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Comment · 7 years ago
Do they increase the actual power emitted or just create interference? i.e. should one be concerned health-wise if many of those are used? (assuming one believes in RF in these frequencies being harmful).
Comment · 7 years ago
Note that integrity checking is supported and used in many sites. Given that, using HTTP does not matter. (Of course not for the main page.)
Comment · 7 years ago
Speak for yourself.

If what you are doing can be done by a 13 year old, that is your reality.

What I do requires years and years of experience/study, and 90% of the 20 year olds cannot do it, and that is being very conservative.

Of course you are talking about the average developer. But your average health personnel aren't doctors, they are nurses or assistants. And there is nothing wrong with that.

Comment · 7 years ago
I use Netlify, but GitHub does not require paying to host a public site.
Comment · 7 years ago
It seems you missed the point.

Anyway, parent said obscure hardware, so hardly useful for most people. And it sounded more like a personal activity, it is not clear he/she did publishing or upstreaming or blogging about it.

By the way: actual drivers for complex hardware are nowadays mostly written or maintained by companies.

Comment · 7 years ago
Indeed, AAA games are designed like you explained on purpose.

However, let's not put every game in the same bag. A shootout to all indie games that simply make games that start and end.

Comment · 7 years ago
> all which lead to greater value creation and self fulfillment superior to defeating some imaginary creature

That is 100% subjective.

For instance, I can easily argue that breaking kernels and writing drivers for obscure hardware does not add any real value for society as a whole.

However, playing and socializing with people does create value for society, specially in this day and age where people is evermore alone, if only in reduction of antidepressants ;)

Comment · 7 years ago
I almost agree with you, but the truth is even with almost minimum brightness, I still prefer that background color get slightly darker than pure white (and same in black backgrounds: the text should not be perfect white).
Comment · 7 years ago
Hah! Because driving to the lake, playing poker and going to the movies in the mall makes oneself a very mature and serious person.

Not like those immature infants that play games. Got it!

Comment · 7 years ago
Yes, I do. One, and she is old enough now. Even when she was little, I had free time.

If you do not have enough free time for your child, maybe you should consider not having them. The same way you would if you did not have the finances right or anything else that may affect them...

Comment · 7 years ago
If your definition of "interesting" is how much math it requires, I have bad news for you... :)

Anyway, neither AI nor security cover that much of CS (they are parts of CS, and there are many others). Games, however, heavily use both of them (and many other parts of CS).

Comment · 7 years ago
I always aim for 4 free hours per DAY.

If this is true, I really don't understand how people can live in the USA.

Go to Canada, Europe or something!

Comment · 7 years ago
What do you mean by theory?
Comment · 7 years ago
Those are useful for compiler devs and language designers, not so much for the average user of the language.
Comment · 7 years ago
That is exactly what I was talking about! You are portraying games as "immature activities" like "superhero movies", rather than just "movies".

The same way there are more "mature" movie plots than those that you are (kind of) mocking, there are also more mature books than children stories, more varied music than pop summer songs and, indeed, more games than your "nth clone of shooting aliens".

By the way, I have had a nice daughter and health scares like anybody else, and no, that has nothing to do with maturity or with games becoming boring. There are many game genres and of course you like different ones when you are 15 vs. when you are 50. I literally thought like you in my early 30s, when I had literally zero free time and kept thinking "yeah I am past that, leave it to the young generation, I am responsible now".

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