xigoi @ xigoi @lemmy.sdf.org

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Homosapiens survived hundreds of thousands of years as a result of collectivism and sharing resources

Voluntarily sharing resources.

NewPipe seems to be unmaintained now, use the fork Tubular instead.

If you’re in the EU, request a GDPR export.

Is anything in psychology reliably measurable?

Nim

Let’s say you get to pass a law in the USA that would make it illegal to have more than a billion dollars. How would you formulate this law and what would you expect to happen when it’s passed?

An alternative would be a language with a simpler syntax. Something like XML, but less verbose.

Have you read the CommonMark specification? It’s very complex for a language that’s supposed to be lightweight.

Markdown is terrible as a standard because every parser works differently and when you try to standardize it (CommonMark, etc.), you find out that there are a bajillion edge cases, leading to an extremely bloated specification.

All you need to know to get upvotes on Lemmy is “left good, right bad”.

Because until the Middle Ages, Europeans were afraid of the number 0.

If year 1 is the 1st year, then surely the first year of the 21st century should be 2001?

It is. The system is confusing.

Still better than

    
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I fucking hate auto-generated changelogs, so I consider that a downside.

Why would you want to edit your commit history? When I need to look at it for some reason, I want to see what actually happened, not a fictional story.

Java bytecode is designed specifically for class-oriented languages like Java and works terribly with anything else.

Base 6 is the most useful.