It is wildly disingenuous to just copy paste that line from wikipedia and not the rest of the paragraph.
> In February 1998, Ericsson Radio Systems banned the in-house use of Erlang for new products, citing a preference for non-proprietary languages.[15] The ban caused Armstrong and others to make plans to leave Ericsson.[16] In March 1998 Ericsson announced the AXD301 switch,[8] containing over a million lines of Erlang and reported to achieve a high availability of nine "9"s.[17] In December 1998, the implementation of Erlang was open-sourced and most of the Erlang team resigned to form a new company, Bluetail AB.[8] Ericsson eventually relaxed the ban and re-hired Armstrong in 2004.
- edit, poster was quoting a quote in the article, not wikipedia, the article is the one omitting the context
If you find that you like something that most people don't it's generally best to just leave it alone and be happy you enjoyed it. If you try to delve into why so many people don't like the thing you like then either they will manage to convince you the thing you like is actually bad, which doesn't benefit you, or you'll start to question whether or not your taste in media is bad, which doesn't benefit you.
> they will manage to convince you the thing you like is actually bad, which doesn't benefit you
I'd argue that there is benefit to re-evaluating one's tastes based on new information. It's always good to think critically of the content you consume.
EDIT: Wow. Can't even post comments on a new account. Not gonna beg dang for approval in his e-mail so I guess that's it for me and anyone else who's privacy-aware.
Most people who watched it enjoyed it. Jordan fans were big on it (at least from what I saw at JordanCon and WoTCon). Will people not like certain things, sure. The issue is that YouTubers will complain about anything these days and rage videos get more traction, so it's easier to pile on, and people who wouldn't watch it complain about how bad it is.
I wouldn't put to much weight on someone not liking something. After all, either they haven't watched it all, or they are watching something they don't like. And that's not someone's taste I trust.
One can enjoy the show as a kind of trashy fanfiction while still finding it terribly unfaithful to the original story and characters. We're only two seasons in and massive changes have been made that invalidate character arcs in the original, so I expect we'll continue to see greater and greater divergence in plot points.
Having said that, what do you think of people like GRRM (wrt House of the Dragon) and Brandon Sanderson critiquing these adaptations? Your last paragraph seems to imply there's no value to someone dislike something.
> I wouldn't put to much weight on someone not liking something. After all, either they haven't watched it all, or they are watching something they don't like. And that's not someone's taste I trust.
That's some very "heads I win, tails you lose" logic right there.
Just chipping in as someone who is a tremendous fan of the books (I've read all of them 4 or 5 times and listened to the audio books twice). I _hated_ the series, I was very excited for it, watched Season 1, was blown away by how awful the changes were and won't be watching more.
It honestly baffles me that anyone who liked the books is able to enjoy the TV show, it feels like bad fan fiction.
WoT was very much not well received by fans, mainly because it is so disrespectful to the source material that you would think the showrunner actively hates it. You asked for specifics, so:
* Rand and Egwene's relationship going from "they like each other but are kind of hesitant" to "sneaking away to have sex in the woods". Not only is this completely unnecessary, it's completely at odds with the moral values of Two Rivers culture for them to be doing that.
* Perrin being married (WTF), and then killing his wife by accident (WTF squared). In the books Perrin is very careful to not accidentally hurt people as he is conscious of his strength.
* In general, trying to change the Two Rivers to have the diversity of modern day NYC. A region so far off the beaten path that even their de jure queen doesn't remember they exist is simply not going to have a broad selection of races. This isn't as big of a sin as the character changes, but it's also completely free to have this bit of worldbuilding via character casting. There is no good reason whatsoever to give it up.
* Generally changing relationships in ways that just aren't supported by the books. Like, Siuan and Moiraine aren't in a sexual relationship at that point in the story so it's idiotic to depict them as such.
* Trying to act as though the Dragon could be any of the Emond's Field kids is against the very metaphysical foundations of the WoT universe. The Dragon could only be a boy, and Moiraine would know this damn well. And while we're at it, Moiraine had no idea that there were ta'veren in the Two Rivers at all, certainly not more than one, unlike what the show claims.
* Aging up Min severely and making her a Darkfriend. Just WTF.
* At one point Nynaeve heals death, which is again completely impossible in this universe.
* The damane costumes... so bad it's laughable. What on earth were they thinking? How could they get it so wrong? How you go from collars (in the books) to ball gags in the show is utterly beyond my ability to even imagine.
Those are the main things I can think of, and that's just season 1. I didn't even bother trying to hate read about season 2 after how bad season 1 was, but from what I heard it wasn't better (like apparently Rand bangs Lanfear, which he absolutely would never do). I understand that adaptations need to change things. But the changes they made to WoT aren't necessary, and often make the story worse than what Jordan wrote.
It all shows a grave disrespect for the source material, contrary to the staff's claims that they love the books so much (bullshit). As far as I can tell, Rafe didn't want to do an adaptation of Jordan's story, he wanted to tell his own story. Which is fine, but then tell your own fucking story, don't take a massive dump all over someone else's work which many people love.
I think it's just different learning styles. My preference for learning e.g. a new programming language has always been to read a book cover to cover as the first step (if it's a language established enough to have a book anyway). Note that it's not important that I actually understand everything on this first pass. The cover to cover is mostly about getting the lay of the land so I know what exists, then, even years later when I have a problem that could be solved by using some bit of the language that I read about but didn't really understand but vaguely recall is a thing it springs to mind and I can do my deep dive on that aspect then.
I'm currently doing this with a few programming language books, and the strategy for me is basically to read the book in two passes. On the first pass, the goal is just to get through the whole thing and get a feel for everything it covers. If I don't understand it, that's okay— I just let it wash over me.
It's only on the second pass that I am trying to go through each section carefully and make sure I really understand before moving on, including seeking outside help or resources if I feel confused or stuck.
This feels fun for me, and the casual first pass makes it easy to figure out if a book or language truly appeals to me.
I also feel, strange as it sounds, like for me it save time compared to learning in small increments through tutorials. It lets me more quickly absorb the basics for things that are already more or less familiar, and then I can focus on exercises and examples only for the tricky stuff.
When I first started studying computer science, in high school, the biggest productivity gap was between the students who tried to work only with what they were directly taught in class by the teacher and the students who decided to go explore the language/stdlib API docs on their own. There was a lot of 'wow, how did you do that!?' from the former group and a lot of 'it's built in, check out this part of the manual' in response from the latter. But somehow no amount of exchanges like that could convince the former group to take some time to RTFM in a comprehensive or unguided way, so it stayed that way.
I built a MUD in Elixir and I completely agree. After many iterations what I landed on as the best path was having rooms as actors. Mobs, characters, items etc are just data in the room process (actor) state (in memory that is, in the database they're all modeled more or less as you'd expect for a relational DB).
This gives me a large number of units of concurrency, while allowing the overwhelming majority of the code to be written sequentially since most of the complicated bits (combat etc) happen within a room so I don't have to think about concurrency at all for those. The only communication between processes is moving monster / character data from one room to another when those entities move around the map.
Consider this: bob is closing a door in rooma. A dragon is trying to move to rooma through that exit.
How do you code this such that bob never sees the dragon walk through a closed door? With no deadlocks?
The way I solved this is by creating a new process for coordinating multi-room actions. If a room is part of a coordinating process, it will queue everything from all other processes.
The ROG Ally seems like a really nice piece of hardware. Having said that, I cannot possibly stress enough how bad of a time you will have if it breaks and you have to deal with an RMA / ASUS customer support.
You'd probably save yourself a lot of time and frustration by just throwing it in the trash and buying a new one or a Steam Deck if something goes wrong with it.
Basically, if $600-700 is nothing to you then go ahead and buy one. It's new and shiny, faster than a Deck and has a nice screen. Maybe it won't break before a new gen arrives
If you want something that lasts, Steam Deck is a better pick
Considering Valve's track record with the Index and its build quality issues I'm not sure I fully trust them to build something that's lasting either. It's only been a year, guess I will see if my Deck spontaneously falls apart eventually.
My only gripe is that they chose not to put the USB-C connector on a separate, easily exchangeable PCB. but other than that, best gadget in a looong time. And the advantages it gives to Linux gaming in general is very nice (I have gamed exclusively on Linux for 5 years, and it has never been better).
At least Valve has excellent support, I've had 4 hardware issues with my Index and Steam Support has always gone above and beyond to replace the hardware for me despite the one year warranty and the purchase being made 4 years ago.
Whether or not they got it all technically right, I expect them to stand by their product and make things right eventually, at least moreso than the typical hardware vendor. I've personally had several very positive experiences with their customer support department.
My initial steam deck battery wasn’t lasting very long, reporting charge state strangley. After initially trying some things I contacted their support. We tried a bunch of things (reinstalling the OS even). Nothing worked so it was swapped out and got a new one.
Things go wrong sometimes but their support was excellent.
I bought someone's HTC Vive Pro gear on eBay. It was a sketchy listing with very few pictures and details, but I had a good feeling. Delightfully, it came with four v2 lighthouses. One of them didn't work, though, and had chew marks from someone trying to pry it open.
The unit being Valve branded, I messaged Valve's customer support. I asked if I could mail the broken lighthouse to them to make sure it got recycled properly. I made it very clear that it was a sketchy eBay purchase that I essentially got for free, and I really just wanted to make sure it got e-wasted responsibly, rather than float around in my garage for the next decade.
They had no record of its serial number, and explained that it was most likely HTC's inventory rather than Valve's. Despite that, they insisted on RMA'ing it and mailed me a functioning unit! They even sent me a prepaid mailing label, but I printed my own to save them the $5.
That's not my only story where I politely made a modest request of their customer support team, and they significantly over-delivered.
there's a lot of drama currently with how their bios update is the only fix to burning cpu's and it void's warranty so you lose warranty to fix their mistake. Based on that I won't be getting a ally even though really wanted to.
> there's a lot of drama currently with how their bios update is the only fix to burning cpu's and it void's warranty so you lose warranty to fix their mistake
How is that even legal? Makes me glad I’m in the EU to be honest.
It's godawful even in EU, and that didn't change even one bit over the years.
Long wait times, unhelpful people - even sales people!
I wanted to change my order from mid-range model to high range model in their official store, and i got stonewalled and delayed by their sales.
Last time, i sent my phone for repair, a 4 year old one. Quoted price for out of warranty repair was higher than the price of their newest gaming flagship phone.
Previously i sent my tablet for repairs - a broken screen - it came back with used touchscreen that was faulty, had no safety sticker on it(so i assume they just slapped an used one from other repair), and I had to send it back again.
They do the same things in the US. I’ve received many broken graphics cards as RMAs from asus. They are the worst card company.
From worst to best:
Asus
Nvidia
MSI
Zotac
Gigabyte
In all my mining, I never had a gigabyte card fail. Nvidia made me do chat support for an hour where they demanded I test the card in a separate desktop PC with fully different parts, and I had to send them the specs on the second machine in full.
As a personal counterpoint - my founders 3070Ti broke and Nvidia was super good at replacing it, they sent FedEx to my house to collect it, and I got a replacement within a week - and that was at the point where you couldn't buy these cards anywhere so I was pretty impressed.
Because you paid 4x what the card is worth! I'm sure if every brand had those insane margins they would be happy to give out replacements like candy and help their public image.
I mean....I paid the rrp at the time, which was £529. Maybe the card was overpriced for what it was, although I find it unlikely - it was obliterating much more expensive cards from the previous generation.
A travel card that uses Visa Infinite is your best bet here. I have the Capital One Venture X and one of my prime use cases for it (aside from travel upgrades and points transfer) is electronics purchases.
August 24th was the first time we saw exactly this issue in 7 years of heavy, multi-region, AWS use. So we put in place the ability to semi-automatically route around this more quickly, but we didn't fixate on it. Two data points is a line, however. (But maybe not yet a trend?)
D2:R was mostly Vicarious Visions (but it absolutely did turn out awesome).
WoW (retail) has had 3 of its last 4 expansions ultimately perceived as failures and is (justifiably, belatedly, finally) having its lunch eaten by the vastly superior Final Fantasy XIV.
Immensely is probably overstating Starcraft 2's popularity, but what popularity it still has is in spite of anything Blizzard has done for it recently rather than because of it. They've essentially abandoned the franchise to wither on the vine at this point.
This is the first acquisition, possibly ever, that I view as potentially a positive for the customers of the company being acquired, if only because Microsoft can't possibly mishandle Blizzard's IP and staff any worse than Activision and Blizzard already have.
I did some quick googling and reservations for a signature 2020 roadster were able to be placed as of November 2017 for $50,000. At that time Tesla's stock price was around $60. (I'm assuming that price is adjusted for the stock split that occurred, correct me if I'm wrong.)
As of right now the stock is about $730. Had one purchased Tesla stock instead of reserving a roadster in 2017 it would now be valued at around $600k which is enough to buy 2 roadsters and change at $250k each. Who knows where it will be in 2023. If I recall correctly reserving a signature Model X was a similarly terrible investment vs buying the stock.
I've done the same type of math over buying Apple gear and working for income vs buying Apple stock and just hanging out in Thailand or Chile teaching English on the weekends.
Predicting the future is hard. Tesla almost went bankrupt multiple times. It's ok to have a car instead of a retirement.
Every time I buy Apple products I spend the same amount on AAPL.
Yes it gets expensive, but so far its been a very good investment - i wouldn't actually call it a strategy - method..
Since its very expensive - I don't buy as much hardware as I otherwise probably would.
The "interest" is the value added by being in a queue so that you can get $THING sooner than if you didn't reserve a spot.
Whether the value of the $THING (and having it earlier) actually justifies the opportunity cost of the deposit simply depends on the cost/thing/schedule and the buyer's wishes.
The fact that Diablo 3 needed to be "fixed" supports the narrative. Also the fact that executives didn't realize it had been fixed and cancelled the 2nd Diablo 3 expansion. The Warcraft III remaster was a disaster. Three out of the last four World of Warcraft expansions have been poorly received. There does seem to be a pattern of decline.
Well, I think SL is alright. I wouldn't say I love it, but I do that's more of a symptom of core gameplay mechanics rather than particular content. What do you dislike about SL?
This is a common sentiment I hear from people who bailed during WoD and have just been looking at public commentary about the rest. Everyone I spoke to in-game were at least meh about BfA, loved Legion, and were still stoked on SL until the new patch just took a bit too long. There are legit criticisms of all of them, but to say they're shit is just silly. Those same people also tended to love MoP fwiw.
My only real criticism is related to the majority of all game content being kind of irrelevant, because there isn't a long road to max level and no scarcity of exp. However, I did level through BfA content, and it was really well done.
I'm odd in that I actually loved WoD, aside from Garrisons. Legion had it's moment of greatness, around the fourth patch it was great.
BfA and Shadowlands are incredibly bad, for casual players there's really nothing interesting to do, and raiders and stuck behind meaningless time gates. It's quite sad to see my friends list now, no one is playing - and a new patch has just been released.
I'm a huge fan, but I've also stopped playing. Blizzard feel like they've been ahead for so long they forget what made their games great. Saying that though, it only takes on incredible expansion for everyone to jump back.
I've gone back to level through WoD, and I was very impressed with Draenor and HFC. I have no personal qualms with that expansion other than what I hear about.
I think I agree with your commentary about SL, but I just said the same thing in a different way. BfA had a bit more interesting content though in that respect. They were not 'incredibly bad' by my estimation, just have their various flaws.
With regard to friends list, I stopped playing shortly before new patch drop, but mostly because it's summer and WoW in general just makes it way too easy to spend time indoors. I was following the world first race though, and would love to raid SoD and do BGs. But, before letting my sub expire I went and farmed out all the Mechagon mounts and most interesting rare drop mounts, had my fill of Nathria, and a bit of Mythic+ as miserable as that is. Could have been more fun with a proper gaming setup and guild, but I knew summer was coming up and I'd want to dial my playtime back to zero.
In fairness to WoD the leveling experience really was great. However they utterly gutted combat mechanics which I think is a big part of why people coming from MoP into WoD hated it so much. And then the content drought...
Yes and no. Yeah Erlang has been around for 30 years but "30 year old language" makes it sound like it came out 30 years ago and then stopped. Erlang is still being very actively developed and improved, it's by no means a crusty old language.
> In February 1998, Ericsson Radio Systems banned the in-house use of Erlang for new products, citing a preference for non-proprietary languages.[15] The ban caused Armstrong and others to make plans to leave Ericsson.[16] In March 1998 Ericsson announced the AXD301 switch,[8] containing over a million lines of Erlang and reported to achieve a high availability of nine "9"s.[17] In December 1998, the implementation of Erlang was open-sourced and most of the Erlang team resigned to form a new company, Bluetail AB.[8] Ericsson eventually relaxed the ban and re-hired Armstrong in 2004.
- edit, poster was quoting a quote in the article, not wikipedia, the article is the one omitting the context
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