It’s the same argument you’re making, that morality doesn’t matter as long as there are paying customers, if morality doesn’t matter because there are paying customers for AI stolen art, why does it matter for child pornography? Either morality matters or it doesn’t.
It’s still free in Ireland, at least for home use.
I mean, calories in/out is real, you can’t get fat if you’re eating less than what you’re spending. On the other hand you definitely can thin up eating more calories than you spend by for example going into ketosis where calories don’t matter all that much.
All of that being said, calories in/out is not the whole picture, like you mentioned there are plenty of other stuff that might make it so that two people eating the same and exercising the same amount get drastically opposite results. At the end of the day our bodies have a calorie budget they’re trying to stick to, eating less (or actually eating better) is the solution, exercising helps but not in increasing your calorie budget, only in directing your budget to be more healthy.
Don’t mix up optimistic nihilism with moral wrongness, you can be “nothing matters let’s have a good time” while at the same time wanting everyone else to also have a good time.
MMA also has rules and it’s also a sport, but it has the less amount of rules so it’s the sport that more closely resembles real fights. But still self-defense (think Krav-Maga or similar) has lots of stuff that is not allowed in MMA. That being said, MMA is the safest way to train against a fully uncooperative attacker, so it’s the best way to train self-defense on the long run, but some classes and training on how to properly kick balls, bite, and gauge eyes are a great addition for real life-or-death situations.
Honestly modern python is not that bad because of the typing hints and checks you can run on them nowadays. Also it’s worth noting that python has very strong types, so it’s not illy willy magical types, and while it is possible to use it like that it’s normally not encouraged (unlike other languages).
That being said, if you haven’t learnt Rust I strongly encourage you to read the book and go through the rustling exercises. Honestly while still a new and relatively nieche language, it fixes so many of the issues that exist in other languages that I think it will slowly take over everything. Sure. It’s slower to write, but you avoid so much hassle on maintenance afterwards.
They meant that downloading is a type of saving.
No it’s not, they’re completely different concepts. In C/C++ lingo Dynamic typing is having every variable be a void * whereas type coercion is implementing conversion functions for your types to allow casting between types, e.g. having a temperature class that can be casted to a double (or from it).
This is a function with dynamic typing and no type coercion in C/C++:
int foo(void* param) {
Temperature* t = (Temperature*) param;
return t->intValue() + 10;
}
This is the same function with type coercion and no dynamic typing in C/C++:
int foo(Temperature& t) {
return t + 10;
}
What are you talking about? What do you think C/C++/Rust/Java do?
Digital art is not any more assisted than digital writing, do you also refuse to buy ebooks?
I’m talking about the morality of it, whether someone pays for it or not is irrelevant. Child porn is morally wrong, regardless of there being a market for it.
Being slop or not is not the issue, the real question is is it morally correct. To me it depends on your usage, are you generating stuff for yourself? Then it doesn’t matter. Are you generating stuff to communicate to the artist you’re hiring your intended vision of the thing, or building a mood board or similar? Then it’s probably okay in my book. Are you using the generated image for something or selling it? Then it’s wrong.
Fossil fuel also pollutes when being extracted and refined, and probably more than batteries being produced, and batteries are only produced once.
Changing your car for an EV is not good for the environment, but considering getting an EV for your next car is.
Plus, we should also migrate the power generation to renewable sources, claiming EV cars aren’t worth it because power generation is still fossil in your country is similar to saying we shouldn’t recycle because companies don’t.
The problem with dynamic typing is not one that can be solved, even with a live running program you might not be hitting the edge case where you’re passing a wrong type.
It’s fine for small stuff, but when you’re developing a piece of software with hundreds or thousands of classes, functions, and APIs it’s impossible to mentally keep track of everything. And adding a type checker is tangential to overriding all of the benefits of a dynamic typing system.
This is one of those things like a trick picture where you can’t see it until you do, and then you can’t unsee it.
I started with C/C++ so typing was static, and I never thought about it too much. Then when I started with Python I loved the dynamic typing, until it started to cause problems and typing hints weren’t a thing back then. Now it’s one of my largest annoyances with Python.
A similar one is None type, seems like a great idea, until it’s not, Rust solution is much, much better. Similar for error handling, although I feel less strongly about this one.
Keto is about carbohydrates, not calories. Whip cream (as long as you don’t do it with sugar) is absolutely keto, it has almost no carbs, despite the high calorie and fat count, but those are supposedly irrelevant on keto diets.
I don’t see an issue with this, things can be an improvement over their previous version and they would be new on release.
Ansible.
I use docker for most of the services and Ansible to configure them. In the future I’ll migrate the server system to NixOS and might slowly migrate my Ansible to NixOS, but for the time being Ansible is working with relative ease.
My main computer at work is Linux, I do have a Windows build box where I compile code for Windows, and to make my life easier I usually develop it there as well. But outside of platform specific code, or code related to a product that’s Windows only, I don’t have any issues.
As for other software Teams, slack, zoom, Google meeting and docs work well enough that I can use them daily without issues.
At a previous job for some reason they wanted me to use Windows, which was absurd since I worked on the backend of a site which would only be deployed to Linux, didn’t last long in that job after that was made official.
In short, as long as my main machine is Linux, I don’t mind having to have a Windows machine to do Windows stuff. But I get annoyed out of my mind if I’m either forced to use Windows as my main OS (it’s just not ergonomic for me), especially if there’s no reason for it.
You just answered your own question, no other medium would give you the anxiety the protagonist is experiencing.
Also, worth noting that this game was made by Frictional games, they essentially invented (or at least popularized) the genre. So while you might be sick of similar games, it’s like saying Mario is just another platformer. Most similar games out there are heavily inspired by Frictional games games.