I’ve got good news for you: Storage is now unbelievably cheap compared to just a few years ago.

I’ve forgotten what deleting a file even means.

Years ago when I started ripping CDs people called me an idiot for not using MP3 instead of flac. They aren’t laughing now. I fully admit that MP3 can be transparent at high bitrates and modern codecs even more so but that’s for the end device (like my car or phone) not archival.

The same will be true with my Blu Ray collection stored as decrypted ISO files… I hope.

My experience in Finland says: yes, they know happiness

There is an old unix calculator program called bc where one can change the input and output base.

If you change the input base and then the output base strange things happen as bc interprets the output base number in the input base .

ibase=2
obase=10

The output base is now 2 (in base 10)

Aww, the poor turtle is trying their very best.

You seem to be implying an argument based on Modus tollens:

1. If AI is the chief US innovation, then the US is massively fucked.
2. The US is not massively fucked.
3. Ergo, AI is not the chief US innovation.

Well I disagree with the premise 2:

The US is massively fucked.

With that, no conclusion can be gained from premise 1.

Nope, I did not and even though I am a fairly active lurker, I only read about it after my question here. I guess that makes me lucky.

I don’t know how to tell you this but there was no Internet in the year 11. They probably used other means of communication, like landlines and pagers.

The fax was no joke. It’s still a very widely used form of communication in Germany -.-

Gibt es noch Grammatik?

Well I do know of a certain maid that would probably be eager to help find out how capable of reproduction they are.

Yea expats are foreign workers that intend to return home after some time. While immigrants are looking to stay.

I still maintain that there is some ambiguity with “US expat” but I ain’t no native speaker. So what do I know.

Unpopular opinion but proton works better than native games in many cases. Tbf I don’t know about these titles in particular.

I would love it if devs would target proton / wine as a platform. Using familiar (to them probably) interfaces while optimizing for the use with proton, e.g. using Vulkan instead of DirectX.

I think that is actually happening with devs targeting the steam deck

I love rugged electronics. Seeing something that I instinctively think of as fragile being made tough is poetic to me.

I have a friend in Finland that once drunkenly drove a nail into a log with a rugged phone. It was amazing

I don’t understand, will you be an American that temporarily lives and works in another country?

Or will you live and work in America temporarily?

In the latter case: why choose the us?

In the former case: Why only temporarily leave the US?

You probably have a skewed impression. This is common in some places like Germany, but it’s far from the norm. (Even in Germany it’s mostly telecom that does it for some reason.)

Many ISPs only change the allocated IP only in cases like lost connections and some don’t even do that giving out but not guaranteeing static IPs.

Also remove private messages when banning user with “remove content” (goodbye Nicole) #5414

Is there some history? Who is Nicole?

Can you get apocalypse insurance? I think I’m in the market for it.

No, no, no. It’s the end of times. I can hear the trumpets of the apocalypse.

Now Valve needs to release half life 3 and the world as we know it will truly perish.

Jokes aside. I hope this means work on a UI overhaul can seriously begin.

Bias will always remain. I mean what would it even mean to be absolutely unbiased.

There is no such thing as an unbiased text corpus.

The only way to make Rust segfault is by performing unsafe operations.

Challange accepted. The following Rust code technically segfaults:

fn stackover(a : i64) -> i64 {
    return stackover(a);
}


fn main() {
    println!("{}", stackover(100));
}

A stack overflow is technically a segmentation violation. At least on linux the program recives the SIGSEGV signal. This compiles and I am no rust dev but this does not use unsafe code, right?

While the compiler shows a warning, the error message the program prints when run is not very helpfull IMHO:

thread 'main' has overflowed its stack
fatal runtime error: stack overflow
[1]    45211 IOT instruction (core dumped)  ../target/debug/rust

Edit: Even the compiler warning can be tricked by making it do recusion in pairs:

fn stackover_a(a : i64) -> i64 {
    return stackover_b(a);
}

fn stackover_b(a : i64) -> i64 {
    return stackover_a(a);
}

fn main() {
    println!("{}", stackover_a(100));
}