Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I remember reading with horror that the California high speed rail will have the TSA doing security. That's absolutely last thing the systems needs.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Biden's cabinet picks were the most pro working class of any president in my lifetime.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
My preference is 100% of fines and siezed property should go to the Social Security Administration. Bonus diverting money or property would be a federal crime.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I have various thoughts. The rough one is that investors driving up the cost of housing increases the countries labor costs. Which harms it's competitiveness. Reduces workers standard of living. Which also causes headaches for politica
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
My suspicion is it's the financialization of everything driven by fiance capitalism and enabled by the huge twentieth century population boom. I know that sounds edgy but explaining it. With the population surging you could just flat o
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
That's related to something I would like which is to be able to set the number of elements in an incomplete struct. struct foo { size_t elements; int data[]; }; foo foo123 = {.elements = array_size(data), .data
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
On thing that happens is one of the people involved in the cunning plan is also doing sleazy stuff on the side and gets caught for that. Then the auditors wonder why they donated $1500 to a charity and then got $3000 back. The old director
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Friend of mine had to evacuate and then watched his house burn down on the news.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I saw a video of of it burning down down houses and commecial building Altedena, unlike newscasts where the lip flappers are blabbing over everything you could hear the wind howling and see streams of embers blowing down the street and over
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I've used nested functions for a very long time with gcc and they are completely reliable. Since my code is embedded without an MMU the oh noes executable stack doesn't fill me with any dread. It's unfortunate a lot of the st
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
It never seems to get stated directly by tunneling through stable rock has to be really easy. Like if you can drill and blast your way through you just need a small crew of workers and a dump truck. There is a half mile long tunnel in the C
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
What gets me about the neoliberal ideology that's got a strangle hold on us is it studiously ignores the psychic stress and damage it's inflicting on people as if there won't be blow back eventually. With insurance companies
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Stupid thing I didn't do when I was in my 20's was take the contractors license exam. Back then you took a few classes, took the exam and you had a license. Now you need to work several thousand hours under someone with a license
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Not being involved in war is always good for civilians.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Where I feel that breaks down while probably leet code would be faster. But high quality code tends to have checks to make sure operations are safe. So you got branches anyways in real code.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
If you look at other countries you see that unsustainable housing price increases are happening everywhere. So yeah your local assholes at the permit and planning department are probably a symptom of the deeper finance driven problem. We go
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I've been wondering how much you'd pay if you just required that out of bounds accesses be a no-op with an option of calling an error handler. De-reference a null or out of bounds pointer you get zero. Write out of bounds, does no
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I think it's just procedural languages with a lack of magic.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Yeah but not having standard buffer and slice types along with safe API's that require their use is unforgivable. I'm also of the opinion that a backwards compatibility with null terminated string is actually terrible. Because you
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
There is a youtube video I ran into showing electricity generation by coal for various countries over the last 40 years. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RwLwdQnlA9U The US was ahead at 1.5 TWh. Rose to 2.1 before dropping d
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
A point, part of the reason insurance companies deny claims isn't because they think they can get out of paying. It's because doctors don't get paid for dealing with insurance. So they tie doctors up so doctors can't see
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Nothing is wrong with that.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
My opinion as well. There is really nothing basically super special about electric vehicles. 90% is just standard commodity automotive tech.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I think it's really worse than that. I'm always surprised how much psychological buy in you can get out of people with the right social incentives. It seems difficult for people surrounded by people with cultural attitudes and way
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I had a lesson in this 25 years ago. I think it was National Semiconductor. They had an early website that was engineering focused and really good for the time. You could do parametric search, compare products, ask questions of their sales
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Thing I read that's a bit fascinating and possibly important is your digestive system has taste buds and it's own nervous system. I wouldn't be gobsmacked if it responded to artificial sweeteners. And that causes issues. Othe
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Writing C code so won't compile with a C++ compiler is gods work. Because C++ is why C can't have nice things.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
The St Louis fed has a plot of units of housing over the last 25 years. Since 2008 we're short about 15 million units of housing. Which is how everyone that works for a living is getting squeezed. Rents and mortgages have sucked up all
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I harp on this. Unless I biffed my calcs a solar farm produces 25-50 times as much energy per acre as corn. That alone tells you biofuels is a dead technology. A solar farm doesn't need to be weeded, ploughed, planted, weeded again, to
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Total weight is 1.6 million Sheila Broflovski's

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