I looked at the replies as soon as I read Linus and laughed out loud at this

How did this arrow targeting 40 year old German people strike me so squarely and true despite being separated by half a world, a language, and the internet hardly existing at the time

the circles of people organizing and making plans, and the people talking about it in random surveilled spaces form a venn diagram with no overlap. even as the circles of people present here and the people who are fighting in meaningful ways probably do have overlap

I'm not sure if this is the right setting for technical discussion, but as a relative elder of computing I'd like to answer the question in the image earnestly. There's a few factors squeezing the practicality out of this for almost all applications: processor architectures (like all of them these days) make operating on packed characters take more operations than 8 bit characters so there's a speed tradeoff (especially considering cache and pipelining). Computers these days are built to handle extremely memory demanding video and 3d workloads and memory usage of text data is basically a blip in comparison. When it comes to actual storage and not in-memory representation, compression algorithms typically perform better than just packing each character into fewer bits. You'd need to be in a pretty specific niche for this technique to come in handy again, for better or for worse

Graphene has locked itself to google hardware, and google can cripple them at any point by stopping bootloader unlocks. We need to go deeper, or aim higher as it were

All bodies contain the ability to differentiate into what we know as male and female, to varying degrees and in various mixtures. Transgender is just a medical variation in how this normally plays out and spans times and cultures, whereas these other things don't really have a similar basis.

Biology is super complex. If simply averaging the traits of the parents is how it worked one might expect every child to have a body in between male and female as well

ITT: "I agree they're systematically fucking us over (and don't get me started on their horrible politics!) but will continue to enable them because it's convenient and saves me a few bucks" this defense doesn't make you look reasonable it makes you look like a clown

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The only place nytimes belongs is in the trash

I gestured energetically to someone to throw the next fruit to me to fruit ninja it and cut my hand on the knife

Dear God,

A rock so heavy you cannot lift it is not an immovable object. Just cause you are weak does not mean you are right.

Kind regards, me