a wide gulf between Boar's Head and other brands makes me think it's not a marketing mind trick.
Yep. I remember spending hours on that site -- I watched through when the SciFi channel re-ran B5, and I always pulled the Lurker's Guide up after each episode and read through each episode's discussion in its entirety. My brother did the same thing. We'd discuss at length afterwards. Had a huge impact on us.
It's a fascinating site. Besides being a great commentary on a really good TV show, and a great example of how durable and usable 90s-era web could really be, it also encapsulates something about the position and velocity of culture at the time. The whole thing really reflects how TV shows were viewed at the time, and how the Internet was used at the time, and the hopes and ideals people had about where things would go.
Yes, exactly! I'd seen an episode of B5 here and there, but it was hard to know what was going on. My family moved states when TNT bought the show and started airing the series in order 5 days a week as Season 5 was starting to come out. I didn't know anyone yet so the highlight of my day was coming home and watching the next episode, then reading the episode guide. It made me feel like part of a community.
In some parts of the world, wired lightning headphones are actually cheap bluetooth headphones that only use the lightning port for power (to avoid Apple licensing fees). For the author this was baffling, as everyone else took it as normal that bluetooth needed to be enabled to use wired headphones.
Yeah, that was really cool. A couple of years before that, Harvey Danger (yes, the Flagpole Sitta band) literally released their album Little by Little on BitTorrent. I loved that move, and it also happened to be a great album.
Was going to say the same, I'll bet it's listed as an example question in the prompt or something like that. Seems unlikely to be a hallucination since multiple people got the exact same question.
(Also happen to work at Microsoft, also don't work on Bing Copilot)
Historically, it was designed to resemble C#, yet transpile to GNOME-like GObject-based C code, to provide an alternative way for GNOME developers to get higher level language syntax without having to depend on Mono/C# (which was very controversial at the time).
So the biggest difference from C# or Java is that there is no VM. It is mostly syntactic sugar over C and GObject.
At least, this was the case last I paid attention 15 years ago.
I think I got in a rabbit-hole with it around 2010 for the same reason of liking C# but not liking who backs C#, but I already had enough not marketable languages
> but I already had enough not marketable languages
Ha! Ain't that the truth :-)
It touches on a big problem for new language development in that there are barriers to entry at getting workable in a new language, but employers don't want to use them unless they can hire for them, and they can't hire for them unless people use them, but people don't use them because they can't get hire'd to use them, rinse and repeat.
When I tried it many years ago it was a really leaky abstraction over GObject and C. If you didn't understand exactly how it worked under the hood, stuff would segfault on you pretty regularly. But I suppose that's par for the course in the GObject universe.
I actually first heard of Vala just a few days ago when I was looking at a C#-related PR[1] for highlight.js:
> This fails the tests as the Vala default.txt is recognized now as C#. However, Vala is very close in syntax to C#, and the default.txt also seems to be valid C# so not sure what to do about this.
