calcopiritus
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- Comment on proportional reaction 5 days ago:
Because it can be done for multiple lines too. And you can do else-if too. Also, “if” and “else” is more recognizable than “?” and “:”
x = if y > 5 { println!("Y was over 5"); z + 5 } else if y < 0 { handle_negative_y(y); z - y } else { println!("<WARN> unexpected value for y"} 0 }
- Comment on proportional reaction 5 days ago:
This is valid rust. I don’t know if there are more languages with this feature
- Comment on What is with this new generation of shooters writing stuff on the bullets? Is this some new fad like if I go deer hunting or something I write FUCK BAMBI on the bulllet? 5 days ago:
Swords had phrases written on them too. This has been happening since forever.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 6 days ago:
“in 20 years” doesn’t get as much hype as “in 3 months”
Maybe if they said “in 3 months” instead we would’ve actually have had it in 20 years. Seeing how much ai attracts money with these obviously unbelievable promises.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 6 days ago:
From the makers of “fusion energy in 20 years”, “full self driving next year” and “AI will take your job in 3 months” cones “all code will be AI in 6 months”.
Trust me, it’s for real this time. The new healthcare system is 2 weeks away.
- Comment on Time to bash Americans again 1 week ago:
When brown, they are inmigrantes anda those are ghettos. When white, they are expats in expat communities.
- Comment on Why solar power is the only viable power source in the long run 1 week ago:
Except for nuclear (fusion and fission) an geothermal, every form of energy comes from the sun eventually.
Fossil fuels used to be living forms, that got their energy from either other life forms or photosynthesis. Maybe geothermal for deep sea creatures.
And even fission and geothermal you could argue it’s solar. Not from our sun, but from other stars, that formed the atoms. Both the radioactive ones and the ones that are hot inside the planet.
- Comment on YSK that you can force Windows 10 to open your default browser instead of MS Edge with MSEdgeRedirect 2 weeks ago:
Or you can just uninstall edge.
- Comment on Make it make sense 2 weeks ago:
You think drivers from your <country/state/city> are bad? That’s because you have never driven in my <country/state/city>
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Mobile firefox allows installing add-ons. Unlike mobile chrome.
- Comment on healthy nutrition 4 weeks ago:
Yes. Kilo means thousand. However in some contexts, a single calorie is the same as a kilocalorie. Don’t ask me why.
There are 2 calories, the small one and the big one. And the big one is exactly the same as a thousand of the small ones.
- Comment on What if Australia were Ukraine? Trump and Putin prove our strategy to trust the US is a roll of the dice 4 weeks ago:
Yeah who wouldn’t want to be killed indiscriminately and children abducted? They got the spotlight!
- Comment on LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think. 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t done the experiment, I’m curious to know if you can take a random binary compiled for Linux 10 years ago run on the latest version of popular distros. See in which ones it runs.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 5 weeks ago:
Non profits do have corporate leeches too. The executives at Mozilla have executive salaries. That is, hundreds of thousands, or millions.
They don’t work out of the goodness of their hearts. And Mozilla has to find a way to earn the income to pay their bloated salaries.
- Comment on Everything is a problem 1 month ago:
Simplicity is easy to pirate though.
If the product is a program that executes 100% of its functionality on your computer, it is impossible to make it pirate-proof. Even if all the functionality is client-side and the server is used only for authentication, it can be pirated.
The only way to make a program pirate-proof is if it runs on the server with a thin client.
That being said, some products execute on the client. Therefore if they want to prevent piracy, the only thing they can do is security through obscurity. That is, make it as complex as possible so the pirates take as much time as possible to reverse-engineer it.
- Comment on You can drive 74 hours and still be in Germany. The American mind can't comprehend this. 1 month ago:
Traffic circles are not real roundabouts. They are just a road that have a circle shape. For example traffic circles often have traffic lights.
Roundabouts are traffic circles. But they have to be just a circle with “give way” at the entrance. No stop signs, no traffic lights.
- Comment on Can you have an infinitely long wavelength of light? Or is there some maximum? 1 month ago:
It is affected by gravity. But does it have gravitational pull? The thing about black holes is that they have a lot gravitational pull.
I’m asking because I honestly don’t know.
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 2 months ago:
Your Airbnb was someone’s home.
- Comment on Spain ruling party bars members from hiring sex workers 2 months ago:
To anyone unfamiliar with Spain politics, it might not be even noticed.
But it is incredible that the party with most scandals and corruption (PP) claims that they’ll party will do less corruption than them. Why don’t the media give attention to other parties that have less corruption than PSOE instead of the masters of corruption PP?
We no longer live in a 2-party country.
- Comment on Maybe someday 😌 2 months ago:
I can block .ml communities in my GUI. But I can’t block its users, unless I go 1 by 1. Blocking the communities is big, but not enough.
- Comment on As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water 2 months ago:
I’m not talking about the technical possibility. Of course you can have multiple video stream, one per participant.
I’m saying that without multicast, it can be more resource intensive than having intermediate servers that can multicast on the application layer.
- Comment on As Data Centers Proliferate, Illinois Communities Grapple with How to Supply the Necessary Water 2 months ago:
Is a connection between 3+ people still p2p? Or is there another term for it?
I don’t know how this would work over the internet though.
On a LAN you could use multicast, but I don’t think ISPs support multicast, it seems like it would be an easy way to DoS. But I honestly don’t know.
So, if you can’t multicast, the way to have serverless multi-user video calls would be to have a separate video feed for each receiver, which I can see using more resources than through a server that would replicate the stream to all the receivers. Of course this is dependant on distance, even without multicast it consumes more resources if everyone is in the same LAN.
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 2 months ago:
It was nice to learn of all this bullshit. Thank you.
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 2 months ago:
So tell me. What are those hidden taxes?
What type of corporate parasitism are you referring to that hurts Americans more than Europeans?
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 2 months ago:
That’s fair. Although I need to point out that the title literally says “more than 1 in 4” which makes it kinda funny.
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 2 months ago:
Ignoring all the taxation is theft bullshit, my original question is how is america so expensive that living wages are considered 8x of the highest minimum wages of europe (Less than 20k).
America has lower taxes than any European country. So that cannot be the answer.
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 2 months ago:
Europeans also buy little glasses for Timmy and such. I don’t think the price of those kind of things is much different. Same for utilities, phone and TV. The one I’m most uncertain about is utilities, but I believe electricity at least is usually cheaper in america.
The car one is fair. Although it’s true that in Europe there’s also tons of people on cars, public transit is at least a valid option, unlike in much of the US.
Taxes is not though. Taxes in america are usually way lower than in Europe.
So transportation+healthcare are the only expenses that are clearly more expensive in america. Housing being highly dependant on location is hard to compare nation-based. And it’s also the biggest component. I’d be curious to see the actual “living wage” difference between two places, one Europeans and another American with similar housing prices.
- Comment on Survey: More Than 1 In 4 Americans Feel They Need To Make $150,000 Or More To Live Comfortably 2 months ago:
Why is the cost of living so incredibly high in the US?
It cannot be because of consumer goods. Because both Europe and the US have similar prices for those since they are made by international companies.
It cannot be food, the US is a big exporter of food. And those exports go to countries with lower costs of living.
It cannot be vacations. You could “just” fly to Europe and have european vacation prices.
Is it just housing and healthcare?
- Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress 2 months ago:
I’m surprised they at least know they have a problem. I would think these companies would just say “look how the sales numbers haven’t changed, that means that we were correct in doing the AI thing. Without it, sales would be sinking into the ocean!”
- Comment on Why is the manosphere on the rise? UN Women sounds the alarm over online misogyny 2 months ago:
And how are women pushed out of “man jobs”?
And how are we fixing that?
Is it bosses that aim to have male coworkers turning down women? How is that different than bosses wanting artificially 50/50 turning down men?
Is it not being represented in advertising? How is that different than what happens now. Where most advertising displays just women? Or if there is both a man and a woman, the woman is usually centered in the picture or doing a more important/powerful role.
By “encouraging” women in the workplace, what you see is things being done to men that you complain was done to women.