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Engine released under GPL, but the media required to play the game is commercially licensed. It's what John Carmack did with id games. You pay the game creators for their art, or y…

There is an important difference between Google and Microsoft. Google is using their market dominance to push their opinions on the open standards bodies; Microsoft used their mark…

Is it USB 2 or USB 3? Is it 3.0, 3.1, or 3.2? Gen 1, Gen 2, or Gen 2x2? Do I need USB-A or Micro USB or USB-C? Do I need USB-A on one end of this cable and USB-C on the other, or s…

Bingo

The fact that C++ versioning uses two digits for the year is the most 1980s thing about it.

> We don’t arbitrarily stop every single person to ferret them out. This is NYC we're talking about. Stop-and-Frisk was a fun game the cops played for years.

The law makes a clear distinction between entrapment and opportunity. Setting up a "honeypot" is not entrapment. That's not to say that this was anything other than a waste of time…

Since the government insists that it has the authority to violate the 4th Amendment whenever it feels like if I'm in a 100-mile vicinity of a border, I really want devices to have …

You can't prepare for the complete collapse of civilization. Even the Survivalists who go out with "nothing" and build their shelters, start their own fires, hunt their food, they …

Thankee-sai

"Do Emacs and Vim users have some other characteristic that makes them more likely to succeed during interviews?" I think the Interview Pass Rates chart makes it clear that the ans…

So...literally shit for brains?

I should start a bootcamp to help prospective students prepare to attend a bootcamp.

Shelby Stanger had a great interview with her on the most recent episode of the "Wild Ideas Worth Living" REI podcast. https://wildideasworthliving.com/samin-nosrat-the-adventure-.…

I wonder how much of the increasing success of Azure is creditable to its deep integration with Visual Studio Code.

"Linux Kernel in a Nutshell" was indispensable when hacking on the kernel in my Operating Systems class back when I was in college. It's really a shame it hasn't been updated since…

I am referring to the "Chinese vendors and mfgs" in the parent comment, not the entire Chinese "race." I called them conscience-less. In support of my view, I quoted the World Heal…

Dev.to has been gaining popularity.

> Who is "they"? From the parent comment: "Chinese vendors and mfgs"

They proved they have no conscience with the Chinese baby formula scandal[1]: putting melamine in baby formula to save a little money, knowing that doing so would be poisoning infa…

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