My best guess is Russia tries to make their death toll appear as small as possible. If they take the bodies back, those soldiers are confirmed dead but if they don’t take them back, they can pretend, for some time at least, that those soldiers are MiA or PoWs.

Reminds me of this gem: https://youtu.be/OsBOWSjOLsE

Yeah but 2012 is like 5 years ago, right? Right?

That’s one of the fundamental strategies from the trump playbook: just claim the people want something and if it’s repeated loud and often enough, people will start to believe it. Hopefully not for something as egregious as this, but it has worked in the past.

See, it’s fine when he goes golfing as he doesn’t directly contribute anything to his or his pals’ wealth. But those workers actually creating wealth, how dare they take days off.

For me it’s the GPU prices, stagnation of the technology (most performance gains come at the cost of stupid power draw) and importantly being fed up with AAA games. Most games I played recently were a couple years old, indie titles or a couple years old indie titles. And I don’t need a high powered graphics card for that. I’ve been playing far more on my steam deck than my desktop PC, despite the latter having significantly more powerful hardware. You can’t force fun through sheer hardware performance

If all you know are walls, windows will feel like freedom

If pre-orders ever made sense, it was when you still needed a physical cartridge or disc and the game wouldn’t get patches anyways. But those days are long gone.

What “political issues” do you mean? Requirements to safety and environmental standards? Sure, nuclear energy could be way cheaper if those pesky politicians would just allow to forgo safety standards and to dump nuclear waste into landfills, but that cannot seriously be what you’re suggesting.

Since there is no nice way to put it: WHAT THE FUCK IS WRONG WITH YOU?

Yeah, if your knees are fucked up at 30, you’re probably an athlete and injured your knees multiple times, or obese and overloaded them with too much weight.

That’s also part of the reason why IQ scores are deeply flawed. Using a single number to measure intelligence implies there is an absolute order.

Fun fact: Richard Feynman, one of the greatest physicist of the 20th century and legendary physics educator (author of the Feynman Lectures), was invited to join Mensa after he won the Nobel Prize in physics. He declined however, because he didn’t meet the IQ score of 130 normally required by Mensa.

In terms of memory usage it’s a waste. But in terms of performance you’re absolutely correct. It’s generally far more efficient to check is a word is 0 than to check if a single bit is zero.

The green and red thumbnail made me somehow read Portugal instead of Poland which left me confused for a second

Your theory doesn’t really hold up, because with that explanation you’d expect an abundance of trans woman in many other traditionally male dominated fields as well.

The more likely explanation is that both being trans and being heavily invested in Linux to the point you visit conferences correlate to being neurodivergent.

That said the other part is true: there are probably many women who’s talent and interest in STEM was never properly nurtured. From my personal experience in the field I can say that my female colleagues are just as competent as my good male colleagues, but I’m yet to encounter a grossly incompetent female colleague. My theory is that woman need higher dedication and talent to overcome the adversary that unfortunately still exists, resulting in a higher skill floor.

Yes and no, the main factor are bubbles. Even for the most asshole opinions you can probably find the right bubble where you aren’t shunned for it but get affirming reactions. Algorithms do significantly ease the formation of bubbles but are ultimately not required for it

He should just jump into the sea and start living with other gay fish

We really do have a Trump-light as our Chancellor now in Germany. He’s only been in office for a few days and he’s already flooding the zone with outrages at a faster rate than it’s possible to process them. At least his office doesn’t hold nearly as much power as the office of POTUS, and he needs the votes of the SPD to decide basically anything

While it’s good that he’s willing to give away 99%, he’d still be a billionaire and one of the richest persons of the world afterwards. He’s so incomprehensibly rich that even 1% of his wealth is more than any single person should own.

My experience is that the programmers from the first row very much still exist. My theory is that the number of programmers from the first row stayed the about same or even increased slightly. There are so many more so called “programmers” overall now, however, that in relation the first row programmers are much rarer now. And to be fair, you don’t need a programmer capable of programming entire games in assembly to center a div.