For instance, retarded is now considered a slur. If OP is saying "my director said the R word," then I would question whether OP spared the gory details out of concern for polite company or if they're being oblique in service of inflating their point.

So first thing first: get Firefox. Managed to download .dmg file. Double clicked it.

And now I see utterly confusing window with an image that tells me that I need to move downloaded Firefox to applications to use it. Where I am supposed to get the thing that I need to move? Totally not clear that the icon in this window is interactive and can be dragged. Why can not it do this thing by itself? At which point association with handling http links will be configured and whom? How am I supposed to figure out that dmg is like a zip archive?

I was completely lost until colleague showed me what I was supposed to do. I burst into laughter when he showed me. I don't think he understood why.

As thinking individuals we can and should use our awareness and courage to make biggest "good" choices we can bear to. We can't all be zero-waste vegan community organisers lobbying for renewables and free education/healthcare, but I doubt living life with the blinders on leads any kind of moral or spiritual growth or fulfilment either.

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What does this mean?

Fruit flies will be attracted to the monster, fly in expecting to land on the water's surface tension but the soap broke the surface tension so the flies end up drowning. It is surprisingly effective.

One is that when presented with contradictory evidence, evaluate it honestly and, if you evaluate it to be correct, in full or in part, change your belief freely and without apology.

The other is when you decide you have made a mistake, say so plainly and openly.

They often go together, but not always. I can’t speak to the author’s belief, but I will file this article under Epistles from Gruber to the internet because it is an inspiration to me.

I think this is fair.

There should be arbitrary and orthogonal ranking dimensions, that can be created by users at will. You should be able to have your own algorithms to decide what you want to see.

For instance, a post could be funny 0, in US English 1.0, political 0.5, physics 0.0, etc.

Every rating tied back to the person or bot that did the rating.

And of course you can rate the ratings or raters.

Confusing, but soooo powerful

That's just a different way of saying some people like to play games where their opponent has no chance. So your "relaxation" comes entirely at the expense of others.

Single player campaigns are a better way to accomplish this because then you can do whatever you want as far as difficulty goes.

I loved writing GPU shaders or optimizing visualization performance, but most of the time it was wiring up netcode to UI elements that exist.

Ironically as I've moved into focusing on more GPU and kernel programming AI is now lapping me there anyway, however the impact of knowing what sort of algorithsm are state of the art in papers, what is causing memory bandwidth issues etc... does a lot to drive the machine.

And that's just in recent times, the PRC had it worse then.