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I mean when you put it that way, it’s still morally dubious. Not saying that the culture is great or anything, but who are we to say that it is so inferior that it must be eliminated and replaced with our superior ones? It’s cultural genocide.

In their defense the previous government was a puppet government installed and propped up by the US. It wasn’t particularly popular and could never sustain itself without direct foreign military support.

Why this over a much more popular modern language like Rust?

The earth is neither a perfect sphere nor is gravity uniform over the earth’s surface. The ground is also moving around, naturally due to plate tectonics but also due to human factors like oil and gas extraction as well as the depleting of fossil water. There might be more factors at play, but these alone are probably enough variation to explain this difference.

Absolutely

And likewise the aliens will want to get ahold of our computers where they will try porting an alternate version of doom where you play as an alien shooting humans.

How often are you doing work on another computer? You probably have like 1-3 you use on any regular basis, just set them up and forget it.

I mean if the government is providing a bailout, at a minimum they should get shares of the company at the current market value. If that’s a controlling share, well then it’s as good as nationalized.

This is just… super wrong. RCS is more open than iMessage by virtue of being supported on two different platforms from different vendors. Doesn’t really mean it is fully open, it’s not, but 2 is more than 1.

This is a bad take that ignores that the Israeli occupation has been terrorizing Lebanon and the greater Levant since its inception.

The C64 is 8 bit but has 64k of memory.

While the specification allows time_t to be basically whatever, in practice it’s a signed 32 bit int. Presumably to accommodate whatever came theoretically before the world was created on 1/1/1970.

Or just a u64. 64 bit computers are pretty standard nowadays.