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  • Trust Me Bro 🔥🔥

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  • I will note, in reply, one major point - there's plenty of other arguments for going vegan, biking, using public transport. I think veganism is more ethical, and I have the impression it's healthier as well - and both apply to biking and public transport in their own ways, health is kinda obvious, but ensuring widespread accessibility for people without cars seems like an ethical positive, and if respected for city planning it'd also make more pleasant cities to live in.

    What I'm getting at is... Well, I'm not sure how to express it, but I guess to not forget the bigger picture? I feel like the previous commenter talking about not believing going vegan will have an impact was getting kinda dogpiled on (not really the right word, but maybe close enough), for what seemed like a reasonable statement, because they were speaking in opposition to something they might very well still consider a good thing.

  • Trust Me Bro 🔥🔥

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  • The claim is as follows

    I don't believe being vegan is an effective method to combat [climate change]

    Do we have hard data showing that if more people went vegan, it'd significantly affect climate change? Because if not... Then yes, I'd say it is a question of belief.

    If what we have is data on the impact of the meat industry, data on the impact of things like water use and gases produced by animals on the climate, data on how the climate behaves and changes in general, and data on how other things affect the environment, you have to trust and believe that not only every part of it is right, but that it was also all put together and compared correctly.

    And it's difficult to know who to believe, when there seems to be so much conflicting information these days.

    I'll also say honestly that I don't know if being vegan has a significant impact. What I've heard and read a lot of is that there's a lot of blaming of individuals while supposedly big corporations are the ones causing the most pollution... Which simultaneously ignores the question of how much of that pollution is driven directly by people buying products that are polluting to produce.

    The whole thing feels hopeless, and one feeling I do get about that is that doing anything as an individual seems pointless, since countless more people... They don't just not care, they'll actively do things they know are polluting, either because they're a bit cheaper, or downright as a statement of objection to caring about global warming.

  • Stardew Valley Creator Says 1.7 Update Will Contain 'More Character/Social Stuff' and a New Farm Type

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  • modding support

    As far as I know, terraria only supports resource packs, changing textures, sounds, text, that kinda stuff, right? tModLoader is a community project made by fans, and the game devs' contributions to that are in the domain of being receptive, supporting it being on steam, and potentially answering questions or making small changes to facilitate mods.

    But on the topic of changes, can't forget how they added new content and put it behind a new difficulty, and then ended up doing that again. And then they added a special seed that has new content that bumps up the difficulty another level.

  • This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years

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  • One counterpoint - even with a weak speed to capacity ratio it could be very useful to have a lot of storage for incremental backup solutions, where you have a small index to check what needs to be backed up, only need to write new/modified data, and when restoring you only need to read the indexes and the amount you're actually restoring. This saves time writing the data and lets you keep access to historical versions.

    There's two caveats here, of course, assuming those are not rewritable. One, you need to be able to quickly seek to the latest index, which can't reliably be at the start, and two, you need a format that works without rewriting any data, possibly with a footer (like tar or zip, forgot which one), which introduces extra complexity (though I foresee a potential trick where the previous index can leave an unallocated block of data to write the address of the next index, to be written later)

  • Not paying attention in the Grub menu

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  • If you're on Linux, I don't think a windows VM is very useful for gaming? Most games run fine in proton, and the ones that don't, probably don't because of anticheat that will also refuse to run in a VM. I do know of one niche case that needed to be run in a VM until recently, that being SS13, but that was because of an engine dependency on IE for webviews.

  • American planners: how do make sure oil companies and automakers get even richer?

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  • But then the poor won't freeze to death... Can we fit liquid nitrogen in the budget instead?

  • The Quest for Reasonably Secure Operating Systems

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  • The weakest part of any security system is the people.

    Well, maybe not any, but most ;D

  • Graffiti

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  • That's an interesting point, but one small counterpoint - the artist signature in this case seems to me more like the graffiti, an individual making art trying to get their name out there from behind the corporations.

  • I don't remember any technology being pushed as hard as AI

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  • Using an app instead of a website is great... As long as the app is well-implemented and performant, and not just a website wrapper, and ideally not forced on you. And absolutely ridiculous if the app is just a webapp, but they still force you to use the app instead of putting the webapp on their website.

  • Of course!

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  • Evolutionary pressure to survive, for one, since we need heterosexual intercourse to breed. I'm all for freedom in this regard, but come on, heterosexuality is the default because it's how we evolved and thus what the species needed to survive. Explaining how it's the default is good as part of the greater understanding in science, but you're probably not going to have success trying to study it in isolation, you want to look at the "exceptions" and figure out where and how they diverged.

  • Splitting Hairs, Splitting Atoms

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  • xkcd: Chessboard Alignment

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  • It's half-joking, since the presented move is not a thing in 5D Chess, since the boards aren't placed on one plane, but instead exist on new axes (one temporal and one parallel-dimension).

  • Arch be Like

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  • Shouldn't it be more efficient to download only the changes and patch the existing files?

    As people mentioned, that becomes problematic with a distro like arch. You could easily be jumping 5-6 versions with an update, with some more busy packages and updating less frequently. This means you need to go through the diffs in order, and you need to actually keep those diffs available.

    This actually poses two issues, and the first one is that software usually isn't built for this kind of binary stability - anything compiled/autogenerated might change a lot with a small source change, and even just compressing data files will mess it up. Because of that, a diff/delta might end up not saving much space, and going through multiple of them could end up bigger than just a direct download of the files.

    And the second issue is, mirrors - mirrors need to store and provide a lot of data, and they're not controlled by the distribution. Presumably to save on space, they quickly remove older package versions - and when I say older, I mean potentially less than a week old. In order for diffs/deltas to work, you'd need the mirrors to not only store the full package files they already do (for any new installs), but now also store deltas for N days back, and they'd only be useful to people who update more often than every N days.

  • The game "Horses" now barred on Steam, Epic and Humble Bundle

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  • I'm on the fence about the topic, but you've gotta be dense to believe CSAM has nothing to do here. The accusation is one of CSAM, so the argument is whether the scene is CSAM or not.

    In a perfect world the question would be simple, but in the reality we live in, you have to consider if the art will be misused - and that's assuming the artist is honest about their intentions in the first place.

  • What is something you can see, hear, smell, etc., that others can't?

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  • I've got one light in a room that makes a quiet whining noise when on, seemingly only after a minute or so (maybe after it warms up a bit). Thankfully I can just keep it off just fine, but occasionally I'll turn it on for a bit more brightness, and realise it's still on a while later by the annoying noise.

  • Locked

    I dunno

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  • I did not flip any signs, merely reversed the order in which the operations are written out. If you read the right side from right to left, it has the same meaning as the left side from left to right.

    Hell, the convention that the sign is on the left is also just a convention, as is the idea that the smallest digit is on the right (which should be a familiar issue to programmers, if you look up big endian vs little endian)

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    I dunno

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  • Arguably, there is no objective truth, since the symbols and rules of mathematics are assigned arbitrarily, and are basically a social contract, just like language!

    ...Wait, that means there's no objective meaning of "objective", crap

  • Locked

    I dunno

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  • If you have a bunch of unparenthesized addition and subtraction, left to right doesn't matter.

    Right, because 1-2-3=3-2-1.

  • What are some of the worst code you have seen in a production environment?

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  • I don't think OOP's nature makes them necessary, so much so as it enables them and popular programming principles encourage them. I think they're a good thing, especially if there's a way around them in case you can't get the public interface changed and it doesn't work for you, especially for performance reasons, but that should be done with care.

    Funny story, when modding Unity games using external modloaders you're writing C# code that references the game's assemblies. And with modding you often need to access something that the developers made private/protected/internal. Now, you can use reflection for that, but a different trick you can use is to publicize the game's assemblies for referencing in your code, and add an attribute to your assembly that tells the runtime to just... Let you ignore the access checks. And then you can just access everything as public.