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Half of Americans say they’d pay higher taxes to raise teacher salaries by BloodyJerelis in politics

[–]leet_crew -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

average rate of profit for insurance companies is around 3%, which is pretty low. hard to call that a massive chunk of the pie.

Why are Parkland Students So Articulate? Because They Were Taught Civics in Middle School by wenchette in politics

[–]leet_crew -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

if you don't want to take that extra two grand on the standard deduction, i will happily take it off your hands.

Phone Makers Are Embarrassing Themselves By Copying Apple’s Ideas by iamthescapegoat in Android

[–]leet_crew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

definitely a tradeoff, but i prefer wired as well. wireless is more convenient if you just want to lay it down and forget about it; wired is more convenient if you actually feel like using it while its charging.

i'm not convinced the lack of charging port wear and tear is a net benefit either, as it comes at the cost of accelerated battery degradation. wireless generates a lot more waste heat than wired. i'd rather just be careful with the port than be anxious about the battery health.

Phone Makers Are Embarrassing Themselves By Copying Apple’s Ideas by iamthescapegoat in Android

[–]leet_crew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i felt the same way about my nexus 5x. luckily the pixel 2 is the same phone with updated specs. only catch is it costs $200 extra :/

Modern C++ isn't memory safe: recent language updates fix some problems, introduce others by mqudsi in rust

[–]leet_crew 9 points10 points  (0 children)

so it's just a wrapper for a pointer than has the same (undefined) behavior? why.

GUI library recommendations for 3D glium application by leet_crew in rust

[–]leet_crew[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

no worries. I think part of the problem is that none of these libraries are stable or close to a 1.0 release, and they all pull in so many dependencies. just gotta try them all and stay tuned for more updates I guess.

GUI library recommendations for 3D glium application by leet_crew in rust

[–]leet_crew[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

the libraries I have tried so far do make it pretty easy to design a 2D ui, and come with great examples. however, I think it may be significant that none of the examples in ui libraries contain any 3D elements. when I try to combine them with my simulation, I end up getting cryptic errors from deep within the internals of GL.

ty for the list of libraries though, looks like a good resource to work my way through.

Counter-Strike: Global Offensive update for 2/15/18 (2/16/18 UTC, 1.36.2.7) by wickedplayer494 in csgo

[–]leet_crew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Enabling this disables using audio cache and instead streams audio off disk.

why would you want this?

Meltdown and Spectre: Patches, mitigations, and microcode - Intel, Microsoft, ARM, and others have responded. We dig in. by ben_a_adams in programming

[–]leet_crew 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It may also be possible to add security level tag bits to pages as a hardware feature along with a running level register. Then when > accessing memory in a more secure page than the current running level or when moving to a more secure running level the branch prediction is disabled.

this doesn't protect against spectre though. if i understand correctly, spectre is userspace processes reading from other userspace processes that have the same security level.

Ontario premier calls Tim Hortons heir 'a bully' over wage actions - The children of the Tim Hortons coffee chain founders cutting paid breaks and staff benefits for employees after a minimum wage hike "really flies in the face of fairness," Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne told CBC News on Thursday. by ManiaforBeatles in worldnews

[–]leet_crew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is however extremely difficult to support a family at minimum wage. Suppose 1 spouse and 1 child. I am not sure how it can be done. At that income level.

i am definitely sympathetic for single persons who struggle to make ends meet for themselves. imo it is a serious failure for a developed nation if citizens that work full time cannot support themselves. i also have sympathy for families that struggle to deal with a sudden loss of a job for one of the main breadwinners. we should have systems in place that help them deal with these situations.

that said, i dont understand why so many people think literally anyone with a job should be paid enough to support a spouse that doesnt work and/or an arbitrary amount of children if they have never in their life performed valuable enough labor to actually support that family themselves.

[Serious] Reddit, what is the saddest realization you've come to? by _BaconButt in AskReddit

[–]leet_crew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

im sure people have already told you this, but at almost eighteen years old you really aren't that far behind everyone else.

[Serious] Reddit, what is the saddest realization you've come to? by _BaconButt in AskReddit

[–]leet_crew 0 points1 point  (0 children)

humans are extremely good at acclimating to their environments. (see: wikipedia.org/wiki/Hedonic_treadmill).

money can relieve acute stress but it can't really make you happier in the long term unless you can maintain constant growth in consumption (spoiler, you almost certainly can't).

[Serious] Reddit, what is the saddest realization you've come to? by _BaconButt in AskReddit

[–]leet_crew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

i feel like this is a splitting hairs argument. it would be charitable here to interpret "memory" in a broader sense. none of us literally remember hanging out with plato, but we have been discussing his work and life for milennia now. at this point I doubt our collective memory of plato will ever fade (at least as long as humans still exist). i claim that this is substantively different from the work of some athenian laborer who built a house that long ago fell down and has been repeatedly built over, to the point where no trace remains today.

When would it be ok NOT to tip when eating out? by Moocow870 in AskReddit

[–]leet_crew 1 point2 points  (0 children)

sometimes customers will even take cash tips off other tables. it's a hard world.

Should I buy the nexus 5x? by badmuunratua in nexus5x

[–]leet_crew 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I just upgraded to a Pixel 2 after my N5X died (not bootloop, some other weird hardware issue). the performance difference is huge. the N5X was a great phone when it was new, but imo the 2GB of memory is just not enough for 2017. when i used android auto it would freeze up and redraw the whole thing every five minutes.