dropmaw.bsky.social
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Some other time I think I'd be happy to unpack that; I think it's complicated and trying to get into it in public in a medium built for short answers is unlikely to be much fun.
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That's picking a bone with the least important part of what I have to say
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That would be a bridge crossed that we can't come back from but if he's gonna sit in the Oval with Putin's hand up his ass, yeah, stuff like this is the solution to BuT wHaT CaN wE Do WiThOuT a MaJoRiTy?
"Sit tight for 18mos and cross yer fingers November next" ain't gonna cut it
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Yeah it was a daily visit back in the oughts. Those were good times to be online.
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We need Veep again, now more than ever
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The more I think about it the more convinced I am that Vance and Trump tried to good-cop-bad-cop Zelenskyy but the dunce-in-chief couldn't keep his temper under control sufficiently and it all fell apart
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DRM is anti-consumer and user-hostile. Always has been. Always will be.
daringfireball.net/2025/03/why_...
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— is that blu-ray.com, a site that reviews the quality of blu-ray and 4k discs of classic films, is quite unable to actually show users a 4k screenshot.
Instead they have to post 1080p images and readers are left to ... imagine? what the actual picture might look like.
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I do t think it was an atheist per se but it sure refused to believe that mere humans could possibly make a robot.
The story is apparently _Reason_, published in Astounding Science Fiction, April 1941, collected in one of the Robots collections ofc.
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I watched because of Barbara Crampton and caught a few more impressive additions, but not all of them by a long shot --- I'm in awe of how they managed to snag everyone, above and beyond the movie being darned fun
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His companion shakes his head ruefully (in my memory) and points out
"Postulates are based on assumption and adhered to by faith. Nothing in the Universe can shake them."
If someone has trash priors, then what can you do? Very little, in my experience.
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There's an Asimov robot troubleshooter story where Our Heroes are trying to convince a robot that they MADE it, not this weird god it invented.
One explains to the other that the robots belief is down to a few simple postulates. "Let's get at those postulates, then."
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There's no clearer sign that someone fundamentally doesn't understand vaccination than when they ask for the vaccine after the outbreak or when they're already sick.
I know it's un-American, but mandatory childhood and adulthood vaccination is the only way.
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Eeeeexactly
I mean I try as hard as I can to never read Opinion pieces, especially these decades, and I'm actually aware that every paper sets a tone for its editorial side, but this is some rank bullshit
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Huh, we finally have a name! Gotta say I'm surprised, I thought this was gonna be a whole Thing
A-course, the story that details this says she couldn't be reached because she's on vacation and had no idea she was gonna be named
You really can't make this shit up
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I would say this will end up being an epic own goal but it's like Sideshow Bob vs Rakes out there right now
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I dunno, this guy is a really slick negotiator, I expect he'll see through that ruse
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I always forget that Johnson was actually impeached and tried.
Yeah those are a good four.
It's tempting to think there's a magical threshold for conviction that would make the process work but it's clear that only political pressure is capable of making a President resign.
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Four? Trump, Trump and Clinton? Who am I missing here? Not Nixon or Johnson.
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If I reduce the amount of work to do by 90%, the job runs to completion and while the program still grows, the memory it allocates is freed, so I think this isn't a leak per se, just a lot of poorly managed lifetimes.
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I think this means that if I can just clean it up responsibly, all will be well, but that might be outside the range of how much C++ I can pick up in a weekend.
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I added a yolo "delete" statement to destroy an object that was being created a lot, probably couldn't be used anymore, and would *eventually* be deleted, and the problem went away for long enough for an order of more magnitude to be done before the inevitable segfault.
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Countably infinite is still infinite!
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It you've also delivered me zero giraffes, antineutrinos and zero left-handed screwdrivers, all at the same time.
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At the end of all this I have a fix that only works in debug builds, but that's emphatically progress!
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I think the first time, it was deleting the file I was debugging? I'm not really sure.
The second time, I asked for a memory dump without thinking -- yolo-pasting values from elsewhere -- and GDB crashed rather than try to allocate 30TB.
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Yeah same, I'm terrified of getting a haircut and ending up looking like the polar opposite of who I am
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"I would like zero apples please"
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Easy.
Sent to the office for finally breaking down and getting into a fistfight with the kid who'd bullied me since third grade. Principal's policy was to cane first and ask questions after.
My respect for authority died that day.
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But if I ever have the chance to design some office space, watch out!
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This CNBC article gets a few details wrong but I've always wondered what would happen if I just moved my desk into one of those offices (which IME tend to be empty a good chunk of the time).
web.archive.org/web/20170720...
Here the open plan is not so bad, it just needs taller walls.
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Docs for protobuf generated python classes? Total garbage.
Pytest documentation? Filled with narratives about testing strategies, actual examples are elsewhere, signatures bare comprehensible.
Standard library? Still pretty good, but you're going to be unhappy if you expect that quality elsewhere.
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flagging this as competence porn
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I might go with "dodgy"
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This is the stuff! Call it knowing one's (and others') rights, call it the first step of malicious non-compliance — this is the way to go
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I may not have appreciated a lot of things right when I had them, but Clarke and Dawe was definitely a shining gem that I loved the entire time they were around. Week after week, they never failed to elicit a laugh, even from the same jokes over and over again.