Its incredibly hard to search on the web nowadays, so this is the best I could find. If I try searching for anything military, it’s propaganda slop.

It’s not specifically about nukes, and it might have been the origin point of an urban legend that reached my circles mutated.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20180228-00/?p=98125

Also it’s technically a storage leak not a memory leak.

The problem I see with this line of reasoning is, among other things, is that just telling these young men to suck it up won’t cut it.

The current layoff tsunami is hurting men more than women since male-dominated fields are more affected. We live in “unprecedented times”, promises are kinda worthless.

These men are expected to marry and father children today, and find mates in a society that ties their value to their salary. According to data from dating apps, that isn’t happening, women are still marrying up, to older men, and this cohort of men is just getting shut out.

But what they can do and will do in the next few years is vote for people who present a solution to them for today, instead of marginalizing their problem.

Today, that’s fuckheads like Trump and Tate.

So yeah, we can argue with them or listen to them. My point is if we as a society make an effort to listen to the ones that try to speak to us, we can get them out of this hole.

Or if we just go and argue that their problems don’t matter as much, there will just be more of them in crisis and they will eventually start murdering people that argue with them today if they get told that’s their way out.

One thing I think about is that we make servers with ECC RAM because normal RAM has cosmic rays cause random corruption IIRC once every 100 days on average.

It’s overkill for desktops because you don’t care about 3 bit flips every year if you only have 1 machine as opposed to managing thousands in a datacenter, and you regularly restart your stuff anyway.

And then you have people who have to deal with hundreds of people who never restart their stuff.

And companies ship stuff with memory leaks all the time on top of this. US nuclear guidance systems have them, but they are not expected to have to be on constantly for weeks on end like the laptop of Joan from Marketing.

Well I wouldn’t say an entire generation, but apparently in the urbanite Western Gen Z population, the wage gap has reversed with women earning more than men due to how modern education and gender roles interact.

So if you were to be born in this millennium, the “most privileged” demographic is Western urbanite women.

In any case, I think it would just be a nicer thing if we were nicer to all people that are disadvantaged, or just people in general. Tearing others down doesn’t lift you up.

Unironically yes.

The only good thing about this is that we get to watch how Trump can even make US naval procurement worse. It’s definitely going to be a challenge, but the US definitely chose the best person for the job.

Immovable objects and unstoppable forces and stuff.

The question did too, it isn’t immediately apparent why you’d write to disk to calculate pi if you haven’t worked in a place that churned a lot of numbers before.

I don’t know if this refers to politics, but in general, what politicians, and I mean all politicians do where they refer to their opponents and topics consistently with specific words meant to elucidate specific emotions is stomach-turning. And yeah, you’re right, it’s not only politicians, but corporations, newspapers and basically all PR orgs doing the same.

It’s not a layoff, it’s a reorg. It’s not in-person attendance requirements, it’s an inevitable “return to office”. And so on, so forth.

grounded (supposedly)

Yeah I think you’re right, there is no way they are flying around with so many unsecured articles in the cabin. Or maybe the world would get lucky and the pilots would decide to lock the cockpit door and practice stall and spin recovery.

I imagine it’s about checkpointing the calculation as it’s very long.

Point is, if the system crashes, you want to be able to resume the calculation without losing too much progress, so you want to periodically write progress to disk.

That takes some CPU cycles away from the calculation, and if your disk driver is inefficient, it will take away more.

As I understand, cost inflation in the US is insane compared to just about anywhere in the world, and even within the US there are vast variations. The most expensive European cities are roughly on par with “medium cost of living” US cities, while “high cost of living” is disproportionately more expensive.

You can get a mansion for the same rent in most of Europe as a New York flat. There is basically no easy way to compare wages and costs because people in the US have to spend on a lot of stuff Europeans pay for via taxes.

I guess the Windows disk drivers are shit compared to Linux ones.

It really seems to be made by one of those devs who think Android is by default an inferior platform, and that anything outside the iOS “ecosystem” is by default insecure.

Also yeah, no plans to make a desktop app.

I think you’re overestimating the brain drain. Most people who emigrate from EU countries do so to another EU country.

We’re not India.

And if you go to the right type of tech company in the right member state, you can easily get a salary over 130k USD with just a few years of experience. With much better job security and work life balance.

My method is that if it’s a 5 minute thing, that’s this week. If not, then next quarter.

Yeah, the NL basically has the US system, except there is only one “network” all providers must be in, premiums are like 150 EUR and there are no other fees like copays or maximums.

So in folk tales from Eastern Europe or Germany I know, most “magic words” are either rhyming nonsense or just specific sentences in the same local language. Think “abracadabra”, ours in Hungary is “csiribú-csiribá”, you’d pronounce it like “chiribooh-chiribaah”.

I think it’s not just Trump. They said something along the lines of releasing it would have catastrophic political consequences.

I imagine they are trying to balance redacting enough so that the redactions themselves won’t cause enough of an outrage so that the unredacted stuff needs to be released, redact stuff in a way that none of the various cliques in both parties feels slighted enough to flip the table.

Add to it that there are probably international contacts in there as well, so an unredacted release could topple US-friendly regimes worldwide. And then the backchannels are probably being lit up constantly by scared rapists with wealth or contacts.

I’ll be honest, your technique makes the half done sketch look better and closer to what I’d consider a finished piece than the AI copy.

It fucked up your lines and made them uninteresting. I like the original better.

I’m neither militantly anti-AI nor an artist, I just think AI is kinda shit at doing things.

Is this another of those stupid articles on a commission plan that can be blocked by a 35‰ EP minority being sold as if it already passed?