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xkcd #3006: Demons
  • One by one everyone enters the crush room making everything worse for themselves and everyone else.

    And they know it's their fault. And they know there's an entire room, almost empty, just after that door. And they know they could be in it if they just acted "smarter" (AKA, non-humanely).

    The entire thing is horrible.

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    xkcd #3006: Demons
  • Hum... Given an eternity to hold people there, this looks like an incredibly powerful method of torture.

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    Small talk
  • Of course, when you change into "the world as we know it", it was already "destroyed" several times in recent history by things like cars and the internet...

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    Programmers Contest
  • Indexing by zero has a huge positive impact on the correctness of complex operations like joining intervals, that nobody trusts themselves to write anyway and always pack behind a well-verified library.

    But I think the reason we have it is because C maps it almost immediately into memory offsets.

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    Spare me the crocodile tears
  • I'm quite confident you can criticize the people rallying in support for a guy that spent the last month paraphrasing Hitler and Mussolini. Just call them "garbage". It's well deserved.

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    Are UI design languages like Microsoft Fluent Design or Google Material Design considered ideas?
  • You want to know if they are protected by something like copyrights?

    AFAIK, those two are not, but you'll get a useful answer if you look at their terms of use.

    You can't copyright a color palette or a design idea, but in principle you can violate trademarks or design patents by copying those two. Again, AFAIK, not the examples you posted, but in general those things could be protected.

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    Random 27 January 2020
  • I bet there's a nice 120-minutes long form-filling montage we can do about his hour-long process until he reaches his final form.

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    You have 8 seconds.
  • Is this elevator always that fast?

    (Before hitting either the ceiling or the floor and both dying, probably.)

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  • As a developer that learned it once, a long time ago, naturally I sign to the pledge...

    I have some doubts if I should mark it NSFW.

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    All those student protests on the US seem to be about stopping their universities from supporting the Israel government. But supporting a foreign government is not a normal thing for a university to do, why do they do it?

    Is there some educational or research resource they get?

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