Gibbon1

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by Gibbon1 2y ago
That massive coercion is exactly why the birthrate is dropping like a stone.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
China will have fewer people in 75 years than the US.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I saw someones tool that allows you to embed python code to generate C code. https://nedbatchelder.com/code/cog/ Never used it.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
A suggestion for California would be to update it's SLAPP law to include fraudulent DCMA take down actions. Best would be make both the carrier and the entity filing the DCMA complaint equally liable.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I read a critic comparing web tech to old school tech like GE, General Motors, etc. Old 1950's GM was connected to everything. Where ties to the rest of economy is nil for FAANG companies. Webshit can total crater and have zero effect
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I read with some horror a article on the California High Speed Rail where they were talking about of course using the TSA for 'security' Hint when they ran a BART feeder to SFO the first thing the TSA did was start patrolling BART
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Somewhere I saw someones study that said it's better to build solar and batteries than solar and transmission lines. I think wind is maybe more of an issue since wind and people don't line up geographically as much as solar and pe
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
The standards people won't even add a standard buffer or slice to the language. I kinda cry every time I see a new api with foo(void *src, int sz) signatures.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I think I'm more likely to die in a car accident on the way to CVS to get my flu shot than I am of dying from the flu shot.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Friends mom said her mother and father in law would wake up at 2am to smoke and go back to sleep. Neither one made it to 65.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
tinfoil hat on. I think Microsoft is making windows slow to prepare people for when they move everything on your computer to their cloud. tinfoil hat off.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Going from 4MB to 16MB made Autocad and Orcad Capture under Win 3.1 no longer slow. I remember a few years before that you'd zoom in on a drawing and do as much as you could without zooming back out because it would take a full minute
463.
by Gibbon1 2y ago
I feel that if C had tagged unions and a little sugar you could write non magical generic functions in C. Non magical meaning unlike C++ etc instead of the compiler selecting the correct function based on the arguments the function itself c
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I've been rolling the idea around that perhaps if a product is encumbered by a subscription then it's not a first sale and the product counts as inventory. And gets taxed as such.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I remember Brad deLong did back of the napkin analysis to determine how much a bart fare should be including the cost of freeways. It was minus $2.00 or something.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I remember in Taiwan they had roads and overpasses for scooters. You could rework cities to support small low speed vehicles. The US could build more mass transit. As the work from home vs return to the office struggle shows bashing busines
467.
by Gibbon1 2y ago
There is the idea of elite over production. We have private health insurance in order to create a couple thousand upper class jobs. With a half dozen billionaires running things.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
A lot of the effective vaccines work on pathogens with a long infection cycle. A vaccine primed immune system is able to completely squelch an infection before it's life cycle is complete. Think rabies, you can vaccinate people after i
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
We could fire WG14 and add Walter Brights fix for passing arrays, buffer and slice types. Add phat pointers and types as fist class objects. If you did that and implemented marking passing size info over function calls then you could probab
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
That's what I remember my sys admin friends saying. The Sun machines could handle heavy loads without falling over. But if you were running a heavy single user application or compiling a big project a commodity wintel box was faster.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Blast from the past my dad bought the the one tube radio kit on page 67 in the 1970 catalog and used it to try and teach me some basic electronics.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I had a very short back and forth with someone here. One thing makes you wonder about another. You calculate the cost of manufacturing hydrogen from water to feed into a the Haber-Bosch process to produce ammonia. All you are doing is repla
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
That's not what terrorism is. People seem to have forgotten in war you're allowed to kill anyone on the other side that is engaging in war against you. There aren't any times outs or safe spaces. That's war starting wars
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Yep right when everyone 1. Standardized on two's complement. 2. Little endian. 3. We went from word based memory systems to line based ones. 4. RISC lost out to super scalar designs.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Questions? You got any idea why people hate the concept of nested functions in C? Why named named arguments test( a:4, b:3) instead of test(.a=4, b.=3); Have any idea how you would handle first class types in C.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
Nah I got banned for saying idiots race baiting white people is why Democrats are always down 5-10% with white voters.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
If you ban people because you disagree with them then you don't have a community.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I got banned for racism because I didn't like someones post about whiteness. So the Fediverse is a fake community like all the rest of them.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
I was thinking today that companies like google don't understand the implication of losing or discarding a couple percent of their customers per year every year.
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by Gibbon1 2y ago
There is always this unshakable belief that whatever process causes people to gain weight is totally reversible with some gumption and will power.

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