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cplusplusfellow··on Implementing ‘strlen’ using SVE
This could also be achieved by locating the pointer and the (offset and length) as separate.
cplusplusfellow··on Fuel out of thin air: CO2 capture from air and conversion to methanol (2020)
I mostly hear nuclear talking points of the fact that it’s a guaranteed GW/year production versus intermittent weather-dependent allocation.
cplusplusfellow··on The Twitter Files
Bias might be legal but when we say “the White House” pressured them to take it down, we are being less than clear on what actually happened.

The “White House” was trump at the time.

cplusplusfellow··on The Twitter Files
Yes but only for some White House admins.

The previous White House admin saw their press secretary’s account suspended because the campaign didn’t like the fact that she tweeted about this story.

The current White House likely wouldn’t see that same fate.

cplusplusfellow··on Speech by Chair Powell on inflation and the labor market
Seems like we prefer inflation to recessions.
cplusplusfellow··on America’s School Districts Are Too Big
I’m pretty sure if you gave Camden NJ ISD more money they wouldn’t be any better.
cplusplusfellow··on How We Built Fly Postgres
Let us put 3tb, let alone 4pb through this.

Can anyone tell me I should or shouldn’t trust I’ll be ok?

cplusplusfellow··on Bye, Twitter
You can downvote me all you like but you live in a bubble and it would benefit you to get out of it.
cplusplusfellow··on Bye, Twitter
As the saying goes. It’s not an airport, not necessary to announce your departure.
cplusplusfellow··on Bye, Twitter
Similar to my commentary in other threads today. You basically won’t ever hear someone refer to a person as “center right” anymore. We can only hear that they are “far right” and that your average communist is “center left”. Just absurd.
cplusplusfellow··on The Oxygen of Amplification
I was flagged earlier today because I called out someone pushing politics of the left with overt hypocrisy. It certainly doesn’t happen the other way around.
cplusplusfellow··on The Oxygen of Amplification
“Far” right is a ludicrous term these days given how centrist you can be and still be designated such. All that’s necessary is to be contra narratives - or question narratives that aren’t allowed to be questioned and suddenly you’re almost a nazi.

With that said, “trolling” and “meme culture” was founded by far left activists on late night television during the Obama years, in my view. It’s a legitimate way of questioning narratives.

cplusplusfellow··on Habits of Highly Overrated People (2013)
They make up a really small percentage of the population and that group generally isn’t reading articles and introspecting.
cplusplusfellow··on Westinghouse sees a tech disrupter in its eVinci microreactor
Now we just need a bunch of these reactors to power the desalination plants to support all the folks living in the desert.
cplusplusfellow··on Elizabeth Holmes is sentenced to more than 11 years for fraud
> Holmes' personal experience with trauma.

I’m not sure I’ve ever heard of this being a consideration. Someone had trauma in their life so they get a lenient sentence for defrauding people out of money?

Maybe this isn’t consistently applied across states and gender.

cplusplusfellow··on FTX held less than $1B in liquid assets against $9B in liabilities
He lived with the CEO of Alameda and is said to be in a polyamorous relationship with her. He’s also co-CEO.
cplusplusfellow··on The Age of PageRank Is Over
I would (and have) buy a cookbook on Amazon before sitting through recipe ads. It’s as bad as porn hub.
cplusplusfellow··on Meta Is Preparing to Notify Employees of Large-Scale Layoffs This Week
Elon Musk advertised as a feature that he would cut Twitter staff to bring the revenue per employee in line with industry standards.

But I’m curious - What ideas of Elon do you find to be delusional bullshit?

cplusplusfellow··on Twitter users jump to Mastodon, but what is it?
He’s in the arena. And that’s what people respect.

But has he failed at Boring?

cplusplusfellow··on How rate hikes are affecting the economy
You can be in favor of this, but don’t act like it’s not a cause of inflation.
cplusplusfellow··on How rate hikes are affecting the economy
> Solar/storage will certainly power a geothermal heat pump, replacing an oil burner that would otherwise burn ~diesel.

Will. One day. Doesn’t today. Inflation is happening today.

cplusplusfellow··on How rate hikes are affecting the economy
Like it or not, better for the climate or not, but solar and "other forms of energy independence" subsidies will not power a Caterpillar D9. The world still needs diesel right now, and we're discussing inflation that is happening right now. When we've successfully build construction & transportation equipment that can use electrons, then we can discuss their utility.

What we're bickering about is the timeline.

cplusplusfellow··on How rate hikes are affecting the economy
I’ve said recently in despair: the internet used to not suck but by god it does now.
cplusplusfellow··on How rate hikes are affecting the economy
And we have zero support on any of those topics from the current administration, which is solely focused on NOT supplying BTUs to the market. Some see this as a good thing, so welcome to the outcomes they’ve been wanting. Time will tell if Americans actually prefer this.
cplusplusfellow··on Ask HN: How would you design an alternative Twitter
There are plenty of hateful and racist things said on Twitter like : “all I want for Christmas is white genocide.”

But no one blinks an eye. So HatefulRacistUncle might be “HorriblyMisguidedAndRacistYoungCollegeStudent” and that’s also not ok to some of us.

So who polices this? Maybe we just go back to not reading things we dislike. You can block people on Twitter ya know.

cplusplusfellow··on Engineers should do customer support and success
Just stop trying to make developers solve 100% of your problems since they already solve 99% of your problems.
cplusplusfellow··on Low Water Levels Are Causing Barge Backups on the Mississippi River
The suggestions to send the Mississippi River water westward so that we don’t have to stop growing senseless almonds and alfalfa in California was always absurd. I can’t believe anyone ever took that seriously.
cplusplusfellow··on Pouring the 200 inch disk at Corning Glass Works
We don’t call every person at a basketball game “irrational” or “active dangers to others.”

It’s truly time to let covid fears subside and fade away.

I’m much more concerned with irrational people who get angry with someone not wearing a mask than I am that the person not wearing a mask would be a risk to me.

cplusplusfellow··on Pouring the 200 inch disk at Corning Glass Works
I think when we have people going to basketball games, we can tour science facilities. It’s absurd anyone would be so terrified of covid at this point.
cplusplusfellow··on Pouring the 200 inch disk at Corning Glass Works
The longer term effects of lost opportunity and science are the most saddening.
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