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A lot of graphics APIs do actually reverse the y-coordinate for historical reasons.

>You can't copyright the alphabet. You're not paying to use the alphabet, there are plenty of perfectly legible typefaces that are completely free for you to use.

In the US at least, your county should have an assessor that's responsible for tracking property values for tax purposes. How accessible the data is probably going to vary from cou…

I suspect "Kafkaesque" is being used to refer to the healthcare system, which is what the GoFundMe was originally for.

There are 2 to 5 orders of magnitude difference in intensity. That alone is a pretty big difference.

It's about how they're applying that creativity, not the creativity itself.

>They are primarily cultural, education is their main focus That's...a new one. Are you sure you're talking about the same Hamas, aka the Islamic Resistance Movement? The one that,…

People heard the AI spiel and lost interest.

That doesn't necessarily follow - the universe can be infinite in size, but contain a finite amount of matter.

It's not about not wanting to die. It's about death being inevitable. Everything dies, or breaks down, or decays. That's just how the universe works. The best you'll get is extende…

And Minecraft blows all of them out of the water. That's not the point here. The point is that Dwarf Fortress has been a labor of love for two decades and it's nice to see these gu…

The only reason the footgun is there is because vim put it there. Seems reasonable to me to be frustrated by that.

Mechadon( https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Mechadon ) is probably the best you're going to get. The problem with legs is that they're relatively slow, complicated, and difficult …

That is an incredibly dismissive and reductive argument to make. "Feeling sad about your job" isn't limited to burnt out software engineers with a safety net. It can also apply to,…

There's nothing about consciousness that even suggests that it might break causality - it's as bound by causality as everything else.

Is silently making people disappear really that much better?

I don't think it goes very far to reassure me that a response is copy/pasted or machine-written. My name could be as easily pulled from a database as from someone's memory.

By that logic you could argue that software is inherently open source.