pygy_
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Comment · 1 month ago
That was more likely a protection racket.
The neolithic revolution also caused a bottleneck in the diversity of the Y chromosomes.
9 out of ten men at the time didn't have the opportunity to reproduce, while the happy fews were highly polygynous.
This can't have happened peacefully.
Comment · 1 month ago
No, it’s because it can’t print the yellow dots watermark for tracking.
That "feature" and incompetence at The Intercept leaked the identity of Reality Winner.
Comment · 1 month ago
Churn makes it impossible to keep up a fork, Google weaponizes its manpower, making the "open source" argument moot.
Comment · 1 month ago
Let's just hope it doesn't decide to get rid of atmospheric oxygen as a rust prevention strategy.
Comment · 2 months ago
I thought they were alternative domains for the same service...
Regardless, I'm stuck in captcha hell whenever I try to reach them (I've tried switching browsers and DNS servers, no luck).
Comment · 3 months ago
This is by design, the regexp syntax has been invented for write-only programming at the CLI, and graduated to ubiguitous programming language syntax because worse is better.
The regular formalism is all about composability, and most languages don't offer a way to compose regexps, which is a real shame IMO.
Comment · 3 months ago
I'll add that, unlike what your parent wrote, asset reuse will be minimal, in adventure games, one of the reward for solving puzzles is unlocking access to new locations and thus new art.
In this case, they may reuse some of the sprites for the main characters (default animations). Most of the animations are custom and can't be reused.
Likewise for the voice acting (I'd expect them to start from scratch here, the mood of the games may be a bit different).
Comment · 3 months ago
I've had my share of battles on WP to preserve content that was dismissed as fringe by people who didn't understand what they were looking at (see e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Files_for_deletion/2...).
The author you mentioned may not have met the inclusion criteria at the time, or maybe you had the misfortune to fall on a zealous admin who gets dopamine kicks from that kind of behavior. That being said, if a cursory Google search was enough to establish notability, it shouldn't have taken much time and effort to add links to reliable sources and save the article.
WP is very sensitive regarding inclusion criteria for biographies of living persons, because of the flood of vanity submission they have to filter out. The notability criteria are not perfect, but the provide a good enough balance to limit the spam (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Notability_(people)#...).
In my experience, toxic behavior isn't as rewarded as it was on SO, and there are venues to discuss issues.
Comment · 3 months ago
v1.4 hasn't been tagged... No idea what the shipped binary corresponds to.
Comment · 3 months ago
Does `bun upgrade` provide the source code?
Comment · 3 months ago
> The same thing is happening to Wikipedia, BTW, which is also aggressively moderated
[citation needed]
Well here it is, and you're wrong: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Statistics
The article creation and edits curves are stable. The former growing at a slightly declining pace, which is expected since the amount of knowledge is finite. The latter is literally flat.
The monthly page views are in decline on mobile (from ~5.7 billions at the peak in 2024 to 4.5 billions currently). They are stable YoY on desktop at ~3.7 billions, and have been rising in the recent months.
StackOverflow is dead, the WP community is thriving, even if the page views have declined a bit.
SO had a moat because of its mass, but the place was a cesspool.
Comment · 3 months ago
I remember having to fight a mod for him to restore a reply penned by Mike Pall, to a LuaJIT question.
Mike Pall is the author of LuaJIT.
The reply had been either deleted or edited to the point of being wrong (memory is foggy), because Mike Pall wasn't an expert at SO, and had somehow not used the site exactly as intended. The mod was very dismissive and patronizing.
Comment · 4 months ago
Not lazy enough to keep quiet rather than spreading FUD.
Comment · 5 months ago
Pseudo-exhaustive knowledge disorder (PEKnoD) is a meta-psychosis that afflicts most medical professionals. It's a plague.
Comment · 5 months ago
Psychiatrists are tourist guides for the Paris catacombs who try to get around using an underground map.
When you do cluster analysis of the symptoms of psychiatric patients, the empirical clusters don't match the DSM entries.
Schizophrenia is at least 8 distinct diseases (see GWAS), so orphaned that they don't have a name.
Psychiatry is an epistemic mess, and medicine uses it as a garbage bin for the patients it doesn't understand (because blissful ignorance is the norm over there).
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