Natural selection in action. It’s also why domestic cats’ calls sound less harsh than those of the Arabian wildcat, their nearest wild relative.

Then the AAA studios will use some of their Saudi cash to buy out the most prominent indie developers, only to slowly strangle their products

Well, one’s vital statistics would include things like heart rate and blood pressure, so the name is presumably a reference to his strained demeanour.

If Apple licensed their optimised variant of ARM to third parties, Steam would probably jump right on it, along with other hardware manufacturers. The performance Apple Silicon got over the x86 machines it replaced was game-changing, along with the improved battery life. And other ARM vendors, whilst behind Apple (who do have excellent CPU engineers), are catching up.

Given that their system is open-source, other manufacturers will step in, as they did with Steam Deck-style handhelds, further expanding the Steam platform at the expense of XBox, PlayStation and Nintendo,

I suspect the Frame, with its x86 to ARM recompilation layer, is a trial balloon for higher-performance ARM hardware in more traditional form factors. More concisely, the Steam Deck 2, when it appears, will be a high-performance ARM device, with similar performance/efficiency characteristics to Apple Silicon MacBooks rather than phones/tablets. Of course, this depends on a vendor producing suitable CPUs.

X11 was nifty, but limited by low ambitions. Its client/server model was simple: the application ran entirely on the UNIX host, and the terminal was just a dumb graphical display device: drawing commands went one way, and key/mouse events the other way. If only Sun had seen fit to open up NeWS, we could have ended up with apps’ UI layer running on the terminal, handling events and showing the interface, and the communication down the bottleneck between your terminal and the big UNIX machine running the business logic of the app being more structured (like, say, view-model objects and business-logic events). Of course, you’d have to write your UI code in PostScript, at least until someone invented Lua or something.

She’s in her ancestral environment, or at least a good approximation of it.

Looks more like an Adonis to me

A rare orange void

They’ll remember this and, from now on, be a little less trusting

“We don’t bite our friends”

Elton John, then still not fully out of the closet, made good use of that, writing a love song titled Nikita, though having the love interest in the video be a blonde woman in a fur hat (presumably to appease the record company).

Another thing we have Thatcher to thank for.

Don’t they also have far-right leanings of some sort? If so, it’s not surprising.

I knew a cat who once fished some aluminium foil a steak had been grilled on out of the bin and dragged it to his water bowl.

That’s why you should carry a pouch of cat treats at all times

Depending on peasants’ lifespans in this world, the peasant with the midlife crisis could be just out of their teens

A big chunk of that is probably on-device AI models that shareholders demand Apple force on its customers to demonstrate that they’re not being left behind.

They invented the Cybertruck?