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In the Witcher 3 you are playing a specific character created by the developers. It's a bit like a JRPG in that sense. Most western RPGs have you play as your own character.

I pay an inescapable 15% goods and services tax on everything I buy. So yes.

However, some people find computers frustrating, stupid or boring. Such a person probably wouldn't enjoy a job working with them all the time - and it's difficult to build the skills that let you advance your career if you're averse to or bored by practising them.

It's funny really because I thought I was perfect for software development as a teenager. Already knew how to program, spent a huge amount of my free time on a computer, good at maths and sciences in general, etc.

Once I actually got into software development I found the whole thing rather irksome. The company I worked for was a great place to work full of really lovely people, free lunches, paid internships (yay NZ), etc. But software development? Nope. Awful industry. Computers are shit.

As soon as I got out of software, I immediately found my interest in programming as a hobby come back. Unsurprisingly people don't really like doing something as a hobby when they're paid to do it for 40 hours per week already.

I made it a hard and fast rule: if I found two technologies that could solve a problem, I would choose the one more people were using. I didn’t want to include an obscure graphics API and then discover that no one had ever called set_color() followed by resize_window() (resizing is hard) and somehow those two functions in sequence cause a segfault. I don’t want to be the guy that finds a bug in the compiler. I just need to ship the product.

Then he links to issues for Qt and Go. They're certainly not obscure. What kind of weird argument is this? If anything, the argument there is that it doesn't matter how popular something is, as even extremely popular things like Qt and Go will still have bugs.

As a further point of fact, Facebook (and Google; Facebook is not alone here) stalks even people who _can't_ have a Facebook account. For example, children under 13 in the US.

Surely this is illegal, though? One way to get the laws to ban this sort of dragnet commercial surveillance of people would be to appeal to the 'think of the children' argument and ban companies from tracking information about anyone under 13. That would also stop them from tracking information about anyone that hasn't totally confirmed that they're over 13.

Consider older mediums; does broadcasting a TV show put it into the public domain? Or playing a song on the radio?

It certainly should do.

The one regulation that could save a nation from FB, Twitter and Instagram is to ban advertising. All of it. Ban all advertising anywhere for any reason.

Uber is (in my opinion) a scam, and (objectively) not ride sharing.

'Ride sharing' does not even begin to describe Uber. There is no sharing going on whatsoever. It's a taxi company that just ignores the law on principle to gain an advantage, while also spending VC money like crazy in a very illegally anticompetitive manner.

It's nice to be able to simply copy-paste commands from the internet sometimes. (obligatory: yes you have to be careful when you do.)

So don't say yes when they offer to purchase you

What else would you write it in at the time? When you have a TeleType you can't exactly use a visual text editor, can you?

Interest rates aren't high for fun. They're high because credit card borrowing is unsecured and high risk. People default on credit card debt all the time, and they also pay it off slowly.

Scaevolus, I recognise that name. #0x10c-dev on freenode? rmmh? skybot?

I created a logsql.py plugin for skybot, it just logs to the DB instead of to text files. Is that something you'd be interested in merging back in?

Correction: Haskell jargon. The continued conflation of Haskell and functional programming as a whole annoys me greatly. (The majority of functional programming is not statically typed! Clojure and the other lisps are far more widely used than Haskell and the MLs, not even to mention that basically every language has first-class functions now.)

This seems like an enormous amount of tooling complexity to simply have a few dependencies for your program.

The difference is that I don't want all my Go programs in a different place. I have my place where I put projects. I have ~/projects, ~/oldprojects, ~/defunctprojects. I have ~/contribprojects for things that aren't mine. I decide where my files go.

I've always felt similarly about Lord of the Rings. It feels so authentic and real. Every other similar fantasy novel just reads as if everything in the story was made up for the purpose of telling the story, which of course it was. In LOTR it feels like historical fiction, like Tolkien designed everything about the world down to the finest detail then wrote a story in it without making anything new up.

You're assuming bootcamps have been valuable. They haven't. They're complete garbage.

If someone is disruptive or negative, then you should get rid of them immediately.

This is why you don't mention you have a disability...

That's been well covered elsewhere in this thread and other threads.

I'm not going to say the claim it's not viable is original, nor am I going to argue that claim. But it is on topic.

Which won't do anything, because you can't magically make tunnelling cheap

The viability of hyperloop is nil. It doesn't exist. It is literally physically impossible for it to be viable.

I think it's on-topic whenever hyperloop is on-topic.

Yeah the impact on roads increases with the fourth power of vehicle weight. Why doesn't the tax?

Another systemd release, another bloating of the attack surface of the now-standard init system.

I'm sure this is useful but init is absolutely the wrong place for it.

Software is not mathematics. A web app is not mathematics. A compiler is a little closer, but still isn't.

When people can buy necessities and luxury items but depression is at an all-time high, they aren't doing well either.

The same way 'reasonable' is defined everywhere in the law: it's up to the interpretation of the court.

You aren't entitled to a college education.

But you are. We have a right to an education. My parents paid literally $0 for their education, because university was free, in a time with much lower productivity and less wealth. The state could afford it then, so it can certainly afford it now.

Most of the time people calculate it as if all the current cost were just transferred to the state.

But of course in reality, when universities were free in the past they weren't allowed to just raise their prices to whatever they felt like charging, as they basically do now.