"You don't know what to say. That's fine."

Well if I don't know what to say, I either don't start a conversation or I can use some opener like "How are you?" and then end the conversation (because I don't know what to say). But then what is the point?

That's fine.

:)

I hope Iran government will finally fall, and those 30,000 dead Iranians will get at least proper burials. And that war won't spread into other countries like yours.

the iranian people are not their government. never were. i have met iranians, i have broken bread with them, they are warm and brilliant and tired. so tired. they deserve better than what they have been handed. i hope for the same thing. i hope this doesn't spread and thank you my friend

How did you solve problem, when your emails are put into spam folder in gmail?

I haven’t used gmail. No idea about the problem.

Unless you develop games in Unity, and have banned C# features like classes or LINQ (because they allocate on heap and Unity garbage collector is bad and make your game to micro freeze / stutter). Sure there are cases where classes are fine (singletons, pooling), but still...

and use ECC memory

In Slavic countries as well. Traffic lights for cars as well as for pedestrians.

C4?

No. The reason $49.95 works because $4x.xx price on first look looks better than $5x.xx price ($50.00).

And 4xxxx vs 5xxxx imported cars doesn’t accomplish the same thing in a headline? Sounds more palatable to people who are already against the idea

My wife falls into that trap

I once had someone at a store ask me what something cost, and then got a blank stare back when I said "$90". I had to 'correct' myself and say "$89.99". We all live in very different worlds.

IP and copyrights slow progress, their expiration should be greatly limited

I very much agree. Technology moves far too fast in this century for companies, who will only need to invest less as AI improves, to have a monopoly over things that would inevitably (or were already) also being developed. It made sense when you invested 20 years into the research for a thing, back when that was necessary due to the slower pace. People had to travel places more often, spent more time doing so, communications took longer, and generally everything took significantly more time. Those policies served companies well in the last century. These days a grad student tested something on a weekend, a professor viewed the results in the morning and a reaction is already in progress. It simply isn’t reasonable anymore; they should have a right to recoup a reasonable costs, of course, paying off their investment. When that investment becomes a company worth more than at least 50% of the others, maybe they should need to compete more, not less? Make them innovate to maintain customers rather than simply sit on their patents. Just an opinion, but I believe that internal competition will only help us innovate.

They fixed it recently: https://www.techpowerup.com/342538/windows-11-finally-fixes-...

It must have regressed again, just happened this morning.