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Washington Post cancellations hit 250,000 – 10% of subscribers
  • Exactly - I find the comments in this thread very confusing. A free and impartial press is one of the cornerstones of democracy.

    I now understand a lot better why there is such a distrust in journalism in the US.

  • Rant: "Knuth, The art of computer programming" is overhyped
  • It is important to know that these are books for computer scientists more than for software engineers. They are basically mathematics textbooks, about the mathematics of algorithms. They focus on proving theorems rather than implementing useful algorithms.

    There is a book called concrete mathematics that is sort of an introduction to TAOCP. If you’re interested in the basics that may be a good place to start. It has a better title than TAOCP in that it explicitly mentions mathematics, but also an equally bad one because it’s very much theoretical rather than concrete.

  • Microsoft has a big Windows 10 problem, and only one year to solve it
  • My 80+ year old parents don’t care about ads or AI. They just want a working PC, and W11 won’t install on the cheap machine they got a few years ago. They’re not going to buy a new one because this works perfectly fine.

    And yes they tried Linux for several years, but went back to Windows because it was just too much hassle and not compatible with too many things.

    It absolutely is a hardware problem.

  • I rented many games solely based on their covers, only to be mildly disappointed when I got home.
  • Box art back then was more akin to book cover art: an artist’s interpretation of the content. It never disappointed me. I even miss it sometimes. I used to collect images of box art even without the games, because it really was art.

  • Ok boomer
  • I always go into stores to throw stuff from the racks onto the floor, to make sure the people whose job it is to clean that up stay employed.

    I never buy anything of course, I don’t want stuff that’s been on the floor!

  • I hate how anything without "world" in its name is just about the US
  • But I would argue that the rest of the world also uses primarily English online. And just by virtue of being the rest of the world, outnumbers the Americans.

    In other words, of all Internet users that use English, the vast majority is likely not American.

    Of course I don’t have data to back this up, except anecdotally.