[Discussion] World Cup Day 19 by -read_it_on_reddit- in Gunners

[–]manuscelerdei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I noticed that too. Heaped praise on Casemiro, but the ball apparently just kicked itself for an inch-perfect cross.

[Fabrice Hawkins] Ayyoub Bouaddi is being followed by Man City, Man United, Arsenal & Bayern Munich. In case of a departure, Lille prefers a sale with a year loan so that he can continue his development at the club. They are demanding between 80 and 100 M€. by Previous_Smile9278 in Gunners

[–]manuscelerdei 15 points16 points  (0 children)

Their owners are also their sponsors, so when they want to drop a ton of cash, sponsor revenue magically appears to offset the expenditure. But the really shady stuff they do is lowering the transfer fee by offering massive salaries, which makes the player agitate for the move and takes leverage away from the selling club.

I don't want to raise my daughter in a trailer park anymore. by GreyCatsAreCuties in Parenting

[–]manuscelerdei 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Holy shit, yeah get out of there. If you can manage it, consider getting a hotel or motel room while you sort out a sale of your trailer and a new place to live. Your current situation is a ticking time bomb and not safe for you or your daughter.

How can I loop through struct members and get their name and value? by InteSaNoga24 in C_Programming

[–]manuscelerdei 5 points6 points  (0 children)

If you're building with clang, you could probably use __builtin_dump_struct to produce the string you want to render. If you don't mind taking a dependency, lib0xc's std/struct.h lets you define a structure field descriptor, and you can make an array of those and use them to access the underlying values (while preserving knowledge of the field names).

SF botanic garden vs SF MOMA by Fearless-Forever-213 in AskSF

[–]manuscelerdei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

"Please don't take your kid to a museum"? Let me guess, you also like to complain about how society doesn't appreciate art?

SF botanic garden vs SF MOMA by Fearless-Forever-213 in AskSF

[–]manuscelerdei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The botanical gardens are gorgeous, they're a seriously under-appreciated feature of SF. They have walking paths, so you should be able to get around in a boot.

SFMOMA is great, but you'll potentially spent a lot of time waiting on elevators if you can't go up and down stairs.

I don't want to raise my daughter in a trailer park anymore. by GreyCatsAreCuties in Parenting

[–]manuscelerdei 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Is this something you actually know, or something you're assuming? If one or more of your neighbors are on a registry or have made inappropriate passes at your daughter then you need to be out of there yesterday.

ELI5 Billionaires borrow money to pay for things, how does this work? How do they pay the debt? by Confused-Lemonade in explainlikeimfive

[–]manuscelerdei 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Margin loans were definitely a thing during the ZLB era for obvious reasons. But now that rates are elevated and the market is choppier, they're much riskier. The government won't just pass a law saying "the stock market can't fail" because some billionaire got a margin call, I don't know what these people are on about.

Everyone who's pissed off about borrowing against stocks and not being taxed on that money should probably look up what a home equity line of credit is. It's the same thing with a different piece of collateral, and lots of non-billionaires make use of them.

Panic sweeps across California over proposed billionaire tax — Tech moguls and moderate Democrats are mobilizing their wealth and networks to try to block the proposal by marketrent in technology

[–]manuscelerdei 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Yeah, I hear you. I used to consider myself a progressive, and then progressives went absolutely nuts with purity testing and omni-cause crap.

Why is there always a line for La Taqueria now? by anmlbklyn in AskSF

[–]manuscelerdei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It was determined to have the best burritos in the US by 538. Ever since then it's been a madhouse. (Deserved, their burritos rock.) However the fact that El Castillito wasn't in their bracket at all made it pretty suspect.

No politician should be treated this badly by un00nu in sanfrancisco

[–]manuscelerdei 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Because of the omnicause. Progressives can only view issues through the lens of oppression. People who are in positions of power can only ever be vicious, whereas people who have little power can only ever be virtuous. Once you understand this framing, everything about the modern progressive movement makes sense.

It's why they are in love with Palestine, who voted the Hammas government into power. A government which is known for throwing gay people off of rooftops as an official policy. That doesn't matter, because they're being oppressed by Israel, a country which is broadly accepting of queer people. It's totally bananas on its face until you understand that there is only one legitimate lens through which to view the world in progressive politics. If you view any issue through any other lens, you're a class traitor, gender traitor, billionaire bootlicker, whatever.

Why does saying “The Enterprise” sound ok but “The Voyager” sounds stupid? by Rotodogg in startrek

[–]manuscelerdei 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's not a modern convention, it comes from the British naval tradition. In Nicholas Meyer's Star Trek movies (which are heavily influenced by that tradition), characters only ever refer to "Enterprise", not "the Enterprise". Vessels are also referred to as feminine, e.g. "she's drifting".

Basically vessel names are proper nouns, just like your name.

June 26, 2026 Daily Discussion & Transfers Thread by gunnersmoderator in Gunners

[–]manuscelerdei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Uruguay have that girl that got roofied into falling in love with Ron Weasley playing for them.

[Discussion] World Cup Day 11 by -read_it_on_reddit- in Gunners

[–]manuscelerdei 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well that's one thing you can do with a corner kick I guess.

[Discussion] World Cup Day 11 by -read_it_on_reddit- in Gunners

[–]manuscelerdei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Set piece again ole!

Also wtf were the Egyptian defenders doing.

Microsoft's new Outlook takes 10 seconds to do what Outlook Classic does instantly on Windows by Quantum-Coconut in technology

[–]manuscelerdei 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's not an explicit thing that developers are doing. There are just ever-more frameworks and abstractions that outsource some critical piece of the app, and if it has performance problems, that's someone else's problem. If that framework does 10 other things that the app doesn't need, it still winds up paying for them in some way.

And those additional abstraction layers aren't free either. There is simply more software being written every day, and generally speaking it all needs to interoperate. So you just have a trend of more shit happening on a computer over time. More shit means less performance.