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Oh yes. I remember first playing Quake on a 486 and not liking it, because it felt like I was moving in a heavy sluggish tank, and later playing it on a Pentium, and loving it for …

Indeed, it kills our planet, our culture and our economy extremely well. Oh yes, and some code monkeys enjoy that it can make computer code on the side.

You're right, of course. The point I was trying to make (badly) is that people have hatred for Microsoft for a lot more than just BSODs of decades ago. There has been bad engineeri…

Didn't you hear? Buying is not owning, according to these corporate criminals.

Well, the classic BSODs were not all Microsoft's fault, many of them were on 3rd party driver developers. I think the worse thing here is all the subtle breakages and inconsistenci…

Where are you people getting your money if you can blow it at harebrained experiments like this? This is mind-staggeringly expensive for what it does!

Yes, that's exactly it. Now please go back to your githubs and leave us nerds who do not matter alone. We'll be fine, we promise!

The illusion of progress and advancement, to appease shareholders, and slightly postpone the looming bubble pop.

No, they do not feel about their users one way or another. As soon as they have their monopoly, they no longer need to.

No, you don't get to play the "everybody does that" card. These companies started out claiming to care about openness, and to have moral high ground.

Because while exploring derelic ships (the major part of the game), you control your drones remotely, via commands that you type into the console.

I'd rather live through my 80s without much struggling. Longevity and quality of life until the end. And I try to live in the way that lends itself towards that.

But of course there is, it's part of POSIX, implemented in libc. And if you're using a higher level language, they all have their own wrappers around libc/POSIX APIs. Here is golan…

If it used one of the standard system APIs for looking up user accounts (e.g. getpwnam(3)), there's no way it can happen. This is incredibly bad engineering, on level of a SQL inje…

The proper fix would be to not use getent CLI tool in their logic, but instead use proper system APIs for looking up user account entries, like one of earlier comments here already…

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Wow, this is almost Dilbertesque level of absurdity.

Unless you're trying to do something like high frequency stock trading, this does not really matter. Most of the added latency is added in the hops themselves, as packets are being…

I guess my (badly conveyed) point was that Anki is already so efficient for me that I don't feel the need anything more. Well, not for vocabulary, anyway. There is more to learning…

I have the exact opposite experience with Anki. I use it to memorize vocabulary of a language I'm learning, a language completely different to other languages I know, and my retent…

I mean, I poisoned and then deleted my GH account the day Microsoft acquisition was confirmed, because it was obvious where it's heading.

Yeah, that's a whole different kettle of waspnests. :)

That's because Unified Attestation is unsalvageable. It's basically the same scam as Google's, with different owners doing (or wanting to do) the extortion.

I'd like to point out that it only "gets pulled in" if the data is actually made available by the government, and there are dedicated volunteers who work on getting the data, massa…

The seemingly duplicate data on crossing is because there are different "parts" of the crossing, intended for different users. There is the path across the road, usually from one s…