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No matter the situation, no good can come from hatred. The RfL situation has already come from anger and bad, derailed arguments. Instead of having beef with a stranger online and …

Sounds like this is how my life will be like for a couple years if I get accepted :p

It is because without price localization, most of USD based subscriptions or purchases would be lunacy. For example if the US price of Factorio was directly converted into Turkish …

There is an upper bound in the number of private keys available even if it isn't an issue in practice. You can target anyone's wallet in O(1) time, no proofs needed :^)

side note: I was 3 when the original GNOME file picker thumbnail issue was created. I'm (hopefully) graduating this term.

I gave GNOME a chance after 40 and personally I don't regret it the slightest, things just work in an intuitive way. Though I will admit the only GNOME app I use is the image viewe…

I would say "Effective C" is a good book (and Robert is awesome) but personally I feel like I learned the most by writing and disassembling small quines under different compilers a…

I use overleaf these days mostly because overleaf makes it effortless to work across multiple machines. I still have my neovim + texlab [1] setup just in case though. [1]: https://…

Frankly, if you have to ask, just use a (system) CSPRNG. People massively overblow the impact of the speed difference for most scenarios. Yes, A simulation running on a large scale…

On top of your point, I think people should also understand that smartphones aren't exactly a small purchase for a non-trivial population. Even tech-literate are stuck with the sto…

Personally I feel like shrinking images by guessing unused parts is an a good way to have an image explode in your face randomly in the future. (Probes and heuristics missing criti…

From what I see, most Wayland aware applications have converged on using PipeWire (through XDG Portal) for screen sharing. Personally I use PipeWire anyway but I'll admit telling p…

I had to do my first two internships in office (started before the vaccine rollout reached my age group, eek) and my experience was pretty similar to what you said. I was given som…