I still think it's wrong that HN needs my email address to delete accounts and comments, but yes I finally broke down and did this their way.

I'll miss the good parts of this community, but the selective moderation and toxic flag-or-downvote-truths-i-dont-like-instead-of-discuss-them parts of the community have ruined this site for me.

I agree with everyone that it should be a completely unnecessary product, but I don't feel that it is excessively expensive for what it does.

https://www.vice.com/en/article/7k9pmz/acid-lsd-fuelled-murd...

Want to play Zelda? You have to pay Nintendo at least $260. $100 more if you want to play on something better than a Switch Lite.

Unlike Sony and Microsoft, Nintendo actually makes a profit on their hardware sales as well as game sales.

https://recovery.org/steroid-addiction/

https://zyedidia.github.io/blog/posts/1-d-baremetal/

On the flip side, giving them more money could reduce the likelihood they turn to crime to fund their addictions.

It wouldn't have to be hard labor, I'm thinking park beautification or paid internships for skilled jobs that have shortages.

Long term I see "free" money from the government just expanding the class of people that are dependent upon the government for their way of life. The old "teach a man to fish" addage.

The wet market theory wouldn't even be seriously considered if it weren't for the messaging by the CCP early on and people being afraid to be labeled "xenophobic" for blaming the pandemic on the irresponsible poor safety practices that were called out in the article I linked to earlier in this thread.

Given all the evidence and ignoring the official narratives of those with something to hide, the likelihood of an accidental lab leak from WIV is overwhelming in comparison to the wet market theory where it just coincidentally appeared out of thin air in the city of Wuhan with no prior animal reservoir ever found.

Unfortunately it looks like the X32 DOS extender link on the page below is dead.

https://www.digitalmars.com/

We study dangerous pathogens in labs all the time. All it takes is a laboratory accident for it to escape containment.

“Two years before the novel coronavirus pandemic upended the world, U.S. Embassy officials visited a Chinese research facility in the city of Wuhan several times and sent two official warnings back to Washington about inadequate safety at the lab, which was conducting risky studies on coronaviruses from bats.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/04/14/state-dep...

With few exceptions, C++ can mostly be treated as a superset of C.

https://fabiensanglard.net/