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That description of EA is not even remotely accurate.

Eh, I've had the opposite experience. If you search for anything slightly obscure in a language like Java, you'll get dozens of spam sites aimed at beginners that answer a much more basic question than the one you asked. That's because Java searches cater to a large population of people who can barely code.

The places where these cables come to shore are rightfully rated as high-priority military targets. You can't just walk up to them, nor go poking around in a yacht.

It's trivial to "count" as part of the demoscene. Just release your work at one of the numerous parties held every year. All the smaller ones even accept remote entries. An important part of the culture is that the releases are non-commercial, free to distribute and so on.

Seconding this. Coding on fantasy consoles is easy and fun, and it scratches that "hmm, what can I do on this weird platform?" itch.

From the little exposure I've had of the digital art world (I assume you mean high art as in fancy galleries and such) is that it's much more fad driven. One year the "it" thing is interaction, and so everyone rushes to do that. Then it's AI, so people rush to be the first to publish a book written by AI or whatever.

Say what you will about the current demoscene stylistically, it is to this day an underground, non-commercial movement (maybe countercultural? labels don't really matter, I'm just trying to gesture at something). People make stuff for the hell of it, with themselves as the target audience. It's hard to beat the sheer joy of that.

Then wikipedia is wrong. The demoscene is in part about pushing the limits of whatever platform you're on. But another way of looking at the scene is as an art movement based around real-time audiovisuals. The latter is of course a much more ambiguous definition, but there's a certain shared spirit and a defined aesthetic that holds across a lot of different hardware, rendering techniques and formats.

A +1 for fantasy consoles here. I'm partial to the TIC-80. I don't have the time and energy for huge personal projects, so the restrictions keep me focused on simplicity, fun, and the joy of coding itself.

The special thing about architecture is that it imposes on others. You can't not see a building. So I agree with the conclusion but not the reasoning. It's not users vs creators, it's the public who are not the users that get harmed by ugly buildings, even if those buildings are private and desired by those who pay for them. (The government commissioning ugly public buildings is a problem with the government, not the architects)

Meanwhile, anything on the internet you're reading/watching/listening to is by your choice.

It's bad for OpenAI to go after a blank website, which could develop into anything, not necessarily related to their GPT product. Other than that, this is exactly how trademarks are supposed to work. OP should just calmly tell OpenAI that they are not infricting on the trademark, because it's not in the same business domain.

I get that people have a negative attitude towards the company because the "open" in its name basically turned out to be massive bait. But this is business as usual and trademarks exist for good reasons.

Some good answers in the sibling comments. Perhaps the canonical example in the human body is the spinal column. It is extremely flexible with many degrees of freedom, while remaining stable to external shocks. This is because it has many small muscles connecting vertebrae to each other, over both short and long ranges (you know, kinda like a skip list).

"soda cans" is very pessimistic. The structural integrity of containers is very high. Specially the end walls.

The typical problem with containers is non-standard or unsecured cargo pressing against the side walls, which are indeed very weak.

Stability of the container stack is a much bigger issue than the pure weight of the containers. On board a container ship, everything must be lashed down tightly anyways.

Also, sails apply lift, so upwards pull. I know nothing about sail physics, but this claim is in the OP.

Since port stays are very costly, you won't deploy this for anything shorter than a transatlantic voyage anyways. So the double-wide setup seems less of an issue.

The whole framing is weird to me. I enjoy classical music among other things, but I'm in no way an "aficionado" (whatever that means), and I can recognize around 0 classical musicians by appearance.

>in the Musk era

random tweets have never been a trustworthy information source, Musk taking over has nothing to do with it.

Agreed. There's a lot of hype around LLMs right now, but they have not proven their value yet.

No, because ideally you'd have an ideologically neutral source, specially for politically charged topics. But such sources are essentially nonexistent, so we're left trying to subtract out the biases from wikipedia articles.

Don't get me wrong, wikipedia has value; it's just not a trustworthy source for certain topics. At the very least you should take a peek at the "history" tab to see alternative viewpoints.

Read up on history. Communism caused millions of needless deaths.

IIRC the reason for this is that antibodies are actually in your saliva, which moves around your mouth much less while you're sleeping. Thus, bacteria have a more favorable environment at night.

Sorry to hear that, sounds like a tough situation. Next time I have a drink (many months from now probably), I'll take a moment to remember you.

In an archaic form it does.

But nowadays "Frau Doktor" usually refers to a woman who is a doctor, as "Doktor" has a male grammatical gender, so it's awkward to address a woman only as "Doktor X", even though that's technically acceptable. The grammatically female word "Doktorin" has not caught on, even though it's also correct.

Swelling means that your body is directing more blood than usual to this location. More nutrients, more antibodies, etc.

Well, it's more of a question about what you're willing to make a fuss about.

Sometimes I have to travel through those countries. E.g. my employer demands that I take the cheapest flight to attend a conference.

This is unsurprising to hear. But the problem I have with middle-eastern countries is not how they treat straight male muslims.

This happens in many other cultures as well. E.g. Christians are super nice people. But if you reveal you're gay, then suddenly about half of them start treating you like crap.

The thing is that while most people agree climate change is real, it's not clear at all what the actual damage to humanity will be. IME said hypothetical damage is hugely overblown by activists, who talk as if the end of humanity was certain.

We're talking about a winter with out-of-equilibrium energy markets here, not generic winter.

Seems true, because about 80% of the volume of a tv or monitor box is padding. Padding scales with surface area, not volume, so it could be reduced by a ton.

Exactly this. there's nothing about an existing universe that prevents bad writing for new stories in that universe. And big studio creative talent is at a historical low right now.

I am one of those people (roughly speaking). Do with that as you will.