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considerdevson John Carmack on mutable variables

Could Pylint help? It has atleast check for variable redefinition: https://pylint.pycqa.org/en/latest/user_guide/messages/refac...

considerdevson John Carmack on mutable variables

This is the kind of wisdom that comes after hours of debugging and discovering the bug was your own variable reuse.

Wouldn't this be an easy task for SCA tool e.g. Pylint? It has atleast warning against variable redefinition: https://pylint.pycqa.org/en/latest/user_guide/messages/refac...

considerdevson John Carmack's arguments against building a custom XR OS at Meta

Quite pessimistic view, but hard to argue against based on available data samples.

considerdevson Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

True, awareness of misinformation is higher today. But, being aware that all channels are polluted with misinformation doesn’t automatically make someone better at distinguish the truth. Also older generation automatically are not buying everything they see https://www.mpg.de/24132917/0205-bild-online-misinformation-...

Actually, having "misinfo everywhere" goggles can push people think that everything is propaganda or nothing can be trusted. This is also one way Russia and China is using its propaganda: give so much multi meaning information that normal governance information is also considered as something that cannot be trusted. Or atleast trying.

considerdevson Is 4chan the perfect Pirate Bay poster child to justify wider UK site-blocking?

You got a point, though I am not sure which things you are referring to. For example https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stasi tried to have tight control in east Berlin but eventually failed. China is doing currently the full scale automated information gathering and control against Uighur Muslims. Not sure how China is using propaganda for the Chinese themselves. Also NSA uses mass surveillance already at the moment for foreigners and internal political opponents.

But propaganda as a weapon is not a thing to underestimate. As investigated e.g. Jessika Aro https://www.igpub.com/putins-trolls/ and some might argue about the role of election interference for the Trump election and re-election as well.

Even highly educated people are susceptible to propaganda eventhough they consider not https://www.mpg.de/24132917/0205-bild-online-misinformation-...

So, if the leaders are dictators and hates people, it wont be good with or without new surveillance laws as there are already existing ways to do that.