they aren’t, except perhaps as a counterexample of some dubious sort

for what, Bluetooth?

which adds latency btw, no bueno

We have everything important figured out

well that’s how we know that you haven’t, because if you had actually spent enough time on it to think everything through, you wouldn’t be so confident about what you know and what you don’t know

If you are compelled to make a recursive algorithm iterative, consider using an explicit stack.

yep, did that once to solve a specific problem, worked fine and if I recall correctly I could do it without making a total mess of my code

yeah well HP, fuck you too

lower visual noise of modern movies and series also helps a lot

and you’re so happy you can just mash one single button and your favourite track, game or series starts to play.

yes, that’s why I pay for some things and pirate others, because for me pirating is often significantly easier and less time consuming than paying

participating in a community ≠ making it a lifestyle

come on man, just let me wank to VR porn in peace

We’ve actually taken that complex and valid system and clipped its wings to do something way less useful :')

that's … way too pragmatic for a government project

people need to be on top of this shit to ban it with extreme prejudice

I’ve been getting back into simracing again with Assetto Corsa Competizione, and I’m still deep into Baldur’s Gate 3

well yes, but I don’t think it’s necessarily bad to go about it like you described, as long as you know that you’re not actually using the smaller issues to procrastinate on the big issues. Tackling the smaller issues first can help you to understand the bigger issues better, both consciously and subconsciously, so as long as it doesn’t actually matter in which order they’re done, I think it can be more effective to do the smaller ones first. That all goes out of the window of course if you’re using the small issues to avoid having to think about the bigger ones

I’m not arguing that, it’s definitely very debatable if it’s ever going to have some practical use outside of its current speculative one. That doesn’t make it a scam tho

many are yes, but not all. Bitcoin and Ethereum (among others) are legit, and there are a few NFT projects out there that actually try to do the right thing even if they’re not worth much at all. Many other NFTs are nothing but pictures that have no meaningful value except what you assign it to, but they never pretended to be anything else so that’s still not a scam in my book

I guess I don’t understand this obsession with speed?

for me it hasn’t been build speed but rather execution

I’ve run into problems with dayjs slowing down requests where I need to do a lot of processing. There are arguments to be made about replacing dayjs with datefns and how I should’ve been doing it differently anyway, but fact is that if the whole execution environment was twice as fast, it probably wouldn’t have been much of a problem at all

Can we have sound cards again, now please?

I’m happy with my FIIO, works great with my beyerdynamics and no separate driver needed

I literally don’t know what TypeScript is

then perhaps you should learn about it before you offer your opinion

a 4 core CPU isn’t going to cut it in 2023 anymore, and anything new that you’d want to upgrade to is going to be bottlenecked by that 1070. You could of course look at used parts if your budget is tight, there are a lot of used (ex-miner likely) GPUs out there that could tickle your fancy and I bet there are plenty of people selling their 8+ core Intel / AMD + DDR4 + motherboard as well to upgrade to DDR5

good point