And with it, a slew of comments on YT, Twitter/X, etc, by idiots who exlaime "the public domain is a mistake" or what such fiddle faddle when they see character-turned-into-horror-movie slop (ignoring that good things take time to be made, and that the public domain serves a very important purpose).

Good thing people can't slap other people through their monitors, I'd have very sore hands in resposne to those nitwits.

Maybe another silly question, but how many of the memory vulnerabilities and other bugs we see from those utilizing C would be more likely to be mitigated if programmers in C were not just made well aware of them / their cause, the ways to prevent them (either on the job or in relevant education in school or elsewhere), AND if programmers and engineers had the time they needed to design things properly, implement them, and TEST THEM (as in, if the development processes slowed down for fuck's sake)? Sure feels like everything (not just program development) is way too fast paced these days.

The other thing is plenty of people who were console gamers in their childhood through college maybe find that as they get older, they have different interests or different things taking time. Games always took a LOT of time, and as everything got more multiplayer they got less and less "fun" if you didn't have a LOT of time to get decent at them, because you're going to be compared to teenagers who make them a full time job.

I hung on through the PS3 and got a PS4 because I still wanted to be "a gamer", but after I hadn't turned on my PS4 for 3 years, I just... didn't get a PS5.

Maybe that's what you mean by aging out - though I question if console games are something that are that driven by age in the way some competitive sports might be.

Ah, I get it - that makes sense.

Maybe this is a stupid question, but is it a problem with using pointer arithmetic, a problem of not ensuring you do proper bounds checking (even having a maximum boundary for instance), and the like, or even both?

What do you mean by not being able to do that?

The issue isn't with everyone having problems, or which ones are more or less severe than others, though. It's about those who have certain proiblems getting certain accomidations.

Can we all (especially those calling those who need accommodations spoiled, coddled, or the like) stop being retarded for ten fucking seconds?

Jesus Christ!

Fakes are used as an excuse for others to mess it up, and do so knowing they never get criticized (despite directly causing the mess ups) because somehow we've been programmed to ignore the actual causes and think way too simplistically.

For instance, fakes didn't cause schools to overcorrect so badly as to reject valid claims, the schools did period.

Another moral panic that IMO is based on an extremely gross oversimplification. I know people who can walk short distances, or have other conditions making mobility difficult... and people where that manifests itself as a problem at large airports, but not at really small ones - so in that case for instance it would make sense to need a wheelchair to get through the larger one and not the smaller one.

Are there people legitimately abusing this? Absolutely. The answer, however, is not to stigmatize people needing things like this conditionally - that makes the person framing it that way, IMO, the asshole.

But that's the thing - in terms of what happens to YOU legally, that definition (of what it is or isn't legally) matters more, not to mention that we'd have to agree upon a definition of harassing behavior that doesn't cover arguably legitimate cases.

Can we please with the interjection of opinion when talking about facts in this manner? YOUR OPINION is not fact, MY opinion isn't fact. You not seeing cases that may exist for something similar =/= "non e exist," nor does my seeing use cases mean there aren't bad use cases either.

How so re: the privacy complaint? Not saying it's impossible, but the guy would need to be actually doing shit like up shirting or the like I'd imagine.

And I did some Googling, it seems as if I am not completely balmy and there is a so called "metered paywall" where you can read X articles for free and periodically resets.

Maybe I just look at a lot of single page articles then ...

But if the text is already loaded and just hidden after the fact - which absolutely is the case at least some% of the time, you don't, in any reasonable sense of the term, bypass anything, the information is already there. Not to mention the free articles w/o paywall one can and sometimes will get to access.