Interesting Links for 17-01-2020

[andrewducker]

C Is Not a Low-level Language

(tags:programming computers hardware software design )

Christopher Tolkien has died

(tags:Tolkien death france )

'Watchmen': HBO won't continue without after creator says he's done with it

Oh the irony
(tags:Watchmen TV HBO DamonLindelof )

No-Bullshit Games - mobile games that aren't pay-to-win, have non-removable ads, or full of demands to spend more.

(tags:games phones )

An animation showing temperature change by country from 1880 to 2019

(tags:globalwarming visualisation animation )

Comments

[skington]

It's telling that you may as well not bother sorting games on the No-bullshit games site by rating: basically everything is rated 4, 4.5 or 5. Even if you account for hte fact that these are supposedly really good games, the fact remains that tech companies everywhere are convinced that anything other than 5 stars means bad, rather than 3 stars being a perfectly acceptable rating, and anything above an exception to the rule that's worth noting. The statistical illiteracy is depressing at times.

(See also: Uber drivers terrified of a rating below 5.)

[andrewducker]

Yeah, ratings systems have gone to shit.