an-honest-moose

A lot of graphics APIs do actually reverse the y-coordinate for historical reasons.

>You can't copyright the alphabet.

You're not paying to use the alphabet, there are plenty of perfectly legible typefaces that are completely free for you to use.

In the US at least, your county should have an assessor that's responsible for tracking property values for tax purposes. How accessible the data is probably going to vary from county to county, and there's no common API for that, but it's a start.

I suspect "Kafkaesque" is being used to refer to the healthcare system, which is what the GoFundMe was originally for.

There are 2 to 5 orders of magnitude difference in intensity. That alone is a pretty big difference.

It's about how they're applying that creativity, not the creativity itself.

>They are primarily cultural, education is their main focus

That's...a new one. Are you sure you're talking about the same Hamas, aka the Islamic Resistance Movement? The one that, as of their 2017 charter, declares that "Hamas is a[...]national liberation and resistance movement"?

I'm not here to debate whether or not they're a terrorist organization, I just think it's pretty disingenuous to say that "education is their main focus".

People heard the AI spiel and lost interest.

That doesn't necessarily follow - the universe can be infinite in size, but contain a finite amount of matter.

It's not about not wanting to die. It's about death being inevitable. Everything dies, or breaks down, or decays. That's just how the universe works.

The best you'll get is extended life, and that's never going to be enough - there's always going to be someone trying to push that limit out a little further. IMO, what matters more, and what some folks here have brought up, is more healthy years. I think wanting to be fitter and healthier in old age is pretty uncontroversial, but the problem is that it gets rolled up with immortality, because getting to say "We conquered death" would be way sexier than saying "We extended good living by a decade or two (and that's being optimistic)".

Immortality has been, and always will be, a fantasy. Better that those resources go to something more productive, like healthcare.

And Minecraft blows all of them out of the water. That's not the point here. The point is that Dwarf Fortress has been a labor of love for two decades and it's nice to see these guys get some solid financial security for all that hard work.

The only reason the footgun is there is because vim put it there. Seems reasonable to me to be frustrated by that.

Mechadon(https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Mechadon) is probably the best you're going to get. The problem with legs is that they're relatively slow, complicated, and difficult to protect when compared to wheels.

You may also find Snake interesting(https://battlebots.fandom.com/wiki/Snake).

That is an incredibly dismissive and reductive argument to make. "Feeling sad about your job" isn't limited to burnt out software engineers with a safety net. It can also apply to, for example, someone stuck in a shitty, low paying job with few, if any, prospects for better employment. The lack of a path to a decent future can, in itself, be incredibly demoralizing, even if your present circumstances might be decent. After all, what's the point in continuing if I can see that it's all downhill from here?

Is silently making people disappear really that much better?

I don't think it goes very far to reassure me that a response is copy/pasted or machine-written. My name could be as easily pulled from a database as from someone's memory.