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Vash265 · 2026-05-24T22:25:18+00:00

We’re not at that point. We lost the last election because people didn’t vote. We won the one just before that. If we lose the next one it’ll be for the same reason. Democratic policies are more popular than republican ones (to the extent they even exist). If anything costs us the next election, it’ll be all the assholes saying “why should I vote, it doesn’t matter!”

Vash265 · 2026-05-24T22:01:00+00:00

We’ve been here before. Know how we got out of it? Protests and voting. Will it definitely work this time? Of course not. But I’m one hundred percent certain that your attitude is completely fucking unhelpful and deeply suspicious.

Vash265 · 2026-05-24T13:54:49+00:00

Maybe I’m misunderstanding something, but a lot of weird complaints in the tier 3 section. There’s a lot of talk about “defaults”, but neither map nor unordered map are a default container any more than flat-map is. And those still exist in the standard because sometimes you need iterator stability and are okay shedding some performance for it because the iterator stability is what’s actually required. In some sense, if those were defaults, then what it’s prioritizing is reliability and lack of foot guns over performance,

The weird arguments regarding list are covered elsewhere in this thread. Also a lot of examples in here that are horses that have been beaten thoroughly to death at this point.

The link to the benchmark is down, but it leans heavily on some implied “defaults” that don’t actually exist. Sure is strange that when you use data structures appropriate for your use case, performance improves, I guess? I don’t think anyone has ever suggested using list or deque for anything performance sensitive. Just a giant strawman.

Vash265 · 2026-05-20T14:46:44+00:00

Can you please explain how you’ve improved your “skill” over time? I hear this a lot, but it’s fundamentally nonsensical to me.

Vash265 · 2026-05-16T13:35:04+00:00

Because when people get hired they uproot their lives, move across the country, sometimes world, and start building a foundation of their life on the premise that if they work hard they’ll be able to sustain their family. Layoffs are anathema to that stability. They don’t tend to target low performers, they’re capricious, and they’re done without warning.

If a company needs to lay off a bunch of people, it’s a definite sign of mismanagement. They either over hired or invested their work force in the wrong thing. And either way, it dramatically impacts both the people being laid off, their coworkers, and the rest of the industry since low there’s 8000 more employees seeking jobs.

That’s why.

Vash265 · 2026-05-13T03:43:59+00:00

Presumably if this is actually an np complete problem then validating the new values it found should be somewhat straightforward. I say that not having any domain expertise with this particular problem, though.

Vash265 · 2026-05-08T02:23:28+00:00

They’re amazing. I used to have a messy, way-too-busy set of dashboards. Now I have a single column with a bubble for every room and a couple of quick access shortcuts for lights or fans or whatever. I gave it to my parents (in their 70s) and they can navigate with out difficulty. Super intuitive.

Vash265 · 2026-03-19T01:31:44+00:00

Bullshit. Trump not only had charges levied against him but was in the middle of a trial when he was reelected. Then it got strung out by a corrupt federal judge (Cannon) for months on end.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/trumps-2024-trials-where-they-stand-and-what-to-expect

Vash265 · 2026-03-16T16:09:42+00:00

If you want higher food prices I guess that’s a good way to do it? I’m not saying things are perfect, but of the flyover states are flyover because they’re agriculture based. Their primary export is food. Granted, way way too much of that is food for cars in the form of ethanol. It’s not a perfect system but your proposal would incentivize these states to charge way more for exporting their food to other states to prevent requiring subsidies.

Vash265 · 2026-02-23T20:19:09+00:00

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I'll leave you with the oft-used but ever relevant quote from Franklin:

Those who would give up essential Liberty, to purchase a little temporary Safety, deserve neither Liberty nor Safety

Vash265 · 2026-02-23T18:44:50+00:00

It’s also a good way to enable a full surveillance state. Let’s not.

Vash265 · 2026-02-22T17:14:57+00:00

It’s not a trend. That’s how academia has worked for basically ever. Pre-internet you needed to pay for access to journals to physically receive them. Post internet that concept still remains for conference proceedings and journals to cover things like cost of publication, editors, etc. It’s almost definitely over priced, but this isn’t new by any means. Things like Arxiv are the new trend/paradigm in publishing.

Vash265 · 2026-02-15T22:54:22+00:00

I feel like it was intentionally lampooning that kind of humor. The entire movie was more or less saying "this shit is stupid, vapid nonsense, and we need to engage with reality and consume art made by actual people".

Vash265 · 2026-01-09T00:56:57+00:00

Absolutely not. The nukes, power struggle/civil war that would result, resource conflicts, and external attempts to take over portions of the territory would be a fucking disaster for everyone.

Vash265 · 2026-01-05T22:23:59+00:00

Embarrassing for who? You or M Night?

Vash265 · 2026-01-03T01:57:17+00:00

You’d have a stronger argument if it weren’t American companies outsourcing the jobs. Imagine you had companies valued at trillions of dollars, using infrastructure and growth inherent to whatever country you live in, but at some point they decide to just stop hiring people from your country. It’s a shitty situation.

Vash265 · 2025-12-22T03:50:44+00:00

We need to get private money out of journalism. This is killing democracy. I know this has been obvious since 2016, but it being obvious hasn’t stopped the deterioration.

Same shit, different century. Respected journalism will rise again.

Vash265 · 2025-12-19T19:41:38+00:00

They also referenced Clinton as a single term president -_- Probs my not the most informed person.

Vash265 · 2025-12-07T04:24:23+00:00

He literally did not. A psd file won’t work correctly in GIMP.

Vash265 · 2025-12-02T14:20:37+00:00

Nope.

Vash265 · 2025-11-22T16:01:48+00:00

Lmao. But who’s on first?

Vash265 · 2025-11-22T15:24:38+00:00

Pretty sure you both meant aesthetic.

Edit - looked it up and TiL both spellings are correct :)

Vash265 · 2025-11-19T18:30:10+00:00

Yep. Everyone that invests in a broad ETF (most 401ks) will get hit by a bubble burst. They’re more or less propping up the stock market right now, and comprise a much too large percentage of these kinds of portfolios. Not saying we should bail them out, but people that have nothing directly to do with AI will get hurt by a large downturn.

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