"Arrested"? They murdered more than a thousand innocent people including children.

Jews weren't ethnically cleansed from Palestine / Israel. They've lived there for thousands of years uninterruptedly, as demonstrated by recent genetic studies. Most of them converted to Islam or Christianity, some of them kept their Jewish religion.

Not that any of this matters: international law isn't defined by religious books. Israel, like any other country, has internationally recognized borders.

The allied bombed Germany and then left. They didn't occupy it for 70 years claiming it was the ancestral home of the Anglo-Saxons.

They don't exist. Stop pretending that they do. We can improve car safety *now* by installing electronic assistance devices on cars driven by people.

Dear Americans, you are obsessed. It's a circus. Both "sides". Maybe it's time to quit this culture wars thing because it's not helping.

This is excellent news. TFA should have specified that they consumed more energy than they generated though, I think that the average reader is interested in this piece of information.

I tried to read the article and I was presented with a pop-up window ordering me to give up my right to privacy and be spied by some obscure technical actor in everything that I do online, down to my precise position in space, and have my personal data sold to a network of commercial entities.

Our technocratic overlords are terrible and we should rise against them, but when they bring money to the Atlantic they're good, it seems.

I'd say reap what you sow but I know the people making those decisions definitely don't touch vscode, and don't care about regular users.

What is happening here is that Microsoft willingly and knowingly released an automatic update that changed the system requirements for vscode making it incompatible with some of the systems that until then were supported, leaving "regular users", who depended on said software to work, stranded.

Yup, Microsoft requiring a *newer* version of glibc is totally a problem with glibc's *backward* compatibility.

But why do you call "Elon" by first name? Is he your brother? Will he sell Teslas at a discount for you?
Guys, the cult of personality is a bad thing even when it's not the Soviets doing it.

Pardon the rant, but I've just received a lot of stuff I don't like all in one gulp: Javascript, semantic whitespace, and impositions from groups of people who "know better" in order to create social harmony.

Also, the freedom of adapting the style of your own code to your own needs is "promoting bug formation", while a syntax that will silently and drastically change its meaning if you type the wrong number of spaces is safety?
Think about what happens when you copy and paste portions of code across different nesting levels. Sorry but one can't have any experience in programming and write such nonsense.

You didn't get the point. If you had a 386, Ultima 7 ran. No one bought a bigger PC to play Ultima 7 better. Starting with Doom, people would buy bigger PCs to brag about how well Doom ran on it.

Doom was the game that ushered in the era where the specs of your PC started to count. Not only they would decide whether you could play the game or not, but also how well you could play it. This wasn't the case before: before Doom, you could play most games with a 286; after Doom came out, 386s were a thing of the past and the subculture of building fast computers, overclocking and associated bragging was born.

I remember playing Doom at my rich friend's, he had a 486 DX *four* and the game ran perfectly. Playing Doom, besides the fun in the game itself, was also cool because it gave you the sensation of being on the cutting edge, part of something new, an era where the continuous advancement of technology would bring about new possibilities.
Instead, at least from the PC gaming standpoint, what came about wasn't really that exciting. After Doom, for many years the PC gaming scene became a monoculture of Doom clones, and in my opinion, it was mostly on consoles where fun and creativity were to be found. Especially after the PlayStation.

It's not country-based, it's authority-based. The rule was simple: whoever is before a dot in a domain name manages whatever can come after the dot. So you can have people managing .org domain names under the .org rules, other people managing the .edu domain names under the .edu rules, and so on. As a subset of this scheme, each country was given its own authority that they could manage independently of other countries. It's actually very sensible, and it doesn't mean in any way that, say, a German company can not have a .fr domain name.

Han unification was needed because otherwise East Asian characters alone wouldn't have fitted into the 16-bit space that Unicode was in the late 80s. Enabling the creation of a single font for Thai and Egyptian Hieroglyphs was never a design goal.