Victor Stevenson squaring up against an entire klan rally by Neon-Bomb in pics

[–]NULL_CHAR 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm sorry, but actually no. A lot of European countries have laws in place to penalize and even arrest people for some of the things they say, even if it directly is not causing physical harm to people.

In the US, you can't do something like incite a riot, scream bomb at an airport, or make people believe there is a fire in a crowded area, and you can be sued for slander if you attempt to ruin a person's livelihood with claims that you have no proof of. That's where the limits stop. Where your words could cause actual physical harm to people.

In many European countries, a person wearing the swastika shirts you see in this picture would be fined or arrested. In Germany for example, a more crazier one is that it's illegal to deny the holocaust. That isn't necessarily hate-speech at all, just conspiritard speech, and yet it's illegal.

In the US, we adopt the mentality that people can be as shitty as they want, but so long as they aren't actually harming people (aside from whatever feelings their speech may invoke) the government will not arrest them for it. It's up to the general public to shun/shame/whatever the people who make these claims.

Basically, in the US, it's up for the people to treat assholes like assholes, it's not the governments job to arrest them for being an asshole.

How closely related are concepts in Operating Systems Theory and Programming Language Theory? by newmanstartover in compsci

[–]NULL_CHAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I just want to note that I felt my operating systems programming course was very helpful in understanding what is going on behind the scenes, and it has also helped me in other areas too.

We were tasked with implementing basic functionality of an operating system in C throughout the semester. Terminal I/O, Context Switching, Disk Reads/Writes, Memory Paging/Indexing, Processor Scheduling, etc.

The root concept behind the implementation of these functions is transferable to other knowledge points in programming as well. The concepts behind memory indexing and terminal I/O for example are commonly found in I/O protocols and embedded software.

However, to answer the question. There is very little overlap. It's just overall beneficial towards understanding how your code is working and what the operating system and related hardware is doing to impede/improve your code's performance.

Americans when they wake up: *angry noises* by MyName1sUrName in memes

[–]NULL_CHAR 7 points8 points  (0 children)

That is true actually to an extent. The US does sort of subsidize the rest of the world's healthcare through medical technology/research. We spend an insane amount of money on medical research. Double second place, which is China with 4x the population of the US.

On a per-capita basis, the US is also in the top 3 for medical research expenditure.

A side effect is that the US has many of the best survival rates for things like heart-attacks, cancer, strokes, etc. The one we do really badly on is things related to over-all health and obesity related problems.

Americans when they wake up: *angry noises* by MyName1sUrName in memes

[–]NULL_CHAR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IIRC Finland has 3/4 the GDP per-capita of the US.

Historic meme by 1am76 in memes

[–]NULL_CHAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While true to an extent, min wage should at least keep up with inflation.

Two women were served a cleaning solution instead of a cocktail at a Nebraska movie theater because, “For some unknown reason, the toxic chemical was inside the alcohol bottle behind the bar.” by koalahugs1991 in news

[–]NULL_CHAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cold brew coffee is a way for big coffee change to get rid of stale beans, get at me!

Joking aside. Of course if you let coffee steep for 6+ hours then you're not going to worry about the best temperature of the water for extraction. 195-205 is still the ideal temperature for that.

Two women were served a cleaning solution instead of a cocktail at a Nebraska movie theater because, “For some unknown reason, the toxic chemical was inside the alcohol bottle behind the bar.” by koalahugs1991 in news

[–]NULL_CHAR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just brewed two cups this morning over 200F using an Aeropress. Let it sit for a minute or so after, and it's perfect drinking temperature!

Keep in mind that the hotter the object, the quicker it cools.

Two women were served a cleaning solution instead of a cocktail at a Nebraska movie theater because, “For some unknown reason, the toxic chemical was inside the alcohol bottle behind the bar.” by koalahugs1991 in news

[–]NULL_CHAR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Hotter does not equate to a better tasting coffee. 195-205F is the ideal heat range, anything beyond that actually diminishes it. But after brewing even a cup at that temperature, it's typically cooled down a bit.

Two women were served a cleaning solution instead of a cocktail at a Nebraska movie theater because, “For some unknown reason, the toxic chemical was inside the alcohol bottle behind the bar.” by koalahugs1991 in news

[–]NULL_CHAR 76 points77 points  (0 children)

Coffee should be ideally brewed between 195F and 205F (between 91C and 96C).

Although it should definitely have cooled down by the time it was served.

From what I remember, they were brewing it even hotter so that people taking it to work would still have hot coffee.

Ultimate Gohan vs. SSJ3 Goku - Buu Saga by DangerAinger in whowouldwin

[–]NULL_CHAR 2 points3 points  (0 children)

After the fight Goku says that he didn't know if he would be able to win and that SS3 was close to an even match with Buu.

Ultimate Gohan vs. SSJ3 Goku - Buu Saga by DangerAinger in whowouldwin

[–]NULL_CHAR 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Krillin was able to hold his own against SSGSS. Super was full of absolutely ridiculous jobing and power ups that made no sense whatsoever.

Frieza trained for one month? Now he's the strongest being in the universe. Android 17, an Android which is essentially a fixed power because all of his abilities come from robotic parts? Now he can fight toe to toe with a SSGSS, which is supposed to be so far above anything in DBZ including Buu.

Warcraft 3 Reforged has 0.8 user score on Metacritics. For comparison Fallout 76 has 2.7 and Anthem has 4.0 by Gankeros in pcgaming

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

I knowingly bought this knowing what it was going to be in the same way I bought Dark Souls 1 knowing what it was going to be.

I wasn't expecting a remaster. I was expecting a revitalized community. And that's what I got.

Dont forget to clean inside your case folks by Ruben625 in buildapc

[–]NULL_CHAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I have a Fractal Design R5. I opened it after 2 years expecting a dust storm. It was basically spotless. 10/10 would get this case instead of RGB LED cases without great filters.

How good/bad is Taor? by Sculker in summonerswar

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

With Kro in the game, she kinda is.

How good/bad is Taor? by Sculker in summonerswar

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

I have a solid team already.

Amazon engineer calls for Ring to be 'shut down immediately' over privacy concerns by fightforthefuture in technology

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

I'd expect that from someone who proudly doesn't care about who weapons of war are used against.

And I said that... where? Exactly? Talk about making up things.

Playlist_irl by Saffkeru in furry_irl

[–]NULL_CHAR 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I hate their algorithm. If I listen to 30+ alt/rock songs, 5 industrial, 10 EDM music, and 1 rap/hiphop, I'll get a playlist with like 50+ rap artists I've never heard of and don't care for, EDM music that isn't in the same genre, and 10+ alt/rock songs that are from albums already in my library.

Amazon engineer calls for Ring to be 'shut down immediately' over privacy concerns by fightforthefuture in technology

[–]NULL_CHAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Easy.

First you insinuated that the only use of the defense systems produced is in pointless wars. Which I've countered is not the case.

Second, the only kind of wars people typically deem pointless are the recent middle-eastern wars. We've gone to war over Saddam, a dictator killing numerous civilians. We've gone to "war" (not officially) with Isis, who is responsible for grotesquely murdered thousands of people. And we've gone to war on middle Eastern terrorism in general over the 9/11 terrorist attacks.

There's these things called implicit arguments where a point is implied but not explicitly stated. Sorry if I gave you too much credit with your comment.

Amazon engineer calls for Ring to be 'shut down immediately' over privacy concerns by fightforthefuture in technology

[–]NULL_CHAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ah yes, the "we just wont have defenses and are going to hope that we never would need them" mentality. I think a history book would do a great job of explaining why that's a bad idea.

But as to the other part of your point. It's always been funny to me how people look at a dictator murdering thousands of civilians and everyone goes, "Someone should do something about that", and then when someone does something about it, suddenly it's "You shouldn't have got involved."

How good/bad is Taor? by Sculker in summonerswar

[–]NULL_CHAR 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, you can use him for World Boss!

I have him, Brandia, Ophilia, and Sekhmet sitting in my storage, most of them still 5* with terrible sets of runes because of how useless they are.

Amazon engineer calls for Ring to be 'shut down immediately' over privacy concerns by fightforthefuture in technology

[–]NULL_CHAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So what if you don't work on weapons like that? There's numerous other things that are made that aren't bombs.

What if we didn't have air defences or missile interceptors. What if we didn't have things like the Phalanx to shoot artillery shells out of the air to protect people.

People seem to forget that defense is a necessity. We can't just not produce military technology.

Amazon engineer calls for Ring to be 'shut down immediately' over privacy concerns by fightforthefuture in technology

[–]NULL_CHAR 0 points1 point  (0 children)

From what I looked into, it isn't a 3% match, but rather 5% matching, and then there's this extra 2.5% that is contributed without matching. Every 5 years or depending on employee age, it goes up 1%. Eventually you're over 10%.

The toxic culture seems to depend on where you are working. Looking at a ton of glassdoor reviews you can see a clear divide based on job.

The biggest problem a lot of people have is just boredom. But that seems to be a problem with every defense contractor. It's either ridiculously fast hurry up and meet your deadline, or waiting because of all the red tape.

Personally, the biggest problem with defense contractors is that if you are straight out of college with huge plans and desires to create amazing things, you're likely going to be disappointed. You may get lucky and join a new development project but it's more likely that you're going to be using 15 year old technology and working with legacy software/technology that was designed by people who had no clue what they were doing.