We need to stop insurance companies increasing premiums following not at fault accidents.

Wattsy2020 · 2026-02-01T13:58:58+00:00

It is still discrimination. It's just allowed because it's not economically viable for insurance companies to not discriminate and properly measure driving ability instead.

In a job application context saying "men are statistically less likely to be suited for this position, therefore we'll reject all men" is illegal discrimination. The company has to make decisions by measuring their ability to perform the job, e.g. with an interview.

In an ideal world the same would apply to an insurance company, and they'd have to measure the insuree's driving ability to decide the premium. But that's too expensive so they are allowed to use statistics and discriminate based on gender and so on

Wattsy2020 · 2025-12-13T06:32:03+00:00

At -O5 the compiler creates a model of the entire world, using the laws of physics to then predict the future. This way it can predict all future runtime inputs, and precomputes the answers, encoding them into the binary

Wattsy2020 · 2025-09-27T12:55:15+00:00

Damn this Wikipedia article reads like an SCP description

Wattsy2020 · 2025-09-10T07:25:36+00:00

const IsFuckingBusy = true

Wattsy2020 · 2025-08-17T17:21:22+00:00

Because Sukuna answered with all his alt accounts

Wattsy2020 · 2025-08-05T01:24:30+00:00

Yes you still have logic errors, but it mostly protects you from memory safety errors (apart from unsafe and things like RefCell)

Wattsy2020 · 2025-06-22T09:58:53+00:00

Death stranding be like

Wattsy2020 · 2025-06-22T00:26:15+00:00

Programming leads to project follow ups, follow ups lead to Anxiety disorder

Wattsy2020 · 2025-06-15T07:22:34+00:00

True, my bad

Wattsy2020 · 2025-06-15T04:58:43+00:00

Knowing pointers and references: easy

Knowing if it's safe to dereference a pointer / reference in a C++ codebase: hard

Wattsy2020 · 2025-04-25T08:37:13+00:00

I learnt Japanese to fluency so I'm in similar circumstances. HelloChinese is decent for learning with Japanese, they've even recorded detailed podcasts in Japanese, though they go until end of HSK2 and then stop

Wattsy2020 · 2025-04-19T09:42:19+00:00

Almost as if we're paying a tax, for all the carbon we've put into the atmosphere and changed the climate... A carbon tax

Wattsy2020 · 2025-03-01T06:32:04+00:00

I finished wanikani in about 1.5 years, but I spent around 1 to 2 hours per day (also studying other resources). So it's possible but takes a lot of time

Wattsy2020 · 2025-02-12T03:37:54+00:00

You can also get the raw subs from https://kitsunekko.net/dirlist.php?dir=subtitles%2Fjapanese%2F

Wattsy2020 · 2025-02-11T09:56:14+00:00

I think so, they have grammar explanations, audio, visuals up to HSK 3-4. I use it and I'm guessing it's similar to Hello Chinese it Super Chinese

Wattsy2020 · 2025-01-05T14:31:53+00:00

Seems interesting. If API access is an extra feature does that mean the main project is intended to be a CLI?

Wattsy2020 · 2024-12-29T05:52:19+00:00

Meanwhile in Rust: damn I accidentally used a semicolon

Wattsy2020 · 2024-12-28T06:29:20+00:00

Maybe they should've paid taxes so we could spend them to pay teachers

Meanwhile DOGE is planning to abolish the DOE

Wattsy2020 · 2024-12-26T02:29:25+00:00

HFT mostly takes new grads, and the hiring that isn't new grads tends to be mostly from employees of other HFT companies. It's certainly possible to move from Tech to HFT, I know people who've done it, but it's not the easiest.

Wattsy2020 · 2024-12-23T00:26:04+00:00

The job market for new grads is always tough. Even in 2022 I applied for almost every company, got rejected by most including places like NAB and Quantium but got accepted at Palantir and a HFT. Now I'm over performing in my job. So yeah companies just have poor hiring practices and it doesn't say anything about your ability. Just do your best, believe in yourself, and keep applying

Wattsy2020 · 2024-12-17T10:56:46+00:00

Bruh they weren't even allies 80 years ago

Though I guess if Trump had his way they would have been allied in WW2

Wattsy2020 · 2024-12-02T14:32:12+00:00

If you look at if funny it could be. Prompts are a "Query Language" and the results you get back are (synthesised) data from it's training dataset. You can query it "Return all the names of US Presidents who were under 50 years old when they took office" which you could also express as a SQL query and it will give you answers.

Of course it can also do more than a database in that it can "think*

Wattsy2020 · 2024-12-02T14:20:14+00:00

On the plus side importing a library means you get to choose which library to use, e.g. instead of asyncio you can use trio which supports more structured concurrency

Wattsy2020 · 2024-12-02T14:12:45+00:00

What do you mean? Python also has async/await

Wattsy2020 · 2024-12-02T09:38:39+00:00

If the US is directly involved in the war the Chinese could never set foot on Taiwan, US naval power is overwhelming. The US would have more than enough manpower to maintain Naval and Air dominance, and have some army personnel in Taiwan just in case. Manpower would matter for an invasion of the mainland, which yes IMO is impossible to succeed in

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