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> I've believed since college that math is the worst taught of all academic subjects. I never had a math professor that engaged the class, and practical applications were never men…

A quite similar game in Steam: MHRD https://store.steampowered.com/app/576030/MHRD/

Make exams that are harder to cheat. For example: - oral exams via video call - written exams where students are distributed over a larger area (e.g. the university rents a warehou…

> (but is still available in 16-bit (“real mode”) and 32-bit (“protected mode”) for compatibility). There exists both 16 bit protected mode (available since the 80286) and 32 bit p…

Indeed - but then the person asking should better look in the systems/browser settings; this has nothing to do with the website.

> A big "Yes" to proportional scroll bars. I didn't have an Amiga, but rather an ST. The ST also had proportional scroll bars and for years, I could not understand why the major pl…

> Can you add an indicator so that people will know to scroll down for rules and stuff. It's called a "scrollbar" and shown in the browser.

> I do think one core aspect of the practice of mathematics has been in increasing human understanding of it, not merely compute things with symbols. The road towards better (in th…

> Hobby Lobby refused to pay for any health insurance plan that covered contraception because they believed them to be abortifacients and contrary to the christian values of the co…

> Straight couples can get married without any plans to have a child. Why is is different for gay couples? This is rather an argument for a change in taxation laws instead of gay m…

There is a talk by Jonathan Blow about this topic: Preventing the Collapse of Civilization / Jonathan Blow (Thekla, Inc) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSRHeXYDLko

> A pitfall of this mentality, at least in my experience, is that people I hurt are usually much better judges of whether I hurt them than I am. But these people are very biased ju…

> This is not the usual "Google kills product", it's the type of thing that HN loves to say they would be happy to pay for ("Just give me something that does A B C and doesn't show…

"Shared source" was an umbrella term by Microsoft for its licenses that allows access to the source code. Among these licenses were ones that were also open-source licenses, but al…

As far as I am aware, a usual term of art is also "shared source" (this term was in particular used by Microsoft in the past).

It is often not clear what is a bug and what is "unexpected/surprising (but 'correct') behavior". Also, many bug fixes of authors that don't have a good understanding of the code c…

The source code has to be provided. From this, one can easily generate a diff. The only thing that such a clause will do is having to inform the original maintainer of this. But I …

Opportunity cost. Here, two cartoons of SMBC on this concept: https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2012-12-29 https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/2014-04-20

Indeed it has. But the DMCA takeout request nevertheless shows that the legality of the youtube-dl itself is not clear.

Is is good for name recognition if you contribute to software of somewhat dubious legal status such as youtube-dl?

> Wait, that's just Git with extra steps But the extra steps are not completely trivial to do right if strong anonymity has to be ensured.

Of course Microsoft (the company behind Github) will not give up respecting DMCA and copyright infringement. The question rather is: how much will developers continue to respect Mi…

If developers are afraid, they will be tempted to program a solution for censorship-resistant hosting of open source software that additionally allows to contribute anonymously (no…

In my youth, I was inspired by different systems than very closed workstations.

Gifted people can be (and often are) introverts. Otherwise I agree with the sentiment of your statement.