@Ashkan_GC @cmuratori It's not only food that has a label/disclosure indicating its origin. Lots of goods say "made in China/Sheffield/wherever" too, which some use to guide their buying decisions.

For famous/historical items that are sold, the origin (is this a forgery?) is important too.

@toprakrun @migueldeicaza I think Miguel is arguing that, because of the better security, Swift's approach to checking for overflows might be a better chice than previously thought.

@toprakrun @migueldeicaza One of the security vulnerabilities was caused by using an integer that overflowed.

If an integer overflow occurs in Swift, it might crash the program due to an exception, but at least it won't let a hacker access your machine to steal sensitive info.

@Lorekeeper_GGuy @bouch3ar55727 @NOTTHISWAYQQ @artur The doujin example makes them seem more lenient? I would be interested to see a history of copyright in Japan: did they have a similar idea before those in the west did or was the idea imported? What was its effect on Japanese culture when the idea was introduced?

@Lorekeeper_GGuy @bouch3ar55727 @NOTTHISWAYQQ @artur This is a legitimately interesting discussion. For most of Western history, plagiarism was the norm (even by famous people like Beethoven), and the idea of copyright is a relatively recent invention.

I don't know as much about Japanese history though.

@htmx_org That's actually pretty cool! I know you would have been one of my favourite teachers if I had you when I went to university 5 years ago. Your current students must feel the same way!

@htmx_org Do you know if any of your students enjoy retro tech? I know that's a growing sentiment among youth. 😅

@ChShersh @raysan5 I don't know if this fits other people's experiences, but I have sometimes found that complex design decisions (requiring an additional concept that is not necessary to the code) can lead to that code becoming simpler than the alternative, if you know the concept.

@migueldeicaza Sad to see. I haven't played any BioWare games besides the Sonic RPG as a kid (I was mostly a handheld gamer) but I heard very good things about Mass Effect in the 2010s, and Dragon Age had its share of fans too.

@bizfactory_ceo @rfleury For example, if you write "int x = 3 + 3;", an optimising compiler can avoid the unnecessary addition because it knows the whole expression at compile time, leaving "int x = 6;". Same result, but an easier-to-compute path to get there.

@bizfactory_ceo @rfleury C compilers produce the same output for a given input, so are deterministic.

There can be a difference in the generated code if you use different optimisation settings, but those optimisations must adhere to the same semantics as the version of the program without optimisations.

@helios_brah It makes me feel iffy when I see the everyday meaning becoming identical with the scientific one, because the underlying philosophical questions about what "life" is haven't been solved, and I think that is pretty important!

@helios_brah I have no problem with scientists defining what is "alive" for their purposes, but it was an everyday word before that, which existed in different languages for milennia.

@yukio_nakajima It must be hard for musicians like you, because most VSTs take a lot of RAM.

I know some like the SWAM violin (which don't use pre-recorded sound samples) take hardly any RAM but use a lot of CPU power. They are hard to use though.

@rfleury Love this take (unironically).

@htmx_org I used to be bigger on gaming than I am today, but Nintendo's former presdient Satoru Iwata, during lackluster sales in the 3DS/Wii U era, opted to have his own salary cut in half rather than let employees take the fall, because it would hurt morale. I think that's admirable.

@htmx_org When I saw "Montanads", my mind went to "Mon(tan)ads" and I thought there was a group trying to smuggle some monads into Montana.

@saul_roffe @SammyPickles96 Again, I might be wrong. Do you have proof for the idea I just suggested or proof against it? I am interested in knowing.

@saul_roffe @SammyPickles96 (3) Because Israelis and Palestinians live separately (due to apartheid), there is no need for Israel to be concerned about collateral damage the same way.

@saul_roffe @SammyPickles96 What I was suggesting was:
(1) The Jews that the Nazis targetted lived along with other Germans who the Nazis did not wish ho kill
(2) Due to (1), the Nazis had to be more careful to minimise collateral damage