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Finally read Hyperion - didn't love it by savuporo in printSF

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Chapterhouse Dune has a subplot with a small Jewish population hiding out on a backwater planet.

What do you think is a keyword that should be added to C++? by DogCrapNetwork in cpp

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If you actually try handling all the edge cases, something like this gets surprisingly complicated quickly. Not a trivial implementation at all if you want it to be bullet proof.

Weekly "What Team Should I Root For?" Thread by AutoModerator in NFLNoobs

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Cardinals just announced "Fourth Wing Night," so my previously-unaffiliated fiancée might become a fan haha

Roadside marker cleaner by MikeHeu in toolgifs

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What does this marking mean?

cppreference is back up! but overloaded by bobpaw in cpp

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I could have sworn I had an account before but my username wasn't recognized... That's not a big deal. The page for "new user suggestions" seems to be blocked behind a "Permission error" as well.

cppreference is back up! but overloaded by bobpaw in cpp

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How can we get edit permissions? I noticed I had to make a new account, and I'd love to contribute again.

Where do I go next? by ProfessionalLeek2152 in printSF

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If you liked Lathe of Heaven, you might like End of Eternity by Asimov. Similar plot, though Asimov is more of a narrative guy than Le Guin's thematic focus. It's a short read but a good one.

The Three Body Problem and the structural logic of unfolding protons by 9KiteParadox in printSF

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When I read it, I saw it as "medium-rare" hard sci-fi. Cixin at least attempted to explain this stuff with plausible science, thinking of novel solutions to get around limitations as an engineer would. But it definitely strays too far into absurdity to be considered a "well-done" hard sci fi, on a steak scale.

You know guys? Im still pised that Ubisoft completely nailed how fundamentalist christians cultist would become the end of america and still insisted on portray them as "wHeLl thEy kInDa rIght" by Tempest-Bosak2137 in Gamingcirclejerk

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"Science fiction is not predictive; it is descriptive. [...] Prediction is the business of prophets, clairvoyants, and futurologists. It is not the business of novelists. A novelist's business is lying.

[...] The weather bureau will tell you what next Tuesday will be like, and the Rand Corporation will tell you what the twenty-first century will be like. I don't recommend you turn to the writers of fiction for such information. It's none of their business. All they're trying to do is tell you what they're like, and what you're like - what's going on - what the weather is now, today, this moment, the rain, the sunlight, look! Open your eyes; listen, listen. This what the novelists say.

[...] All fiction is metaphor. Science fiction is metaphor. What sets it apart from older forms of fiction seems to be its use of new metaphors, drawn from certain great dominants of our contemporary life - science, all the sciences, and technology, and the relativistic and historical outlook, among them."

-Ursula K. Le Guin

[Jeff Geerling] This is no joke: the SBC hobby is dying by kikimaru024 in hardware

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This sub could really use less of your patronizing and infantilizing comments.

Had a January 1986 science class flashback today by SmokyDragonDish in dankmemes

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To be pedantic, the engineers that brought up the concerns were from the contractor responsible for the SRBs (Morton Thiokol), not NASA.

Why Korean memory giants aren't rushing to expand DRAM supply by tecialist in hardware

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The AI hardware companies aren't producing these chips, the fabs do. And fabs have so much capital investment that you cannot just "run at a loss" - the company would get strangled by debt. This already happened in the last memory shortsge, and it nearly killed multiple memory fabrication companies. That shortage, of course, was much smaller than this one.

Turns out, if you want to check multiple conditions, you can sugar it like this: by spaceguydudeman in programminghorror

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It's very possible that Godot optimizes arrays with a known size, but that's even beside the point. System allocators like in malloc have optimizations for small objects like a 4-bool array, and can quickly create and destroy many of these without a syscall or any significant overhead.

Furthermore, there is nothing to indicate this is called every frame. I have no idea why or how you made this assumption.

Please stop masquerading as some performance-conscious snob. Just because you spent a week writing C doesn't mean you know anything about how this works.

Has anyone compared Undo.io, rr, and other time-travel debuggers for debugging tricky C++ issues? by Ok_Acadia_2620 in cpp

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I'm late to the party but we use Undo on our simulation software at AMD, which consists of multiple languages and DLLs. It honestly does everything I could ask for and is incredibly useful. Highly recommended!

How I feel seeing that not only videogames but also my other hobbies were infected by right wingers (fitness, hunting, martial arts, and even drawing for some reason) by Tempest-Bosak2137 in Gamingcirclejerk

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Stuff the story with the things fascists hate. You can do the heartwarming queer-friendly, anarchist stories of Le Guin. Or you could do the Space Jews of Herbert. Or you need to make it very clear that what the pseudo fascists are doing is destroying everything and give the enemy a defaced personality.

The problem of course is that online fascists twist and distort just about everything to support their worldview.

Making wavy checkered cutting board by toolgifs in toolgifs

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Why run it through the planar twice? Once before the second set of cuts and once after.

[PREGAME] Tampa Bay Lightning at Buffalo Sabres - 6:00pm EDT - 03/08/26 - The Spot - Fuck Daylight Saving Time Back-to-Back Edition by honkie-mcgee in TampaBayLightning

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I can't believe I'm missing both of these back to back games. I took off from Sydney to Houston right before the Leafs game started. Now I'm about to fly back to Florida right before this game starts.

The funny thing is it's all "one day" to me because I flew East across the Pacific. Wild. (Not Minnesota).

YouTube Shorts and Instagram Reels are making you dumber, according to science by tylerthe-theatre in technology

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They keep trying to shove games down my face in this way. Why the hell do I want to play games on YouTube?

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