We should just set fire to cars parked illegally instead.

Fuck that, I will mark three sentence fragments in a two page text and remember the rest.

“When confronted by orcas, white sharks will immediately vacate their preferred hunting ground and will not return for up to a year, even though the orcas are only passing through”*

Doesn’t sound like shark are apex predators.

* source

Prolog is not suitable for any problem domain, although this is more readily apparent for some domains than others.

For real, for real.

I have only seen him talk about his job once, on is his defcon talk. He does some boring stuff, corporate governance iirc.

Because the other comment had a useless counterproductive step in it, namely base64.

Menus should be PDFs so they are searchable.

Generally, forcing developers to code something has been considered “compelled speech”

I’m European so I don’t quite understand.
Say person A paid person B to say X and had a valid contract. If B didn’t say X can person A sue person B to compel performance of contract or just money back/damages?

At least for new games wouldn’t it just be an implied part of the purchasing contract, meaning money back at least.

As a climber I have to disagree, figure 8 knots are the best, especially when double back.
It’s the one knot I trust my life to on a weekly basis and I have rarely encountered a situation where they weren’t part of the solution.

How?

Good question. I said should, not could… it would take a constitutional change, […]

I mean: if you had the power, how would you ban parties? At what point do political organizations become parties? How about individual representatives working together?

Bring back the old literacy tests while you’re at it

Pfft. The two are not the same. You could be perfectly illiterate and still find out what the supposed values of the politicians were by simply listening to them, or just talking to others about policy and politicians ties to them, like we used to.

Yes literacy is not the deciding factor, but it was always a pretense to keep certain people from voting.

Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

How much time should a person spend following politics to get enough of an understanding? What about poor people working long hours with little free time?
Guess I should have gone with the landowning requirement instead.

The Hatch Act applies to all career federal civil servants and prevents anyone under that designation from running from office in any partisan race. Meaning if your local government doesn’t allow political affiliations to be listed, then you

Sound like a problem with the Hatch Act, not with political parties. Over here civil servant can run in political races as long they separate their work and political live, they are not allowed to wear uniforms at political events for example.

Short answer:
It gave us compiler explorer, now that it has served its purpose we should stop doing it.

Long answer:

Why does hft even exist?

Hft can exist because most stock markets react to requests as fast as possible and have no noticable fees for certain use cases. This means algorithms that do simple trades like if goggle goes up, buy other tech companies or buy any stock that goes up in europe on the NY market can make small profits if they are faster than everyone else.

Does it have any value?

There is one exchange that imposes a delay on every request, effectively inhibiting hft, and its opening actually improved market conditions on all exchanges. This implies it has negative value.
They also spend millions on hardware, tools and developers to skim small sums of many transaction on the stock market. They are effectively a (very inefficient) tax on the stock market that goes to improving C++ compilers and funding hardware startups.

Political parties should be abolished.

How?

Imagine how much more attention you would have yo pay if you had to understand who to vote for.

Bring back the old literacy tests while you’re at it.

Plus then it would allow people like your local mail carrier to run for things like school committee.

They aren’t? If yes how would that change?

Inline code in `back ticks`

Multiline code
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triple back tics
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I don’t know how to escape triple back tics inside a code block, just ignore the spaces

The outlawing of the testicular torsion spell by the great council was not taken well by those who practiced it.

Edit mistyped

I agree with the sentiment but …

then nothing can be bricked because on paper you can desolder the rom chip and put another one in place.

Companies already put serial numbers in components and configure them so only specific ones work together, requiring OEM tools to pair them.
It’s imaginable that someone makes something similar with e-fuzes instead.

That just means the have even fewer rules to follow while handling you.

They found out about the “in minecraft” thing, the current strategy is the new and innovative “in roblox”.

It probably accelerates it, you can age alcohol in 30 minutes with ultrasound and some wood chips.

https://youtu.be/YlQT4ptwLKs

The weavers fought the capitalist system not industrial progress with the weaving machines being the easiest target as the where expensive to build, but highly profitable.

Same here: The goal is the overcoming of capitalism but until then we can annoy them by messing with their new toys.

I bet the Dutch would reward anyone who delivered Putin to the Hauge with some bike lanes wherever they want.