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They also wanted "without loss of performance" (compared to C, I think, based on the context), which also has tension with the other requirements. I don't think it's possible to make a memory-safe language that has easy C FFI with no overhead and doesn't require you to think about C stuff. The esoterica of C have to be addressed somewhere.

Cities: Skylines was sort of a follow-up to Cities In Motion, which was entirely about transportation, so that's a very essential part of its DNA.

Game dev in general is that way, but my impression was that Colossal Order had traditionally been a little better than most. I suppose I may have been mistaken.

They let you return the game no questions asked if you haven't played it for two hours.

Using web tech for the UI isn't a problem here. The article, when measuring the performance impact of different rendering phases, describes the time the UI requires as "an irrelevant amount of time."

Humans actually need to eat more than for-profit companies do.

I'm not gonna post my employer's proprietary code into ChatGPT.

AGPL is almost exactly the same as GPL except that SAAS counts as distribution. That's the entire purpose of the license — to preserve the copyleft protections of the GPL in a world where most software people use is hosted.

What of it, though? I noticed, but didn't think much of it because pseudocode doesn't need to be valid and usually isn't. What is the problem with these syntax errors that you are trying to address by calling attention to them?

Literally any new technology could be the plot to a sci-fi horror movie. The entire concept of the genre is to show how progress could go awry.

Agglutinative languages say hi.

I think that's more a peculiarity of Russian than a necessary quality of flexible sentence order. For example, many deviations from the standard sentence order in Japanese can still be understandable and grammatical because particles denote the parts of the sentence.

A lot of Linux users tile their windows too.

The singular "they" is in fact about as old as the singular "you" (which was also strictly a plural before then).

This is also the origin of the "stake through the heart" trope. The stake was originally meant as a way to hold a vampire in place, just like these instruments.

That's not really here or there. Owning a house does not make it legal to, for example, use it as a brothel. We could just as well say that owning a house does not make it legal to rent out. You'd still have your right to the property.

He linked to the White House website. The occupant of the White House at the time was George W. Bush. I am not even trying to be charitable, that's just the most likely reading to me. Basically every talk show host made similar jokes all the time because Bush was widely considered to be an incompetent nepo baby, so I'd need a reason to read it any other way, and I don't really see one here.

The Bush Administration did not do any of those things. Reading his comments as a dismissal of those things, rather than the guy running the White House when he wrote it, seems uncharitable.

I don't see them drawing any distinctions from C++ or Rust there either. It really sounds to me like most of their low-level experience is in C, where the contrasts they appear to be drawing really do apply.

Why do you think that? To the extent that a correlation exists between the level of social benefits offered by a country and the amount of horrors committed by its government, I would expect it to go the opposite direction (i.e. brutal dictators are more likely to hoard resources than share them freely). I have heard some attempts to substantively make the argument that socialized economies lead to brutality before, but every one I have seen has relied on a pretty blatant sleight of hand where laissez-faire economics is conflated with democracy. If you're aware of an analysis that does an apples to apples comparison and comes to that conclusion, that would be very interesting.

To be clear, Twitter also shares the list of users who like a post, and people generally seem to view this as a good feature rather than an invasive one, so it makes sense that Mastodon implemented it as well.

In the same sense that Google didn't largely kill off the RSS ecosystem with Google Reader and Microsoft didn't stagnate the browser ecosystem for a decade with Internet Explorer, sure.

What does any of what you just said have to do with GDPR requirements?

The only entity that could realistically tell us how Meta linked the profile to that person's real name is Meta, and they aren't likely to share that information — so it's not exactly surprising that the tweet lacks detail on the matter.

There are absolutely people who go into B2B data integration startups with the belief that they are providing a useful service to their customers. Do you really doubt that?

If you define "believe in" as "thinking they were doing something amazing and world-changing," sure. If you mean it in the more normal sense of "Think it is a worthwhile endeavor that has a reasonable chance of success," the distinction you're drawing here doesn't seem very salient.

I don't think the suggestion here is to throw out all the ICE cars currently in production — just to focus all new development efforts on EVs. Everyone would still be able to buy ICE cars if they need them, but the suggestion is for EVs to be the default and ICE to be the "oh, you don't have a garage? We can accommodate that" option.

Many features of C do not directly correspond with most modern assembly languages. You cannot predict the exact assembly it will generate without knowing a lot of details about your compiler and platform, and even then it's often iffy. It seems like a bit of a leap to call something "a minimal abstraction" if you can't even correctly describe how an operation in the abstraction corresponds to operations in the lower level.

Only one of those (inlining) is an optimization. Two are language features (implicit casts and volatile) and the other is a calling convention (passing arguments on registers vs. stack).

Wait until I tell you how the developers who made The Last of Us came to work at Sony.