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arrayOfUsersIteratorCurrentIndex implies you are either joking or are a Windows programer.

That would be about the time I stand up and leave the interview

I don't care that he named his variables after women. What I do care about is that he named very temporary variables longer than a single character. 'n' and 'i' suffice and anything else is just pretentious.

Those 20 people are fine, right?

I've been traveling internationally over the past couple of day. Every person seems to have the sniffles, or to be coughing. I haven't noticed this since covid began, presumably because the masks, sanitizer use, and social distancing have kept the cold and flu down.

Just because you don't like this person's comment doesn't mean it's incorrect. Try and keep an open mind. But I don't agree that it's due to being "well off". If it were called a "Japcan" there would be backlash.

Ten years ago I complained on a random forum about Google's seeming refusal to give me information about running Skyrim under Linux with the Wine emulator. I tried various search combinations and all I could easily get was information about wine manufacturers and locations in the Skyrim world. Didn't matter if I used "emulation" or "wine emulator" or similar terms, even in quotes, or if I used the '+' character, or otherwise tried to harness Google's literal search functions.

Was I searching wrong? Didn't seem so to me at the time, but I don't remember the exact queries. Those in the forum thread thought I just didn't know how to use a search engine. I still think it was Google telling me what it thought I really wanted, instead of what I was literally asking for.

I still see results that don't include words that I search for in quotes, often.

Putting a reply here because HN won't let me reply to the other leaf comment. 1) Implicated by whom? 2) That KiwiFarms doxes, or that the doxing bothers people, wasn't my question. My question is where is it stated (convincingly) that doxing is the reason Google filters the results?

KiwiFarms isn't the only example. And would you provide a source for your assertion?

Sadly you might be right, depending on where you live. In the US free speech is still supposed to be free, and Google blocks a subset of results it deems undesirable.

Anecdotally the same for other sites like KiwiFarms. I may not agree with all content posted on such sites, nor spend my day there, but I certainly don't believe in censoring unpopular opinions. There were also screenshots of Google censorship posted during the 2016 election that were concerning and I verified a subset of these myself.

Regardless of one's political and social viewpoints, we should stand united against censorship.

Read the original comment again.

Ah. Still an interesting article, thanks for posting it

What's secret here? Fourth-row buttons and prioritization on the Autovon (and other systems) is public knowledge. Sounds cool, but nothing to see here.

In a sense, dangerous. Google has a history of (and currently practices) censoring viewpoints it disagrees with. Will its censorship reach extend from omitting / deprioritizing search results to entirely canceling those using its TLDs that it deems undesirable?

Completely original name. What could possibly go wrong.

I heard they were superfamicom cartridges

It's not for lack of trying.

"Boy, society sure has devolved into Idiocracy-world during the last couple of years" has been the claim since just after the movie came out.

The issue in my opinion is that there are various, almost-equally "true" perspectives that can be reenforced with facts and presented. That there is no single objective truth to all matters means that biases (political, religious, etc.) act as a lens and the "truth" presented on fact-checking sites (and elsewhere) is shaped by this lens. This is why you can have news organizations with different political slants painting a story two entirely different ways, without directly lying.

Are you questioning the veracity of memes sir?

Fact checking has been laughable from the beginning. It is inherently biased. The heavy political leanings of those in direct control of the organizations' verdicts are brought up time and time again, and even memes are being made about sites like Snopes. My favorite meme goes something like:

Did x member of y political organization get arrested for hitting some in the head with a baseball bat?

FALSE.

[big block of text]

X member of y political organization was arrested for hitting someone in the head with a cricket bat.

[big block of text]

That was a joke about Python 3.

The Guardian is considered significantly politically slanted, right? I don't know how Brexit is going but I'd like to look at several sources with several different world views before I come to a conclusion.

"For the ages". Or at least until they release Python 4

Can it run door games like LORD? Are the ANSI graphics "real"? These are important things to look for in a modern BBS system for me.

I don't disagree with you but I'd like to provide some context for how things have shifted, for others reading this thread. The current headscarf culture in Turkey, as I see it.

The head coverings (various kinds) are associated with modesty. They are often fashionable modesty (?!) in Turkey now, as Armani and others advertise cutting-edge, expensive headscarfs. Some women are using them as a status symbol. They can also be used to signal pro-Erdoğan, pro-Islamist (in a government sense) sentiments.

Now, a woman not wearing a head covering (very many do not) may be called a slut by women wearing them. Rare perahps, but these things happen. There is often a palpable tension between the groups of women who wear them, and the groups of women who do not. It is as I said often a political symbol.

What is an "Ottoman leader"?

They fall like dominoes. Where does the chain lead?

One big concern is that Erdoğan will likely hold on to power however he can. He's already circumvented the constitution (and changed electoral law). I believe he will fight to maintain his reign if necessary. He has about 50% of the country behind him, and as far as I can tell the allegiance is based on religious principles, which makes it a strong allegiance indeed.