If a crime was committed in front of a security camera, judges have no problem with signing a subpoena to release the video to see who was in the area at the time. If a crime was committed within cellphone towers, why wouldn't a judge be ok with signing a subpoena to release the list of cellphones that were in the area at the time?

This conversation made me look at libgdx again. It looks like it's alive and kicking. I loaded some guy's game jam game on my phone almost instantly. The community definitely seems smaller than godot's, but the project sounds mature (and it's web version is working, unlike godot 4's).

Maybe, I actually should consider java for my next project, but that's a problem for future me. I'm stuck in the idea phase.

Python is always my go to whenever I want to actually get work done quickly (probably due to familiarity), but haskell really made me love strong types. I believe that projects built using strong types are the least work to support long term.

If I were to start another programming project, it would probably be a turn based strategy game. I'd want to be able to support desktop/web/mobile. I'd care the least about web, but it's easiest to get strangers to give you feedback on a prototype if they don't have to download and install anything.

While I'd love to use rust, I don't think the ecosystem is going to be mature enough for a hobbyist like myself anytime soon, so the options are c# with godot/unity (probably godot), typescript with babylonjs, or Java with libgdx. I have mixed feelings about typescript. Adding types after the fact is a much messier solution than if they were there from day 1. I've also never found much of a indie dev community for babylon/libgdx. Unity and godot seem to be the real options.

I've used unity and libgdx before. I prefer the libgdx framework approach, but I abandoned libgdx because I was worried about its longevity.

My latest experience with it (which is pretty old at this point) suggested that while I could keep my code reasonably sane, if I wanted to use any standard library, I had to implement all sorts of abstract classes to do something that would be handled by passing a call back function in other languages.

Has the general ecosystem improved much since then?

I'm honestly asking. I used java for my first real programming project 20 years ago. It was kind to me, but my most recent java attempt (which wasn't particularly recent) made me feel like even though the language has improved, the ecosystem still feels clunky with all the classes you need to create to do anything. Since then, I've generally felt like C# has the momentum (but I haven't seriously tried that one yet). Why should I choose java over C#?

The one who will free us from Windows? Please Gabe. Save us.

Pichai admits Google's AI isn't competitive. He hopes that his new found competition gets regulated to death, and he is doing his part to make sure that happens.

You are certainly correct that I don't know how to get into or recognize positions where tactics will be possible, and I have no idea when to sacrifice pawns. That said, my lichess chess analytics say I'm only seeing tactics 55%-85% of the time, depending on the day. In games I lose, I'm only seeing 34% of the possibilities, so a computer that vibrated when something was possible on the board would help me a lot.

I like to do chess problems for fun. I can spot tactics that are up to 10 moves deep, but in an actual game, I rarely spot anything. If I know a tactic is there, I'll sit there until I find it, but in a game, unless I see something trivial, I assume nothing is there and try not to waste my clock. It'd be a huge advantage for me to have a computer in my pocket that vibrated if there was a game winning move on the board, and I'm terribly rated.

I've never been a fan of bitcoin, and while I'd like to see it die, this has been going on long enough that I still think there are people out there that will buy it at some price.

Are there any prices that would be actually fatal to bitcoin? How low would the price need to go for it to no longer be profitable to mine? If the miners quit, bitcoin would no longer be able to be transferred, right?

You're not wrong, but what is a better solution?

When Russia invades Ukraine, we'll want to discourage that without going to nuclear war. What do you propose?

I run a small support subreddit (forum) on reddit. We have 40,000+ subscribers, and it would be completely worthless to everyone if I didn't censor (ban) all the trolls and spammers. Reddit has some sitewide rules that I'm supposed to enforce, but other than that, they don't directly influence my subreddit (albeit, they have the keys to the kingdom if they want to take over). My ban list spans hundreds of pages (more than I care to count) and it has 25 bans per page.

That's true of most (all?) social media. Your favorite subreddits, forums, facebook groups, slashdot, youtube channels, etc. are all censored by small guys, and they wouldn't exist in a usable form without it.

I realize this article is talking about the parent companies' censorship, but you can't take the stance that all censorship is bad if you want social media to exist and not be a cesspool.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought that road damage scaled with how massive the vehicle is. Like most of the road damage done to highways is done by semi-trucks.

A gas tax scales with the size of vehicles because bigger vehicles guzzle more of it, but if we're only changing to price per mile, it shifts the tax burden unfairly towards consumers and away from the corporations fucking up the roads.

Apple is doing nothing but rent seeking on the app store. They don't deserve anywhere near their cut for what little they provide.

I moderate a smaller sub with 30k subscribers. We get a fair number of trolls. Most are trivially dealt with by banning them, but occasionally you get a troll that decides it's their life's purpose to waste your time.

One guy I've banned over 100 times. I'm pretty sure he's around 12 years old. He always posts about fortnite and fortnite streamer drama. He keeps making new accounts. Since ban evasion is a site-wide violation, I've had the admins "deal with him" multiple times. Whatever they do never slows him down.

I'm sure reddit would like to do something about these racists, but the tools aren't really there.