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Saelee learned to flex his arm and manually press the directional buttons more quickly than the classic game would automatically shift the pieces, enabling him to react faster at the game’s highest speeds, even in level 29 and beyond.
Teens Are Rewriting What Is Possible in the World of Competitive Tetris
polygon.com
Many upstream projects find it easier to bundle or “vendor” dependencies, but for Debian, this means that there can be many copies of some popular libraries. When there is a need to fix a security or other severe problem in such a library, Debian would have to find all copies to fix them.
Why Is Debian the Way It Is?
blog.liw.fi
That experiment failed. Humanity does not want to be a global hive mind. We are not rational Bayesian updaters who will eventually reach agreement; when we receive the same information, it tends to polarize us rather than unite us. Getting screamed at and insulted by people who disagree with you doesn’t take you out of your filter bubble — it makes you retreat back inside your bubble and reject the ideas of whoever is screaming at you. No one ever changed their mind from being dunked on; instead they all just doubled down and dunked harder. The hatred and toxicity of Twitter at times felt like the dying screams of human individuality, being crushed to death by the hive mind’s constant demands for us to agree with more people than we ever evolved to agree with.
The Internet Wants to Be Fragmented
noahpinion.substack.com
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