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Ever heard about Laos? "Between December of 1964 and March of 1973, the US launched more than 270 million cluster bombs on Laos during Operation Barrel Roll. This number is equival…

Only somebody who isn't aware of whose "Congress speech received multiple standing ovations, touted 'most by any world leader'" would be surprised by that bipartisan support you me…

European, not accidentally, also mostly deliver the same, misleading, narrative.

Can you write or point to some more insights about the problems / critique of these most recent approaches?

Another advantage of Pascal is that the programs written in it crashed much less, which also allowed for a much safe development on the machines of that time which didn't have any …

> the C example ... by definition strings cannot contain that character They can, only some functions stop at the first zero: char s[] = "gogo\x00gogo"; printf( "%d\n", (int)sizeof…

That's what Doctorow calls "a cartoonish vision of markets in which “the customer is king” and successful businesses are those who cater to their customers." In reality, the capita…

And then imagine how it all appears on my 4inch-screen iPhone, if 5.8 inch is already too small.

"Smearing" is much more sensible approach for the use cases where it is implemented. There is simply no solution that is optimal for every use case, and insisting on using just one…

Now I'd like to have a link to that patch in code used by Apple that also appeared as a typo. Anybody remembers?

Pity that the post from understandwp is marked dead, it was helpful to me: "The "100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere" - https://gist.github.com/JoeyBurzynski/617fb6201335779f…

Once upon the time the pages with no CSS were possible and were readable. Example: https://www.bell-labs.com/usr/dmr/www/ Today, this page has too small font on my iPhone to be rea…

Still: - the church officially wrote that the Earth is the center - that the Holy Scripture says so and - whoever says differently is heretic and the Earth was never the center.

You still can't deny: the church was wrong, directly referring to the effing "Holy Scripture" to support its claim. The Earth was never the center around which the Sun rotated. Not…

So yes, that's exactly an example of the "guilty Galileo and the good church" false narrative. Many useless claims which don't disprove that his sentence was literally because of: …

You probably don't want to know: https://pulitzercenter.org/stories/how-us-secret-war-laos-st... "From 1964 to 1973, the United States bombed Laos more heavily than any country on …

Oh, there's now a bunch of accounts claiming that Galileo was "just" mean to pope and therefore "guilty", but this is an actual pro-religion propaganda. The real sentence is preser…

The author of this one is an artist. Whoever consumes this work without considering this is also demonstrating how often the information is processed under already fixed expectatio…

Afghanistan opium cultivation in 2023 declined to one in 20 compared to earlier (95% less), following drug ban by those who are now in power (official United Nations statistics): h…

If you really think the fake narratives originate only from the countries which aren't "behaving" as the politicians of your preferred countries would like, I have a huge stock of …

"Only 35% slower overall than LuaJIT" as per video from a month ago. No idea which kind of tests are these "overall" though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HxSHIpEQRjs Slides (pg.…

The demand for the huge calculations for the design of nuclear weapons started in WW II already: https://ahf.nuclearmuseum.org/ahf/history/human-computers-lo... "The staff in the T…

You are right. Here is the source of "compress" that existed at that time. It compresses the produced song to 1048 bytes, not less. https://www.nic.funet.fi/index/minix/compress.c …

Trying to solve the modern problems and showing that one needs more code than in Python is not the point. The reason Basic wasn't horrible but amazing at the time as the home compu…