lockhouse

Thanks, done!

I still think it's wrong that HN needs my email address to delete accounts and comments, but yes I finally broke down and did this their way.

I'll miss the good parts of this community, but the selective moderation and toxic flag-or-downvote-truths-i-dont-like-instead-of-discuss-them parts of the community have ruined this site for me.

It’s actually likely to be the opposite. WordPad could be a test application for the RichTextEdit widget.

The tax code is excessively complex to provide loopholes for the wealthy to use to lower their tax burden.

That sounds even better.

The parser and renderer is a pre-existing RichTextEdit widget. Add menus and save, open, and print functionality and you are over 90% of the way to a WordPad clone.

I disagree. Cutting all the useless corporate subsidies and pork would allow us to simplify tax filing and the tax code all in one fell swoop. Then we could automate a huge chunk of the IRS and reallocate their employees to other agencies that will serve the tax payers better. It's a win for everyone except corrupt politicians and their corporate masters.

What CPA charges TurboTax prices? I'm talking "standard" TurboTax, not with all the ridiculous upsells that you don't need.

I agree with everyone that it should be a completely unnecessary product, but I don't feel that it is excessively expensive for what it does.

Permanent psychosis or murdering your friends and family because you hallucinated them into a harmful monster?

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9pmz/acid-lsd-fuelled-murd...

You just answered your own question. :)

Want to play Zelda? You have to pay Nintendo at least $260. $100 more if you want to play on something better than a Switch Lite.

Unlike Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo actually makes a profit on their hardware sales as well as game sales.

I disagree. Anabolic steroids can be extremely harmful, even to others as it can cause "roid rage." They can also be addictive.

https://recovery.org/steroid-addiction/

The author elaborates more in this blog post…

https://zyedidia.github.io/blog/posts/1-d-baremetal/

Not everyone is in tech. Most wages have been either stagnant or increased well below actual inflation. Housing, food, and energy costs are way up, far higher than the official inflation numbers imply. Middle class purchasing power is decreasing year on year and people are relying too much on credit to maintain their previous standards of living. It’s all going to come apart once people exhaust their credit.

I think the argument could be made that giving an addict more money means giving them more money for their self destructive addictions, which is ultimately counter productive.

On the flip side, giving them more money could reduce the likelihood they turn to crime to fund their addictions.

Wouldn't a jobs program also help them while bettering society as a whole in the process and possibly teaching them a skill?

It wouldn't have to be hard labor, I'm thinking park beautification or paid internships for skilled jobs that have shortages.

Long term I see "free" money from the government just expanding the class of people that are dependent upon the government for their way of life. The old "teach a man to fish" addage.

Both the CCP and members of the American government that funded risky gain of function research at Wuhan Institute of Virology indirectly through the EcoHealth Alliance have a strong motive to coverup a lab leak as they would be considered culpable in the pandemic.

The wet market theory wouldn't even be seriously considered if it weren't for the messaging by the CCP early on and people being afraid to be labeled "xenophobic" for blaming the pandemic on the irresponsible poor safety practices that were called out in the article I linked to earlier in this thread.

Given all the evidence and ignoring the official narratives of those with something to hide, the likelihood of an accidental lab leak from WIV is overwhelming in comparison to the wet market theory where it just coincidentally appeared out of thin air in the city of Wuhan with no prior animal reservoir ever found.

Zortech actually went through several iterations and is still available in the form of the Digital Mars C and C++ developement system.

Unfortunately it looks like the X32 DOS extender link on the page below is dead.

https://www.digitalmars.com/

It can be both not genetically engineered and a lab leak at the same time.

We study dangerous pathogens in labs all the time. All it takes is a laboratory accident for it to escape containment.

“Two years before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the world, U.S. Embassy officials visited a Chinese research facility in the city of Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab, which was conducting risky studies on coronaviruses from bats.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...

Sorry, I misread your comment, that makes a lot more sense now!

Pedantically you are correct, but it is and was common to use C++ compilers as a slightly more convenient dialect of C. This gives you the performance and simplicity of the C language with some very nice quality of life improvements.

With few exceptions, C++ can mostly be treated as a superset of C.

Fabian Sanglard’s books are excellent! I highly recommend them for retro DOS game engine programming.

https://fabiensanglard.net/

Well that settles it, we need to start working on time travel before the machines take over.

It appears to be sponsored by Cisco these days and is intended to scan email attachments, so signature-only is probably adequate for that purpose.

Downvotes proving your point exactly!

I've noticed the exact phenomena you're describing on both here and reddit, where people will gush all over a famous person for their accomplishments until it becomes known that they espouse anything other than woke liberal orthodoxy.

> Irrespective of vaccination and/or prior natural infection, SARS-CoV-2 breakthrough infections and reinfections remained highly infectious and were responsible for 80% of transmission observed in the study population, which has high levels of both prior infection and vaccination. This observation underscores that vaccination and prevalent naturally acquired immunity alone will not eliminate risk of SARS-CoV-2 infection, especially in higher-risk settings, such as prisons.

> Binary Qt and GTK apps compiled even 10-15 years ago often still work, and do so on almost any distro.

That hasn’t been my experience at all. Also, the desktop Linux market is minuscule. It is an order of magnitude smaller than the macOS market. There’s a reason commercial software vendors don’t usually bother with it.

Joe Biden himself said in a public speech that you will not get COVID if you get the vaccine. So no, that is not alt-right spin as you put it.

https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/one-year-biden-said-...

Isn’t it still a net loss of revenue if everyone moves out of your city and refuses to visit because of your soft on crime reputation?

Honest question, what is the purpose of being so soft on crime for these DAs? I really don’t understand it.

I’m mostly talking about the partial lockdowns where only specific categories of businesses or employees were considered essential. Many of these designations were arbitrary at best and politically motivated at worst.

The problem is that some of these policy decisions weren’t “mistakes”, they were deliberate politically motivated decisions.