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Comment · 9 months ago
Only somebody who isn't aware of whose "Congress speech received multiple standing ovations, touted 'most by any world leader'" would be surprised by that bipartisan support you mention. That happened in 2024, before Trump began his second term, but shows how the system works.
Comment · 9 months ago
European, not accidentally, also mostly deliver the same, misleading, narrative.
Comment · 11 months ago
Can you write or point to some more insights about the problems / critique of these most recent approaches?
Comment · 1 year ago
Another advantage of Pascal is that the programs written in it crashed much less, which also allowed for a much safe development on the machines of that time which didn't have any "memory write" protections.
And safety in development actually translated in less crashy product too.
Comment · 2 years ago
> the C example ... by definition strings cannot contain that character
They can, only some functions stop at the first zero:
char s[] = "gogo\x00gogo";
printf( "%d\n", (int)sizeof( s ) );Comment · 2 years ago
That's what Doctorow calls "a cartoonish vision of markets in which “the customer is king” and successful businesses are those who cater to their customers." In reality, the capitalists also don't care, _when they can get away with it._
"To understand whom a platform treats well and whom it abuses, look not to who pays it and who doesn’t. Instead, ask yourself: who has the platform managed to lock in? "
etc:
https://doctorow.medium.com/https-pluralistic-net-2024-04-22...
Comment · 2 years ago
And then imagine how it all appears on my 4inch-screen iPhone, if 5.8 inch is already too small.
Comment · 2 years ago
"Smearing" is much more sensible approach for the use cases where it is implemented. There is simply no solution that is optimal for every use case, and insisting on using just one approach everywhere is unreasonable.
Comment · 2 years ago
Now I'd like to have a link to that patch in code used by Apple that also appeared as a typo. Anybody remembers?
Comment · 2 years ago
Pity that the post from understandwp is marked dead, it was helpful to me:
"The "100 Bytes of CSS to look great everywhere" - https://gist.github.com/JoeyBurzynski/617fb6201335779f8424ad... should help with achieving that.
There is also a lively discussion and more examples on the Gist."
Comment · 2 years ago
Still:
- the church officially wrote that the Earth is the center
- that the Holy Scripture says so and
- whoever says differently is heretic
and the Earth was never the center.
Comment · 2 years ago
You still can't deny: the church was wrong, directly referring to the effing "Holy Scripture" to support its claim.
The Earth was never the center around which the Sun rotated. Not in 1AD, not in 1600AD, not now.
If the church claimed that the "Holy Scripture" says that the Earth is in the center, the church was still wrong, and moreover, the "Holy Scripture" was wrong.
The church can't be right to claim "heresy" to somebody who was right then and is still right now.
"Between December of 1964 and March of 1973, the US launched more than 270 million cluster bombs on Laos during Operation Barrel Roll. This number is equivalent to dropping a full plane cargo load every 8 minutes, 24 hours a day, for 9 years. Laos is thus the most heavily bombed country in the world."
"The legacy of this once secret war continues today. More than 80,000,000 undetonated bombs are strewn across the country threatening the lives of its people."
https://www.worldatlas.com/articles/laos-the-most-heavily-bo...
"Since the end of the operation in 1973, over 20,000 people have died or been injured by these remaining bombs. At any moment, a farmer may strike one while plowing or a child may find one while playing. (...) Estimates suggest that as many as 100 civilians fall victim every year"