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In before conspiracy freaks start inventing conspiracy theories about everyone who tries to talk them down being a malicious AI.





“But the plans were on display…”
“On display? I eventually had to go down to the cellar to find them.”
“That’s the display department.”
“With a flashlight.”
“Ah, well, the lights had probably gone.”
“So had the stairs.”
“But look, you found the notice, didn’t you?”
“Yes,” said Arthur, “yes I did. It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying ‘Beware of the Leopard.

From is run by Vogons!


This but unironically. Do you need me to explain how elections work in this country?



I can’t control Harris’s policy choices. I can only control my vote, and I will crawl over broken glass to vote for Harris because Trump is a monster.



I have no idea what any of y’all are talking about.


Heavy in assertions, very light on explanations or rationale.


Fuck everything about the DEA. It’s an agency that should not exist at all.


Gotta pass laws for cops to even exist. Gotta pass more laws to tell them how to do their jobs correctly.


For anyone still wondering is she was working for Trump or just grossly incompetent, here is the smoking gun.





It’s not accurate, technically or otherwise. It’s how Republicans, and only Republicans, describe the difference between the parties, and as usual it’s a lie. I’d like to know why BBC is airing Republican propaganda as if it’s a factual description of anything.


You’re talking about Republicans but then saying “state” is a generic word.

But anyway, assuming you mean nation-states, what makes you think there’s anything preventing nation-states from just letting their people starve? They do it all the time.


What kind of fantasy land are you living in where local governments have any power at all to make state governments do anything?



People who are about memory safety are children? Bruh.



All programmers make mistakes that cause memory safety errors if the language doesn’t protect them. This is a well documented fact, not an opinion.


Unsafe code should be a very, very small part of any Rust codebase. Lots of major libraries have a policy against including any unsafe code at all, because 99.9% of the time you can do just as well with safe cost. The major exception is when you need to call C code.


I’ve written quite a bit of Rust and a lot of C and C++ code. I’ll take Rust over C or C++ for any task, including ones where memory safety isn’t a concern. Yes, there’s a learning curve, but overall it’s just more pleasant to use. Now that I’m used to it, writing C++ code feels just as much like fighting the compiler as Rust ever did.


I’ve also stopped buying early access games. They may not be bad, but they’re not finished, and I don’t want to be bored with a game before I even get to see its finished form.


“Sanction” is another great contranym. As far as I know, the meaning doesn’t even depend on dialect, just context.


Can’t have it both ways.

Wow, what a fucking bad faith argument. Nobody is telling you who to vote for in the primaries.



Commas aren’t the only thing that need similar treatment. For example, Typescript allows a leading | for union types, and for union types split across multiple lines, the result is so much easier to format compared to the equivalent code in, say, Haskell.


When I was in college I took a symbolic logic class taught by the philosophy department that was indeed useful. OTOH, I was told later it was originally created as a CS class and only moved to the philosophy department for political reasons.


And the entire enterprise can be frustrating for donors who find themselves bombarded with emails and text messages.

Jesus Christ, this. I donated a to a lot of campaigns during the Trump years and I’m still being punished for it with a ridiculous amount of phone calls, text messages, and emails from political campaigns. No fucking way am I gonna invite even more of that shit into my life. I’ll donate something at some point, but I’m going to try to lump it all into a single donation to hopefully limit the number of people who think I’m a piggy bank.


I also recommend Real World Haskell. It goes into a lot more depth on more advanced topics.



Yeah, when I was at Google there was a big push among the SREs to switch from Python to Go.


OTOH, you need to be good at the same kinds of reasoning that leads one to be good at math. Not knowing much math isn’t a problem, but not being able to learn math is probably a dealbreaker.


Based on what others in the thread are saying, that’s already covered for free by the key fob. What they’re charging for is doing it through the internet.


It’s mostly a software development term. Bugs are the most obvious kind of tech debt. They have to be fixed or a product will slowly become unusable over time, so when you release something with bugs you’re incurring “debt” they must be “paid” later by fixing them. A lot of tech debt also involves corner cutting and bad design decisions that are hard to explain briefly.