Elite Piranha wrote: Tue Sep 06, 2022 4:52 am
That's a very interesting way of presenting information. Btw, Crash267, I think you forgot to add the full link of the YT video.
Yes I realize that
Kind of forgot about the buggie link to the video might update it eventually
Ah yes, that stuff all sounds familiar, from when the Combine OverWiki ditched Wikia over ten years ago, not to mention how superior RayWiki is to the Rayman Fandom site…
Though wikis have been forking from Fandom even since it was called Wikia (and even Wikicities), it appears that the trend has dramatically accelerated in the last couple years. It's no surprise when you consider how much the viewer experience, already very bad, has worsened since Fandom was acquired by TPG Capital, a private equity company whose business, like its peers, is to buy other companies and turn them over for a profit. The problem is, Fandom was already milking its wikis pretty bad to begin with, so any improvement to the profitability of its ads business would come at a great expense for the user experience. The company also acquired a number of websites and online magazines but I'm not sure that they really managed to materialize any synergies out of those acquisitions. Now, with the dearth in M&A and the drop in valuations that followed the post-Covid rebound, TPG has no choice but to double down on ads if they want to turn a profit (or cut their losses). And it's a rather sensible (if unethical) decision: because Fandom has always refused to close the wikis that moved elsewhere, and their great SEO means that their semi-abandoned copies will still get the bulk of user traffic, at least for quite some time, I don't think that wikis leaving the site have much short term impact on their revenue.
And that's really the problem to begin with, Fandom's paradigm that wikis should not be closed wikis after they've forked. I think there's value in for-profit, ad-supported wiki hosting, and without companies like Fandom many wikis would never have seen the light of day or would have disappeared long ago (not all communities are lucky enough to have their own independent RayWiki), but there is a middle ground to be found between the service the host offers and the benefits they reap from it. If the company owns the wikis and decides they cannot "lose" them, they have nobody to answer to and service is bound to only deteriorate as time goes. Other companies, such as wiki.gg, for example, seem to be good alternatives in that regard.
One thing's for sure, TPG will not hold on to Fandom forever. It remains to be seen what the future holds; I find it an interesting space to watch!
PluMGMK wrote: Sat Nov 04, 2023 11:58 pm
Ah yes, that stuff all sounds familiar, from when the Combine OverWiki ditched Wikia over ten years ago, not to mention how superior RayWiki is to the Rayman Fandom site…
Honestly that’s a relatively low bar these days, especially given what happened previously.
He's had enough of human languages and is now moving into the animal kingdom lol. Dolphins are really cute though.
That's pretty amazing! Seeing the spectrograms and realizing how different their frequency range is is kinda mind-boggling. But I guess they live in water, which has a different acoustic refractive index (bulk modulus? I forget the correct term…) so that's bound to shake things up a bit…
Was about to comment on it, but then noticed someone else had got there before me:
There are actually four different kernels used in Windows XP. During the installation of Windows, the setup checks how many cores the CPU has, whether it supports PAE, etc, then chooses one of these kernels and copies it to the system32 folder under the name of ntoskrnl.exe. The reason why it has happened in your video was that the kernel used by the physical computer and the virtual machine were actually different, so the system on the physical machine could not boot with the kernel installed on the virtual machine!
A video about the Windscale Fire disaster, which tells the story pretty well. I've studied up on the incident before so I didn't really learn anything new, but the cavalier way things were done in early nuclear reactors still blows my mind every time I think about it! (One thing the video doesn't mention is that they had recently repurposed the pile to produce tritium as well as plutonium, and did it in a rush because Churchill had committed the MoD to produce a H-Bomb on a tight schedule…)
Not quite sure where the best thread for this one is, so I thought I'd just dump it here. It's always interesting to see the background for certain events that appear to be seemingly random in games:
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