[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 26 points 2 months ago

No quantum mechanics. Things have concrete properties even when no one's watching, and they can all be observed at the same time. The universe is complex but understandable.

Also, P=NP and π is 3.33 repeating, just for the lols.

[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 25 points 2 months ago

How is "being bad" decided?

If it's decided internally ("bad" is what you believe is bad), then all the objectivists get a free pass for being assholes. Hitler is a supermodel, etc.

If it's decided externally (there's an universal definition of "bad"), how far into the future does it propagate? If I rescue from drowning someone who will genocide all the Dutch in the future, when do I go bald?

That said, beauty pageants would be much funnier, with trolley problems instead of talent competitions.

[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 14 points 3 months ago

Spacewar! was a F2P PvP game with no microtransactions and no battle pass. Although it's hard to quantify exact player numbers (it precedes Steam charts), for a while it was the most played videogame in the world.

Its real-time graphics and multiplayer combat were very influential, and widely copied by many other games.

[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I like the ideas behind PRQL, although I've never used it in an actual project. It compiles down to SQL but has a clearer model based on pipeline and a much better suntax.

Malloy is a similar project but I haven't look into it yet.

[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

My hot take: Vi, make and C would have gone the way of COBOL a long time ago if it wasn't for a lot of programmers thinking "my tools are more difficult to use, hence I'm a better programmer".

[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 62 points 1 year ago

It's the same, but in the US you have to add the sales tax ($2) and then tip at least 110%. That brings the total to $21.

[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Yes, that's what the page I linked to says, and why I said "popularized" and not "originated".

[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

A real-life moth was found to be the cause of errors in a computer, popularizing the terms "bug" and "debugging". The culprit was attached to the report as proof:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debugging#/media/File%3AFirst_Computer_Bug%2C_1945.jpg

[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

This is terrible, and Russia should be punished for it.

The correct way of influencing Spanish-speaking countries is to install fascist puppet dictatorships. Arming and bank-rolling right-wing militias is also accepted, you won't be getting DW articles about that.

[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Do you all seriously edit text files directly

I use hexedit for all my programming, that way I can see my text's source code. It allows things that are impossible with lesser editors, like differentiate l and 1. Newer versions even provide a "live view" that shows your text's output right beside its source, updated almost instantly. I don't personally use it as it consumes a lot of resources but it's a great help if you're just starting out.

[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 24 points 1 year ago

Not really. Every instance of fascism has been really good at adapting to a local culture and political environment. Just to cite the major ones from 1930s Europe, there are clear differences between nazism (German fascism), Francoism (Spanish fascism) and Italian fascism (the original).

It'd be absurd for fascism in the USA to parade with swastikas, pagan symbols and Hugo Boss uniforms. An American fascism would use stars and stripes, crosses and… red baseball caps, I guess. In the same way, Modi's Indian fascism uses Indian iconography to maintain power.

[-] makr_alland@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Workers created Reddit, like everything else. Economic systems don't create anything, only determine who profits from those creations.

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