My guess is smartphones hitting a point of increased adoption. In the "good old days", phone games were honest and not addiction-inducing adware..

You can remap the keys so that "Special: Power" key button does nothing.. Or even to the original function (on my keyboard it would mean Volume Down would be F12 instead).

One Windows software to do that: https://github.com/randyrants/sharpkeys / https://apps.microsoft.com/detail/xpffcg7m673d4f?hl=en-US

On Linux, heck it's Linux, for sure it's doable.

Too many people confuse Schengen and EU freedom of movement. Ireland isn't in Schengen, but any EU citizen is allowed to enter the country, find work and reside...

It's nothing to do with race. You need to gain the mindset that not everything is about race.

If it’s nothing to do with race, then why is a country with four official languages being called “homogeneous”?

Why do people say China is “homogenous” when people speaking Cantonese can’t understand people speaking Mandarin? It’s because those groups of people have been part of a common polity off and on since the Qin dynasty more than 2,000 years ago.

Similarly, Switzerland has been a thing, in various forms, since French and Italian were considered different dialects of vulgar Latin. The groups that speak the four different languages nonetheless share 800+ years of common political and social history.

I’m pretty sure people say China is homogeneous because 90+% of the population is a single ethnicity, and approximately 100% is “Asian” for some meaning of that word.

What you’re describing is national unity or identity or something like that, not homogeneity.

> Built as part of an attempt at [...] having overseas content on the radio dial

Old radios have the station locations (cities all over the world) as labels for the tuner: https://www.radioheritage.com/story354/

Or: https://www.shutterstock.com/image-photo/european-cities-rad...?

A further (well, different) hack would be to combine this hardware dial with stream URLs e.g. from https://radio.garden/ ...

A modern station list is available here: https://short-wave.info/

This movie with a robot car would be quite different... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlcX_GXtf40

But a getaway car that obeys traffic laws, that's not gangster at all.

The fact that it could be LLM made me skip reading this. Then I noticed the AI: Amber "tag", which confesses that it's all AI generated but reviewed. Still icked enough (knowing AI's writing style) that I probably won't read it.

The ending of that story is interesting:

> The Emperor was vexed, for he knew that the people were right; but he thought the procession must go on now! And the lords of the bedchamber took greater pains than ever, to appear holding up a train, although, in reality, there was no train to hold.

From https://americanliterature.com/author/hans-christian-anderse...

Also crazy to me: how some people can't bother to capitalize names or use punctuation.

Considering the book's title is almost identical to Bjarne Stroustrup's book, it smells like an attempt to profit by confusing buyers.

God, what an odd first paragraph... wow, how did this collection of computers, most of which are probably from 1950s onwards, survive Allied bombing of the 1940s?

Then again, it's from 2006, which probably explains the style of writing...

Edit: The HTML source indicates the article was written in 2025. With video recorded in 2006 (in glorious 360p) and uploaded to YouTube last year.

The writing seems odd because it’s from the BAI (Before AI) era.