college dropout autodidact

I always have a niggling feeling that maybe it's a human who sarcastically pastes a recipe

..which ironically makes for a perfect parallel with "C/C++"

The one I was thinking of is the (hypothesized) reduction in jaw size due to less need for powerful chewing, while teeth stayed the same size leading to many problems

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agriculture and its consequences (maybe)

It's based on a survey with ~400 responses, and 50% of the responders are in some way affiliated with the surveyer (no information about any methodology is available, it seems more of a marketing stunt than a "serious" survey of the landscape)

they're talking about a wooden splinter stuck in a hand.. but I'm still not getting the joke

if you include games with user-created levels there's quite a few games with levels that are practically impossible for a human, eg. trackmania and super mario world

Advanced bayesian estimations show that the risks of a nuclear plant that is not yet operational are very low. And the chance that they will still be employed at microsoft (after the bubble pops) by 2028 is exceedingly low, reducing effective risk significantly !

yeah, someone butchered an article and now it's getting echoed like a broken telephone. Really it seems that qualcomm wants to buy intel's "PC design department", not the whole company (and even that seems very uncertain)

the credits for concord list 2000 employees. It was also in development for 6 years (I would guess it probably suffered "development hell")

https://www.mobygames.com/game/229488/concord/credits/playstation-5/

this is already a classic

fairly sure hezbollah has more than 2800 members

bonus points if you're using a statically typed language but the library uses extensive metaprogramming seemingly for the sole purpose of hiding what types you actually need

I think the problems there are exacerbated a lot by over-eager type coercion and other crappy design decisions inherited from almost 30 years ago

if you can't connect to a vpn using only open source software, that's a crappy vpn

importantly it's (hopefully) an ISP that operates from a less copyright-happy country and isn't tied down to tons of expensive infrastructure and long-term contracts

well "arrested" doesn't actually mean it's illegal, it just means the cops thought they likely did something illegal

libertarians: "the increase in global quality of life is all because of capitalism!"

communists: "the increase in global quality of life is all because of communism!"