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Forgetting the infelicities of Patrick Russ is reasonable because he's both dead and his estate isn't (to my knowledge) funneling money from the sale of his books to odious causes.…

There's two maxims: You get what you pay for. If you're the customer, you're the product. "You get what you pay for" means if you buy proprietary software, you get software from pr…

> In 2020, Congress passed the No Surprises Act, which banned surprise balance bills for most parts of emergency care. But by necessity, it exempted ground ambulances from the law:…

There are a couple of games like this on Android I play: https://apt.izzysoft.de/fdroid/index/apk/com.vayunmathur.gam... https://github.com/plhosk/wordtracer They're both on FDroid…

Yeah, I got "TUNS" as a bonus word.

> knowing the difference between lay and lie. I'm guessing you're not a linguist, and have no knowledge of academic linguistics.

OK, here's my problems with space data centers. How many of them has China solved? 1. Space is terrible for heat regulation. It's a perfect insulator for everything except radiativ…

> Is embedding executable code into a file a security risk? Yes, which is why nobody uses PDFs.

Maybe that's why it's called 'C' in the repository.

Note that this isn't written in C but in 'C'. /s

In addition to having to pick a size for the length counter and then, later, having to differentiate between lengths in bytes, codepoints, and glyphs, you can't subdivide a Pascal …

Technical problems give way to philosophical differences but the over-arching problem is that the people behind ATProto really want to make a social media ecosystem that attracts l…

> No but you said there was only a single reason to agree with "Neo-Nazi" propaganda as if agreeing with any propaganda is rational. There's a reason it's called propaganda after a…

Someone named tinfoilhatter replied but that's gone now. Not one to let a response go to waste: Well. I seem to have triggered something. > Ah yes, because the only people that hav…

> Note that I don't necessarily agree with the subject matter of these titles Y'know, there's really only one reason to be coy about whether you agree with Neo-Nazi propaganda.

OK, how is manual memory management relevant to writing a program to get weather information from an Internet API and display it to the user? In that context, "relevant" is the dom…

I can, but what annoys me is people saying "Well that technically isn't champagne because it isn't from the right region of the right country" and acting like being able to quote o…

> Food authenticity should only mean DOP or geographic identity (GI) regulation. It shouldn't even mean this much, frankly, as those things are merely protectionist trade policies …

When I'm a newbie at things, I tend to have the opposite problem: I can overthink things to Hell and gone, but since I don't know what I'm doing, I focus on the wrong things and 80…

"What, support Safari? Isn't that, like, less than 20%? And its standards support is abysmal! No, not worth my time, they can upgrade to a normal browser like everyone else."

GUIs are almost entirely non-scriptable. Some exceptions exist, but they're few and extremely limited compared to what you can do with a CLI. (Note I said CLI. A TUI is almost alwa…

Are you even attempting to read what I wrote?

> deepity https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/deepity > A superficial equivocation which only seems to be profound.

> amazing how you understood nothing from any of my words, how about using the clanker to vibe your understanding too? "Coding is a pseudoscience" makes sense like "plumbing is a p…

> coding is still a pseudoscience. Amazing how you said that like it made any sense at all.