It’s actually quite rare for cats to kill birds, it’s a skill very few cats have. None of our cats has ever brought back a dead bird, while they have gone on an absolute killing spree among the local mouse population.

The birds around our house (mainly jackdaws, which are wicked smart) like to taunt the cats though.

Any day now…

It’s called the ‘inner platform effect’. They are basically replicating parts of the underlying platform (the OS in this case) inside their own application, until the application turns into a platform itself, one crappier than the one below it. You see this happening with web browsers and ‘web apps’.

Then maybe switch to a better OS / Window manager?

The people needing a driving instructor generally aren’t good at driving.

The people needing a driving instructor generally don’t have a driving licence yet so they won’t be driving a car without an instructor next to them, who’s job it is to prevent things like this from happening.

The lack of braces in python code makes it quite difficult to read for someone who’s used to languages that use braces.

I’m sure it would trickle down at some point, right?

Plus get a few billion in charity from the government.

I just don’t get why people choose to be poor. It seems like a difficult way to live. Why don’t these people just get some more money?

There are also a shitload more humans now. Even if number of horses per capita is lower, the fact that there are more people may compensate for that.

You forgot Today and Tomorrow.

Well, if he wants to follow that logic: Tesla’s CEO didn’t make billions of dollars, his workers did.

The goal is not to find the guilty party, it’s to punish someone.

Canada should just shut down energy delivery to the US.

No, crashes in the US happen because Americans are shit drivers. They are shit drivers because you get a free driving license with box of cereal. Germany on the other hand has one of the strictest driving tests there is. A German with a driving license has had many hours of instruction from a professional instructor.

In addition, American cars are shit. Lots of poorly maintained and unsafe vehicles on the road with very lax regulation. By contrast, German cars have to pass a very comprehensive yearly safety inspection.

83 million Germans, 63% above 16

Not sure why you think this is relevant. Children aren’t allowed to drive in Germany.

How is it a retcon? The use of giga- as a prefix for 10⁹ has been in use as part of the metric system since 1960. I don’t think anyone in the fledgeling computer industry was talking about giga- or mega- anything at that time. The use of mega- as a prefix for 10⁶ has been in use since 1873, over 60 years before Claude Shannon even came up with the concept of a digital computer.

if anything, the use of mega- and giga- to mean 1024 is a retcon over previous usage.

No - Buddy. It is secured for this one specific device that I have biometric authentication for. What about my computer? What about my other computer that isn’t on the same operating system?

Then use a Yubikey.

What would you say determines whether a kernel is a Unix kernel?

Not what, who. And the answer is The Open Group,

Exactly. That’s why I personally don’t mind buying digital games on PC, because the PC is an open platform. If Valve decides to drop the ball and sell every game for double the price or something, I can still get and copy games via other means on my Steam Deck

That’s not how it works at all. Valve doesn’t set the prices in their store, the publishers do. Valve just takes a cut of whatever the publisher decides to charge. If a publisher for a game decides to double the price for a game, why would they do so only on Steam and not on every other store that game is sold?