recommend setting up tests for your code s/t failures block deployment. can catch categories of bugs beyond typing errors

And someone choosing to pay for threema presumably trusts threema.

Or require it of all devices sold in the EU, regardless of where those devices are later brought. This would be entirely defensible - "we're just regulating products sold within our market" - but inevitably they would make their way outside the EU to be resold.

Could you render very close objects twice, far objects once, then composite the image for each eye?

Theoretically, yes, but there will be a lot of overhead for Z-sorting objects as well as performing a multi-stage render like that. I am only guessing, I certainly have never tried, but I bet it comes out to a wash, at best. It'd be better to keep the rendering pipeline simple, if that were the case. Large-scale worlds will have LOD for models and terrain at distance, which will help with the rendering complexity of far objects.

You can also pre-process it and apply super-far details as a skybox image. A 2- or 3-block radius of real, 3D city buildings with a cityscape skybox looks pretty good. A forest scene can use object instancing to really clutter up the medium field and leave even a generic landscape skybox for great results.

Presumably, the GP considers intent to be the only relevant factor in determining if something is racist.

Leaving the current situation aside, it's an interesting philosophical point. In law you have the concept of "mens rea" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mens_rea

> The police can't circumvent legislation by just paying a PI to stalk you instead.

Why would they need to? Stalking you doesn't require a warrant. Breaking into your house, for example, would require a warrant, but a PI can't do that any more legally than the police can.

> Breaking into your house, for example, would require a warrant, but a PI can't do that any more legally than the police can.

If your neighbor's Ring camera is pointed at your front door or living room, the police can legally acquire the footage without a warrant.

Or they were supremely overvalued as of oct '21, as were many other stocks and securities, and the decline represents a return to sanity.

No. It was specifically due to not meeting expected subscriber numbers, prompting a widespread negative reevaluation of Netflix's entire business model. The decrease was way beyond anything affecting the stock market or tech stocks generally. A simple glance at the numbers, and the dramatic plummets directly after earnings reports, makes that clear.

> It was specifically due to not meeting expected subscriber numbers

Sure, but "not meeting expected subscriber numbers" doesn't mean "the company is soon going to be unable to keep the lights on" or even "the company has an unsustainable business model and will fail". It just means market analysts believed Netflix would grow at a particular rate, but they grew at a lower rate. Wall Street is pretty fickle about growth numbers.

Also note that the stock price has partially recovered, to $355. A year of fairly steady stock price increase doesn't suggest to me that there's anything particularly wrong with the company.

Up higher, you said that a 75% price drop is "three quarters of the way to bankruptcy", which is... just not how the stock market works. The stock price is just a reflection of how the public market values ownership in the company. Hell, the stock price of a company going through bankruptcy proceedings might not even drop all the way to zero, depending on the details of the bankruptcy (e.g., if the company's assets exceed liabilities, there'd still be money left over for shareholders even in a liquidation). And regardless, bankruptcy doesn't even mean the company is going to be shut down; plenty of companies come out of chapter 11 and remain going concerns.

> It was specifically due to not meeting expected subscriber numbers, prompting a widespread negative reevaluation of Netflix's entire business model.

I'd speculate that those expected subscriber numbers may have been inflated by the covid pandemic.

“Under the assumption that the growth of 1 billion subscribers per month will continue linearly, we expect that in just two years…”

Well, their stock price fell to levels not seen since ~Aug 2017, and obviously COVID-19 didn't happen until, well, 2019.

So while Covid might have been part of it, it's nowhere near the full story.

> The decrease was way beyond anything affecting the stock market or tech stocks generally

Counterpoint: Gamestop.

Counterpoint: Bitcoin.

Counterpoint: AMC.

Counterpoint: literally any of its other fellow meme stonks

One suspects that the delay was not caused by the complexity of the implementation, but rather uncertainty around the necessity or desirability of it.

A middle ground between exceptions in c++ and checking every function call for an error code in c.

Most implementations I've seen use an ioctl to query those particular bits. That's implemented quite reliably, since the same ioctl is used for character size as window size. Some implementations just set the character size to zero though.

Ioctl doesn't work over a serial port. The escape code queries are more general.