Rules of thumb can be very useful for a relatively inexperienced programmer, and once you understand why they exist you can choose to ignore them when they would get in the way. Clean Code is totally unhinged though

because the goal of tamper resistance is to make it harder to unscrew without apple’s approval

This description could be anyone.

CIA assassination is the leading cause of death worldwide

monospace means the width of the “whole” character is always the same, but the width of the visible part of the character is not (imagine how large the dot would have to be for that to work)

...mm.m.

or that I don’t want to (google what it is and then) press some weird keybind and spend minutes scrolling through the list of emojis when good ol’ emoticons do the trick

if you accelerate it to exactly the speed of light, it will destroy everything within about 15 billion lightyears (galaxies further than that are safe because they recede from you faster than light)

I’d think game journalism has been mostly replaced by youtube reviewers / video essays, no?

steam’s drm is a complete joke though? Tons of game developers add their own drm on top because it is so trivial to bypass steam’s own.

Their main product is a marketplace/content delivery system

if all 330 million 'mericans tried living in the woods, shit would go south really quickly

Oopsie woopsie!

I read on a pop sci magazine years ago that “this is not the first time we have offered a design, but nobody was willing to buy one so it didn’t get built”

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I managed to recreate almost the same screenshot in 5kb (and with much less compression artifacts!)

before adding the text and circles it was only 1.6kb

it’s a case where jpeg compression ironically results in the picture getting 60x larger and more blurry because everyone recompresses the images and jpeg is designed for large photos and not pixel art

note that both rage comics and pepe became popular memes in 2008, and wojak in 2009

driver is john cena, who has the catchphrase “you can’t see me”

grandma has a lot of friends

are you sure? There’s only 1 way to find out

Harambe is dead. Harambe remains dead. And we have killed him.

can’t get poor slowly if it happens quickly