There are developers who have written more than 3 languages you arrogant muppet. I personally haven't worked on a project that used less than 3 languages in over 2 decades and I have had code run for years on a daily basis without issue.

The 40 second limit has been widely reported on and was derived from simulator testing.

Play with the page zoom, if you are too much zoomed in the date will get clipped away.

Pictures of the headset have been leaked months ago, so we already knew it was coming, this announcement just makes it official. And May 2019 is written straight on the website itself.

This looks to be based on on the iBot wheelchair, which is capable of climbing stairs.

What can you actually do with Smartcontracts in reality? The only plausible use case I have ever heard of was currency exchange, as that is both simple enough to put into a smart contract as well as useful to have in a fully automated form. But everything else seems pretty illusionary, as real world contracts concerning real world stuff are rarely simply enough to codify or robust enough that you would use them fully automated without a human in the loop.

This doesn't really add up. There are around 4500-7500 moderators on Facebook and while there is a lot of terrible stuff on the Internet, most of it could be automatically filtered away by content-id after first identifying it. Furthermore most users wouldn't even be stupid enough to post that stuff on Facebook in the first place, since that gets your account blocked and there are more appropriate places for it on the Internet. I doubt that leaves enough content to damage thousands of moderators.

They aren't bought to be listened to, they are novelty items that just happen to be a dead music format. Buying the Guardians of the Galaxy or Strangers Things soundtrack on cassette is not much different than a Star Wars action figure. Many of them will end up on a shelf as decoration and never get listened too.

Calling it a "home computer" always bothered me a little, as while the Raspberry Pi has it's uses, it really doesn't look or feel anything like the home computer of yesterday. You don't really have much low level hardware access on the thing outside of the GPIOs (which were not even a goal of the initial design), it doesn't instantly boot, it doesn't give you an instant programming environment like BASIC did and it runs painfully slow compared to a regular old PC. So it's really just a regular old Linux running on slow hardware and not a very stable one at that (e.g. hot plugging USB devices crashes the device).

For learning hardware I find Arduino's far more useful and for learning software I much rather have a real PC than using a slow and bugged RaspberryPi. Of course when you already know hardware and software well, you can take a RaspberryPi and build a TV box or a emulator out of it, but as a learning device the RaspberryPi always felt very ill suited to me.

I don't really see how that "fill up the box" with Pantry is a dark pattern, that's just a result of how they handle shipping and you can save $5.99 by filling the box instead of ordering twice. It's not really much different than the "Spend X more to get free shipping" when you don't have Prime. I'd much rather have that shipping price information made explicitly visible than having it only shown at checkout like in some other shops. And yes, it does gamify things, but as long as shipping is paid by the box, that's hard to avoid.

The different units are annoying when comparing items, but that might not be a dark pattern, but a result of how they collect that data. I have never seen an online shop that made compare different items easy, it's always a lot of clicking and back and forth.

When it comes to dark pattern at Amazon I am more annoyed by how they don't allow you to filter Pantry items out of your search, when you don't even have Prime and can't make use of it. It just deliberately clutters up search with garbage. The way they handle discounts is also rather scummy, as the discount price is often the normal one and stays forever, the higher price is just there to make it look cheaper. Having "Promoted" items show up in search is also no fun.

You can buy a nice tablet for $50, but you can't buy one that runs GNU/Linux properly.

This will continue to get worse until we get transferable licenses. The music industry has it figured out more or less and many music services allow you to import your existing library. For games this only exists in very limited cases (e.g. GOG allows import of a limited number of games from Steam).

Even with LineageOS you'd still be running an outdated kernel and having to use binary blobs, and it all has to be hacked together for the specific phone. This is quite different from a PC where you can just take a Debian release, run a mainline kernel and it will work on pretty much all the PCs.

In the past we had PCs on which you could install an OS of your choice, the hardware was well supported, mostly open and standardized. Now we have phones and tablets which have essentially zero freedom, either they are fully locked down or your are stuck with a single unmaintained outdated Kernel. This is honestly even worse than Windows, as at least with Windows you had the option to upgrade if Microsoft released a new version. With phones however there is no official AndroidOS release from Google that you can install on your phone, you have to use whatever hackjob the hardware manufacturer provided you with, which won't get any updates a few month after the release.

And of course it doesn't stop with hardware, all the software these days forces you into the cloud. Again, worse than the proprietary software in the past, that at least run and your machine and could be cracked, hacked and reverse engineered. Can't really do that with the cloud.

Computing today has pretty much turned into a nightmare, one that you can't really escape from, as most of the proprietary services and hardware do not even have a practical open alternative.

That the companies release some code as Open Source doesn't really help much, as it's never the code that actually matters.

That's however not because Germans are so tech savvy, but because they are liable for what goes over their open WiFi. So everybody closes things down to avoid lawsuits and fines.