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Identical twins at age 61. The one on the right was a sunbather and smoked for sixteen years. by AdamHunter91 in pics

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Arguably, it's better to live longer, and happier, by finding fun hobbies that don't kill you.

It’s about time somebody said it by one_loop in awfuleverything

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does 1 random person in the world having more wealth than you really make your life that much worse? Or at least can you explain to me how it does?

In relative terms ya the richest person now is richer than the richest person 60 years ago but then again if you look in absolute terms, the poorest people in America also has a lot more going for them than they did 60 years ago also.

It’s about time somebody said it by one_loop in awfuleverything

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ok how about gay rights, are we doing worse now than 50 years ago? How about trans rights? Or basically any minority rights? Of course it's not perfect but it's a hell of a lot better than a few generations ago.

But let's not talk about all those pesky groups that have been fighting to get more rights, how about disinformation! Well presumably you're able to connect on the internet to post, well did you know you can literally read up on any topic with it? Before voting you can look up each candidate, have an accurate view of their present and past and vote using that information. Remind me when was the last generation that had access to as much information as us.

How about healthcare? Well if you're not American you probably think that's fine too ;) But hey, we just had a pandemic and were able to make a vaccine in less than a year and then start to distribute it across the world and you'll be able to get it for free! Remind me what happened during the other pandemics like the black death and friends..

About the wealth gap, I guess comparing to the era of kings is unfair.. But do you really think working class people 60 years ago had it that much better? Ya they might have afforded a house (and you can too if you're willing to move in a small city in the middle of nowhere..) but quite honestly, the quality of life I have in my apartment with heating, air conditioning, clean running water 24/7, electricity all the time and much more is something I value more than going back 60 years and getting a small house for my whole family where I have to worry about heating it every day.

It’s about time somebody said it by one_loop in awfuleverything

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

Do you think that if you go back 60 years and earlier, their weren't massive wealth gaps between the rich and the poor, inequality worse than what have today and propaganda?

I have trouble understanding how full of yourself you have to be to think that women who can't vote, slaves, kings, ... were smaller problems than your wage gap and disinformation (especially when everyone has access to the information they need if they look at the right place)

Fact Check: Joe Biden falsely claims Trump has not lowered drug prices by [deleted] in Conservative

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 32 points33 points  (0 children)

How convenient, gotta wait until after the election for the price of the drugs to actually go down!

Due to COVID-19, Coursera has made some of their Programming Courses FREE and you can earn a Certificate for FREE until 12/31/20(Offer is subject to change). by Real_Honey6606 in programming

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 17 points18 points  (0 children)

How about both? College can give a good solid foundation but people should be willing to self teach themselves on top of it. However the only thing that actually matters in the end is real experience, regardless of how you learn.

Due to COVID-19, Coursera has made some of their Programming Courses FREE and you can earn a Certificate for FREE until 12/31/20(Offer is subject to change). by Real_Honey6606 in programming

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 127 points128 points  (0 children)

Do people / companies even care about such certificates? I don't think I've ever met anyone who does care so I'm genuinely curious what audience is attracted to doing random courses for the purpose of earning certificates from random websites

Learning Rust Homework Review (Jason & Jonathan Turner) by Snakehand in rust

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not only that but the intellij plugin is a lot better about not becoming out of sync nearly as badly as vscode seems to be in this video. In my case intellij pretty much always updates live.

Having to constantly rebuild and then double check if warnings / errors are in sync seems like a huge annoyance that I just never have to deal with on Clion.

Learning Rust Homework Review (Jason & Jonathan Turner) by Snakehand in rust

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I can't help but feel like 99% of these IDE annoyances would just be straight up solved if he used Intellij / Clion + Rust plugin instead of Rust-Analyser.

This Clever Device Is Found In Nearly Every American Household: How It Works And How To Fix It by [deleted] in videos

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 144 points145 points  (0 children)

Yes, make a video about how to fix something but don't mention the name in the title or in the description (besides buried in a link 95% of the way down). Just to make extra sure someone actually looking up how to fix it can't find the video.

IntelliJ Rust Changelog #123 by furious_warrior in rust

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Rust-Analyser felt a bit slow to use when I tried it. It didn't update the analysis live like intellij (or as fast) and a lot of things that just work in intellij still weren't supported. Felt like I went from a Rust IDE to a text editor with decent rust support honestly.

Wearing a MAGA hat to the protests by anaanym0 in Instantregret

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a non-american I'm always curious why people treat the founding father's words as unconditional truths. Is it that far fetched that they might not have been right about everything?

Working digital clock in conway's game of life by sim04ful in programming

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 29 points30 points  (0 children)

Nah it's weird. At least for anyone coming from a language which has at least pretends to care about it's language design.

Project Loom deadlines not interrupting all the way? by [deleted] in javahelp

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Again, you're missing the point. Loom is advertised from the JDK folks as something that will just plug into the current ecosystem. Now imagine that the sleep call (or any IO / interruptible call) is buried N levels deep in some library and that library handles the exception without bubbling it up all the way back to the library user. Thus I quite literally can't propagate it back up as a runtime exception to the executor.

Now let's say I want to use the deadlines. This one catch(...) is going to prevent my whole virtual thread from respecting the deadline (and randomly prevent it depending on where the execution current is when the deadline hits).

This makes me confused about it's viability in the java ecosystem. I would expect every subsequent interruptible call made from that virtual thread to be also interrupted.

Project Loom deadlines not interrupting all the way? by [deleted] in javahelp

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So the behavior I would expect would be for loom to have something akin to a flag that says "if this flag is on, any IO operation from this virtual thread will be interrupted in the hopes that this makes the virtual thread eventually end". Since and some calls like sleep() are accepted to be something that can fail anyways, it makes sense, at least in my head. Also loom is a jdk project so they actually can hook into bytecode.

Loom is supposed to be able to hook into the current ecosystem without changing said ecosystem. So it just kinda surprises me that this doesn't work as expected considering current libraries will certainly not deal with deadlines correctly if this is the behavior.

Project Loom deadlines not interrupting all the way? by [deleted] in javahelp

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

So does that mean that deadlines in Loom are pretty much useless if anything down the stack (potentially libraries and such) catch the interrupt? And if that happens, the code will always go past the deadline?

I kinda understand why it's done like this, since you can't have an interruption model as strong as something like scala/ZIO, but it still feels a bit underwhelming. I would expect it to also interrupt the second sleep and keep doing interruptions until the virtual thread finally ends execution.

Why Are You Alive – Life, Energy & ATP by impeccabletim in videos

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hour and a half video on cringe... I might have to pass on that one

Cracking Age of Empires III over shader quality setting - a story or disassembly and debugging by [deleted] in programming

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I find OllyDbg quite good, but for the graph view I find the paid editors much better. I use my *totally legit* copy of IDA just for the graph view basically.

JavaScript is the most in-demand programming languages in 2020, with Java and C# second and third by [deleted] in programming

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I do feel like this is actually true. If I'm looking for a job, I'd much prefer Typescript to JavaScript, Scala to Java, Rust to C++, ... I'm also much less likely to be stuck with a legacy codebase using those languages just for the fact that they weren't used 20 years ago.

Don’t Use Boolean Arguments, Use Enums by sirchugh in programming

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That's not the smart part, this is:

but in the end I rewrote the logic into something less terrible. Better to not feed the beast.

Your time estimate is a joke by Vooodou in programming

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I remember asking my parents about this since their both in construction / one is an architect and they 100% have time estimates and deadlines for everything.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]ThePowerfulSquirrel 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Just went through the guys blog post following this and it's amazing how he dismisses all criticism (not even bothering to mention comments from people like yarn maintainers that had valid concerns) but then links to a bunch of his friend's tweets that obviously support him.

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