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The new favorite language of AAA game studios: Phyton Python

Simmer down, Bobby

Can you imagine what it would look like if they chose someone like Jon Stewart instead? How a debate like that would have gone? A guy can dream…

What’s a guy gotta do to get himself a Norwegian Blue?

I bet it was that Bobby Tables fella

Gotta tickle them ivories

I’ve been playing a lot of Baldur’s Gate 3, and I can imagine being able to respond to dialog in free form. Would be amazing for pretty much any RPG.

So… using Manjaro without using the AUR is fine?

My sleep deprived brain thought OP was addressing centaurs. I opened the comments because I was curious to hear their perspective.

I give Apple indirect credit for touch-screen keyboards. I don’t think they invented them, but their marketing of the iPhone resulted in mass adoption regardless of how good/bad the on-screen keyboard was. And that created market research that led to the significantly better ones we have now.

I remember using one on an original iPhone for a few minutes and thinking I’d never waste my money on it–it was so unpleasant to use that it sullied the whole experience for me. Finally gave in somewhere around 2013 when they had gotten usable and there were multiple options.

I remember reading about it when it came out. Apparently other companies had discarded the idea of using a spinning drive in an MP3 player because it might only last 3 to 5 years, which was abysmally short at the time.

Apple managed to predict (and maybe help promote?) the short market span of consumer electronics. Most companies were still designing with a 20-year lifespan in mind.

I’m with you in that I think some athletes are overpaid. That being said, there’s so much difference between several million and a billion.

For reference, one million seconds is 11 days. One billion seconds is 31 years. The numbers don’t seem that different when they’re written down, because our brains can’t really grasp those numbers, but the difference is enormous.

I agree with bringing into question earnings like some athletes get, but the billionaire problem is much bigger and more urgent.

Wouldn’t be the worst option out there, but I wouldn’t wish that on the woman.

I’m pretty much in the middle of the “millennial” range, and my understanding is that it was something people mainly made at home. Only when it became more popular did I start seeing it on menus.

Did he keep the 2 billion for himself?

I think the point is that anyone who gets and keeps that much money is not a good person. A billion dollars is more than any person could ever need for themselves. Consider that having a meager 10 million in the bank at a pitiful 2% return of interest would provide $200,000 per year, which is a very comfortable life. Who can justify keeping 100x that? And how can you justify it when a tiny fraction of that would revolutionize thousands of people’s lives?

The problem with that thinking is that his wealth wouldn’t be possible without a ton of other people’s work. His work relied on hardware and other software, and was built on the work of his predecessors, like all software is. He certainly came up with a good product and did well with it, but it wasn’t done in a vacuum. There’s no such thing as a “self-made” billionaire.

I can’t believe that anything that one person produces is worthy enough for a billion dollars. It’s like saying it’s worth more than a year’s worth of work from 65,000 people (based on min wage in the US). Nothing can be worth that much, in my opinion.

The only exception I can think of is Dolly Parton. I read a report that suggested she’d be among the world’s wealthiest if she weren’t consistently giving away 90%+ of her income.

The problem is that anyone with that much wealth has already proven their selfishness by not giving away most of it. It’s the classic issue of “Anyone who can be elected should never be elected.”

To be fair, simulating the brain of a person from the deep south isn’t that hard. I can already do that with a 9v battery and a block of cheddar.

“Wait, it’s all shit?”

“Always has been”