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I did feel like Ousterhout kind of undermined his own “comments go a long way in explaining code in longer functions” argument when his example code featured some incorrect comments, which is exactly what Martin warned about.

Honestly neither of them were really wrong anywhere, they just have a different approach. Sometimes I find Martins code split into too many functions, but halfway through there’s an example where Martins code is imo definitely clearer than Ousterhouts.

Both of their experience is valuable and is best shared, but not taken as gospel I think.

Nice avatar

Feel free to be offended I guess.

The program started off as IMP, Image Manipulation Program. They added a G (General) to make it a reference to a character in Pulp Fiction.

The name’s history has nothing to do with ableism. Besides, not many artists care; look up what a “gimping machine” is :).

Words can have multiple meanings and context matters a lot. Besides its usage as a slur is pretty outmoded by now.

It’s literally happened to every single version of Windows, 10 and below.

This has literally happened repeatedly in the past. Just last year an exploit came to light affecting Windows XP that was so bad Microsoft had to release another security patch for it. WannaCry and NotPetya malwares used similarly severe exploits in 2017.

Well, unless some exploit is discovered that doesn’t require user interaction. Then merely being connected puts your device at risk.

And given historical precedent, it’s going to be a matter of time until one is discovered.

There’s something about that meme that just works better in low resolution.

Isn’t Stephen Crowder the guy in the change my mind meme?

Money.

I wonder how many Labour PMs we’ll see before the next GE.

UE5 can run well, but all the defaults that Epic suggests devs use are really quite bad for performance. They improve performance on horribly unoptimized scenes, but actually optimizing the scene would allow a 10x performance improvement at no reduction in visual fidelity. But devs don’t tend to optimize much anymore because those Epic-suggested defaults “take care of optimization”.

None of those things necessarily require having a separate table for languages though.

Yeah Android Translation Layer is basically the perfect name for it.

The Jellyfin devs have quite clearly outlined some of the issues in the setup guides, and others are detailed in issues on Github. They do work on it, but most bad code was inherited and they have limited time on their hands to fix it, preferably in a way that doesn’t instantly mess up everyone’s setups.

Personally it’s quite nice. I just request what I want to watch and the system grabs it automatically. It can download from Usenet too.

Put your files in a randomly named root folder and it’s fixed. Even still, isn’t the worst they could do pirating your service?

It takes fairly little effort to set up Jellyfin. I think there’s scripts these days that set up the entire arr stack for you in a matter of minutes.

Last I looked the vast majority of the people in USSR, including the Baltics, voted against the break up when the referendum was held.

Maybe look a little bit harder. In the 1990s the Baltics each saw a majority vote for pro-independence parties. Each of the three states organised a referendum on independence, and all three voted in favour (by 77%, 78% and even 90+% in Lithuania).

The march 14th 1991 referendum you’re probably referring to was not held in the Baltics. Additionally, it is often framed as a vote against independence, but that’s not really what was on the ballot in the first place. The referendum was on the New Union Treaty, and was phrased as:

Do you consider necessary the preservation of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics as a renewed federation of equal sovereign republics in which the rights and freedom of an individual of any ethnicity will be fully guaranteed?

Emphasis mine. Note that the alternative in this case was the USSR continuing as it existed before, meaning there was no vote on the dissolution of the union. The majority voted in the direction of more sovereignty for the constituent states, the closest thing to independence on the ballot.

Pro-Soviet groups in the Baltics did attempt to hold their own independence referendums, but none managed to reach a 50% turnout and they were boycotted by the Baltic Supreme councils.

In the Netherlands there’s a simple pillar you scan your card on. Employees on the train occasionally just check if you checked in or not.