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If you're active on social media (twitter), you will still see people, like the FFmpeg account, still bashing higher level languages (C) and praising hand written assembly.

Switching to nonsense with physical books is as easy as having two books in your bag/desk, or reading a physical newspaper with a comics section. Treating the ability to switch con…

The Harry Potter and comic book argument also works for paper newspapers, the same object contains good, informative articles, opinion pieces etc, but also the comics page. I am ar…

This is largely just anti tech puritanism. I cant comment on the psych and neurological arguments, but the following line of reasoning > A pre-Covid survey exploring how US student…

Yeah with this and the privacy zinger at the end its definitely time my monthlong experiment with arc comes to a close. Too bad that the thing theyre actually proud of, the tabbing…

That is a worse system, and this public policy change is preferable to poor people having to be live in workers.

I can't say the same, Hi-Fi Rush was incredible and I want so many more genre bending games like it.

Unity has much better documentation and tutorials abound for literally any topic. It also has all sorts of tools and assets that are easily available. Godot is open source, and doe…

Ah, my bad. Apologies for overeager correction.

#12 overall global university, #3 in Europe, a handful of other top 10 placements [1] seem like quite good rankings actually, and not knowing about the University of London seems l…

People will specifically not add android users to group texts. If I am making a casual group text, and there is one android user, it may just be easier to not add a person than tur…

He clearly meant what he said.

I wonder if the path stays consistent in other (maybe very high) number bases, or if that general path is random and unique to base-10

Mass transit construction, promotion, and adoption would solve the same problem with technology that is easier to build and distribute.

You're right, we should fix the laws. The companies actions under the ownership of KKR should not be considered 'playing fair', and some corporate buyout laws should be changed to …

The rate of Forfeiture is going up [1] while the rate of burglary is going down. Unless you hold the position that dwindling number of burglars are becoming massively more efficien…

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No one is arguing that it's illegal, OP only said its 'spooky', therefore bad. Sometimes bad things are plainly allowed by federal law.

> No manufacturer wants a repeat of the 1080Ti I think I'm out of the loop. What does this mean?

>Google Takes a Stand Against Keyword Search Warrants—in Brazil >Google Fails to Challenge Keyword Search Warrants in the U.S. Your distinction is already acknowledged in the secon…

> How does someone weaponize your information? Increase your health insurance prices based on more detailed knowledge of conditions? Deny you health insurance entirely?

Swipe to upvote/downvote puts it leagues ahead of the official app already.