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The biggest scandal we had in all of my school years was that when I was 17 there was a girl in my class who was dating a 25-year-old. Nobody was ever interested in anyone's dad.

Come to think of it, we barely ever met anyone's dad. Why would we?

He's eating snowflakes

Mathematicians are shitty communicators who like feeling special because they can understand their obscure language.

I'm a programmer and in this field there have been tons of books published, conference talks, and heated internet arguments about how to make your code as readable as possible: formatting, function length, naming of variables and functions, keeping number of cross references low, how to document intent, etc. Mathematicians do none of that - it's all single-character names (preferably from the Greek alphabet to complicate it further) and they rarely communicate intent before throwing formulas at you. You can easily tell when a mathematician has written code because it's typically hot garbage in terms of readability.

Sure, I didn't claim that the bad ecosystem makes the language as such bad (although it is still bad, for other reasons). It's just an additional disadvantage of developing software on the Java platform.

That said, I do think some of the bad code out there is an effect of trying to work around flaws or missing features in the language. Libraries like Spring add an additional configuration layer that is practically like an additional language on top of the base language. Instead of coding Java, you're coding Bean configurations and filter chains. Unfortunately all of that comes without useful debugging tools, so you're left scratching your head why the system isn't doing what you want. Log4J is another such complex configuration system that - unfortunately - customers are encouraged to change themselves which leads to confusing failure modes and insufficient user interfaces.

Well it's always about finding a good balance isn't it. Too many features like in C++ has negative consequences. Preferably you want something that lets you do all that you need to do, but not more. The trick to designing a good language is to let developers achieve as much as possible with as few features as possible, while keeping the code easy to reason about and understand.

This is obviously both subjective and highly dependent on what problem you are trying to solve, but I can't think of any situation in my career where C# would not have been a better a choice than Java from a strictly technical perspective. It's not just that the C# language is better, it's that the Java ecosystem is founded on poor design choices that result in code bloat and implicit behavior that is hard to troubleshoot and secure. See e.g. Spring, which automatically picks up and loads any logging library that happens to be in the user's path, even if that is an exploitable version of log4J. Java has become corrupted by enterprise architects. This satirical project demonstrates what I mean.

I say this as someone who is currently developing a FOSS Java library in my spare time, out of frustration with the Java code I had to endure at work.

So why not sell only the cloud version? Does that version somehow prevent management from another cloud key? If not, having the functionality dormant costs nothing.

Well if it was a human it wouldn't be a peer, would it

Ubiquiti devices. What's the difference between "UniFi Gateway Fiber" and "UniFi Cloud Gateway Fiber"? Last I checked they were even the same price.

Hold on. I want to know more about the chair.

I think what you need is Britt Hartley and her book No Nonsense Spirituality. She understands the common elements of different religions that are important to us psychologically, and explains how to bring them into your life without the need for faith in a particular deity.

It's not that simple. Proton implements the Windows API functions required to run a Windows game on x64-based Linux, but it's not a CPU emulator. Emulating x64 on ARM at the speeds required by a game is virtually impossible.

If Steam comes to ARM / Android, it would have to be a whole separate ecosystem of games. But Valve is late to the game there since we already have several players on that market, not least the standard Google Play Store.

That's the drawback when "everything's computer" in a Tesler

archive.org link: https://web.archive.org/web/20250414191129/https://www.rawstory.com/trump-deportation-2671767128/

The irony of the Reddit ad banner saying you should stay on Reddit for the empathy

When the pot hits just right

Someone made millions off of that Xeet.

I prefer to call them Xcrements

If the safeguards can be so easily removed, what's the point of putting them there in the first place

You implied that an egalitarian person doesn't have the goal of furthering equality, did you not?

The Wikipedia article on egalitarianism says:

By promoting equal opportunities, egalitarianism aims to level the playing field and reduce disparities that result from social inequalities.

and

Egalitarian doctrines have supported many modern social movements, including the Enlightenment, feminism, civil rights, and international human rights.

Do you not feel that what you claim and what Wikipedia says are in conflict? At any rate, what I mean by being egalitarian is also to work toward achieving an egalitarian society, and in practice I do work toward that goal.

I disagree and as far as I can tell, so does Wikipedia.

If they are in a game and there is music when you're in the temple then yes it's part of the soundtrack for that game.

Your original title didn't say anything about games though. The Tower of London dungeons don't come with a soundtrack.