Like in a housing shortage you’re hoarding property and profiting off it.

Housing shortages are caused by bad government policy: namely, low-density zoning. Direct your anger towards the entity that deserves it, and make them fix their fuck-up.

(Note: I’m not making some kind of Libertarian “all government is bad” argument here. I’m saying that in this specific case, the laws need to be changed.)

While DRM is the bane of everybody there are cases where trust and integrity is important and it’s an intriguing look into how hard it is to manage.

Nah, when the user wants to ensure trust and integrity in his own system, it works just fine. The problem comes when the user who needs to be able to access the data is simultaneously the adversary who needs to be stopped from accessing the data.

In other words, it’s one of those situations where the fact that it’s hard to manage is a gigantic clue that it’s wrongheaded to try to do so in the first place.

According to the Open Source Initiative (the folks who control whether things can be officially certified as “open source”), it basically is the same thing as Free Software. In fact, their definition was copied and pasted from the Debian Free Software guidelines.

Less than a week until Dragon*Con!

They were both apparently being broadcast by ABC at the time, too.

Edit: wait… return ! 0 ; wtf

I mean, returning non-zero exit status on error is just good practice. It even managed to evaluate to the same numerical value as EXIT_FAILURE when I tested it on my machine (gcc 11.4.0 linux x86-64), although I’m not sure if that’s always the case or if it’s undefined behavior.

This cursed code is quite well-written.

https://duckduckgo.com/?q=abuse+of+the+c+preprocessor

Yes, as are n and i. Do they not deserve ‘fleekness?’

My argument applies to any cylindrical projection.

Well played.

I’m just as annoyed by the overuse of the Mercator projection as the next guy, but no, I don’t think we can blame it in this particular instance. Consider the similar case of a day/night map, which pretty clearly reads as 50/50 even when it’s Mercator:

(Upon further scrutiny comparing these two maps, I think the missing Antarctica might be a factor too.)

Also, relevant XKCD.

The name of that island is “South Georgia,” not just “Georgia.”

Nah, exactly 50% “of the world” is closer to Georgia than Georgia because the dividing line forms two perfect hemispheres. It just doesn’t seem like it because more of the world’s land area is closer to Georgia.

The fact that the map fails to color in the oceans doesn’t help, of course.

Pro tip: the arguments to main() don’t have to be named argc and argv.

Also, you forgot to #define an alias for atoi, and number, n, and i could’ve been named something more on fleek.

Considering that this is new capacity, not total capacity, it’s a fucking absurd outrage that it’s anything less than 100.0%.

Every percentage point less than that represents us continuing to make the problem even worse even though we goddamn well know better!

ITT: folks who think Linux is too complicated or whatever, but are perfectly willing to jump through endless hoops to work around some of Windows’ deliberate hostility.

The Stockholm syndrome is real.

Everything you mentioned is simply a subset of “[corporation] takes away our ability to own property” (i.e., trying to usurp our fundamental property right to control our computer). You can also add Apple and John Deere “right to repair” to the list, along with automakers trying to lock capabilities of the machine we already payfor behind paywalled subscriptions. It’s all the same underlying issue.

Make no mistake: corporations are waging a war on the public’s right to own property, and we’re going to be forcibly returned to serfdom if we don’t start fighting back.

What do you mean, “most?” Electron apps are the vast minority of desktop apps.

Make sure to print them out and re-photograph them on a wooden table!

Its entire business model is a protection racket wrapped in a crypto scam, so no, I don’t trust it!

It also doesn’t help that that it’s run by the incompetent dipshit who inflicted JavaScript on the world and who later got kicked out of Mozilla for being a bad person. Furthermore, being based on Chromium instead of Firefox is an unforgivable sin by itself. Really, from my perspective there’s basically nothing in its favor at all.