Ignoring for a moment what he wants from you: do you know what you want from him?

But I’m a programmer and the sun is an external source of data. I need unit tests ensuring my prediction function works regardless of the direction the sun rotates.

It’s still possible to build up endurance even while fat, if you never got completely sedentary or if you take the time to build it back up. But if you’re too fat there comes a point where physical activity starts becoming dangerous without proper guidance - and if you have that then you’re probably looking into your diet too.

Not really, why?

Look at a starry sky, see how many stars there are. Each one is a nearly unimaginable number of times larger than the planet you live on. Each one may potentially carry an entire history of civilizations far beyond what humans may ever achieve.

You feel irrelevant? Each star is all of that and yet if you raise your hand to the sky you can completely cover several of them from your point of view. That’s how big you are.

We might not even exist - we could be a simulation or even just the imagination of some higher plane being. The absolute only thing that we can be completely sure of is that something is real somewhere, at some level.

I find it noble to go against your own best interest for the greater good, but I don’t expect it and don’t blame anyone for not doing it when it would seriously impact their ability to live life if they did.

I still expect morality though. There’s balance and proportion for everything.

The characters are all in your own pc. The text data is actually just numbers, referencing the index of each character in a reference table.

Early on someone thought “let’s create a bunch of different reference tables and each country uses the one that is best for them so we don’t have to include every character in the world”.

But that thinking has a critical problem: when you write some text that will only be read within the country, you don’t need to keep track of which table you used because everyone will be using the same. Soon you forget that there are other tables for other countries so when you do send an international text using your table as a reference, the person on the other side will be parsing it using their own table and the resulting text will be different. And sometimes when this mixup happens, the index referenced by the text in the other table may actually be some internal control character that is not meant for rendering.

These days the problem is “mostly fixed” by the near-universal adoption of a single reference table that proposes including verything you may ever need (even a lot of emojis) - but this large table means that each character in a text may need more digits to represent the intended index so the total file size for the same text is larger than it would be with the non-universal table.

I remember one day long ago when Notepad++ was the real shit, I was using the vertical selection feature and noticed that the selection was shorter on lines that had accented characters. I thought: “huh, accented characters count as two? What would happen if the selection ended in one? Can I select half a character?” no I could not and I had to restart my computer after trying.

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Copilot can review the code but is still pretty bad at reviewing the changes themselves. It misses a lot of potential issues and at the same time complains about many things that aren’t problems.

If the app opens it automatically on update, I usually read them. If not then I only go after changelogs for apps I care about and apps that broke.

I’ll let the opportunity pass, as the game is no longer mine and I’m not proud of how it ended up.

Brazil, in the 90s. It changed from school to school. I had English for my final 6 years in school (high school was 3 years), but it was mostly useless - nobody learned any English at all in school. We would just go over the same content multiple times - the usual joke was that the only thing we learned was the “to be” verb, but most kids didn’t even understand that despite studying it every year.

The current mayor is pushing us to connect more with our twin city in Germany so he managed to add German classes as extra curricular to one of our schools, but after a year it has already changed and now the town simply pays for German classes in a private school for the ones who want it (probably less than 20 kids).

When I first published a game on steam, valve kept blocking it because I had checked “controller support” and they tested it and said it didn’t work with controllers. I tried to find any controller that didn’t work, asked a lot of people to test it for me as well, no issues whatsoever. Gave up and unchecked that option. Game got approved. Players used controllers just fine, I went back and checked it and never heard anything from valve again.

My wife lost her amazon account (with all her ebooks) twice and she still buys ebooks there. I managed to import a Kobo from Paraguay to try and get her off the hook but it only worked for like 3 months as almost everything is amazon exclusive these days.

(both times she lost the accounts for disputing credit card charges that were not tied to her account)

Which makes sense. The stock market is gambling and most odds do not factor in the imminent AI IPOs.

I started writing this comment with the intention of praising Nintendo for what they do well, but after the comparison I realized that “at least their toys aren’t broke or a risk” is also a very privileged thing to say…

Nintendo has always been generally consistent with their approach to things: they try their best to make good stuff (with some exceptions to “their best” like the Pokémon company), and then charge premium prices for it.

As a customer it is more expensive than other videogame companies but there are usually no bad surprises with their business model. You just pay for what you want (if they provide it). Their ugly side is usually detached from the relationship with customers.

To make a stupid comparison, Ubisoft/EA and the sort are like a playground with some broken toys and occasionally some meth users or a pedophile. Nintendo is a private fenced off park where every toy is in pristine condition and is protected by snipers who shoot any adult or non-paying kid that gets too close.

They built the whole thing? Did nobody warn them there’s no wind underwater?