I hear you, but the flip side is that it sounds like they did right by their early adopters in grandfathering you in.

Early adopters are exactly the people that like to test and recommend things to the majority. Without being aware of it, I was recommending a different product than the one I was using.

People stake their own personal reputations behind their recommendations. I don't think quietly changing the product without warning is doing right by their early adopters.

For their bank account, sure.

> Joy and energy is one of the rarest resources a small team can have when building large projects

I really love this point-out. Not always an easy sell upstream, but a big factor in happy + productive teams.

> Fixing 174 would mean handing a tax break to the same companies many voters in both parties see as symbols of corporate excess.

This is frustratingly accurate. Through a zero sum political lens it'd be a handout to "big tech," so many politicians argue for keeping this on the books, but in reality S174 deeply affects small companies, new companies, boutique agencies, and individuals who want to consult or start smaller operations. I worked for a ~20 person shop that was gutted by this tax code change. It completely changed the affordability of talent.

There’s 10 types of people in this world: those that get that joke and those that don’t.

There are 2 kinds of people in this world, those that can extrapolate from incomplete data.

And fence post errors.

And those who know this joke is actually in base 3. :)

I have a TidByt in my office and this feels like the printed version of that. The ability to choose and order the sections of your daily newspaper from a library/app would be slick.

I can vouch. Having OpenRCT2 and being able to play this amazing game again has brought me so much joy.

I’ve been playing a copy of the original installment in the series off GoG with my kids recently and they love it. Thinking about setting up OpenRCT2 though.

A VHS of this I taped from broadcast is bopping around my parents’ basement somewhere. I need to find that.

I wonder if content on VHS tape can be read and/or post-processed better than the best Toshiba or Sony (PAL|NTSC) VCR in history using fancier techniques and modern technology.

Awesome, thanks. I guess one just needs benchmarks of the sensitivity of various compatible hardware solutions.

Was about to say that.

I wonder if the newer reading technology offsets the degradation of the magnetic tape, or whether it's better to digitize X years ago, using the older digitizing technique, but with a stronger magnetic signal.

Every time it's played, there is mechanical wear on the tape surface and mechanical stretching to place it under tension.

Probably always best to digitize it then because there's quite a bit that can happen to tape magnetically and to the plastic tape itself.

Awesome! Please share if you are able to recover it.

I’ve always loved “Beware of Doug”

We had two Dougs in our 1980's office. One of them had the cartoon on the entrance to his cube.

I am a longtime and proud Firefox user, but this feature of Chrome is the one thing I want. When I see colleagues using it, it just looks like the right way to tackle that need.

It's like a cow's opinion.