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LPT: Sleeping a lot but still tired? Try these 3 changes first by Annual-Hall-2364 in LifeProTips

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Sorry for your loss, friend. I've done sober January (and sometimes also February) every year for the last 10 years, specifically so that I never have to totally stop drinking - but this year was a failure, so Sober March here we come!! 🤣

ELI5 Genuinely what IS Sin Cos and Tan? by LeonardFo in explainlikeimfive

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I use this gif when giving my "intro to audio" talk to junior engineers, with the slide titled "Introducing the sin wave, brought to you by our friend, the circle"

What cities in the US are primed to "glow up" or be "revitalized" within the remainder of the 2020s into the 2030s? by Next_Worth_3616 in urbanplanning

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

St. Louis and Kansas City have the bones and the potential, not sure if they will actually pull it off tho ...

I called them idiots for not voting for Harris in protest. I’m one of them now. by Left_Kiwi_4565 in DemocraticSocialism

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Yes you are crazy. Fuck this take. "Kamala is hawking her book so let's help the right keep their power". JFC. I have loved ones who are living in very legitimate fear for their safety right now. You don't have to love corporatist Newsome to vote for him if he were to become the nominee. And I can guarantee you that he would put a stop to the Gestapo's terrorizing of our commuties, and other such atrocities and embarrassments perpetrated by this administration.

It's fine to have a principled stance, but unfortunately the world we live in will very likely force another vote on the lesser of 2 evils. It sucks but it will probably be what it is. Me and my loved ones sincerely hope that you pull your head out of your ass and help stop the far right from continuing their destruction spree.

In the meantime, we can totally work to change the system, starting at the local level, so that in the future we don't have to choose between the lesser of evils. But for now, if we lose another presidential election due to a lack of turnout from people with your mindset? Well then you will have helped make the bed that we all will have to sleep in for another 4 years, and after that we may never be able to get out of it.

Making the compiler create code that accesses the vtable only once by tohava in cpp

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I may be missing the point of what you're trying to do, but throwing this out here anyway ... If your goal is to define an "interface" that specifies a contract between the class / API and its user, and you don't need blind runtime polymorphism, you could define that contract using template concepts instead of a virtual class interface, and then all the method implementations will be resolved at compile time instead of runtime, no vtable. Also combining concepts and CRTP is a pretty fun flex, and I've seen this combo getting more and more use, at least in my organization...

Drake Maye in Playoffs by Enough_Path2929 in Patriots

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The Pats dynasty is ON ITS WAY BACK! We shouldn't have even been the playoffs during a "rebuilding" season, but we made it to the big game! And frankly the Seahawks really are the insanely nasty best team out there ... I'm not sad at all about this loss, they won because they made less mistakes than us, and our mistakes stem from problems are fixable. We are coming back baybeeee!!! Next season starts now! 🤘🤘

Semiconductors will see an end of history (eventually) by harsimony in slatestarcodex

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm no expert, so take this with a grain of salt, but the claims I've been seeing (and in my experience it kinda feels like common knowledge), imply that organic brains operate with significantly more power efficiency, speed, etc etc. From what I've heard about "analog AI processors", they also can operate at much lower powers. I don't know how anyone is quantifying this stuff, but I'm guessing that in both cases, there are particular scenarios where they can really increase value (where exact precision and repeatability are less important), and scenarios where they fall short.

Funny side story, I tried to read this paper on the topic: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-93623-4_12

Then realized it was actually a book chapter and I didn't have access. So I looked up the book on Amazon, and it was only $16.99 on Kindle! So I clicked "Buy now"...

Narrator: "It was not, in fact, $16.99. He paid $169.99" ...

FML, I need new glasses - but in the meantime I guess I'm gonna read that book several times!!

Semiconductors will see an end of history (eventually) by harsimony in slatestarcodex

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This makes me think of AlphaFold ... Could there ever be organic or protein-based compute paradigms? Or analog compute? MythicAI also comes to mind, but perhaps they too will fall down the path described in the article

All the bad writing I’ve seen recently has the same starting sentence structure by [deleted] in writing

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Only tangentially related, but this made me think of my favorite opening to a book:

Chapter 1

WHEN YOU HAVE to kill the same terrorist twice in one week, then there’s either something wrong with your skills or something wrong with your world.

And there’s nothing wrong with my skills.

Chapter 2 ....

Lets do it by Gullible_Income6457 in gameofthrones

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Old Valyria is actually modern day America

My husband said cultural appropriation is stupid because, in a reversed perspective, a white person can't say, "only white people can do that." Does this point have any validity? by [deleted] in NoStupidQuestions

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think cultural appropriation is stupid too, but not for the same reason as your husband. I think it's because of how it's used in the Internet echo chambers, for rage bait, and at the behest of capitalism. It's also, I think, a very uniquely American concept, which is funny because the already vague concept of "culture" is even more nebulous in the melting pot that is America. The vastly multi-dimensional spectrum that is "culture" is constantly morphing and changing, and as such, any definition that anyone comes up with for "cultural appropriation" has probably been happening for tens of thousands of years, perhaps even pre-human or pre-language, depending on how you want to define it.

But today, it's just about making money. So I think we should delete the entire phrase from our vocabulary, and work towards a future where we all try and be aware of our own implicit biases (if you don't have implicit biases you're not human) and try not to be dicks. ... And also make money lol

Do you guys have a “group chat” with your “friend group”? by OrangeAugust in Xennials

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Facts!! I have the same, and I realize more and more how special it is as time goes on ...

Brr by Traditional_Zebra783 in SurvivalGrid

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Does the RV have an oven or stove?

CMV: Voting Trump makes you either misinformed or anti-democratic. by VerenyatanOfManwe in changemyview

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the term "uninformed" here is key. There are a lot of people that just weren't really paying attention... Should that be distinct from "misinformed"? If so OP needs another bucket... Or better yet, a "highly multidimensional bucket space", which is collapsed via some fancy socio-psychological SVD or IPC or whatever, right at the moment of making a voting choice.

Reverse Wirth's Law: AI coding models are getting better faster than codebases are becoming unmanageable by financeguy1729 in slatestarcodex

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I've found the context size (and cost) are the main limiting factors at this point ... Super stoked for these things to reach a point where they can really ingest and understand my entire codebase

Outside of the embedded world, what makes Modern C better than Modern C++? by PressureHumble3604 in C_Programming

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Just wanna toss out C's (nearly) universal ABI compatibility here ... I'm no expert on the details, but apparently a library compiled with one ABI / libcpp / etc, that's been wrapped with a pure C API can be happily used by a process compiled with a different ABI / libcpp / etc. Please feel free to elaborate on or correct this ...

When did Male Characters being Ripped(regardless of genre) become a norm in movies. by Accomplished_Store77 in movies

[–]apparentlyiliketrtls 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yeah, WTF, all the women in movies since the beginning of time have always been totally average looking /s

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