I think it should be both. Punishment can be a good deterrent, and it’s really not possible to measure how much of an effect the deterrence has. You don’t have statistics on people who would have committed a crime if there weren’t harsh punishments.

I know it’s off topic but what has been proven to work best is to prevent crime by improving the lives of would-be criminals before they get to that situation. It’s cheaper and just better in every way.

Not if it’s measured with a fractional part.

I wonder if the rate is high enough and the distances large enough that relativity could make it so people on opposite ends of the world disagree on which baby was born first. Then again, birth takes a lot longer than a second and it’s not really possible to pinpoint an exact timestamp when the baby is born and wasn’t previously.

whatever Android has a healthy update life guarantee and easily unlockable bootloader.

The Fairphone is really looking sweet. I’m fairly sure my next phone will be a fairphone if it’s at all feasible for me, but I expect my current phone to last at least a few more years.

You’re right (and upvoted accordingly), but if said evil company is as much of a clusterfuck as OP said, I wouldn’t bet on them having competent security measures in place.

Is that an enemy? As I recall* they’re an item that only the player can use, they never appear out in the wild and you don’t have to fight against them (unless they ricochet back at you). Also, this is just my interpretation, but they seem mechanical to me, not alive.

* which is clearly not as reliable a source as it could be

don’t forget 3D models or 2D sprites, depending!

Just to expand on this: in the Zelda series it differs from game to game. In some games they are bomb flowers (e.g. Tears of the Kingdom, also Wind Waker if I remember correctly), in other games they appear to be man-made and are bought in shops (e.g. Ocarina of Time, Twilight Princess, I think?) and are presumably conventional bombs with gunpowder as you mentioned. I don’t remember any game where bombs are an enemy like you said, but I’ll take your word for it. I haven’t played every game.

Wait duh, it’s a geometric series. I’m a little out of touch there but online resources are aplenty, so the pattern is:

There are (26^d - 1)×26/25 columns are are at most d letters.

I got confused by your explanation, I think partly because of conversion to decimal without specifying whether column A is 0 or 1. To match the row numbering system, I’d assume it’s 1, but mathematically it might be easier to analyze if it starts at 0.

Here’s my attempt to understand it better.

How many spreadsheet rows are 1 digit? 1-9, that’s 9 rows.

How many rows are 2 digit? 10-99, that’s 90 rows.

How many rows are 3 digit? 100-999, that’s 900 rows.

The pattern is: there are 9 × 10^(d-1) rows that are d digits.

Now for columns. How many columns are 1 letter? A-Z, that’s 26.

How many columns are 2 letters? AA-ZZ, that’s 26².

How many columns are 3 letters? AAA-ZZZ, that’s 26³.

The pattern is: there are 26^d columns that are d letters.

Now let’s look at running totals. How many rows are at most 2 digits? 9 + 90 = 99

How many rows are at most 3 digits? 99 + 900 = 999

The pattern is: 10^d - 1 rows are at most d digits.

How many columns are at most 2 letters? 26 + 26² = 26×(1 + 26) = 26×27

How many columns are at most 3 letters? 26×27 + 26³ = 26×(27 + 26²)

Alternatively: 26 + 26² + 26³

I can’t find a more compact way of writing it.

The pattern is: Σ26^k (k from 1 to d) columns are at most d letters

I might be wrong but I don’t think this matches up with what you said, which is 26×27^(d-2) + c (where c is some constant for converting between what we’re trying to measure, probably 1 or -1)

To which I reiterate: outside of USA that word isn’t the same. It’s just another curseword among many.

You know, that’s a great question that I don’t have a good answer to. I don’t have enough experience with laptops so take this with a bucketful of salt, but I think:

Framework looks amazing, but perhaps a bit niche: https://frame.work/ (next time I’m in the market for a laptop, I think this is what I’ll get)

MSI is alright I think? So is Dell, maybe?

In my head HP has an absolutely dreadful reputation, but that’s just because of printers. A friend of mine is pleased with her HP laptop.

Lenovo, I’m not sure. They’ve had an inexcusable security blunder in the past which made me write them off ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-enHfpHMBo4 ) but maybe they’ve turned things around, I really don’t know.

The laptop market is in a really poor state, other than macbooks (which aren’t really relevant for this discussion for obvious reasons) it’s a race to the bottom and everyone’s making compromises that I really don’t want to see.

I’m not sure. My Asus laptop is about 5-7 years old (just woke up and can’t quite do the math…). They’ve also really been screwing up on the security front: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC8qfXxAhAw

Because it’s strong and powerful but it’s hard to keep from crashing?

(I’ve never used Arch, and really have no idea how true that is)

It’s an Asus Zenbook btw if you’re wondering.

Of fucking course it’s an asus. There’s your problem right there. They don’t know what the hell they’re doing, and no one should ever buy anything this company makes.

Source: I have also been burned by them, and only afterwards did I hear a lot of other people’s horror stories. It’s a shit company.

Regarding “No Stupid Questions”, I submit for your consideration the following: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VyiNW33MpAo

Yeah that wasn’t a great moment, but if you look at the context for that you’ll see that it wasn’t even talking about a black person. It was just an expletive, like saying “motherfucker” or “son of a bitch” etc.

Keep in mind that outside of USA the N word is not nearly as charged politically and racially as it is within the USA. And PDP is Swedish IIRC, not American.

Edit: my point is that his usage of that word - which AFAIK only happened once - is not indicative of his character. It’s just indicative that he was really angry at that moment and human brains for some reason use expletives in those cases.

Has nothing new has come up since 2017-2018?

I’ve skimmed the introduction, and it only seems to cite the same Fiverr incident from 2017. I think it only uses PDP to illustrate some point and attract readers, but I’d have to read the whole thing to be sure.

That’s not a claim to make without some evidence. There is a thing he did a long time ago on fiverr, and from my POV that does not reflect on his views at all. I can explain my reasoning if you want. Other than that incident, is there any other reason to suspect he’s a Nazi?

I have asked a few times why PDP deserves all the hate. The best answer I got is “look it up yourself”. I did, and the only things I found were many years old, and in each instance (of which there aren’t that many) he apologized publicly and acknowledged that things got out of hand. To me, his apologies seem sincere and genuine - none of that “I’m sorry I got caught” bullshit that actual scumbags are known for.

I don’t watch PewDiePie but he’s alright best I can tell. If I’ve missed something, please let me know what that is, and be specific because I genuinely can’t find it.