Do you have any literature on this being called a pseudo-mode and the tradeoffs between it and "real" modes? I am currently pretty interested in these kinds of topics.
On the other hand, people not only drive, but also oppose progress; as a smarter than me person (don't remember who it was) said: Science advances one funeral at a time (it's basically like evolution). If people stop dying (barring accidents), we'll basically stop advancing as well.
> And good plastics are plastic in the traditional sense of the word: if you drop them, they'll absorb the force by deforming and then spring back into place.
That's not what I was taught plastic meant. I was taught both plastic and elastic materials deform under force, but the elastic ones (not the plastic ones) return to their original form once the force is gone …
I do the same with man instead (even though I only used that program like 50 times the last year) … it even happens in any other program where you can input text …
What, you mean return copyright to a state that worked for, what, a century, and which meant that people could actually freely remix things they saw as adolescents within their lifetimes? Blasphemy!
Writing the template and the content in HTML is easy enough for me, but I'm still struggling to make post lists, feeds and other things out of it without a lot of administrative effort.
As the very home country of Mercedes/Daimler, Opel, Volkswagen and other car manufacturers and the (AFAIK) only unlimited-speed public roads in the world (Autobahn), I (German citizen) pretty much doubt our government will start a serious effort to get ICE cars banned in the next 3 years. Maybe if EVs get significant traction in that timeframe, they'll propose such a law to look progressive for the next election.
To be fair, 'uber' had been in use as an adverb on the internet long before the company stepped on the scene, it's just that now it's in everyone's face …
Given how many times btrfs has failed to read data or to mount (with an error), I would imagine this is why btrfs is used by Facebook: because it isn't afraid to 'just let it crash' (cleanly), to use Erlang rethoric.
I don't know why you say 'at least half', but the parties that got less than proportional number of seats (usually everyone except the CDU and sometimes SPD) gets Ausgleichsmandate ([leveling seats](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leveling_seat)) so that the parliament as a whole is representative proportionately to the second vote (excluding parties with less than 5% of votes).
If you use a C FFI in any language, including Java, all kinds of safety are off. Unsafe Rust is equivalent to C (with a lot of mandatory lints) in terms of safety, so Rust is not really less safe.
If you can look at, but not redistribute, freely, it is called 'shared source'.
Open Source really is about free redistribution. And the difference to Free Software is mostly about the stance on community and lock-in.
I've not been at GamesCom, but EvilDragon said he would have a stall there showing the last prototype devices before production ( https://pyra-handheld.com/boards/threads/open-and-close-and-... ).
The CPU board is designed to be cheaply replaceable, so you'll probably be able to buy one with a new SoC / RAM / internal storage in one or two years …
Not all websites are complex though. There should be little need to use scripts on a simple blog, for example, but I've seen way too many times that you'll end up with a blank screen without scripts, even though the text is already there in the DOM.
I already use uMatrix, but why should I trust 1st party scripts. I regularly visit less-trusted sites or sites that I never visited before, and I wouldn't want them to be able to just execute Turing-complete scripts with access to potentially a lot of information on me (only just the browsing history would be a lot) on my machine or that can trivially fingerprint me.