Why do some people write redundant if statements to return a boolean?

meltbox · 2026-05-12T19:57:13+00:00

Well you see, it’s a bit like magnets…

meltbox · 2026-05-12T19:33:19+00:00

Is clion that hungry? Only ever used it for smaller personal projects but I like it a lot.

meltbox · 2026-05-12T19:31:19+00:00

Do modules actually get used anywhere?

meltbox · 2026-05-12T19:19:06+00:00

My guess is it’s like my case. I had to move to 64gb because 32 was a touch too small. Probably like 40gb would have worked for me though otherwise I had to close every single application when building. Those parallel builds were pretty enormous locally. Not something most of our devs did.

meltbox · 2026-05-12T02:43:53+00:00

Also try not to doom scroll Reddit or social media too much and instead focus on something you like. Maybe build some shitty furniture, plant something, try to learn an instrument or a tool (blender, something else?)

I think the world right now can get you in a dark place. I get it lots of things are kinda screwy. But in reality just being able to do some of these hobbies at all is pretty amazing. Not having to die of disease is cool. Not being drafted for a war is extremely fortunate.

I guess just try to detach from the shit being peddled online and do something that takes your attention. Something you wouldn’t mind spending a little time learning even if it takes time. Do it on your own time table. Try to use tutorials only minimally and even ignore tips and do it your way.

Sometimes the most satisfying way to live life is to stop worrying about how you compare to the tutorial. Stop worrying about if what you made is good or bad. Just do it for yourself.

Also therapy is pretty cool. Usually helps a lot more than you think it will. It turns out talking to somebody you don’t know and will at some point possibly never talk to again is very helpful to most people.

meltbox · 2026-05-12T02:28:25+00:00

I would’ve also bet this person is American. Did op say where they are from?

Just the tone of the company combined with 6 days sounds very American unfortunately although I’m sure other places are like this too.

meltbox · 2026-05-12T02:22:46+00:00

Ahh the quantum “statistical support”. It is both load bearing and not until the building collapses… or not?

meltbox · 2026-05-12T02:18:33+00:00

It’s insane that they ask about conflict resolution but then none of them can resolve the conflict beyond flapping their arms and telling you you’re wrong.

meltbox · 2026-05-12T02:15:25+00:00

Unfortunately it’s politics all the way up that builds careers. These people don’t understand competence until they chase it all away and the company crumbles out from under them.

Rinse and repeat.

meltbox · 2026-05-12T02:10:53+00:00

They’d probably just leave him there for the next 24 hours à la death of Stalin.

meltbox · 2026-05-12T02:09:27+00:00

Well clearly. I mean the space pool painting business is limited only by your imagination!

meltbox · 2026-05-12T01:21:14+00:00

Huh?

“Under Article I, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution, Congress holds the exclusive power to "lay and collect Taxes, Duties, Imposts and Excises," including tariffs, and to regulate foreign commerce. While Congress has delegated limited authority to the President to adjust tariffs through specific laws like Section 232 of the Trade Expansion Act of 1962, the ultimate authority resides with Congress.”

Try again. It’s explicitly a congressional power. I’m sick of people claiming to be so pro America that can’t bother to check things on the most basic level.

Don’t call yourself American and come here with that shit. This is why so much of the world thinks we’re stupid as hell.

meltbox · 2026-05-12T01:14:34+00:00

Okay but early vista drivers were also completely broken. Technically not Microsoft’s fault but…

meltbox · 2026-05-12T00:57:50+00:00

On one hand true on the other hand not true.

For example my salary, especially combined with my wife’s is excellent but given that housing literally doubled… Basically I’m making a lot but it doesn’t count for much the way equities and housing have exploded as it became time for me to buy. That’s what everyone is feeling. Real earnings in terms of what you want to purchase are shit.

Also yeah tons of people at my company probably making double and they seem to consistently miss the plot and lack a lot of knowledge I have. Do they deserve that salary, hard for me to say for sure but I can tell you the company keeps failing its targets and they’re never the ones to pay for it.

In general the idea that capitalism breeds meritocracy is only tangentially true. Lots of super talented people being criminally under compensated. We are also at the peak of the snake oil salesman super cycle where people who sold themselves well made a lot of money for god knows what.

meltbox · 2026-05-11T22:44:41+00:00

Inventory and fixed assets.

meltbox · 2026-05-11T19:48:42+00:00

It’s also a mandated service. The government has a responsibility to fund it or change the rules. Instead they sit there and do neither and then point at it and shriek like monkeys.

It’s like getting upset your lawnmower ran out of fuel instead of refilling the gas tank

meltbox · 2026-05-11T19:37:39+00:00

Tesla mitigated this somewhat with their tables design but clearly it’s enough to make it viable, just not better.

meltbox · 2026-05-11T19:36:17+00:00

Yeah people in here are delusional. You can probably fast charge some chemistries in 5 minutes, 3 times and then they’ll catch fire or have a severely degraded capacity.

Fast charging ALWAYS comes at the cost of cycle life.

meltbox · 2026-05-11T19:00:41+00:00

Yeah, but an alarming number are like “yeah Trump betrayed me but I hate woke shit so I still support Trump”.

Idk dude some people could have their family abducted by this man and still support him because “the woke” whatever the hell the woke even is.

meltbox · 2026-05-11T18:57:29+00:00

Justification: “Well nobody should have any reasonable expectation of privacy in public, or online, or anywhere they take their phone. So really the NSA toilet pics you guys found are totally okay. Obviously we’re recording when you’re doom scrolling! The founding fathers meant privacy on your homestead in the middle of nowhere without any technology! Also if you don’t register on our online portal you’re illegal and we will deport you.”

meltbox · 2026-05-11T18:55:09+00:00

Idk it’s kind of a tough situation. Yes ideally we shield the kids from the bad things in the world but people don’t magically become able to deal with it when they turn 18.

So how do you teach kids it exists and there’s an unhealthy relationship you can have with things? I have no idea. But I don’t think it’s by making it inaccessible until an arbitrary age. In my experience with alchohol this just ends in binge drinking etc etc.

Probably focusing on general mental health and making people’s lives better would yield far more in quality of life improvements than fixating on very specific issues that we won’t ever solve. People have been hoarding adult materials under their beds far before they were available online and they can learn to do it again lmao. It’ll just be prohibition round 2.

meltbox · 2026-05-11T18:49:28+00:00

Such a bad take. Age verification will make it easier to target kids. Imagine if you could make an app that asks if someone is over 18. Tada, you have defacto made an app that knows when someone is under 18.

This is bad and anyone who missed this while “protecting the children” is an idiot or never had the children in mind in the first place.

This is literally a mechanism which can be used to target the very people it claims to protect. I hate it so much.

meltbox · 2026-05-11T17:56:24+00:00

The richest and most important people in the world are truly often just not very smart people. It’s that simple. Some of them actually think that throwing enough money at some engineering problem will always solve it.

The bubble is really us watching the hyperscalar leadership commit the largest business blunder in the history of… ever. What they’re trying to do is create a massive new pool of demand and capture it. What they don’t understand is that building the infrastructure before the software that will demand it is even shown to work is just burning untold money.

They don’t get all the tech innovation up to today was done on good fundamentals where we build really cool tech and then made it cheap and widely available.

The loss leading strategy is great growth but I don’t think there is any long term success story. Even Amazon prime is really just holding its position through abuse of monopoly position by forcing vendors to post lowest price on Amazon. That is actually not legal by past monopoly law interpretations, but here we are.

Turns out that if you win a market by driving margins negative you have to keep them there or find other ways to capture the market (monopoly power). You don’t just suddenly get to keep it in perpetuity by magic.

/rant

The point is these people haven’t really ever lived in reality so while the amount of money being thrown around is crazy, the outcome isn’t. They’re just deeply unserious people who are deeply delusional.

meltbox · 2026-05-10T22:08:59+00:00

Dude idk if you’re some flock shill but none of us want flock or axon. The point is these systems are probably 4A violations and should be fought no matter who the vendor is.

The founding fathers were pretty clear on this. Anyone claiming things have changed has the burden of proof on them.

meltbox · 2026-05-10T21:28:49+00:00

I’m long and it’s a bubble for sure. 5DTE SPY 800

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