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I've hit 48gb of ram while developing on Debian. Granted I am running about 10 docker containers and 3 IDEs. It depends what you are doing.

This whole post just reads as a shallow attempt to justify odd behaviour and poor communication and try to disguise it as some argument against vanity (while ironically being quite…

> People had enormous confidence that Newtonian physics was true UNTIL a better model proved to be more accurate (relativity). There is no problem with 100% consensus in science. T…

No it wasn't. Mandates were enforced on flimsy evidence that they might work. It was simply security theatre. In some cases many have even admitted that it was done to make people …

Many people learn how to write an emulator by writing a gameboy emulator. MVG on youtube wrote an emulator for his port of Shantae to the Switch. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ…

Not at all. Most of this is (IMO) dross and has no practical value.

Thanks for the recommendation.

I was hoping it would be a list about game design, game programming, history or anything substantive. Unfortunately nothing really of substance there.

Is it okay for someone to be paid even though they do not perform their duties because they are protected by an organisation which has political power? I would say no.

However the people building stuff in new .NET are the same people building stuff in old .NET for the most part and you get all the same wonkyness just in .NET core.

As an ex-avid cyclist and have built quite a few bicycles. I've seen plenty of new chain mechanisms, new derailleurs, hub gears etc. and tbh all of them have the following problems…

> I reckon within a decade the UK will find some way to rejoin the more important parts of the EU in-all-but-name, including (possibly!) even joining Schengen to alleviate all of t…

UKIP went from having a 3% share of the vote in 2010 to 12-13% in 2015. People constantly downplay this to make it out as if it was only an internal Conservative party dispute. How…

> Does that actually work? How did Trump winning in 2016 help your average Green Party supporter? Yes. If they lose an election or start losing their advantage it forces them to re…

> They draw voters from the more aligned main party, causing that aligned main party to lose elections. That is the entire point! The mainstream political party won't address parti…

That has happen. UKIP forced the Conservative Party in the UK to offer a referendum because their members were voting for UKIP (UKIPs voter share in 2015 hit about approximately 13…

Why? As the old joke goes, if a politicians lips are moving they are lying.

At people being harassed or even losing their livelihoods. Generally people who don't put themselves in the spotlight (and the scrutiny that comes with that) shouldn't end up facin…

You have to be moderately wealthy or live with a lot of land to be able to afford the space to work on cars in some parts of Europe (typically Northern Europe). I would have to ren…

> The vast majority of the actual content of the internet is provided by people for free to the internet in general. That maybe provided for free. However the hosting infrastructur…

I don't know how old you are but things pre-internet electronics just worked, because there it was assumed that there was probably connection. Before everything was internet connec…