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…back in the CRT era i needed at least a 72Hz refresh rate to not feel any discomfort; that doesn’t exactly correlate with framerates on modern LCD displays but i think it’s a good proxy for the threshold of general perceptiblity…

…are greater framerates smoother?..sure, especially in my peripheral vision, but 72 FPS is generally good-enough beyond which returns start diminishing…

…trump’s trivially manipulated: the next four years are china’s best shot and they know it…

…NCSA mosaic won the web, absolutely; in truth i think it gave a lot of us an excuse to upgrade from terminals and shell accounts…

…i remember going to our computer lab in the early nineties and seeing a flyer about this new protocol called the world wide web, thinking to myself in what way is that better than gopher?..

…well he’s not…

…we had spoons, they were broken; i text-message my mom a couple times per year on christmas and mother’s day…

…i don’t think he wants anything other than to keep uncle vlad at bay…

…dreamworks published the DVD without english subtitles, instead providing only descriptive closed captions…

…it’s an amazing film but the closed captions were a terribly compromised viewing experience, poor enough to tank DVD sales and put the film into distribution purgatory under the terms of dreamworks’ original contract…

…does it have real subtitles yet?..

Baah Weep Granah Weep Nini-bong.

…they called it ‘semen’ in the high republic…

…if russia needs men and china needs women that sounds like a demographic imbalance poised to resolve itself…