BartyDeCanter

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BartyDeCanter,

By almost every measure, the world is better than it has ever been. Violence, poverty, starvation are all at or near record lows worldwide. Average lifespans are way up. We are just way, way more aware of what is going on in the world, and bad news drives more clicks than good news.

There are some cracks, no doubt. For example climate change is showing its ugly head, inequality is rising in the US and some other developed countries, and lifespans are taking a slight dip in parts of the US. But, compared to almost anywhere at any time during history, this is a golden age.

BartyDeCanter,

Albuquerque had little shorts guy. Walked around Central Ave near the university wearing naught but a tiny, tiny pair of shorts or thong and usually carrying an anti-war/pro-gay sign. Pretty fun fellow to talk to, but was too into drinking urine imho.

BartyDeCanter,

I’m one of them. For a lot of reasons my partner and I want to move, but we have a 3% mortgage. Even though we have a large amount of equity, we still can’t afford to buy now. I’m looking a getting a loan from my parents, which is ridiculous considering our situation but almost 8% interest rates mean our payment would just about double from what we have now.

BartyDeCanter,

According to the github analysis, the kernel repository is:

  • C 98.3%
  • Assembly 0.7%
  • Shell 0.4%
  • Makefile 0.2%
  • Python 0.2%
  • Perl 0.1%
  • Other 0.1%

So yeah, its basically all C, plus a tiny bit of assembly for very low level bootstrapping and some helper scripts.

BartyDeCanter,

There is no C++ allowed in the Linux kernel and Linus has gone on several major rants about how terrible a language it is.

jeze, to memes
@jeze@kzoo.to avatar

It does feel like that.

@memes

BartyDeCanter,

You forgot about leftist infighting.

BartyDeCanter,

When I was a very junior EE I ended up working mostly on microcontroller code. There was one bit of extremely ugly code I inherited that parsed a terribly designed serial communication protocol by using a giant maze of nested if statements. I really wanted to rewrite it to something better, but I never quite came up a solution while I worked there. Years later after I was no longer at the company I had a stress dream about it and finally came up with a working solution. I still wish I could go fix it. I really hope it’s no longer used, or that someone else has finally fixed it.

BartyDeCanter,

A write off is a colloquialism that refers to reducing your effective taxed income. A more realistic example would be, let’s say you make $250k, but you’re self employed and spent $50k on business expenses like a car and office space. Then you can write off that $50k and only pay taxes like you made $200k.

BartyDeCanter,

I doubt it will get that far, but discovery in this case would be fantastic.

BartyDeCanter,

I don’t. Discord is trash, forums forever.

BartyDeCanter,

Portland and Minneapolis? So like, a protest/campout in one or two square blocks while everyone else goes about their normal business?

BartyDeCanter,

Terrible ideas:

  • Garden hose
  • NEMA 10-50 - each “prong” could be a different connector
  • CCS
  • USB-A
  • Quick-connect air coupler

How does ripping a CD/DVD work exactly? Is it similar to copying or does it leave the CD/DVD unusable?

I’ve never ripped CDs or DVDs before for any reason and am curious how this works since I have some stuff I wanna see about backing up but am nervous about ruining the disc. I’ve tried looking this up, but every time I do, I obviously am searching for the wrong thing because I have never found the info I’m looking for.

BartyDeCanter,

Christ do I feel old now. CDs and DVDs are read only, so you won’t do anything to them by ripping them. It’s just a copy of the data onto your drive and then probably a compression step of some sort. Nowadays it probably takes less than five minutes for the whole thing. I remember taking at least half an hour on a 2x drive, and then mp3 compression taking another hour or so.

BartyDeCanter,

Medicine. The house brands and generics are the exact same, tested the same, made the same.

BartyDeCanter,

It is completely unnecessary to have modern semis to make a solar cell. You can easily make one with copper sheets and a salt solution.

The first solar cell dates to 1884.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photovoltaic_effect

BartyDeCanter,

For the most part, they’ve just put a thin wrapper on ChatGTP or some other big AI API.

BartyDeCanter,

That’s going to go poorly for him in court. One of his strongest defenses in the J6 indictment was to be able to claim that he had bad legal advise.

BartyDeCanter,

Barns are red because supernovas produce significant amounts of iron.

futurism.com/how-red-barns-are-linked-to-dying-st…

BartyDeCanter,

Literally unusable. 🤣

What are the benefits to the US Electoral College system?

So I’m a New Zealander and I have a pretty good idea on how the electoral college system works but it honestly sounds like something that can be easily corrupted and it feels like it renders the popular vote absolutely useless unless I’m totally missing something obvious?...

BartyDeCanter,

Also, back then there was still a lot of disagreement about how the US would work. Was it going to operate be a single, unified country or would it be more like an EU style organization with a unified defense? IE Federalists vs Anti-Federalists? The electoral college was a compromise to let each state run its own elections and only franchise who they wanted. It’s important to remember that the US was not founded as a universal suffrage nation, and has only slowly and after much painful internal struggle expanded civil rights.

BartyDeCanter,

Also, me eating a prune.

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