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I'd tend to agree with you, except for the fact that Rust reserved words are reserved everywhere . Even if the syntax were changed, you still couldn't name a field "async" or "retu…

In fact, plenty of people in science and engineering are religious or spiritual. They just aren't as loud online, because of exactly these sorts of comments. Try to respect the bel…

I've translated several mathematical papers into code, and I must strongly disagree. The very first thing I do is translate glyphs into names relevant to the domain I'm applying th…

Even better, traveling at c, it would take exactly zero shipboard time. Space contracts infinitely for the sufficiently fast. Only outside viewers would see it take 4.5 years.

There's nothing ethical about the way advertising invades every part of society, every corner of your home, and every available minute of human attention. Blocking ads is eminently…

Yes, Puffers: http://www.conwaylife.com/wiki/Category:Puffers

Massive housing price inflation relative to median incomes, for one, which the popularity of real estate and rental property ownership as an investment/speculation tool has greatly…

In the real world, maybe 5% do the math. The rest are dazzled or browbeaten by apps and continuous demands for some permission they don't fully understand the scope of.

Can I just mention how mind-bogglingly stupid a milage tax on car registration would be? No matter how efficient your new car is, it's less polluting to repair the old one and keep…

IRC works pretty well. I really fail to understand why any tech project puts their chat on Slack/Discord/Whatever when IRC is easy and open.

That's hardly the point. Point is, blanket statements are harmful and usually wrong.

I don't. I have a vitamin sometimes when I remember, but I don't drink booze, tea, or coffee, smoke, take antidepressants, focus drugs, anything. I also don't play with essential o…

See, that's the point where I usually wish I hadn't used a framework. As your design gets more and more convoluted, the amount of switches, toggles, and special cases that you have…

Exactly this. Network connections won't fire without a visible link? Fine. Save up user data for when they navigate around the site and send it as a batched query. Heck, even if br…

Almost all people do, deep down. The Vikings, the Mongols, the Romans, the Aztecs, cannibals, headhunters, human sacrificers, they are us, and are not that far removed in time. To …

Cars represent $1.13 Trillion in consumer debt in the US on an asset that depreciates only slightly slower than fresh produce. Car debt contributes massively to the suppression of …

> it were possible to solve this in 2000 years, we probably would have.... That's a terribly defeatist attitude, especially for someone who is writing a message on a colossal web o…

No, it is a simple blog engine that has been stretched, shimmed, cranked, and jerry-rigged beyond all recognition and sanity. The very idea that people try to host e-commerce on th…

Maybe that's not their primary goal? People have taken horrifying risks to push frontiers throughout history. The Oregon Trail claimed an estimated 21,000 lives.* Perhaps they are …

Ads are always disrespectful of their victims. They are intrusive and manipulative by nature. Self respecting marketers will often say that their goal is to inform, but without fai…

Not so much with Rust in the driver's seat. Cargo, Rust's primary toolchain, only has weak support for pre/post build scripts. It's solely concerned with Rust's own dependencies an…

> objective style missions I'm very curious what you mean by this. Are you talking about all the "craft this" etc. achievements in Minecraft?

Not to mention the still-current terms: Roguelike and Roguelite (the second of which I find unnecessarily derogatory).