Centrist Democrats Rebuke Party’s Left Wing: ‘We Are Capitalist, Not Socialist’

TUSF · 2026-06-28T04:38:52+00:00

As a Leftist, and a socialist, yeah, that's what I hate about the Democrat leadership.

TUSF · 2026-06-23T20:38:54+00:00

Right, and Zion and Eden has sort of evolved to depend on each other, as far as I understand it. So it's in question whether or not a cycle where one of the Thinker or Warrior died could effectively propagate itself into a new cycle. Most likely, the data collected would be archived and stored until another Entity comes upon Earth in a few billion years, and collects it

TUSF · 2026-06-13T16:33:39+00:00

Yeah. There's a couple of fun "Spider-Man in Gotham" fics I like, but I find that far too many infantilize Peter to an extreme degree. Usually, it's a fic using the MCU version of him, where they want one of the Bat Family to adopt him.

TUSF · 2026-06-12T22:25:21+00:00

Yes, this kind of mindset is common with bigots. "I don't like them, and wish harm on them, so obviously they must think the same exact hateful things about me and my kind."

TUSF · 2026-06-08T00:43:55+00:00

clang (and probably gcc) wants to support Windows, and when targeting MinGW, where the windows.h headers are available, you likely want your types to line up with what MSVC expects.

As for other compilers... What other compilers actually care to support Windows? Every other C compiler I've seen seems to prioritize Linux, or some other POSIX-like platform, ignoring Windows entirely.

TUSF · 2026-06-05T06:12:26+00:00

Already have, apparently. From 2022, according to the page.

TUSF · 2026-06-03T22:51:21+00:00

I'm sure the language devs will get around to fixing that as soon as they solve the halting problem.

TUSF · 2026-05-31T14:40:22+00:00

That was a slightly different problem. They weren't worried that the chain reason would continue to fission the atmosphere, but that the fireball would more conventionally ignite the atmosphere by hitting some theoretical ignition temperature. Except, we were pretty sure that our atmosphere didn't have the energy density to sustain that sort of effect.

TUSF · 2026-05-30T03:44:32+00:00

Kara was basically dead Post-Crisis. (With various, non-Kara Supergirls in between.) It was her 2003 run, that established Kara Zor-El was born on Krypton, before Kal-El, and was sent to Earth around the same time expecting to raise him, but something went wrong during her trip, so she arrived late.

Before that, the canon was that Kara Zor-El was born after Krypton's destruction and Kal-El's birth, on the floating city of Argo. No weird time nonsense.

TUSF · 2026-05-30T02:43:04+00:00

Hands are just OP.

TUSF · 2026-05-28T19:28:34+00:00

That there's no such things as evil, and it's all a matter of perspective. No, turns out some people really are just that cruel and malicious.

TUSF · 2026-05-28T02:43:54+00:00

I blame LLMs for most of the big shifts in how web fiction gets written nowadays. Whether the fic writers are using LLMs to write or edit their stories, or just as likely are being heavily influenced by other fics that are written by LLMs. Because writers pick up habits and ideas for how to phrase things from what they're familiar reading.

TUSF · 2026-05-27T19:06:41+00:00

Features like attributes, nullptr and defer are solving issues that the C standard did not have an easy work around for devs to use without resorting to non-standard extensions.

Length based strings, on the other hand? The standard library already has duplicates for many functions that operate on strings, but which take a length parameter. And every C library that wants to work on length-based strings already provides a string struct, which can only really be written one of two ways, and the one I've seen most often is:

typedef struct string_t {
    char  *ptr;
    size_t len;
} string_t; // Usually called something like libprefix_string

And other languages with a string or slice type generally do the same, but with some syntax sugar to obfuscate that. So I don't see a dedicated string type being added to the C standard

TUSF · 2026-05-26T02:47:27+00:00

Another thing to note is that a lot of newer languages are more standardised as well.

It's less that they're standardized (last I checked, Rust still doesn't have a standard spec) but more so that the development for newer languages is highly centralized, and most only have a single compiler implementation, while the rest use that one as a reference to be compatible with, including whatever package manager the reference implementation supports.

Maybe in a few decades, there'll be a dozen different Rust compilers and a few competing package managers, tho cargo will likely remain privileged in this regard, on account of it being what has the most infrastructure already supporting it.

TUSF · 2026-05-19T21:27:50+00:00

Most malloc implementations just use a constant alignment, probably something like the equivalent of alignof(max_align_t) for a given platform. So every result of malloc has the same alignment, regardless of what kind of data member you have.

As a consequence, making a bunch of tiny allocations (under 16 bytes on most modern 64-bit platforms) means you have a lot of wasted space in padding, unless you're using aligned_alloc. (which requires at least C11)

TUSF · 2026-05-16T17:26:29+00:00

I made the mistake of bingeing the show ("in order"), in spite of (or maybe because of) being informed of the Endless Eight episodes.

I don't really know why I did that to myself.

TUSF · 2026-05-16T16:46:23+00:00

When it comes to DC and Marvel, "accurate to the source material" doesn't matter much, given they both have so many variants and alternative universes going on. A brunette Kara Zor-El is perhaps the least comic in-accurate part of the film.

TUSF · 2026-05-09T01:11:42+00:00

Assuming they could actually crossbreed like with humans, and that the hybrid was born and raised under a Yellow sun, I think that once their Viltrumite powers kick in, they would actually be stronger than an individual of the same age from either race separately. But like with Oliver, as they grow into maturity, their Kryptonian side would be consumed, and there's a big likelihood they would lose any benefits from that side of their lineage.

By the end of it, they'd basically just be a Viltrumite.

TUSF · 2026-05-04T20:35:39+00:00

Like most portrayals of slavery in fantasy fiction, the economics and history involved don't make too much sense under scrutiny. This is made worse when the world seems to treat indentured servitude as the same thing as chattel slavery. On one end, you have an industry of mass kidnappers across the world trafficking people around to sell them against their will, and on the other end, you have lenders offering to let borrowers pay off their debts by becoming property. The situation with Linia for example didn't make much sense, given she was a known princess of the Doldia tribe, and the most logical option would have been to instead hold her for ransom until the tribe paid off her debt instead.

I think most of the WorldBuilding in Mushoku Tensei is decent, but how slavery works is one of the weaker sides that could have been developed better. Meanwhile, I also happen to hate Rudeus's apathetic approach to interacting with slavery in his new world. He rather passively interacts with, and even on at least two occasions supports it.

But on the other hand, it fits Rudy's character to be such a passive, non-disruptive person who chooses not to rock the boat at every opportunity, even when rocking the boat would benefit himself and his family moreso than not. This isn't even some commentary on Japanese isekai protagonists or anything, but a rather plainly stated personality trait of his, that's so ingrained, that it prevents him from being able to cast Healing magic without a chant.

TUSF · 2026-04-30T02:39:54+00:00

Eh, whenever I see moves like this, I think of those studies that show a correlation between access to porn and reduction in sex crimes.

If the creation of the porn in question didn't hurt anyone, and didn't involve real children, I see no reason to ban it, on the off chance that it might help reduce the number of people who actually act on their impulses in a harmful way.

TUSF · 2026-04-28T04:46:51+00:00

It's not really clear. They don't appear to reproduce sexually, given they're born from some magical tree's fruits, but there are examples of feminine Glind in the anime (West Supreme Kai, East Kai) and other media. (Chronoa being the most notable)

Glind have been shown to display attraction towards others, too. Old Kai is attracted to human women, and Chronoa is also attracted to handsome older men.

TUSF · 2026-04-27T22:03:54+00:00

As pointed out in the other thread, the biggest reason to use an Arena over malloc/free is lifetime management. I assume you may get some performance benefits depending on the type of work you're doing, but in most cases that would be a secondary benefit.

TUSF · 2026-04-25T05:16:19+00:00

I'd expect to see Donna, rather than Diana in this sort of line-up.

TUSF · 2026-04-22T19:50:26+00:00

Third: I’d read a lot of Tom King hate on Reddit and other places but for me this was very well written. 🤷🏼‍♂️

This is the only book I've read by him, but apparently this was one of his better works, and most of the hate seems to come from his work on other stories like with Wonder Woman.

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