It’s the same as any other non-liquid asset. Sure, you could argue that the value dropping is only a loss if you sell during the dip, but you’re still better off if you can sell before it happens.

Backwards as in half of foster kids, not half of homeless people.

My biggest problem with that “monstrosity” is that it’s ortholinear.

You imply that such a thing being “optimal” is absurd, but if you had infinite usable desk space then what, exactly, would be the argument against it? If space is not a consideration then what does it matter if you don’t use every key?

Lots of people like smaller keyboards, and that’s perfectly fine. I get it as an aesthetic choice, and for many people it may not impact their daily use at all. But you will not convince me that removing the option of having additional keys for binding is a non-zero cost, even if they’re not currently being used.

For what it’s worth, I never used anything like that monstrosity, but I was quite happy with my G15 for the time that I had it which had 18 additional keys, plus media control, over a typical full size.

Full-size is objectively superior, everything else is a mitigation for sub-optimal circumstances.

If you have reduced desk space and need to conserve your keyboard size to allow more room for a mouse then absolutely, pick as small a keyboard as you’re comfortable with to get sufficient mousing space.

Anything beyond that is subjective personal preference, which again I have no qualms with, but calling it better without further qualification is going to invite incredulity.

Georgia courts have held that once a baby is ‘born alive and has had an independent and separate existence from its mother’ then what happens to the child (injury or death) will be subject to criminal prosecution,” Warren said.

…then why isn’t that what the law says? Basically admits completely by accident that a fetus isn’t a person. But you don’t get to control people that way.

You don’t hear much about good tenants or landlords for two reasons.

One is of course the simple matter that people who are content tend to be quieter. Same reason that it’s easier to find complaints about most products.

The other is reduced exposure. Good tenants will generally stay in one place longer and good landlords will retain tenants for longer periods as well. So you end up with just fewer people to even potentially say anything about them, good or ill.

My first read of this headline had me thinking “that’s strange, gendered bathrooms are still pretty normal, they can’t possibly have been banned, could they?”

…it hadn’t even passed within miles of my mind that this was talking about racial segregation. I can’t even comprehend this level of regression.

What could possibly be in the vaccines that would be worse than your child no longer existing?

The article says the man is a Mennonite, which means he probably believes in an afterlife. In his mind his child still exists and he’ll get to see her again when he passes and spends eternity there.

I pretty firmly believe that afterlife beliefs account for a pretty significant distortion of values in people and helps explain a large number of frankly insane behaviours. Preventing deaths becomes much less important when there’s an eternal paradise waiting for you and the “real” risk is doing something that bars you from going there.

Work, home, online (anonymous), online (WoW friends), online (Elite Dangerous friends), online (Street Fighter friends), IRL friends.

Some people prefer it.

I maintain a small piece of Windows software and originally just provided an installer, but I received enough requests for it that now when I publish releases I provide both an installer and a zipped portable build.

It is insane to me when people complain about the failure of a public service to turn a profit as if that’s some kind of bad or unexpected outcome.

Services cost money to operate for the benefit of those using them. That is literally the point.

Like pcpartpicker, but for everything!

It’s easy to volunteer other people, but these are civil servants who inherently believe in the rule of law by default. That programming in itself makes it hard to go against this lifelong belief in doing things by the book.

It also means risking their livelihood, which I expect in many cases is an even greater deterrent than an aversion to rule breaking.

The Nvidia Shield TV, which is amply powerful for most media purposes, has only 2GB of RAM and 8GB of storage, though is expandable via microSD.

The “Pro” version bumps that to a whopping 3GB of RAM and 16GB of storage… with no microSD card slot.

Even fewer than that, since you’re not accounting for the actual rules of the game. You counted every possible arrangement of X’s and O’s on the board, but many of those aren’t valid game states, like all X’s for example.

On top of that you can also eliminate rotationally equivalent states. Ditto for mirrored states. Starting with an X in the top-right isn’t a meaningfully different state than starting in any other corner. There are effectively only three distinct starting states. Center, any corner, or any side.

On the other hand, there are semi-filled final states you’re not considering. Not every square on the board needs to be filled for a player to win. You’re also only counting distinct winning lines (many of which could be eliminated due to rotational equivalence), but not the turns to get there, which would provide several possible scenarios for a given final state.

All that said, I expect the actual number of unique possible games to be quite a bit lower than 500.