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It won't stop an infection from going bad but it can mildly reduce risk of infection iirc

Some people genetically just don't smell bad when they sweat

Gabe was talking about the making of Half Life, back when you shipped your disc and that was that. And the game was, apparently, crapola.

Same kind of deal with the original Deus Ex. It was a spaghetti of poorly interacting systems until the devs were able to make it all click together.

There's a bunch of creatures that don't use oxygen but they're mostly all prokaryotes, since oxygen metabolism unlocks a shitload of energy you can use for being large and complex.

Most countries that aren't America aren't inundated with anti-China rhetoric, so if someone starts spouting off about China (and especially Chinese civil rights, or uses the term "CCP") in English they're almost certainly an American.

Does China lag behind the west in terms of queer rights? Yes. We're critical of that but also recognize the grassroots initiatives within the CPC to change that, and support those efforts. Does China pollute more in raw numbers than America? Yeah, but they're also the global leader in green power production, so they're clearly working to fix the emissions problem, which we support. China also takes a non-imperialist stance internationally, which is far and away better than anything America has ever done internationally.

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.

I agree, those dicks definitely could be doing better with their money and we should take it away from them for societally useful things.

D&D: individual poundage

Pathfinder 2: Abstracted Bulk

Lancer: Pick up half your mech or more if you get the right loadout

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

What a grand and intoxicating innocence to presume Marx did not consider these things

I'm sure it was revolutionary back in the day for warlords to learn that keeping your supply lines defended was important and also you shouldn't fight a battle against an uphill defender with the sun at their back on muddy ground.

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".

Probably if they decided to assertively solve the matter they'd provide free extermination services and temporary clean housing (for the day or two it takes to do a clean extermination) for affected households and use the data of which addresses have used the service to map out infestation sources and clear them.

You'll see a lot of disdain on Hexbear for how some academic circles treat politics and economics. Especially economics, since it's a whole discipline essentially based on treating everything as a perfectly spherical frictionless object in a vacuum. No Marxist understanding (which we consider bad because Marxism is an economic theory which has been highly successful at making predictions). Similarly, academics that echo terms like "authoritarian" are approaching politics without even the slightest understanding of their bias, which Gramsci already described to great effect a long time ago.

None of the following is in any way a defense of Russia. The hexbear stance is as follows:

"Authoritarian" is a thought-terminating cliche because any time any state wants to do anything it must wield coercive authority to do so. Is it Authoritarian to force people to pay their taxes? Certainly nobody is coughing up tax money 100% willingly every time, they do it because it's the law and if they break the law, the state will use its authority to punish them. Is it Authoritarian to use eminent domain to force you to sell your land so it may be used for some state project? Is it Authoritarian to draft all citizens into mandatory military service periods like many countries, including the Nordics, do?

"Regime" likewise just means leadership and is a thought-terminating cliche meant to be parsed as "leadership (bad)". We like to joke about the Biden regime for instance. Or how about the Bush regime? Surely it's undemocratic to present the American people with the choice to vote for a dynasty of the Bush family, yet we had George, George W, and Jeb ran as well.

Speaker of the House Of Commons is basically the highest possible position in Parliament except for Prime Minister, and is in the top 10 of the Order of Precedence. This was about as high as this man's career could possibly get in public service.

The dude that invited and applauded the Nazi has resigned as speaker, at least. Not enough though.

Swartz had good beliefs about freedom of information but politically was kind of a weirdo. What happened to him is an unlimited tragedy and outright criminal.