It's called Algol 68, not some hypothetical 18 years younger Pascal offshoot :)

The venerable Algol 68... I'm not yet sure that a compiler for the full language specification ever existed.

I have both Asperger's and OCD (yes, I'm aware that Asperger's no longer exists as a diagnosis) and I never got any special accommodations either at school, or at the university, or at work. And this is how it should be, IMHO. If you have some disability that, say, makes you unable to do some assignment in the same time frame as others, then why should you get the same grades as them? After all, an employee that does his/her work slower than his/her colleagues is less valuable to his/her employer.

Claiming that Ruby parasitizes on Ruby on Rails clearly shows that the author has no idea what parasitism is. Hence no, he can't be serious.

Narendra, my friend, just implant chips in everyone and leave the phones alone.

How exactly can data processing facilitate killings of civilians? I would think that if Israel just wants to kill civilians, it can send tanks and aircraft and drop bombs and whatnot... without some sophisticated data processing, no?

nVidia can make CPUs if the need arises, though.

By complying with the license terms and paying royalty for every device sold.

The thing is that the grand total number of devices sold by FFMPEG is a big fat Zero.

IMHO, this behaviour is good and is in the best interest of society.

Inconvenience enough users who just want to watch videos, and the content providers will eventually drop this format and switch to royalty-free ones.

If I myself buy a CPU with hardware HEVC decoding and build a computer with it and use it to play videos, will the MPEG licensing mafia come to sue me?

CPU manufacturers should've never included support for any features peddled by licensing mafias.

Linux has neither agentic nor post-agentic, although they say Lennart Poettering is working on it. That's why the Year of the Linux Desktop wasn't this year, and it won't be the next one either.

My credit card is essentially a BNPL device and yes, I also use it for buying groceries.

Not all people have access to credit cards due to bad credit, banks' obstinacy and other factors, but everyone wants the convenience associated with them. So, we have an unoccupied marked niche, and such niches usually don't stay unoccupied for long. And voila, we have BNPL, and it's on the rise, and nobody is surprised.

Until it ends up underwater.

I only hope that the good people at Microsoft, in their infinite wisdom and eternal quest for security, don't decide to make invoking the command prompt harder, or, G-d forbid, disable it altogether. It would truly be a catastrophe.

Only an utter idiot will paste and execute in a terminal window a command provided by someone unknown over the Internet.

Oh, my sweet summer child.