- TFA's first line: "David Kuloba's mother warned him about going to Russia after he accepted a job as a security guard advertised by a recruitment agency in Kenya."
It's not for lack of google. This is poor young men being willfully naive hoping for a chance to support family and self. They seem perfectly deserving of sympathy.
- I'm an average person who uses fastmail with a custom domain with a separate registrar. Fastmail does all the right DKIM, DMARC, etc. magic.
And still my mail sometimes goes to spam essentially because it's not "@gmail.com" This is a really real problem that will never go away because everyone in a position to do something about it being so monopolistic cannot understand it.
- My favorite example of the inoffensive use of the word: https://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/toni-morrison-the-p...
- Many comments here and on similar posts bring up only keeping Windows for games, and only then for games that require heavy anti-cheat.
Is there a reason there couldn't be non-regulation copies of games that don't do anti-cheat but are otherwise fine. Like metal baseball bats, oversized golfballs, etc. Official, but not allowed in competitions?
- It's my duty bring up that plain TeX, the Knuth language in which the large macro collection LaTeX is written, isn't as verbose and opaque as LaTeX when people complain about that.
It has the opposite problem where you may have more control than you'd like. But it is in some sense very simple. e.g. this is a valid plain TeX document:
$$\aleph_0$$
\bye
Things don't have to begin{ and end{ etc.
There are simple collections of useful macros like [extended plain] kind of like lodash where the aim is to enhance the classic syntax by ` input eplain` at the top, not take over.
NB: I was so proud to write my thesis entirely in [extended plain], but when it was time to submit it to the library they basically said, "That's nice, nerd, but we have specific style files." and I had to rewrite it into LaTeX anyway!
[extended plain]: https://tug.org/eplain/
- > On a separate note, I acknowledge some people found it suspicious that the initial commit was every file at once. This doesn't mean I don't know how version control works. It was because I had actually worked on the project alone on my computer and, subject to release, released the full source at once.
This is my standard operating procedure. My public repo's not going to start with the first hundred commits of the code in a different language, with API keys burned in, etc.
It did not occur to me this was rare enough to be suspicious. You shouldn't have to apologize for it :)
e.g. If I could have a (local!) clone of my own voice, I could get lots of wait-on-the-phone chores done by typing on my desktop to VOIP while accomplishing other things.