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I'm just not that good a programmer, but I still feel the need to program so I tend to take print debugging to absurdist levels, if I start a project that i anticipate is a stretch for me (not being that smart), I make sure that debugging strategies are there from the start.

One particular knotty routine for me was a small synth, I knew I had neither the math ability or c wizardry to develop complex things easily so I made sure there was plenty of scaffolding to assist me. For each 1k of audio output, there is easily 1m of debugging output that I would then "query" with perl, pagenate each step that I could page through, etc, debugging was put in from the start.

Allowing flexible debugging strategies that I could adjust for the difficulties at hand just seems right for me and I find often that different programming constructs need different debugging strategies, and I just don't think debuggers are agile enough to let me adjust.

Its really that I'm just too dumb to get benefits from debuggers, although I'm guessing they may be just perfect for folks smarter than me.

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I think the system works as designed. If a country has 30 to 40 percent of its population being crazed qanon loonies, just what do we think this country deserves?

heh qanon is literally a 4chan/8chan troll that snared millions of biters.

He's right to despise libertarianism, I'm right there with him!

Firefox 90+ doesn't even run for me. Bog standard ubuntu 20.04. These guys have really lost their mojo. I have to stick with the 7x lts versions.

2*256 is 512. you should probably type 2^256.

lol picky I know

Think of it this way, take a regular, legal set of adult pornographic pictures. While legal, we'd still classify this set of pictures as known porn if we were tracking it.

Now the first few images might be the model completely clothed and not even be porn, maybe there's a picture of her lounging around a pool, then another picture of the pool itself. Still its part of a set of pictures that is known porn.

Heck most porn starts off with actors being clothed (so I hear lol).

Thats pretty creative!

yeah thank goodness I'm a liberal or else I would have died on a ventilator lol ok we got the politics out of the way.

I'm sympathetic to some of the article's points but I do disagree with the articles optimism on the intelligence of the general public. The argument about trust and credibility is right on target.

I personally feel Fauci is still a good source of information for me personally but I understand some folks use whatever OAN has to offer and who am I to argue? Some folks set their opinions early and don't like further debate and who am I to ruin their day about that? Just dont' get too close to them thats all lol

Climate change is one of those problems that you can't solve with experiments and controls, we'd have to have a test planet earth and run 200 year experiments or something lol

I listen to experts then try to judge the experts credibility. This goes to listening to the sources of climate change believers and unbelievers. What sort of people believe climate change is real? What sort of people don't believe it?

Also, what evidence does each side present, and how credible is this evidence?

Just relating what I do.

I downloaded the gold metal match from youtube because seemed like an interesting story, the video was very incomplete. It would have been cool to see the entire match.

2018 super g was an amazing contest, I was able to download it after the fact, very enjoyable, from what I read it wasn't very good live.

Yes plus there's the bit about the sheriff departments themselves, they are their own little fiefdom. This link really brings it home for me:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/03/14/593204274...

Note, this is legal behavior. They are their own little governments with the only repercussions being their next election cycle, and we all know what sort of folks we tend to vote for.

I dead lift about 200 lbs daily (ie., getting out of bed)

Thats the point. The parent comment bemoans this because there are of course other ways to stay in touch. I'm just pointing out that for some folks Facebook is their internet. Given this, are we saying Facebook is now subject to being a utility that can't boot people off?

I mean you won't get stranded with your truck because you made an off hand comment you didn't realize would offend someone right? (Heh unless you're riding in someone else's truck)

Still there are folks that cannot deal with anything outside of Facebook, ie., cannot run a regular browser because they simply don't know how.

We have CLEARLY reached such technical ineptitude.

There's all sorts of programming styles in use and calling stored procedures from dot net programs for instance is at least a thing.

Plus, lots of those ORM things get plenty of hate from DBAs, I mean I like them but then again I'm not a very good programmer.

Its a bad look to blame feminism honestly, women are just looking out for themselves and its just healthy in a way. If you're irretrievably redpilled on this then not much I can say there.

2020's pandemic and the associated mess with society is a thing. Just look out for yourself. Therapy is fine, you don't have to broadcast to everyone that you've chatted about issues. I've had a few sessions and to be honest, even those few sessions have given me ways to have internal conversations with myself by just imagining what a therapist would say. Just thought I'd offer that.

Still, take care of yourself, we only have one life here on the planet, plus you can't depend on 100 percent of the folks you run into to be on your side, most of us can be pretty self centered but don't let external insanities live in your head rent free. Humans are just not perfect beings.

Look forward to the future, surprises can and do happen. Cultivate friendships where you can.

hey man, sorry I already closed this case for me personally. If anybody else is interested in it thats fine!

swprs.org is apparently a suspicious site according to wikipedia. do we have actual names for the authors so we can check up on them?

edit: anti face masks lol case closed on this one

LOL I gotta say man, whoever "we" is that is in charge of marketing needs to go. Hire someone that actually works in marketing, and same goes for the web developer. Also whoever wrote the copy for the website, fire them also.

On the other hand, I bank online and KNOW my data ends up on the banks server in a readable format and still do it because trust itself is built by what the audience perceives and there are HUGE network factors in play when building trust. There is no trust momentum for you guys considering the sort of information you expect customers to trust you with.

Also, you seem to think that you're selling to customers who routinely develop proofs about what bob can keep safe from alice or whatever, but are those really the folks who will make your product a win? I would almost think those folks would more likely be your competition rather than your customers. Heck, I really can't tell who you are marketing to honestly.

If you were an online battle tank game and asking 60 a year its a completely different story.

>YouTube and other technocrats believe that can tell people how and what they should think.

If you go to youtube to be told what to think then you're probably using the internet for things it wasn't designed for lol

I'm on board with this!

lol yeah! I seem to have to fiddle with the input source, but it could be any number of things, including my linux installation.

I dislike Github so much lol, I just can't help it. I'm sure they have their fans but everytime I see a link to a project, I just know I'm going to hate landing on the page.

I should hostroute it to a page that scolds me for yet again clicking a Github link.

I do feel frustrated with the vaccine hesitancy but I'm finding that folks fears are real, if not completely rational.

I would think that a straightforward comparison of the risks of getting vaccination versus getting infected would be enough, but I also understand that sometimes fears are simply not based on rational thought.

In my case, one aspect of wearing a big scary kn95 mask is my way of reminding the unvaccinated that this virus is still around, heh maybe thats me being a bit of a pain by intruding into folks fantasy of the virus not being a thing anymore.

Right now, my county of residence has a vaccination rate of under 40 percent among folks 60 years or older and thats crazy, but cases have been at zero for a bit. I'm thinking that this won't last, and this county I live in is a giant target for the delta variant. I hope wearing a big ugly mask about town might remind folks that covid19 is still a thing to think about.

Holding out some hope for viable forks! I have a machine specifically reserved for attempting builds but I still remain pretty baffled over this wxwidgets business. My previous investigation resulted in failure because the project made reference to a resource that has since made unavailable.

I still have a 2.2.x version that I use for day to day recording, flakey, unstable but works if I fiddle enough with it.

For me, recent firefox releases have been MISERABLE. I guess it could just be my computers but the browser constantly locks, no performance whatsoever, and just no help on troubleshooting anywhere.

I went with the long term support releases and have had a better experience. Course, still no sound lol but I use Chrome when I want sound. I still like Firefox, just can't use recent releases.