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Using pixel coordinates for 2D space is like sizing web elements in pixels - it's just plain wrong and will look vanishingly small on future higher-resolution monitors.

I was able to plug in a cheap USB SNES controller into Android and play with it quite painlessly.

Clear example: Hospitals have helicopters, but most patients are still moved using vans. The helicopter is faster (when patient's life is acutely ending), but prohibitively expensive to utilize for every patient.

Medical assistance in dying (MAID)

The only difference to 'Medical assistance in addiction', is the former is much cheaper as the person won't need any help, ever.

Naloxone is a medication used to reverse or reduce the effects of opioids, like fentanyl.

Making the rounds as "gender-affirming care" right now.

Meanwhile, airlines fly tens of thousands of empty flights a year, polluting the atmosphere, to "avoid losing take-off and landing slots".

You care so much about the environment, calculate how many Burning Mans that equates to.

*) based on a computer model.

Though its corresponding anti-video in your mind is consumed when you watch it. As in, you can't watch it twice "for the first time", and the first time is always special.

By what party? Valve is famously community-friendly.

And what are they going to do with those salaries? Buy unbuilt or unfinished apartments in sinking tofu-dreg towers from bankrupting construction companies?

I was under the impression that the EU is working on legistlation forcing all smartphone apps to be uninstallable, including manufacturer bundled ones.

https://www.androidauthority.com/eu-draft-law-uninstall-prei...

Related: Displaying two different colors to each eye while stereoviewing produces what's called "impossible colors". I ran a small experiment on a game development forum once and it turns out about 50% of people see grey when shown opposing colors simultaneously, while the other half's brains can't decide what color they see and it fluctuates in a way similar to staring at the Sun (did that for about 20 seconds, lost center vision for a month, thankfully no permanent damage. Couldn't read text as each letter vanished as I looked at it!).

If you add to that the right to camp in private woods, it becomes truly liberating. Here in Finland we call it "jokamiehenoikeus", "every man's right", or "freedom to roam". You can set up tent in any forest, regardless of land ownership.

> So, at what point in time the person who is observing a running program is going to declare it doesn't halt?

That "point in time" is within time itself condition on the program halting. If the program never halts, then that point in time is "never". We might disagree on whether "never" is a point in time at all... We might even disagree on whether "never" as a concept even exists or makes any sense.

Yet as you say, all programs will halt, one way or another. You divide such factors into "internal" vs "external", but if we really think about, no computer program is an island; Computation is a property of the material universe. I wouldn't be so quick to draw the distinction between internal logic and external interference. The program itself wouldn't exist without external input, and its result is only meaningful in the context of the reality to which it has effect.

I understand the nature of the abstract philosophical academic conundrum, but also that it's a flawed and incomplete way of modeling real world concepts. To me the halting problem is a practical engineering one; A matter of performance. A faster way to find the same answer, i.e. optimization.

Consider internal errors as well. The computer can have a hardware bug that causes the program to never halt even if in theory it should. Internal interference in the flow of electrons within its circuits could throw it off. The coin in your example could be faulty, and shatter due to internal tensions upon landing.

By waiting forever.

I understand that "forever" is a nebulous term, but it works both ways. We both know that no computer program could actually run forever.

Lower prices themselves have a price.

You could steal everything for free, why don't you?

Technically the halting problem is a performance cost issue, because you can always tell whether a program stops by just running it. The performance cost is having to actually run it and wait and see, rather than find some quicker way to the answer.

Michel Lotito is in the Guinness World Records for having eaten 18 bicycles, 15 supermarket trolleys, seven TV sets, six chandeliers, two beds, a pair of skis, a Cessna light aircraft and a computer.

> no amount of wrong decisions of one person gives another person the right to decide for them. That's what laws, courts and a legal system is there for.

You don't see the contradiction here? Laws, courts, and legal systems are other people deciding for those who have made a sufficient amount of wrong decisions.

(Thanks for the examples. I'm not familiar enough with Shinto et al to comment on what kind of stability such societies are founded upon.)

Please mention a stable non-Christian society you would like to migrate to.

The power to make decisions includes the power to make mistakes. Having more power doesn't automatically mean that every decision made with said power is for the better. Women aren't above criticism for their bad decisions.

Repression and self-shame for our primitive desires is at the core of civilized society. Use your brain for a moment to think about how our world would look like if everyone blindly followed their instincts, including violent outbursts, sexual desires, and what have you.

You discard our achieved Christian stability at your own peril. You sure you want to go back to jungle rules? That's what will happen when all women mate with a select few men - what do you think the rest of the men are going to do? Be content dying alone, invisible, and unloved?

And as there is no test for non-physical abuse, it also becomes a great excuse to avoid all responsibility and commitment. Women end most marriages, especially if educated. Most men cannot possibly be abusive, so there's something else at play here.

Voluntary commitment is self-coercion. All discipline is. The trick is, it's worth it. But some people are so allergic to external and internal control that they enter a never-ending self-destructive spiral of "personal freedom at any cost".

You jest, but launching dead cows from catapults was indeed a medieval siege tactic.

No weapon in the history of mankind has ever been perfect.

It's not about the absolute position on the scale, but the direction of change. Mozilla has been moving towards anti-user for years now.

Be careful. Women like that tend to lack accountability, and make sudden life decisions based on such nonsense, including dumping you.

politelemon said:

> A majority of them do not overlap with gaming and tech communities online. [...] It's a large silent community that we don't often interact with.

Considering you, woutr_be, are indeed overlapping with this online tech community, aren't silent at all, and we're interacting with you right now,

why are you taking offense with a category of people you aren't part of?

Because "an eye for an eye" leaves everyone blind.