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And what would that do, exactly? The government wouldn't care. In fact, they would probably be better off for it because everyone would simply switch to Chrome and there's one less browser to deal with. The only thing you'll do is make the problem worse and take away choice from the French people who want nothing to do with this bs.

Interestingly, the labeling colon is written with spaces on both sides in French.

I find myself feeling some of the same things you describe. I don't really relate with the synth/formulaic music part, to me that's just another interesting form of human expression. But I guess that just goes to show how we all see the line in very different places; I think even my own opinions on this are sometimes inconsistent with each other.

But you're right, we probably misunderstood each other there. You definitely won the argument though :)

I think Zambyte just wanted to let the GP know that the code for the original had already been released before this one. No need to be mean.

I've lived in both eastern and western Europe and it's used a lot almost everywhere. As far as I can tell, the more Russian-influenced countries tend to use other services.

It's still crazy to me how people use Viber en masse in a lot of those places. The UX is abysmal and it's full of manipulative ads. Habits are hard to change.

I do understand the sentiment. I personally see value in human creation but I sort of get why others wouldn't.

I'm somewhat shocked by this overwhelmingly positive reaction to AI replacing human creativity so I may be overreacting? It just doesn't sit right with me — trading human subtlety for raw efficiency — but to each their own.

Even worse is implying that we should replace all creative processes with AI. I honestly don't understand what world you'd like to live in. One where humans do almost nothing interesting and instead ask computers to do it? That sounds depressing.

Yeah, makes a lot of sense. Hadn't even thought about the difference between age and year when I wrote that.

Thanks.

I can't tell if you're joking, but negative numbers are used to represent years BC.

Yeah sorry I apparently can't read, it was pretty obvious. Thanks.

I do it with books, too. If I'm not 100% interested in what I'm reading there's a very good chance I'll doze off into an elaborate daydream.

I also emphasize with the "louder" thing. Uninteresting things aren't as loud as my thoughts so I have to make an effort to suppress them.

It's actually not. There's simply a 'use Option::{None, Some}' built-in to make them easier to work with.

I don't know C#, but I'll take a guess:

I think it's exactly the same issue as null in Lisp and Lua — you sometimes want to differentiate between null as in "I returned no value", and null as in "I returned the fact that there is no value". Or null vs false vs empty list in the context of Lisp.

This distinction becomes very clear (and sometimes very annoying) when you realize that in Lua, setting a table key to null completely removes it, so there's no way to store the concept of a missing value unless you define a special value (like DBNull). A slot being null literally signifies its absence.

You're not, mine is only 10 lines and no plugins.