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when an error occurs in a machine and the machine tries to recover, maybe that's also a form of pain. A machine is not necessarily less sophisticated than any living creature.

Could it be a chance of political corruption even if all source code and data are open?

That's not the kind of torture i meant. Rifle or knife should be acceptable to most people. (This process is simple. Experienced butchers even work fast and clean.) Switzerland law…

I agree that we should pay more attention to people that are suffering. But I think the rationale of such laws is somewhat valid. Can you imagine a person who is totally emotionles…

They are not really bad. Reading about them can help you get familiar with how programmers usually name their patterns. But I don't think one needs to study "design patterns" to co…

It depends on many factors. Choosing suitable tools for a project requires careful consideration. Python is a popular language, but not the only one. So many languages exist for a …

True. jEdit is one of the best editors i have used. Not my default editor but i use it from time to time and install it everywhere.

The same goes for many other icons. Like rss, wifi, and shutdown icon. It makes sense, because once an icon becomes popular reinventing it with another design makes people confused…

kindof, but not always. C++ and C# are powerful complex languages. C and Java are simple languages. But I can find lots of elegant programs in C or Java. They don't make the progra…

It depends on how big the gap between the power of aliens and earthlings is. Some people believe that science advances should progress like explosion, and "Any sufficiently advance…

If the aliens are strong enough to land their spaceship on earth, investigating all countries is probably a piece of cake for them. There is no reason for them to tie themselves to…

Is the octahedron on the picture supposed to be an alien spaceship? It reminds me of a creature in a certain animation I watched.

Yes, human beings always do what's good for themselves. There is a saying: Never underestimate the power of human wisdom! They would never do negative-sum games or disastrous thing…

like this one? https://evertpot.com/npm-revoke-breaks-the-build/

1. E-book and products like evernote/google keep. I rarely write things on paper now because I often experience the difficulty of copying/searching. On computers copying/searching …

Ideologies and violence caused so many disasters in history. At least money does not directly terrify us like that. Billionaires usually became victims of such disasters. In the en…

So you can insert/delete/update records without rewriting the whole file. And you get many other features like transaction, spill cache pages, fflush & fsync behind the scenes.

No. 2.17 MB is NOT enormous. Usually there is no runtime library. In contrast, C or C++ runtime libraries can easily exceed that size. For example, vc_redist.x64.exe is 13.9 MB.

Removing optional tags is recommended here: https://google.github.io/styleguide/htmlcssguide.html

Postgres has better license