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Treason is a crime you can only commit against your own country. The US can't accuse a non-US citizen of treason...

By that same logic, can Russia ask Japan to extradite a US citizen because they advocated for LGBTQ+ rights while they were in South Korea? Because that's basically what's happening here, I just swapped the offence and the countries involved.

Dude isn't a US person, wasn't in the US when he committed the alleged crime, and said alleged crime isn't a crime where he allegedly committed it. US law isn't world law.

EVEN IF the guy might've been rapist asshole (allegations were fishy as heck), this extradition proceeding is a gross overreach by the US, and the UK should have laughed it out of court. If a country has any leg to stand on regarding extradition, it's Sweden (I think that's where he was when he committed all the alleged crimes, both the sexual ones and the wikileaks ones).

Just don't be morbidly obese if you're named Leviathan...

I actually prefer the Selection brand of all-dress chips. They're less oily than ruffles, and they're often on sale for around 1.50 a bag.

shove some text into stdout

That's not what this operator does normally, and if you try to "shove" something into anything else (an int into a variable? a function into an object?) you'll get surprises... Basically it's "special" and nothing else in the language behaves like it. Learning hello world in C++ teaches you absolutely nothing useful about the language, because it doesn't generalize.

C, in contrast, has many instances of complex functions like printf (another commenter mentioned variable arguments), and learning to call a function is something very useful that generalizes well to the rest of the language. You also learn early enough that each different function has its own "user manual" of how to use it, but it's still just a function call.

this std::cout << "hello world" bullshit is in no way intuitive. You're using the bit-shift operator to output stuff to the console? WTF? Why 2 colons? What is cout? And then these guys go on to complain about JS being weird...

No, C is where it's at: printf("hello world"); is just a function call, like all the other things you do in C.

Meanwhile I actually studied computer engineering, but can't legally call myself an engineer (yay Québec).

In most jurisdictions the protected title is "professional engineer", but here it's just "engineer".

In the book (and in the first movie) they specifically talk about "drum sand", in the book it's explained that it is a specific condition of the sand bed due to wind or something. Maybe Neil missed that?

I get his point about worm movement, though.

We routinely count vehicle odometers in thousands of kilometers, AKA Megameters. I'd say it's a common enough measurement to popularize Megameters

Yeah, but sadly they're looking to replace it with a "universal" pattern too

I disagree. Before I had to copy and edit a huge-ass script (100+ lines) in init.d where 80% of it was concerned with PID files. I just want to start a process on boot, why is it so hard?

Now I can look at the documentation and write a simple unit file myself. It's like 4 lines.

They drive on the left in the Bahamas too, so they mostly import Japanese cars, but there's a lot of American cars and golf carts, so the driver can be any side...