Now you’re getting into garbage-collected abstraction though. Quite often you don’t have full control of the machine layer with C#.

This is not just saying “C++ is too complicated for me”. It’s also that even beyond managing precisely what memory holds, C++ is not intuitively designed, and deserves a successor fulfilling the same role. The reason game development often moved off C++ was that even as fast as it was, dozens of people would write failing or undiagnosable code in it purely because of the language design.

I ended up avoiding game development in part because of C/C++. Part of that is because you inevitably write C for various library imports, with little object-oriented operation. The other part is the archaic mess of the templating, which is totally unnecessary.

I don’t mind being forced to manage memory carefully, to follow what is actually happening to RAM. RAII also makes a lot of sense to me. But the obtuse declarations are often sideways from that. Worse, while there were new language features around the time I stopped, they were actively avoided.

I wanted to mention that because it seems like the few people who have any knowledge of C are devoted to it. I don’t know enough of Rust to actually champion it, but it isn’t the only language shielded from criticism.

Why would enemies of America hate Trump, when he’s helping them destroy it?

This thing is plastic-wrapped, but the thing we can’t easily compare is produce. I think it’s likely that fruits and vegetables just don’t have as much nutritional content as before thanks to aggressive agriculture and worsening environments.

I remember once seeing a test where about two dozen drivers were asked to drive in a large circle. All it takes is one or two brakes in order to have this big accordion effect going through the whole thing.

While it’s not an “excuse”, I think the “explanation” tends to be that speech from Nick in Zootopia: If people are going to regard you as shifty and untrustworthy, why bother being anything else.

Like I said, not a valid reason, but I do see how that toxic manosphere grows through fear.

Ctrl + X a function

Select some loose whitespace, backspace

Ctrl + V: Gives back the whitespace and that’s all

What the everloving fk, IDE

If they’re scared of hallucinations, they’re a threat. There’s no external way to stop them from hallucinating.

I’m happy for anyone that can realize “Oh my god, I believed in stories that trans people were attacking our civil liberties based on no evidence, I’m a complete worthless moron.” Can’t do anything about the others though - even hammering the facts isn’t really a path for it.

Actually, nobody is doing the physical labor so that the company can present itself as low cost for future investors.

If I make a social network, one of my rules will be that you cannot self censor.

For example, “Politicians be f*cking stupid” would give a warning. “Politicians be fucking stupid” would not.

If the message itself is disagreeable, it gets punished based on content - but it wouldn’t apply purely by use of a word.

I might be a unique form of grump: I recognize we get gypped by modern streaming services, but I still appreciate that the internet gave us greater breadth of choice than old cable options.

There’s indie and foreign streaming services that cost a lot less than the Netflix oligopoly, yet people never even seem to look for those, and just turn to piracy as their form of protest. “I can’t live without this show, and so I’ll give these services my vote of confidence, as well as political ammunition to enact higher levels of internet traffic spying!” What a genius self-serving plan.

I’ll be honest, I have something like this and it’s convenient.

I’m not brave enough to rub it directly against such sensitive skin, but it’s still useful for curbing down excess overgrowth, which makes close-fitting clothing more tolerable.

And, it’s water-washable, so I’ll put it through some of that before using it elsewhere. Your hands have been to both extremes before.

Stupid 950-watt microwave

We need more game mods like that.

I’d love to see a JRPG with simple scene scripting warped so the whole thing is just someone upset about a stolen pie, etc.

I watched MST3K recently (a show that clearly denotes when classic network commercials would come on)

They mentioned commercials AFTER YouTube had already shown a 1 minute ad break.

We are late for a competitor.

Nice meme! Downvoted for the asterisk, pussy. (Yes, spelt with a U, not a *)

It upsets me that in working with webpages, I regularly look at “all” the network traffic going to a website - and clearly Microsoft’s GUID is hiding somewhere it won’t even show.

I definitely understand the annoyance, but I let it go because I understand how “Pride” works as a concept.

Bigots and Nazis need to feel “popular”, like they live in a world of their making. One of the biggest weapons against them is showing how unpopular they are. The day that they make an offhand crass comment, and the whole room turns against them.

Pride moments, raising trans positivity unwarranted, are meant to trap and push out those mentalities; keep reminding hateful bigots that “You are not welcome. Cut it out.”

Where it gets tricky is for the many people who are fine with it and don’t care, but just get gradually annoyed. I’m partly there, but I also understand that Trans people have put up with enough of the world’s shit that they’re allowed to vent back for a generation or so at all the baseless hate.

Priority in socialized healthcare is a tricky fight. Everyone wants their cause supported, when really all of them should be. The infighting is based around fear, and not entirely unwarranted, so I don’t have easy answers.

As a reminder to anyone downvoting, the original Tesla cars were invented by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning, genuine engineers and good guys. It’s taken a long time for South African Nazis to poison it, but the Cybertruck is very much the apex of it.

Ironically, most of the gooner stuff showing up in my YT feed is from girl streamers.

“Oh, wow! The new outfit puts her in a microskirt with a thong! Actually, can I move the camera down…? I can!!! This is so pretty!! Don’t judge!!