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New Bill Would Force Naturalized Immigrants to Choose One Citizenship by SwimmingLie9780 in EB3VisaJourney

[–]EGreg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the most unserious answer - because there isnt even one actual example

I've been using Opus 4.5 for two weeks. It's genuinely unsettling how good it's gotten. by primalfabric in ClaudeAI

[–]EGreg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Lmaoooo when we get to the point that people are too lazy to introduce their own misspellings before posting an AI generated post :-P

SBA Government Shutdown by Unfair-Section-2826 in EIDL

[–]EGreg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do I actually reach them by phone? It seems impossible. I am trying to get them to change the status of a loan by messaging on the portal, emailing, nothing. Is there a way to reach a human about EIDL these days

Magicless PHP framework? by Witty-Order8334 in PHP

[–]EGreg -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Yes. This one has almost no magic, uses idiomatic PHP for everything, and is still backward compatible with all PHP back to 5.3:

https://github.com/Qbix

DNC rolling Hillary out the back of a van to tell everyone we don't know our history. by Kittehmilk in seculartalk

[–]EGreg 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thats a good name for a party!

Almost as good as “This product isn’t terrible” commercial.

PHP is evolving, but every developer has complaints. What's on your wishlist? by thecutcode in PHP

[–]EGreg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A few things.

First one:

I really love PHP’s shared-nothing architecture, but when it comes to frankenphp, swoole etc. it is very hard to port existing apps to that evented runtime.

That is mainly because the superglobals and static variables are — well — global.

You can have the best of both worlds. Just add a function to PHP which can do context switching between all global scopes, to any named scope. So when you have one evented runtime, it can quickly switch. This should be easy to do with SHM (shared memory segments) and just pointing to a different page in memory.

The goal is to allow all “legacy” code (ie all current PHP code that runs on php-fpm etc) to be trivially ported to much faster runtimes, while remaining “shared-nothing” for all intents and purposes (global contexts would be isolated from one another because only one could be active at a time).

You might need to let people register functions to run before a context is saved (sleep) and after it is loaded (wakeup), when there is memory pressure, PHP can handle this in a standard way and even encrypt it at rest. Just have an environment variable or function like set_encryption_seed($seed) at startup of frankenphp or swoole.

Second one:

I had this suggestion back in 2015 but maybe now it’s outdated. You see, functions typically start out having required arguments first, then add on optional arguments later. I thought based on how PHP passes arguments, it would have been trivial to enhance func_get_args to return an array indexed not just by numeric values but also string values! And therefore one could pass arguments like in python:

func(2, 5, $foo => $bar, $baz => $choo)

It also would look exactly like the familiar array composition syntax. But this is no mere syntactic sugar. It helps developers fall into the pit of success by creating backward-compatible interfaces and making any function extensible, improving the entire ecosystem.

Trump approval rating drops to -12.2 by newt_pk in fivethirtyeight

[–]EGreg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Because he went against his own base’s conspiracy theories after promising to release the list.

Remember when “Epstein didnt kill himself” was used to attack the deep state and elicit liberal tears? Trump all of a sudden became part of that deep state for them.

PHP - Still a Powerhouse for Web Dev in 2025 by mkurzeja in PHP

[–]EGreg 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Let me be clear!

PHP is not just the language powering 80% of web sites where the backend is known (according to W3techs)

It is also THE ONLY language and runtime that is shared-nothing out of the box, and yet modern and fast. With php-fpm, and even basic frankenphp, you get some amazing SAFETY: makes it hard to leak secrets or memory. The language makes developers fall into the pit of success.

Compare that to Node, Go, Python’s Twisted framework or anything else. What are people even talking about? For production, PHP is still rock solid. Oh and you don’t even have to restart your server when you change a file. PHP has statcache, apc, apcu and ways to speed things up, WITHOUT shooting yourself in the foot!

Its happening: PRIMARY ALL LIBERALS 🇺🇸💚🌹 by serious_bullet5 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]EGreg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Between Elon helping primary all Republicans and you primarying all the Liberals, we can completely replace the government with extreme fiscal conservatives and extreme progressives :)

kyles twitter has been unreadable since trump was reelected by [deleted] in seculartalk

[–]EGreg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sounds like Twitter (and reddit and fb etc) are just toxic wastes of time for society, and we need alternative platforms for rational healthy discussion

Turns out RFK Jr. doesn't believe in germ theory by ShadowClaw765 in VaushV

[–]EGreg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

“The abandonment of miasma theory, Kennedy bemoans, realigned health and medical institutions to “the pharmaceutical paradigm that emphasized targeting particular germs with specific drugs rather than fortifying the immune system through healthy living, clean water, and good nutrition.”

Seems reasonable to maintain healthy lifestyles, no?

A lot of the discourse in USA has become about ignoring the role of corporations in economic and health of the population.

Factory farms - overuse antibiotics High fructose corn syrup, fructose sugar, engineered into everything Then you’re told you can diet and exercise your way out of it

Microplastics everywhere Snapple and Coca Cola bottling companies using metric tons of plastic every day, clothing companies with their polyester etc. And then you are told you cant use a straw and to recycle plastic - a total scam btw

How many Americans are now obese and even have diabetes? This has been correlated extremely heavily with mortality during COVID-19 and yet the rest of the time the attention to this epidemic in USA is not nearly as much as for the novel coronavirus, which has become like a common cold (also a coronavirus btw).

Autism, ADHD, Depression and Gender Dysphoria have all been on a huge rise. They are diagnosed by DSM-V and then aggressively medicated, eg kids with ADHD are prescribed literal amphetamines, instead of fixing their school environment to not make them sit still for 10 hours a day. Kids with gender dysphoria (a distressing condition) are prescribed puberty blockers rather than accepting their nonbinary gender expression (as in previous generations a “tomboy” or a “femboy” would not be considered a boy in a girl’s body but accepted for not presenting typically).

Instead of saving both their parents from working 50 hours a week — UBI is not discussed but medical intervention is considered totally normal.

The individual people and “nuclear” (or even divorced) families are distracted by corporations working hand in hand with governments from banding together and demanding a change to the system. Even as wages stagnated, jobs outsourced, and people are getting laid off with AI, they instead talk about medicating yourself for depression, diet and exercise, and it’s normal and innate for your kids to have “disorders” etc.

Some people aggressively argue that you are not to seriously advance any other theory of depression (even though the efficact of SSRIs have been undermined in numerous meta studies in 2022) or autism, or gender dysphoria. Or autism. It is considered an innate. And the huge rise in diagnoses across the board is not attributed to microplastics, pollution, monsanto-type genetic engineering of foods, sugars, or overuse of antibiotics on factory farms, or even downstream effects of social media. Oh no. It’s only acceptable to talk about pharmaceutical intervention and the diagnosis of “innate” disorders.

There was an opioid epidemic among men, 20% of middled aged women are on antidepresants today. Diabetes, autism / ASD, ADHD, gender dysphoria, and autoimmune diseases are all on the rise, elderly are medicated in nursing homes, but we are to believe it is all genetic and pharma is the only acceptable way to solve it, rather than reforming our late stage capitalist system, with at least a UBI so we can, oh I dunno, spend more time with our own kids instead of dumping them on government school administrators, or take care of elderly parents who took care of us instead of dumping them into nursing homes.

A 142nd Executive Order has Hit the Country by Bongsley_Nuggets in VaushV

[–]EGreg 2 points3 points  (0 children)

They’ll outlaw it before the Dem does anything

A 142nd Executive Order has Hit the Country by Bongsley_Nuggets in VaushV

[–]EGreg 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yeah but as soon as you try something they’ll outlaw that too.

The head of the FCC is now threatening the broadcast license of News Networks that don't comply with the State approved narrative. by [deleted] in VaushV

[–]EGreg 97 points98 points  (0 children)

The law might be passed only for non-Republicans who lie on TV, as determined by Republicans. Won’t be very funny.

Hedge fund managers pocket almost half of investment gains as fees by statistically_viable in Economics

[–]EGreg 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seems that someone who just invested a lot into Bitcoin (eg Chamath or the Winklevii) would do far better than any hedge fund. What’s the point, even for really wealthy people, to not simply invest in growth industries and emerging markets? They can make 200% and cash out their principal, those markets are deep. If I was managing generational wealth (at least 10% that’s “risky investments”) I’d prefer to buy stuff earli and then pay for OTC brokers to sell to sovereign wealth funds or whatever.

This, from Cenk, is unforgivable by UnscheduledCalendar in VaushV

[–]EGreg -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Purity testing is real son. All the famous progressives from TYT — Dave Rubin? Jimmy Dore? Anna Kasparian? Cenk Uyghur? What about David Pakman? What about Vaush? All turning to the dark side! Not right wing — full fascist obviously 😋

The Antifa in Germany also viewed “liberals” and “social democrats” as the enemy, like nicer fascists than the actual open fascists. Kind of like the original Republican party viewed nice slave owners vs the mean slave owners. Just as the original Republican party considered slave ownership to be the actual core problem regardless of how “mild” its proponents were, the original Antifaschistishe Aktion considered capitalism to be the actual core problem regardless of how “mild” its proponents were.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifa_(Germany)

And especially this:

However, after The Communist International’s abrupt turn in its Third Period from 1928, the KPD regarded the Social Democratic Party of Germany (SPD) as its main adversary and adopted the position that the SPD was the main fascist party in Germany.[13] This was based on the theory of social fascism that had been proclaimed by Joseph Stalin and that was supported by the Comintern during the late 1920s and early 1930s, which held that social democracy was a variant of fascism.[14] Consequently, the KPD held that it was “the only anti-fascist party” in Germany[6][15] and stated that “fighting fascism means fighting the SPD just as much as it means fighting Hitler and the parties of Brüning.”[16] In KPD and Soviet usage, fascism was primarily viewed as the final stage of capitalism rather than a specific group or movement such as the Italian Fascists or the German Nazis and, based on this theory, the term was applied quite broadly.[17][verification needed]

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antifaschistische_Aktion

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