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To stick with the analogy, this is like putting a small CPU inside the bottle, so the main CPU<->RAM bottleneck isn't used as often. That said, any CPU, within RAM silicon or not, is still going to have to shift data around, so there will still be choke points, they'll just be quicker. Theoretically.

Thinking about it, this is kind of the counterpart to CPUs having an on-chip cache of memory.

Edit: counterpoint to counterpart

Israel have been a strong westernised influence in the Middle East, and so protect western interests in the region. Therefore, despite their poor behaviour towards Palestine even before this escalation, most western countries have chosen to look the other way because "it wasn't that bad".

You even could argue that the (re)creation of Israel in Palestine wasn't ever really about giving those of the Jewish faith back the homeland they lost a couple thousand years ago. It was always about those interests, but with a sweet little cover story. Who's going to argue with that after all the Jews went through?

Now the actions that were being ignored for convenience have reached a point that they are starting to attract the attention of average people who don't really have any opinion other than "genocide bad" and, to be fair, as simple opinions go, it's a pretty f--king valid one.

Tch. As if Hungary and Poland needed a bigger disagreement than the pronunciations of 's' and 'sz'.

Pizza Man reminds me of Pumpkin from Baman and Piderman.

If Python has anything like Perl's source code filters, then anything's up for grabs, but Perl is kind of weird in a way that Python was specifically designed not to be. Or at least Python 1 was. Things may have changed in the intervening couple of decades.

If it's just plain overloading, then whitespace is probably off the table. Spaces, even required spaces, aren't so much syntax as they are structure. You could argue that the curly braces of some other languages are more syntactic than Python's whitespace, because it's actually Python's magic colon and the first unindented line (lack of whitespace!) that serve that specific syntactic purpose.

Examples of Perl's source code filters range from turning a program into binary representation of the syntax tree and still having it be executable, to new syntax, to writing programs entirely in Latin or something that looks almost but not entirely unlike it, anyway.

As a child I had two consecutive duck toys. I know the later one was called Duck-Duck, but the name of the first one is lost to time, much as the toy itself was. Duck-Duck on the other hand, met a fiery end, which is disturbingly fitting for this comic.

I'm sorry, Duck-Duck. You deserved better.

Interesting. Given that Bush claimed to see something, for "We understand each other" to Biden, I'm reading "As the sociopath you now know me to be, I am able to show exactly the amount of humanity to serve my purpose at any given time, and right now, you get nothing."

Was going to say that I don't have the energy to be passionate about anything these days, but then I realised I'm quite happy - almost passionate, you might say - to turn that dispassion towards large organisations like Microsoft.

Buy our products!

"No."

That brings up an interesting if not ironic bit of birtherism: I get the feeling he'd be running for President himself if he was eligible.

Do you mean the Aether mod that recently got updated or something else?

Installing mods to Java Minecraft can be a chore regardless of the ecosystem. And usually it's a third party mod loader that adds a new version to the default launcher config, not something provided by Mojang.

That said, Aether is a Forge mod and I haven't used Forge in a few years at this point, so maybe things are different now, or I'm only remembering the way that the rival Fabric ecosystem works instead.

At the risk of flogging an already well-flogged dead horse, MAGAts don't care what he says as long as it upsets people they don't like.

And when those ideologies come back to bite them, they'll blame those same disliked people for either causing it or not stopping it, because neither they nor their preferred politician(s) could possibly be to blame for it.

Be prepared for the "ephebophile" argument, which, if Wikipedia is to be believed anyway, is actually for ages 15-19, but it won't stop those who have twisted their minds into a knot to explain this away.

Or the "if there's grass on the field, play ball" argument (which is kind of ironic given the popularity of shaving it all off again.) which covers anyone who shows any sign of adolescent hair growth.

Or "she was asking for it / totally wanted it / shouldn't have been acting that way / shouldn't have been dressed like that".

Because those are all the soundest of arguments.

But the unspoken reason will be: "He's rich and famous and therefore he can do what the hell he wants with no consequences. F--k you."

It was (and may still be) possible to make an older version of Pocket Edition run on Linux through unofficial shenanigans, but the official launcher says "Not playable on this device".

minecraft.net also explicitly says: "Minecraft: Java Edition runs on Windows, Mac, and Linux; Minecraft: Bedrock Edition runs on Windows. Deluxe Collection content only runs on Minecraft: Bedrock Edition on Windows."

Other unofficial shenanigans that may or may not work include but are not limited to: Running under a VM, running under something like Wine.

So, yes, technically it runs, but Microsoft are pretty clear that it's not supposed to.

I guess an assumption that no-one would do both blinded me to that fact.

See also: How a remote Kansas location keeps getting visited by the FBI

Disclaimer - the above is an 8-year-old story. No idea if the three-letter agencies are still turning up there, but I wouldn't be surprised.

No, but SearX does similar things. I've been learning about Kagi recently, and as far as I can tell, they don't index pages on their own, they just use APIs provided by the real search engines.

Kagi is a search aggregator, so those results are from Google.

It isn't just JavaScript (or Java which uses the "Hashmap" name).

There are, of course, languages that don't have an equivalent structure, but for those that are sufficiently popular, it's almost certain that someone has written a library that emulates associative arrays and then fairly certain that that library, in turn, has been used in production somewhere.

File this under "If it's stupid but it works..."

Ah. Paid-for search aggregation, not paid-for search. I hadn't picked up on that aspect of their model for some reason.

Why is sociopathy and psychopathy not a condition requiring treatment?

Because people like that tend to get themselves into positions of power, and so prevent that sort of thing from happening.