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rhexs··on AppLovin offers to buy Unity Software in $17.5 bln deal
How did unity go from mobile game development darling to being acquired by an adware company?
rhexs··on C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'
Backpedal harder!
rhexs··on C23 is finished: Here is what is on the menu
The committee is still run by fossils carrying the misguided torch of endless backwards compatibility. No one is compiling 1980s C on GCC trunk releases, but by god we still need to make sure it compiles cleanly.
rhexs··on C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'
Useless semantic pedantry at best, but arguable wrong as there isn't some sort of ISO standard on dumb hacking terms.
rhexs··on C99 doesn't need function bodies, or 'VLAs are Turing complete'
When writing secure C? In most cases, absolutely.
rhexs··on The global housing market is broken, and it’s dividing entire countries
How are people going to find someone to mow their lawn at 40$ a month or raise their children with under-the-table tax free payments without immigration? How do we drive down tech salaries without immigration? How do we subsidize fast food and farmers without immigration?

No thank you.

rhexs··on BMW’s Heated Seats as a Service Model Has Drivers Seeking Hacks
The people who want a BMW to show the world they own a BMW are exactly who they are targeting with this.

Same situation as Mercedes. Taking dumb money more or less.

rhexs··on PhD Students Told to Consider Selling Avon Products to Make Ends Meet
"future leaders in environmental science and sustainable business"

PhD students in a worthless program that would traditionally exist for children of the rich to dabble in get mad at being told to get a job.

rhexs··on A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore
You can only use the word “dogwhistle” when promoting leftist views.
rhexs··on A brief history of nobody wants to work anymore
It’s a year of salary for an enormous amount of people. Insane how out of touch or intentionally misleading you are.
rhexs··on Inflation Has Outpaced Wage Growth. Now It’s Cutting into Spending
You’re correct that the average American non-saver can afford less house with high interest rates. This would be good news for savers however.
rhexs··on Latest Soundboks firmware cuts the performance of their speakers by half
Damn, glad modern-day boomboxes are coming back into style. Apartments will get even worse than they already are.
rhexs··on Inflation Has Outpaced Wage Growth. Now It’s Cutting into Spending
If we’re poorer but I can actually afford to buy a house, sign me up. Low interest rates do nothing except turn every market into a casino.

Place I wanted to retire to went from 800K, which is attainable, to 2.1 million in the last two years.

Bring on the high interest rates.

(Good luck though, high interest rates kill nearly every sacred cow in politics)

rhexs··on Not interacting with people reduces cognitive function over time, study finds
Just lions mane? Throw in some Ayurveda and probiotics as well.

And CBD of course. With all that you’ll be immortal.

rhexs··on How about a Genius Basic Income?
You’re exactly right —- the genius grant would be scrapped right after they got their list of the top 100 IQ individuals and realized the makeup is quite “problematic”.
rhexs··on Childhood antibiotics as a risk factor for Crohn's disease: Cohort study
Go to any health food store and they’ll have a refrigerated section of all the placebo bacteria supplements you could ever want.
rhexs··on OrBit: New Undetected Linux Threat Uses Unique Hijack of Execution Flow
That's just the culture of defcon/blackhat/"if you get any certs you're dumb".

If you can program, you can learn almost any concept in security with self study and a handful of good books. Marketing posts, such as these, often aren't very useful but sure look neat with all the basic blocks...

rhexs··on OrBit: New Undetected Linux Threat Uses Unique Hijack of Execution Flow
It’s weird how there’s been a massive uptick in security “threat researchers” blogging about hello world style malware in the past few years. On the plus side, malware reverse engineering is a tough job that traditionally didn’t pay that well, so hopefully they’re doing better now with the rise of all these startups doing blog posts about LD_PRELOAD.
rhexs··on Comey and McCabe, Two Trump Foes, Both Faced Intensive IRS Audits
What goes around comes around I suppose.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IRS_targeting_controversy

Perhaps we should have agreed that the IRS shouldn't be weaponized the first time on this merry-go-round. Oh well.

rhexs··on How normal am I?
Hey, I was 5 myself, no need to take offense. We can be low self-esteem buddies.
rhexs··on How normal am I?
I’m wondering if this is scaled so 5 is quite low and 1-5 should be non-existent. Giving someone a 1 vs a “5” feels a little mean.
rhexs··on Mendon, Missouri
"This was not a small truck. This was a vehicle about the size of a Sonic Drive-In."

Has the author ever been to a Sonic Drive-In or was there a Liebherr T 282B in Mendon Missouri?

rhexs··on Attorney General Bonta Releases Name, DOB, and Address of CCW Holders
What's the goal here? Convince law abiding citizens to leave California?
rhexs··on Life is not short
Sure, see a therapist, find out why that is.
rhexs··on FDA to order Juul e-cigarettes off U.S. market
Can’t wait to see which senators family members shorted Juul recently.
rhexs··on TerraUSD crash led to vanished savings, shattered dreams
Move away from one of the single most expensive housing markets in the world?

That’s a terrible example. Remote work is a thing if you for some reason have to work for Bay companies.

rhexs··on Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier
The air purifier review market is about as useful as searching for a credible mattress review.

Snake oil everywhere.

rhexs··on The Fed has made a historic mistake on inflation
Or they could just spend less. The solution is in middle, but good luck getting that across in these polarized times.

I think there will be more willingness to negotiate across the aisle as inflation/fuel continues to heat up.

rhexs··on The Birth and Death of the Office
Do I have to walk over feces and needles to get to work at a suburban office park model? Can I afford housing?

Sure, sounds lame if I'm 23. What if -- crazy idea -- we have a variety of both options?

rhexs··on The Birth and Death of the Office
I miss offices in reasonable locations. Instead they're all in the same 6-8 cities that all have increasingly bad homeless populations.

No, I don't want to live in the Bay, New York City, Boston, Austin, or Denver. Please create small satellite offices in reasonable cities instead of mega campuses in towns that all seem to have public libraries that are now defacto homeless shelters.

Tech imports most of the talent these days anyway, so I don't buy the "talent only wants to move to the Bay!" argument.

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