And social media is less harmful than some traditional ones. It's just that you've been conditioned by the traditional ones to believe they are somehow normal.
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PS. To the Americans among you, the 50 Cent thing isn't really true; see https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarcasm
Previously (as "trasz", "trasz2", spot the pattern) banned for pointing out that HN tolerates racism, and that they are lying about their moderation policies.
And social media is less harmful than some traditional ones. It's just that you've been conditioned by the traditional ones to believe they are somehow normal.
Then for example you might be a flat earther too. We've been trying that for past two decades and it's an epic failure.
Ok, how?
Same with presidents and whatnot. They can do their jobs without all that theatre.
And it's not like C can't be memory-safe, as shown by CHERI/Morello (shameless plug). It depends on hardware.
Proper design reduces complexity. The above adds a lot of complexity, and thus it's a hack. Not the appearance.
And there's your problem - you don't realize "writing a wrapper script" is actually simpler than messing with config files.
[citation needed]
And of course leaving out USA doesn't make you a shill, right?
Once a nazi, always a nazi. Same with CIA.
Erm, no - flock(1) is a UNIX tool, a component if you will. It's the exact opposite of reinventing the wheel.
Not understanding the operating system you're using is fine, but it's good to at least know what you don't know.