McScience

Witchtards if you will

Well, it had one in WWII which is almost more impressive

Yeah. I write software for a living and I use open source stuff extensively. I contribute sometimes to open source projects, but not everything can be open source or I'll be back to flipping burgers.

Yeah, anything with Ray tracing will have player reflections. You usually don't see them because they're faking ray tracing by baking the light bounces when the scene first loads

Was doing my masters degree. We're all talking about some book several people had read. We ask one guy if he's read it and he says "I don't like... read books" with the emphasis on those last two words just dripping with condescension. Like read the statement with the subtext of "if I caught my kid reading a book I'd disown him and call him a queer".

Really inexplicable take in a room full of literally only masters students

What do you do?

A competitor could literally buy one copy, make a script that spins up 1000 vms a minute and downloads your game over and over on "new devices" and put you out of business

Honestly as a mid-career IT person, I'd take a 30-40% cut for that extra day without a second of hesitation.

Every desktop app that's available on multiple platforms is basically written in it.

Climate change isn't really an existential threat. To be a filter it has to kill all humans and even the bleakest models don't predict that.

Also for it to be a Great Filter it has to be something that ALL civilizations do to kill themselves. Seems unlikely that all civs wou ld even have analogs to gossil fuels in quantities sufficient to do this kind of damage. And the idea that zero of them actually course-correct when they notice it seems equally implausible

I mean, sure lots of atheists are assholes. But many of us were raised religious. For sure I know more atheists raised religious than I know religious folks raised atheist. Either way folks should just let folks make up their own minds

Cringe. Recently learned that "the youths" have basically morphed the phrase into just meaning "anything bad". Like, that word was so useful though to specifically mean "something that someone does which flies in the face of social norms to which they are oblivious, but which makes onlookers uncomfortable". That word condensed a damn paragraph and I want it back