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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.

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Israel under Rabin seemed intent to stick to the accords, but a far-right ultrazionist terror attack in Hebron and the subsequent assassination of Rabin by a right-wing Israeli extremist undermined it significantly as well.

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.

Ignoring that the UK isn’t part of the EU, the EUs privacy laws extend to all European citizens, and it has treaties with most of the world (including the US) allowing it to enforce those.

As the article addresses, inflation is down because demand has cratered, as people are simply significantly poorer than they were before. Demand for food is down, as people don’t have the money for food anymore, so prices must come down. Instead, people have to stand in breadlines to be fed.

This isn’t a good thing. It’s the worst way of addressing inflation, as it leads to sharp increases in severe poverty without addressing any of the actual causes of inflation. The Argentinian economy is becoming less productive and the added imports means more money is flowing out of the country instead of towards it.

Before, inflation was making Argentinians poor. Now it’s Milei making them poor. In the end, poverty is just getting worse.

They were transporting the only remaining copies of the Epstein list.

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.

The point was that they haven’t always held themselves up to those standards and have sometimes only used professionals espousing a single viewpoint (where multiple exist).

I should mention this isn’t bias, iirc the channel did release a video apologizing for some of the issues (though not all), so it wasn’t even up to their own standards by their own admission.

There’s a wikipedia entry listing some of the controversies: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurzgesagt#%3A~%3Atext=While+some+commentators+have+praised%2Cand+use+of+emotive+language.

Looking things up now, I see that the plagiarism case was slightly different: they had published a video on addiction, which was fairly explosive in its claims. Turns out it was citing basically just one fringe researcher who was also accused of plagiarism. The claims did not seem to hold up to scrutiny.

When another channel doing a series on how pop-sci influencers can sometimes spread misinformed ideas asked some questions to Kurzgesagt, they were immediately a bit apprehensive but agreed to do some interview questions, though with the caveat that they were busy with other things and needed a few weeks before it could take place. Then before the interview took place they suddenly put out their own apology video and took the addiction video down. At no point was it mentioned that another channel prompted this action, it was presented as some kind of inward reflection that they had come to themselves.

No they spoke Venezuelan, clearly.

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.

I mean there’s been some controversy surrounding a number of their videos. Some were under fire for poor research or demonstrating a singular, not widely-held view on certain topics. And I think for one video they were accused of plagiarism iirc. This was when it was still somewhat early days for the channel, haven’t followed them since so not sure what the state is now.

It’d make sense for Google to require this for Play Store apps, which they distribute, but not all apps.

I think you may be underestimating how much pensions cost on a yearly basis. In the Netherlands it totals over 50 billion euros each year, half of which is paid through labor taxes. I’m not sure we could easily squeeze that amount out of the 1% every year 🤔

Well it’s also the pension system that will become hard to financially sustain. Generally you want the population to at least kind of replace itself to avoid economic upheaval.

I used to just call my mom.

Yes, that is what a fork is.

I personally never used Google Pay, I don’t have a usecase for it. For other apps the worst I had to do was hide root from the app in Magisk.