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I think there's a simpler reason; if you embed ads as part of the video linking to a specific timestamp becomes a nightmare. One person might have no ad, another might have a 30 second ad, and a third might have 5 minutes of ad. Attempting to link to a time after the ad would give three different timestamps, and loading that timestamp could give you the clip you want or could drop you right in the middle of an ad.

To solve that issue you'd need some way for the client to determine the "true" timestamp, but then you're also giving ad blockers a way to determine where the ad is so you're back to square one.

This is the fifth version of D&D, released a few years ago I believe

Nearly a decade now, 5e core rulebooks were all released in 2014.

The US alone has a rich history of repression (Wikipedia even has a sub-subcategory specifically for ethnic cleansing) and it's common knowledge those DNA databases have been used by US police to track people down so it's really not difficult to link those two concepts. These are concrete examples of things the US government does or has done, not some hypothetical scenario.

And that's all assuming the data is only accessible to governments that have to pretend to care about their citizens, not the for-profit companies and malicious actors that currently do have access to that data.

You're absolutely right, I can't think of a single point in history where there was mass persecution of any particular group by a government which might have been far more efficient of they had a handy database of every citizens DNA. Just never happens, not once in all of history. There's definitely no shining example less than a century ago.

Compiler optimisations don't apply when you're breaking the rules of the language. It won't compile.

Do you have uBlock set to auto-update filter lists? It's the first option in the filter list settings, I've had it checked and have yet to see the popup a single time.

That's nonsense. If I were to say you're spreading Nazi propaganda but I refuse to show anyone for fear of spreading hate, should people believe me?

If you actually were a Nazi would it be better for me to expose you with proof or would it be better to make unsubstantiated claims with plenty of room for doubt?

That's because they're not necessarily mutually exclusive. The function is being called twice so there's no way to guarantee the result will be the same both times without knowing what it does under the hood.

Consider a case where isalpha performs a coin flip, 50% chance each call to return true. The first call returns false so the first condition fails, then the second call returns true so the second condition fails; in 25% of cases neither code block executes.

You could store the result of the first call in a local variable and reuse it if you really wanted to, but the smart solution is to either use if/else properly or switch to early returns instead.

Paying for goods isn't capitalism in the same way breathing isn't speech. Currency makes capitalism easier but using currency does not make you capitalist.

Not necessarily, as it gets faster the latency between your local and remote machines becomes a bigger fraction of the time taken to process anything. If your local machine processes in 50ms and the remote machine in 5s, a latency of just 45ms would make your machine faster.

Running locally also cuts out a lot of potential security issues inherent to sending data over a network, and not sending your data to a third party is a bonus too.

That's an odd complaint. If they didn't ask for donations, donations would be a lower % of their income. How many donations do you need before you can ask for donations?

but describing it as a “Linux” thing.

Where? Please point to the part where me responding to you commenting on Mint+Cinnamon's taskbar is criticising all of Linux.

Are you really trying to dismiss criticism that the taskbar's Grouped Window List doesn't always display windows visible on that screen is just an issue of the user expecting Windows? Dismissing every user issue as "just stop expecting Windows" is exactly toxic fanboy the attitude that drives people away from Linux. You might notice that I didn't even mention Windows once, I was talking exclusively about taskbar issues affecting my workflow in Mint.

I'm still using Mint+Cinnamon but I'm not going to pretend it's perfect.

It's not illegal to pay for a service you don't use or only partly use, provided the service itself isn't illegal. It's not unethical either; you paid the full price requested by the airline.

The airline may cancel your return ticket and blacklist you, leaving you stranded. Definitely unethical, but since it's legal corporations aren't too worried about that part.

It's interesting that you find the taskbar to be better in Mint, that's the thing I've had by far the most trouble with. Specifically the fact there doesn't seem to be any way to mirror the taskbar to all screens. You can't copy it from one screen to another either, you have to meticulously recreate the taskbar on each screen. Even then some elements can only appear on one panel so if you need to adjust sound level but you happen to have something full screen over it you're shit out of luck, either close the full screen application or go into the full sound manager instead. Then the taskbar only shows windows that are open on that screen too, which I suppose some users would like but is absolutely not what I want. I believe there was a "show all workspaces" checkbox but that either didn't work or doesn't include second screens. The best part is if you open a window on one screen then move it with keyboard controls in some cases it doesn't update the taskbar, so now your window doesn't appear in the taskbar on the correct screen at all but might show up on another.

Overall, not impressed. I need one taskbar that appears identically on all screens.

Needing to remount my Steam library from other drives every time I reboot is a tad inconvenient too.

The UK is only UTC+0 for half the year, currently at UTC+1.

Trying to start an international community on a regional instance is an uphill battle, people will see the .ca domain and assume the community is focused on Canada.

That sounds more like an infrastructure problem to me, your anger might be a bit misdirected. If reasonable transport isn't available you should be angry at your local government instead, if it is available and you choose not to use it then it's a problem of your own making and you should be angry at yourself. You really can't blame someone for using the infrastructure available to move heavy equipment since it's almost certainly not their fault that you're stuck using the same road.

When I was in school I remember one day we had a lesson about jobs, we each had a worksheet with some jobs listed and we had to pick out one we liked. There was one option that stood out to me right away, I can't remember the exact title they had but it was the one computer-related job on the sheet. I distinctly remember the teacher telling me that job wouldn't be needed in the future. Why even have it as an option if it's the one "wrong" choice?

Anyway, I'm in software now. I'm incredibly lucky that I've always known what I wanted and managed to build a well-paid career in a field I like. Very few people get to say that.

Okay, so what are they trying to do then?