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He needs to have some batmanning skills and equipment because the more he publicly supports improving things, the more often criminals who benefit from things being bad will attempt to assassinate Bruce Wayne. Gotham is full of graves of people who tried improving things legitimately.

Really, the best thing he could do with his money would be to hire and train a bunch of mini batmen to work as bodyguards for all the people who are trying to improve things. Lots of the aforementioned graves belong to people that he’d briefly left unattended while he had to do something else, and that wouldn’t be a problem if there was someone else available to cover for him.

If a higher proportion of the team actually cared about what they were making, the results should have been better and arrived faster. When creatives are creating things because they’re told they have to, what they make is typically not their best work. For the ones that had been at BGS for a while, they might have had lots of ideas that weren’t ready to be included in Skyrim, then they mulled over in the back of their mind while making Fallout 4, and could have worked on right away if the next project had been TES VI.

Plenty of high-end monitors need more bandwidth than DisplayPort 1.4a can provide if operating uncompressed, but models with a DP 2.x port typically cost a lot more because it needs reasonably expensive hardware to make it work. That means that if you use DP, then you have to compromise between spending more money or using Display Stream Compression. Monitors needing that much bandwidth basically always have an HDMI 2.1 port that can handle it uncompressed, but without this patch, if you used HDMI under Linux with a Radeon GPU, it wouldn’t run in HDMI 2.1 mode, so would give even less bandwidth than DisplayPort 1.4a, and you’d experience even more compression artefacts, despite the same configuration working perfectly under Windows.

He was an author, not a copyeditor.

If any two adults using a piece of playground equipment would have that happen, it’s amazing that the World Trade Center lasted until 2001.

I didn’t say people can’t find it funny, just that a layer of the joke is that the woman is fat.

The joke is partly that she weighs so much more than he is that he’s flung at ridiculous speed, so there are definite undertones of fat people are funny and women shouldn’t be fat, even if you missed them.

I got as far as discovering that nut as in crazy is the earliest and nutter and nut case are derived from it, and nut was (and still is) slang for head, plus the terms nuts and nutty also meant crazy, so it’s a fairly obvious step for nut to pick up that definition, too.

Nutter, nut and nutcase have been used to refer to crazy people for a lot longer than nut has been used to refer to wanking

For a lot of open source projects, there is a significant audience viewing the code itself rather than just what it does. There’s encouragement for the user to open the bonnet and look at it and also tinker with it themselves. Even if you don’t do that, there’re still ways that the craftsmanship can show through and leave the user thinking about how it was made and how it works, and there’s plenty of conventional art where the point isn’t to think about the final product but instead what went into creating it.

As for the minified JavaScript in a typical website, it’s not that different to graphic design where achieving a purpose for a business can come ahead of any priorities related to being art. Even if we say for the sake of argument that graphic design for commercial purposes is never art, it doesn’t automatically mean that anything else that uses the same techniques, like drawing, can never be art.

There are also kinds of art that people produce that are never intended to be experienced by anyone else, e.g. a doodle in a diary, so I’d say there could still be art in code that was only ever seen by its creator and which was totally obfuscated when given to users as an app or website.

The optimal format for interchanging 256-colour palletised animated images of giraffes.

This is a common misconception. Trans people actually have a directional air dash.

Most people don’t see how these things directly affect them because the effects are mostly indirect and the media doesn’t explain why they should care, and many have their social lives tied to using platforms where the other people they know are, so can’t switch to a less evil alternative without becoming a recluse unless a critical mass of their friends are already using it.

Part of why it happened for Apple’s chips is that there weren’t any Linux-compatible GPU drivers. It’s easier to justify investing lots of time and effort into something like this if it makes hardware start working than if all it does is mean you’re not using a proprietary driver and in the medium term likely have worse performance.

It’s explicitly stated in A New Hope that they were shooting to miss when the main characters were escaping the Death Star because a tracker had been planted on the Millennium Falcon and they planned to follow it and destroy whichever planet was hosting the rebel base. You can’t do that if you don’t let them escape. Every other time they’re in battle, stormtroopers are shown to be devastatingly effective except when a small garrison is overwhelmed by a vasty larger number of ewoks.

Whether or not it’s really from Ukraine, it’s not implausible that someone might do something illegal while dressed as Spiderman. People break the law, and if they’re dressed as Spiderman, then they’re likely to be noticed and get arrested.

Aluminium antiperspirant stains are actually pretty easy to remove if you soak your shirts in something acidic - I use sulphamic acid (commonly sold as the main ingredient in coffee machine descaler, so pretty safe, and not as smelly as vinegar) and just leave things for a day, then any residue that’s left just comes out in the wash. The reason it stains is that long-acting antiperspirant seals the aluminium salts in tiny wax beads which break open over the course of the day to keep releasing more, and wax needs a lot of exposure to soapy water to dissolve, but it’s protected by the aluminium salts jellifying when wet, and they in turn are protected from rinsing away by the surrounding wax. Acids can attack both.

Anything can be art if you make it hard enough to remove from the building site that will later become an art museum.

Wasn’t this scene pre-messing-with, or had she previously been at the CIA facility before the show started?

Unless you pick a particularly short-lived isotope, the radiation wouldn’t have time to hurt you before you died of regular heavy metal poisoning like you’d get from something boring like lead or mercury.