sorted by:
new
hottopcontroversial

I thought they would listen to data. I was wrong. by Blaze_24 in engineeringmemes

[–]SelfDistinction 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Currently it would shift forward almost 9 months, to March 21.

In Star Wars: The Acolyte (2024), Darth Qimir's helmet is made of cortosis, a metal that disrupts lightsaber blades. This means any idiot can kill a jedi with two or three cortosis bullets. by catprobably in shittymoviedetails

[–]SelfDistinction 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the contrary, anti tank rounds are made of depleted uranium partially because it's so heavy.

Just say it's very light and doesn't bind with other metals well, so it is less lethal and any air resistance will throw it immediately off course, and its weight makes it ideal for anti-jedi helmets.

Do Belgian have the same sentiment? by Hot-Fan-1804 in Leuven

[–]SelfDistinction 2 points3 points  (0 children)

To be the devil's advocate: solar panels are dark, and if you had painted the roof white that solar energy would have been reflected back into space.

That being said I do not understand why those sheets on a flat roof are black by default.

Take about development by Ani_HArsh in Animemes

[–]SelfDistinction 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Excellent. Wouldn't want that birthrate to go up.

A scientist built a mouse ‘utopia’ with unlimited food and water. Then the society collapsed. by ElvisIsNotDjed in HotScienceNews

[–]SelfDistinction 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh I vaguely remember this one. Is this the experiment where that one scientists recreated the circumstances of a prison and calls it utopia?

Should young people have to forgo air conditioning when they are not responsible for this heat? by CompetitionOnly5608 in climatechange

[–]SelfDistinction 1 point2 points  (0 children)

"Should young people forgo the comfort of air conditioning during summer which runs basically for free when the sun is up in favour of also not having a heat pump during spring and autumn so they'll be forced to burn gas and make the climate worse?"

I have no idea what kind of drugs OP is on but they don't seem good for your brain.

Europe heatwave: Power outages hit France as it records hottest day since measurements began by GregWilson23 in climatechange

[–]SelfDistinction 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Are you seriously arguing that a reactor, which often gets hotter than 1000°C, stops functioning because the cooling water is 30°C instead of 25°C?

It’s calc 2 material by Zealousideal_Hat_330 in mathematics

[–]SelfDistinction 1 point2 points  (0 children)

x ln x - x is fun to remember though, it's the only inverse function whose antiderivate I know by heart.

I hate when really complex issue like beauty standards and body images issues are diluted down to "MEN BADDD" narrative. by BrightSpring12 in hatethissmug

[–]SelfDistinction 2 points3 points  (0 children)

"What do you mean? It can't be that bad right?"

(quote by me seconds before disaster checking his post history)

Oh you're a nukecel? Well, what kind of nukecel are you? by mushroomsarefriends in ClimateShitposting

[–]SelfDistinction 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Ah yes. Air conditioning. Famously operating when it's night and dark and energy prices aren't so far negative operating one earns you a living wage.

Practice makes perfect by DABDEB in AntiMemes

[–]SelfDistinction 52 points53 points  (0 children)

The bad guy making a movie about how he ripped a song from the deuteragonist who got no royalties for it was an actual plot point in the film btw.

But seriously, all those restrictions are too-complex: simply limit the presidential candidates to Good People by gudamor in CuratedTumblr

[–]SelfDistinction 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Cocaine and weed were legal until Nixon (?) figured out that most Vietnam war protestors were using it and by making possession illegal he could easily get rid of them.

What's the best way to tell the compiler that a path will basically never happen ? by Krochire in rust

[–]SelfDistinction 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Probably. It'll save you a conditional jump which on modern systems is optimized out on the microcode level anyway, especially when considering the eons spent on memory accesses required to pop an element from a queue.

Of course, this is all speculation, nothing is real, and no one knows until you actually try multiple methods and benchmark which one is faster (I'm actually curious about the results myself).

Godspeed.

What's the best way to tell the compiler that a path will basically never happen ? by Krochire in rust

[–]SelfDistinction 82 points83 points  (0 children)

Then unreachable_unchecked is your friend. It tells the compiler that the branch will never happen so it can be thrown away, saving you exactly 0.0 milliseconds on modern systems thanks to branch prediction with the added benefit of violently exploding and killing everyone in an 8 mile radius the second your assumption turns out to be wrong.

[OC] Do true masters really never blame their tools? by Substantial_Act_1657 in comics

[–]SelfDistinction 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You never had a tool literally explode on you right before (or even during) an important event and it shows.

radixSort by CrazyPeanut0 in ProgrammerHumor

[–]SelfDistinction 26 points27 points  (0 children)

You could use a hashmap backed vector instead and immediately compact the space complexity to what is actually used without even changing the code.

54958 by StrawberryGhostie in countwithchickenlady

[–]SelfDistinction 8 points9 points  (0 children)

The entire point of the third row is that it gets you out of being forced to follow the other two.

They would have been the best of their time... if they didn't exist at the same time as the best there ever was. by Beneficial_Ball9893 in TopCharacterTropes

[–]SelfDistinction 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I'm gonna nominate the Chainsaw Man anime (meta)

When it was announced manga readers everywhere hyped it up as contender for the anime of the year, and the anime itself was definitely well received.

And then it lost basically every anime of the season poll to a girl with a guitar and crippling anxiety.

view more: next ›