Primarily0617

powerful isn’t the same as well-structured

it was written to be a language that anybody could read or write as well as english, which just like every other time that’s been tried, results in a language that’s exactly as anal about grammar as C or Python except now it’s impossible to remember what that structure is because adding anything to the language to make that easier is forbidden

when you write a language where its designers were so keen for it to remain human readable that they made deleting all rows in a table the default action, i don’t think “well structured” can be used to describe it

sql syntax doesn’t support even itself correctly i fail to see your point

if you don’t believe that adding more structure to the absolute maniacal catastrophe that is sql is a good thing then i’m going to start to have doubts about your authenticity as a human being

why are you the way that you are?

which is 2-state, which is why it’s powers of 2

It was basically an aeroplane flying with dead pilots before then

aren’t we all

if I can’t tell that my battery life has been reduced, why do i care? i’m literally oblivious to it

Surely I know when I want my phone’s battery replaced, because I’m the one using it?

if you want more bandwidth you can just use more lasers

In the congress hearing zucky boy did, he was asked whether Facebook could read Messenger and WhatsApp messages

his response was to more or less trip over himself avowing that Facebook couldn’t read WhatsApp messages—even when a follow up question specifically asked him about Messenger, he chose to ignore it and reaffirm that WhatsApp messages were private

i don’t really see why he would’ve done that unless WhatsApp actually was encrypted, given that if he were lying about one it would be a lot easier to just lie about both

but SMS isn’t where “main communication” happens anymore

virtually all banks and institutions also send out letters via the postal service, but I wouldn’t say that was proof that “main communication” was typically delivered via envelope

whatsapp is e2e encrypted

kind of awkward that this both:

• exists
• is advertised as soon as you click the play button

it’s absolutely coconuts that you’re currently attempting to die on the hill of a giant “buy now” button not being an advert

also, you do realise that the launcher is an advert? that’s its whole reason to exist. your take is essentially “you’re dumb because after you’ve clicked through the adverts, there aren’t any adverts”

They were arrested and jailed.

as a disclaimer, i don’t think i really know enough about the situation to comment on it holistically

that said, if a state wants to find a justification to convict somebody, it can find it

i don’t think that, in a war between two states, trusting what an instrument of one state says about an instrument of another is justification by itself

I agree that BG3 is a great diversion from the usual. My point is kind of that if you’re a purist about this, you’re missing out on it, even though on the whole it bucks the trend.

I have the same launcher settings set, so I mean I kind of agree? But you’ve seen the advert, and that’s basically all they want.

I just think it’s kind of weird how people react to things once they’ve filtered their thinking through the hivemind of the internet versus before.

Yeah, you absolutely can, but knowing to do that means that the advert has already delivered its message to you.

Futzing around with the launcher settings seems like more work than just clicking “no” on an advert that pops up.

I mean I guess Divinity never had ads unless you consider the launcher an advert for their other titles, given that that’s basically what it’s there to do?

If you don’t consider anything in launchers to be adverts then I guess you can play BG3, because that’s where the advert for the DLC lives?

I really feel like if Larian had only given you the soundtrack and not the cosmetics, and just not called it DLC, that people really wouldn’t be so up in arms about it.

Baldur’s Gate 3 was probably the best game of this year (?), but it has an advert for the DLC as soon as you launch it

However, it’s also probably one of the least-bad “triple A” games of this year when it comes to overall monetisation, that singular DLC of cosmetics and the soundtrack being the only one available

Unfortunately, I think this one is a losing battle

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