I don’t really enjoy block systems myself, but that is what block has shifted to mean.

In the past “block” used to mean what “mute” means now: Hide from me. I believe it’s around the time Twitter became popular that the meaning has shifted to being a bi-directional mute.

I find that the need for a blocking system as that just points to a broken moderation system, and a broken society at large.

At least for Reddit, these "broken" features (like making your comment history private) have clear financial motives to mask bots and bad actor detection.

I think in this particular case the cause it pretty obvious. For Doom you have Ultimate Doom Builder and Doom Tools. For Quake you have Trenchbroom. For blood and duke nukem, you don't.

They do have a modern version of mapeitor but yeah it's probably not as good as the other two, especially Trenchbroom.

That’s a non-sequitur.

Big tech has had decades to self-police, and I don’t believe for a second they didn’t know that at some point they would be forced to if they didn’t do so.

This is just the adults in the room drawing the line.

I think they meant "settled" as in "resolved."

I meant the same. I don't actually think that the GPL is an entity that can settle a court case; if I meant that I would have said the FSF or something. I mean that in order for it to resolve, a judge has to say that the GPL does not apply.

If ultimately copyright holds up against the models*, the GPL will be a permanent holdout against any intellectual property-wide cross-licensing scheme. There's nobody to negotiate with other than the license itself, and it's not going to say anything it hasn't said before.

* It hasn't done well so far, but Obama didn't appoint any SCOTUS judges so maybe the public has a chance against the corporations there.

1. But the code did just work after compiling. The code said "This can never be an Err, and if I'm wrong, you are allowed to panic." And it did just that.

2. They do. If you use them, which they didn't.

3. It is. Let's not discard personal responsibility.

4. The error would've happened in any language, Rust debatably made it easier to find though.

I don't write Rust code myself because I simply don't write any code that requires this kind of reliability, and thus I haven't expended the effort learn it properly. But if I were to start such a project, I would still go for Rust and learn it properly. I also don't have a "favorite" language. I just pick whichever seems most appropriate for the project, any decent programmer should be able to pick up any non-esoteric language to the point of adequacy in a few weeks anyway.

But markdown does not require custom tools. The entire point of md is that you CAN use a renderer to make it pretty, but just reading the raw text in a text editor also works just fine.

But none of those is as simple and elegant as markdown. You can write html in text editor like in ages past, but what would be the point of doing that.

Then internal evaluation must be made mandatory. This is something that can be regulated, there just isn't the will for it.

There’s ones with a “notch” in the coin part. So you unlock the cart, twist it, pull it out.