other techbros have praised him, citing the exact list of symptoms google gives for “high-functioning psychopath”

(disclaimer: google may give bad medical advice)

This description could be anyone.

CIA assassination is the leading cause of death worldwide

We set sail on this new sea because there is new knowledge to be gained, and new bragging rights to be won, and they must be won and used for the progress of all speedrunners. But why, some say, zero A presses? Why choose this as our goal? And they may well ask, why climb the highest mountain? Why, 55 years ago, fly to the Moon? Why does Mohun Bagal play the Delhi Capitals? We choose to do zero A presses. We choose to do zero A presses… We choose to do zero A presses in this decade and do the other things, not because they are easy, but because they are hard; because that goal will serve to organize and measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept, one we are unwilling to postpone, and one we intend to win, and the others, too.

for a large project, you can probably look at the history of issues, if there are lots of issues that are 5 years old, it’s almost certainly legit

All 9k stars, 10k PRs, 400 forks & professional web site are fake?

Technically, it is entirely possible to find a real existing project, make a carbon copy of the website (there are automated tools to accomplish this), then have a massive amount of bots give 9K stars and make a lot of PRs, issues and forks (bonus points if these are also copies of actual existing issues/PRs) and generate a fake commit history (this should be entirely possible with git), a bunch of releases could be quickly generated too. Though you would probably be able to notice pretty quickly that timestamps don’t match since I don’t think github features like issues can have fake timestamps (unlike git)

though I don’t think this has ever actually been done, there are services that claim to sell not only stars but issues, pull requests and forks too. Though assuming the service is not just a scam in itself, any cursory look at the contents of the issues etc would probably give away that they are AI generated

looks like work on the android client started in 2011 (or at least, that’s when it seemingly started using version control)

the app was released in 2014

so it has likely inherited decisions from ~14 years ago, I’d guess there is a several year gap where having a native desktop app was not even a concern

Also the smartphone landscape was totally different back then, QT’s android support back then was in alpha (or totally nonexistent if the signal project is a bit older than the github repository makes it seem), and the average smartphone had extremely weak processing power and a tiny screen resolution by today’s standards. Making the same gui function on both desktop and mobile was probably a pretty ridiculous proposition.

monospace means the width of the “whole” character is always the same, but the width of the visible part of the character is not (imagine how large the dot would have to be for that to work)

...mm.m.

or that I don’t want to (google what it is and then) press some weird keybind and spend minutes scrolling through the list of emojis when good ol’ emoticons do the trick

what’s wrong with them? are you sure it’s just not set to use 100% of all cores, and then the OS does some shuffling?

the “will linearly speedup anything [to the amount of parallel computation available]” claim is so stupid that I think it’s more likely they meant “only has a linear slowdown compared to a basic manual parallel implementation of the same algorithm”

nah, but in hindsight it may be a bit too subtle

This is not a joke. If you don’t wake up at 4 am to start harassing windows users, you will never become a GNU/Linux Trillionaire.

Paychecks? I am a self-made billionaire, all thanks to the Free Software Grindset

there was only space for 5 things ( *** Debloat Mindset *** )

Nokia bought the parent company of bell labs in 2016. By that point bell labs had already been completely restructured to the point that it has basically nothing to do with the historical bell labs.

found a few examples of how to do it on a github issue:

var script = GDScript.new()
script.source_code = "func say_hello():\n\tprint(\"Hello!\")"
script.reload()
var script_instance = script.new()
script_instance.call("say_hello")

var MyClass = load("myclass.gd")
var instance = MyClass.new()
assert(instance.get_script() == MyClass)

if you accelerate it to exactly the speed of light, it will destroy everything within about 15 billion lightyears (galaxies further than that are safe because they recede from you faster than light)

it soars because the profit was near zero before and is now returning to “normal” (their competitor SK hynix made a 5 billion operating loss in one quarter last year)

and the carbon fiber hull was cheap because it’s shelf life had expired.

I’d think game journalism has been mostly replaced by youtube reviewers / video essays, no?