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heywhatupboys··on A recent software update was not successful. Your vehicle cannot be driven
any car builtin the last 100 years have electrical components. Any car built in the last 50 have "computers".
heywhatupboys··on How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time
French is the lingua franca of much of the world....
heywhatupboys··on How Africans are changing French, one joke, rap and book at a time
"read up on this wholly separate language and language culture, and you will see that I mean about French"
heywhatupboys··on GameMaker to be free for non-commercial purposes and have one-time fee license
are you talking about gmshowcase.dk ? The site YoYo games literally pulled from existence to become their own "half baked" showcase?
heywhatupboys··on GameMaker to be free for non-commercial purposes and have one-time fee license
can you get gamemaker 8 legally somehow?
heywhatupboys··on Find bilingual baby names
Being bilingual allows me to actually validate sites like this.

Almost all of the English ∩ Danish are completely wrong. "Alannah, Aleesha" etc.

Take this site with a spoonful of salt...

heywhatupboys··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
The Soviet Union produced some of the best video games!!
heywhatupboys··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
> In the end, the problem is capitalism.

surely, it is the underlying economic system ruining the art of modern video game development!

heywhatupboys··on Why Cities: Skylines 2 performs poorly
Unity is older than the Core runtime. They had to use Mono as their base.
heywhatupboys··on Could we make C arrays memory safe? Probably not, but let's try
> Technically this is not valid under strict C, but it's also incredibly common.

char data[] is valid C in recent versions if it is the last entry of a struct.

heywhatupboys··on We don't have senior engineers anymore
But that is absurd! The titles are arbitrarily given
heywhatupboys··on We don't have senior engineers anymore
> IMO, this is also why we have "computer science"... as if computers were found in nature and we were trying to 'reverse engineer' how they are made; which is ridiculous!

"computer science" does not contain the words "computer" in many languages

heywhatupboys··on We don't have senior engineers anymore
> all titles except for the ones indicating executive or direct reports are meaningless.
heywhatupboys··on We don't have senior engineers anymore
You are being extremely anglo-centric.

In Northern and Central European countries, it is call datalogic or informatics. Your analogy holds only when you tell it in English.

heywhatupboys··on We don't have senior engineers anymore
all titles except for the ones indicating executive or direct reports are meaningless.

It is a game, where workers strife to be granted higher and higher titles, just because their peers and the industry does.

There is no inherit requirements, I can start a company today and call everyone super duper staff engineer

heywhatupboys··on Nearly 500 brands exited smartphone market during 2017-2023
> don't even know there is a problem here.

OR, they don't care.... American centrism on HN is so bad

heywhatupboys··on Nearly 500 brands exited smartphone market during 2017-2023
and who says they want to?

this is not a net plus game. Catering to Americans might mean catering less to other cultures.

heywhatupboys··on Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
none, but they sure cant plug in their vacuum.

hispital ones are red wires

heywhatupboys··on Nearly 500 brands exited smartphone market during 2017-2023
Not everything caters to the American sensibilities.

Different cultures regard different things as professional.

heywhatupboys··on Car allergic to vanilla ice cream (2000)
this is why denmark has an additional slanted plug for IT equipment and a winky one for hospitals
heywhatupboys··on Data accidentally exposed by Microsoft AI researchers
what does this have to do with a "modem" per se?
heywhatupboys··on Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
no. literally conservation of energy. humans cannot beak the laws of nature. calories in > calories out
heywhatupboys··on Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
Why stop at medicine? Why does anyone get to have enforcable patents in "poor countries", make a profit, etc. etc. Do you also know people can buy the medicine in "poor " countries for free then, and just ship it back to the "non poor"?
heywhatupboys··on Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
Do you know how much it costs, and how many failed experiments, it takes to develop a drug?
heywhatupboys··on Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
physics work

therefore diets work

heywhatupboys··on Cystic fibrosis treatment wins Breakthrough Prize
how would you incentivize medicine discovery if not for commercial applications?

not like communist countries are well known for groundbreaking new medicine...

heywhatupboys··on Formatting text in C++: Old and new ways
what a language
heywhatupboys··on Meduza co-founder's phone infected with Pegasus
everything is signed.

should not be even remotely possible

heywhatupboys··on Credit card debt collection
debt collection by banks is muuuch higher than 5 %.

Even by standardized credit numbers, it is more like 60 %

heywhatupboys··on X sues Calif. to avoid revealing how it makes “controversial” content decisions
No, but circuit courts have long established precedence, especially in matters
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