i mean... yeah.. but a bigger change, surely is that everything in this photo, of tech from the 80s, is currently in your pocket: https://twistedsifter.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/05/80s-sma...

You have over ear headphones in your pocket? And a set of stereo speakers?

No, nor do i have VHS tapes. Oh you got me good, well done you.

"Gentlemen, please, there is no fighting in the HN comments"

Completely unrelated thought - are Arsenal the only club in England to not have a placename in their name?

I know they were originally Woolwich Arsenal, but they dropped the Woolwich when they moved from there.

And, of course, the big problem is, they always try to walk it in.

Yes, the club name bears the shame of having moved across town for money. The MK Dons of the 20th century.

Port Vale is the only other one without a place name but they never moved, I don't know where the name comes from.

Crystal Palace is also a bit weird - named after a building that was moved, then burnt down, which also gave its name to an ill defined area of London that straddles three boroughs, which is not where the club plays any more…

Most areas of London are ill-defined, I think it's fair to say.

Crystal Palace is a made up place but the club is authentic to that place, if that makes sense?

It’s more that both the club and the area are independently named after the site of the stadium where the club used to play. The club would still be called Crystal Palace even if the name had died out for the area of town.

ahhhh... i never thought that Port Vale wouldn't be an actual place - the internet seems to think there was a Port Vale Wharf though: https://www.thepotteries.org/walks/longport/15.htm https://portvalenostalgia.co.uk/history/

its a lot easier to train people to code than it is to teach them good design.

Now, now, both jobs are equally redundant now we have thinking machines..

i remember years ago reading a tweet, i'm paraphrasing but it went something like:

"I love how men go from 'I'm gonna conquer the world!!' to 'im gonna sit here and paint my model figures'"

I think about it a lot, and your comment made me think of it again.

Flight sims are my 'model railways'

for me its the abilty to 'switch off'

I play Euro Truck Simulator 2 (ets) and its my happy place, its just zen, Sometimes i will have a plugin that will get me local radio stations and i will cruise through italy and greece listening to talk shows in languages i don't understand, sometimes i will do it listening to the rumble of the truck, and i switch off, and allow my thoughts to run free.

I've recently started getting into flight sims, and i'm looking for the same sort of thing with that (the only problem with ets is the graphics still looks like a 2013 game) and i think i will get there, its just i'm at the 'learning to fly' stage, and thats kinda difficult. Well, actually flying is surprisingly easy, landing is the tricky bit ;-)

If you're flying a larger passenger plane into basically any major airport, ILS should get you most of the way down - you just need to control speed (you're looking for landing speed +10 by the end)

Depending where you're flying, some arrivals have gaps which threw me off massively when I first started - it's because IRL there's ATC there to guide you to the final intersection for the runway, usually 10NM out... so aim for that and capture ILS, it's quite a wide margin for capture.

If you're going manually, 10nm out you want to start descending at around 600-700fpm from ~3000ft and you should have visual on the runway at this point

I never thought of mixing that with local radio. That sounds wonderful.

Eric Williams: “British historians write almost as if Britain had introduced Negro slavery solely for the satisfaction of abolishing it.

Totally agree, the British Empire has a lot of blood on its hand, but compared to its forebears and contemporaries it did abolish slavery, a tradition that has roots as old as humanity itself.

Compared to its contemporaries, only Portugal transported more African slaves across to the America's.

But hey, they stopped doing it, after a couple hundred years so let's everyone give Britain credit.

There were times when there were more slaves in Athens than citizens.

The Arab led slave trade flourished for much longer, by some records it is alive even today.

The words Slav and slave have the same root.

There were times when 30-40% of the Korean population were slaves.

The Mongols killed and enslaved half of the known world.

I'm not sure what point you are trying to make here.

My point is this, none of these people ever make a point of how much freedom they had, because after a couple hundred years they stopped, quite like the the brits like to.

It's pretty baffling tbh.

Anyone: criticises the British empire.

Brits: after several hundred years of brutal trans Atlantic slave trade, we stopped. Hurrah!

> My point is this, none of these people ever make a point of how much freedom they had, because after a couple hundred years they stopped, quite like the the brits like to.

The others he listed didn't stop voluntarily - their empires either collapsed or found themselves at the mercy of another that likely also practiced slavery. As he said, slavery was the default. The UK itself was getting raided by Barbary pirates just 200 years before the Slavery Abolition Act.

Unlike the Romans or the Mongols, the UK made a choice to stop, and they did so, at massive cost, because their values changed. They actual made actual progress, and thus are hated by many calling themselves progressives.

> They actual made actual progress, and thus are hated by many calling themselves progressives.

Y'know.... i dunno man, i'm not so sure its the 'stopping' that makes them hated by those calling themselves progressives?

> Now, true virtue signalling is saying X to change the perception but yet doing 100 evil things in the background.

No, thats hypocrisy.

There are. But also.. so much drama. Like soooo much drama

I'm going to edit this: much of this is rails, we know why that is, so apologies to rubyists

Nah, I live in the UK, prices are higher than eu, public service is much worse, but public are voting for the party with members that brought this about.

Humans are weird.

Voting for someone else would mean admitting you were wrong.

Paying high prices and losing your job are bad, but not as bad as changing your mind.