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vsuperpower2020··on Adobe Photoshop Source Code (2013)
One of these links is locked behind an account and the other only redirects to a dead repository. Thanks, I guess.
vsuperpower2020··on Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
I get what you're saying but I'm not going to legitimize a community based around the continued existence of a disability. As science advances, more will be cured and eventually everyone will move on and forgot about whether in the year 20XX people were offended by having deafness cured.
vsuperpower2020··on Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
It's crazy to me that we even need to explain the difference between variation in height and a non-functional organ. I don't know if people are just so open minded that their brains fell out, or if it's some new idea where everyone gets their own personal perception of reality and nothing is real, maaan.
vsuperpower2020··on Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial
They can call it anything they want, but the moment they leave their "culture" and try to police our language they have to justify it on facts and not just assert that they feel a certain way. It's completely irrelevant to medicine if they have a culture or identity based around their disability.
vsuperpower2020··on Hong Kong Government seeks to remove protest anthem from the entire internet
Why is this google's fault? The first video I clicked used violent imagery like protesters attacking police, or using fireworks to destroy property. If you showed this to children they would probably assume the hong kong residents are the "bad guys".
vsuperpower2020··on Stack Overflow users deleting answers after OpenAI partnership
It lowers the value of the site if people stop answering and sabotage their existing answers in protest. Does that make sense? Do you understand?
vsuperpower2020··on Apple introduces M4 chip
I'm still waiting for the technology to advance. People can't reasonably spend $1500 on the world's shittiest computer monitor, even if it is on sale.
vsuperpower2020··on Pleasure or pain? He maps the neural circuits that decide
You can still enjoy rags even if they're mostly fluff and photoshoots. You don't have to convince me it's okay.
vsuperpower2020··on Pleasure or pain? He maps the neural circuits that decide
If there was anything worth reading in magazines I'd also be mad if I had to scroll past 8 pages that were just pictures of Einstein standing in his field.
vsuperpower2020··on Pleasure or pain? He maps the neural circuits that decide
It's even worse that half the article is just massive, fullscreen pictures of this guy. I don't know how people "read" these rags.
vsuperpower2020··on Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
That certainly is gregarious!
vsuperpower2020··on Making a 3D modeler in C in a week
Raylib has a lot of issues that are never going to be fixed, but I wouldn't blame fullscreen on it. Fullscreen is just absolutely unusably FUBARed on windows and has been for decades. It's probably the same for other platforms. The modern strategy is to just do borderless windowed and pretend true fullscreen doesn't exist.
vsuperpower2020··on Fed Says Inflation Progress Has Stalled, Extends Wait-and-See Stance
And when inflation becomes a self-reinforcing inflation loop, we get zimbabwae and argentina and venezuela. The US suffered a few years where I lost a bit over 10% of my savings and income per year. Inflation is currently taught as "correct" in schools but I suspect that's just the current trend.
vsuperpower2020··on Research into why some people have a better sense of direction
Being pedantic is pointless by definition. If you want people to take you seriously you should ignore the small, irrelevant details instead of just being annoying.
vsuperpower2020··on Research into why some people have a better sense of direction
What, are we being pointlessly pedantic today? Maps don't "know" anything, they're computer programs that run on your phone.
vsuperpower2020··on Research into why some people have a better sense of direction
It's probably not a blank stare. Most of the time young people don't actually want non-GPS directions and are just being polite while you finish talking.
vsuperpower2020··on Some colleges will soon charge $100k a year – how did this happen?
Half the money goes to administrators. This is also anecdotal, but it's hard not to notice that my university constructed a huge building exclusively for DEI. Not sure what it did that wasn't done before.
vsuperpower2020··on iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose third-party app stores
I'm not buying anything from apple and I still don't want consumers to be screwed over. It's you and only you (and I hope you're being paid to do this) playing defense for billion dollar corporations selling a premium product to consumers and engaging in shitty practices. Your meme ideology doesn't work and never will work because this is more profitable than ever, and companies love to copy what apple does so it spreads. Companies are getting more anti-consumer every single year in the US and they don't need your help.
vsuperpower2020··on iPhone owners can leave EU for 30 days before they lose third-party app stores
I'm completely tired of seeing this awful mindset. Why do you get mad when consumers make shitty practices illegal instead of just putting up with it, but not when you see companies scam people? If "just don't get scammed lol" is a valid argument then there's clearly nothing wrong with just making the practice illegal.
vsuperpower2020··on Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words spoken by adult a day
This is another bizarre take. Yes, children are entitled to adult attention because it's mandatory for healthy development. This is also not a race between different kids, but figuring out how different circumstances would affect the same child. It's kind of wild to me that I have to even explain this to an adult.
vsuperpower2020··on Screen time robs average toddler of hearing 1,000 words spoken by adult a day
This is an incredibly unhinged rant that has nothing to do with anything, but seems to have been triggered by the mention of tv. Are you okay?
vsuperpower2020··on Learning Elm by porting a medium-sized web frontend from React (2019)
I've seen the word FUD 4 times on this page already. The "elm defense force" sounds a lot like cryptobros defending their rug pull. It's such an odd piece of language to adopt over people not liking some javascript compiler for perfectly valid reasons.
vsuperpower2020··on How video games use lookup tables
All these animated gifs are annoying and distracting, and I can do without the unfunny boomer memes from 2010. It's just annoying to try and read text with all these colorful gifs being spammed.
vsuperpower2020··on Why Python's integer division floors (2010)
So no good reasons, just mathematical ones.
vsuperpower2020··on Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero
You shouldn't have to consider if the car's locks work, because working locks should be a baseline in cars produced in a first world country. It's that simple and easy. You aren't nearly as smart as you think you are and having basic standards of how corporations should operate isn't coddling.
vsuperpower2020··on Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero
My proposed response has been making cars safer and more reliable for years. I don't care if it applies to bitcoin or not, we're talking about cars. Next!
vsuperpower2020··on Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero
Car thefts are extremely dangerous for everyone on or near the road. It's obviously better to just not allow car manufacturers to neglect basic security practices. There's also entire categories of issues you don't have to research anymore because they've been optimized out of every modern car. Soon cars being hacked with toys will be added to that list for you. Notably, "airbag explosion rate" wasn't on that research project of yours.
vsuperpower2020··on Insecure vehicles should be banned, not security tools like the Flipper Zero
Nobody knows a vehicle is insecure when they buy it. It's simpler, more cost efficient, and more valuable to society just to require cars to have basic security features. Your idea of market correction doesn't work in this case, because it's never advertised as having shitty security, and the average (or even informed) consumer will have no idea this is a problem until after they've bought the car.
vsuperpower2020··on Game Programming Patterns (2014)
Right. I don't think "design patterns with a gamedev flavor" has any value for game developers, but I didn't want to just say the book was bad without suggesting an alternative. They're both aimed at game developers who want some deeper understanding of how to structure games and you can pick out chapters you like from the 1150 page book.
vsuperpower2020··on Game Programming Patterns (2014)
That's it.
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