And this is totally the way a lot of amateurs end up being coached in some of endurance sports.

E.x. in cycling a lot of the high volume low intensity work is targeted at the elite athletes that are putting in 20+ hours a week of training time.

I guess it's different for everyone but I still train somewhere between 7-15 hours a week and have always needed some of that to be low intensity.

I didn't read it in Arnold's voice till I saw your comment, so thank you.

Yeah it was Arnie's line briefing Linda. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DQsG3TKQ0I

This is completely true, and there's a good reason.

Almost everything anyone has tried to do to modernize electric guitars in a non-compatible way has had big downsides.

Almost any guitar with a pre-amp or whatever built into it that would allow it to use a cable like an XLR cable ends up needing batteries in the guitar, which then introduce a maintenance/failure point. And very often efforts to introduce this stuff haven't sounded great.

The only place this has kind of changed is super high gain guitars for metal. They are more likely to use active pickups, they'll have a battery, but they still use standard cabling for compatibility.

Anything that is modernized ends up being more expensive and harder to work on yourself. A basic guitar like a Strat or Tele has incredibly simple electronics and is super easy for any guitar player to learn to fix themselves, and most of the parts inside are super cheap. And it all just works really well.

And the audience never cares, they care about the notes you choose to play and the message the musician cares to get across.

This is incredibly hard to believe, Fender is many times bigger than PRS.

Fender sells at least 10x more guitars than PRS.

Fender has seen quality deteriorate to extremely concerning levels in the past 5-10 years, ask any luthier. That frustrated players and now this is icing on the cake as competition has surpassed them in quality and in value and now they come beating them up since they are seeing their piece of the marketplace get smaller.

I've been playing long enough that I disagree.

Fender's quality is very good now compared to when I started playing.

But so is everyone else's.

It's really impressive how you could apparently argue so strongly for Fender's defense: but the message that I took away was Fender is obviously the bad guy in this story, and I want nothing to do with them... and I haven't even clicked on the new tab for the story yet.

I'll take my Suhr "Strat" over any American made Strat any day, as well as my hand wired boutique amp over any pro reverb (new or vintage).

But would you have refused to buy that guitar if it looked a little more different than a Fender Stratocaster?

You clearly aren't bothered by it having a different headstock shape, Suhr could and probably will just change the body shape a little bit and it would be fine.

Ibanez sells tons of guitars like this. They're double cutaway guitars that are kind of similar to the Stratocaster shape, but they are uniquely different and still loved.

The weirdest thing is someone who hates Fender and won't buy a Fender but simultaneously demands that their guitar looks so close to a Fender that it would be in danger of infringing.

the shape is in the public domain though? it would be like trying to patent a rounded rectangle, it's inherently silly

Is this thing the basis of what Apple is doing in the Photos app in the most recent OS revisions?

It seems to work a lot quicker than 30s now on iDevices and Macs.

All of it is good but none of it is a shortcut.

The greats who became so good doing this had massive amounts of time to do it and put in massive amounts of effort.

I guess I'm showing my age but having read stuff like Michel Abrash's books years ago this article was a bit underwhelming.

Like no one who wrote any code back in the 80s or 90s even for a homebrew game was skipping this stuff, it was in almost every book and tutorial. Stuff like bit shifting was extremely common and a lot of games would have had design choices that were informed by coding challenges. Lots and lots of code had data structures aligned on byte/word boundaries or had data massaged to fit into the limits of hardware in order to make reads happen in a certain # of cycles, etc.. certainly almost all console games had lots and lots of fascinating design choices like this.

This game may have been exceptionally well optimized but it feels like if the original code is not in the public domain these weren't the best examples.

When he started writing about their being a clean sheet re-implementation I thought there was going to be a benchmark comparison of the modern rewrite vs the original on old hardware or something, that would have been interesting.

Thankfully or not I'm just barely young enough that I never had to write anything professional in assembly, though if I had gone into games maybe I would have.

You might be able to argue he was a bigger star than any of them.

His career lasted far longer. He had big movie appearances for 30 years, none of those people accomplished that.

Norris' first movie role was in 1968, first big credited appearance was 1972, Walker Texas Ranger finished in 2001.

> You might be able to argue he was a bigger star than any of them.

I think that's a hard argument to make.

Candace Bergen's career was just as long. Her first movie role was 1966, she was nominated for an Oscar in 1979, and she was on a popular sitcom from 1988 to 1998 that won her five Emmies and attracted national commentary after criticism from the Vice President.

I was a kid in the 80s and 90s and to me even then Chuck Norris was a B-movie self-parody joke character. He was not an A-list "action star" in the sense that Schwarzenegger, Stallone, or even Van Damme were.

Chromebooks are the SaaS of hardware where the user is not the buyer. No one says “I would love to have a Chromebook at home” any more than they desire to run Salesforce at home.

A Chromebook at the same price point will get you similar if not better specs, 14" 16:10 FHD IPS display, convertible with touchscreen and pen input, backlit keyboard and 10h+ battery runtime.