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Same issue here. It's one of the reasons I've become so enamored with Ada. With Ada, it's not only easy, but encouraged, to encode so much information in about how things are model…

Neither apply to game mechanics. Even if all the WotC IP ends up with the most determined patent troll ever, the game itself could still be implemented. As for the card art... who …

I don't get the hostility, nor why you keep trying to shove words in my mouth. I never said anything about new customers, nor even old customers. I've also been very explicit that …

WotC doesn't care if a potential consumer trusts their long-term business model, but they sure do care if the potential consumer trusts their purchase won't poof out of existence o…

I don't think that's the case. It's also a tabletop game so the rules are all out there in public and not even inhumanely complex. Even if WotC's servers go down, you could use the…

I think it's possible they might see some benefit. It would basically hinge on people's faith in WotC vs a blockchain to administer that data. If the blockchain was more trusted - …

There are other options out there. Ada, for example, has extended return statements and - more directly - expression functions.

I'd probably agree with that characterization. It's not that people are out there specifically claiming memory safety solves everything, but rather that the 'public consciousness' …

It's a hard line to walk. And I'm sure not everybody draws the same line. The part I think LTT and many other folks with a similar philosophy ignore is that even engaging with thei…

> There's a lot more than a few paragraphs on the wiki You're right, I wasn't very fair to the wiki. I would have failed out way quicker without it. It wasn't intentional, it's jus…

I think I looked at that briefly at one point. I passed by it quickly because it lacked support for both my usual editor and language. But I've recently revisted VS Code and found …

Well, I am a programmer, I just wasn't able to do much programming due to physical limitations. Admittedly I'm not much of a Python programmer, and I wouldn't be surprised if a dee…

I have some very mixed feelings about talon. I looked into it a decent bit when I started having hand issues as well, and never got anywhere useful with it. For one, it needs to be…

Only if you expect China to forgo their own development of these sorts of products if they are given access to them.

It is true. The only way to preclude jury nullification is to infringe on the rights of the jury as the sole determiners of fact, as you put it. Without adding another non-jury bod…

I recently had to dive into the world of linux GUI file managers and their various accessories after living for years pretty much exclusively with just i3wm and the terminal for th…

That's predicated on their ability to help catch murderers as well as their inability to allow police to enforce other kinds of crime. It's also possible for good-faith efforts to …

Sure. Here's a video critiquing one of Veritasium's videos I had issues with. Check this[1] thread for further details about it from me and some good rebuttals from another comment…

> After watching the full video and reading the comments exchanged, I don't believe Veritasium there is guilty of anything more than believing studies with questionable funding sou…

Already posted in an earlier response to you. But no, nothing like that. These were relatively recent videos about newish but well-established industries. In particular Waymo's sel…

> I don't know what to tell you if you believe Thunderf00t's "debunking" is more valuable than your own viewing of any given channel. I wasn't very inclined to view Matt Ferrel's v…

> Disliking Veritasium because of some ads is throwing out the baby with the bathwater. I don't think we're talking about the same things here. I'm talking about wholesale videos t…

Is it? Maybe (probably) I'm unusual as far as US folk go, but I think it's pretty squarely in the realm of smartassery.

I mean, if you want to consider "selling ads" to include selling undisclosed ads as organic, original, and good-faith reporting of accurate information, then yeah, sure? I sure wou…

Familiar to a greater or lesser degree with most, but not all of those. I'd take exception to a couple inclusions. - Undecided w/Matt Ferrel This one is probably the most questiona…