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Code is pretty small but images, textures, voice lines, etc can crank it up

For sure they know, it’s just cops are lazy and aren’t paid to solve crimes

Article seems to push the point that you can, in fact, buy a “last-gen” phone and it’ll be just as effective as the current gen. Which is true, since phone improvements are marginal or just shit that includes image-editing AI in the camera firmware since the diminishing improvements of hardware are really starting to kick the manufacturers’ ass.

It’s definitely not simple to use but I agree that the conceptual model it represents is straightforward. I think a lot of the problems people have with git come from not understanding the underlying data structure before learning how to manipulate it.

Someone else has a server and their infrastructure is set up so you can upload a zip of some executable and they’ll figure out how to make it run. You don’t worry about any details except your code and whatever API is require to be compatible, and they worry about hosting it, making sure it has memory, CPU time, disk space, DB, etc.

Right tool for the right job. C is a stupid choice for most modern apps but it’s indispensable for embedded stuff

It’ll be fine. There’s always some cohort of people who take an actual interest in the magic boxes enough to want to learn compsci.

This was the peak. Every meme since this fella has been “thing good, thing bad”.

Half the user-facing internet broke for a few hours when one guy withdrew a shitty one-liner piece of JavaScript (the whole leftpad thing) because someone somewhere added it as a dependency to a dependency to a dependency until it was pulled into an enormous frontend library. The internet relies more on random open source contributions than a lot of people are aware of.

FO3 was kind of a disaster in terms of narrative and roleplay. And the established world building.

Gose beers finally arrived in my area after years of waiting. Still fifty IPAs to every gose but it’s something

During WW2, the Allies wanted to armor their planes better so more would survive missions. But armor is expensive and heavy so you’d have to prioritize where to put it.

So they go out and collect data on the returning planes to see where they’d been hit. That picture is basically the data collected: where returning planes had sustained the most damage.

So most of the engineers looked at that and went “Aha, the points with the most damage should be armored, since they get shredded up pretty good.”

And one engineer went “Um actually, if they got shot there and came back, armor doesn’t matter. We need to armor the spots with no bullet holes, since a plane shot there wasn’t able to return.”

And so it was, and they called it Survivor Bias.

In this case, it’s survivor bias about becoming more conservative as you age

Let me be clear, uh, you wanna know how I, uh, ruined Reddit?

It did though? I don’t know what point you think you’re making but the internet did in fact grow from a technology limited to universities and the armed forces to a publicly accessible network, mostly off the back of publicly funded researchers and various techies that started their own neighborhood ISPs.

Just close your eyes. Illusions don’t work if you can’t see them

Does a more recent stack translate to any real benefits?

Nah, meters are very straightforward and easy to work with. How far is a kilofoot? God only knows, but a kilometre is a trivially visualized distance. What’s 1/100 of a foot? Dunno, but with meters it’s a centimeter which is, again intuitively easy to grasp.