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Yea but that first asterisk is incorrect

Wouldn't it return the size of the pointer? I would guess it's exclusively used to handle architecture differences

Ardour is a great piece of software! Thanks for that. I love hearing experiences like these.

There is no amount of consumer choices and consumer "activism" that can fix these issues. They are ineffective by design.

If this was today people would say it's your personal right to consume lead and use leaded gas (aka freedom fuel) and we'd never be able to remove it lol

Or perhaps, and this is going to sound purely insane, they person requires a higher level of care, and we need comprehensive healthcare and social safety nets that are equipped to deal with most cases whether that be a person with a cold, a single mom, or someone with mental illness. It literally costs more to keep these people in the revolving door of prisons and institutions than it does to just give everyone proper care. On top of that now you don't have that person being violent in the streets or doing petty theft for drug money.

I think it is an understandable reaction. They're a long history of articles like "man saves multiple orphans from the orphan crushing machine" and people go "ahhh that's so sweet" and nobody stops to ask "why do we have an orphan crushing machine and why can't do anything about that?"

I think it's important to do both.

The people doing the bulk of the corruption here in the US just decided to stop even trying to hide it. Why would they hide it at this point? They aren't even worried about the optics anymore, they are sending a clear message imo. There's like a handful of people in high positions who aren't corrupt, and all of the ire is aimed at low level employees. I wish I could say that I didn't know why, but it is pretty clear.

Even then, it seems like this headline is a little sensationalist. But optically, not good. Even then, this is something that everyone should be aware of. It is easy to jump to conclusions, but we should also do our due diligence here to verify these connections. This can end similar to how Bernie Sanders was painted as a health industry "shill" when in reality it was just the way political donations are categorized.

Nurses and such had donated X amount of dollars to his campaign and that was twisted as him taking money from "the healthcare lobby" when in reality he is basically one of the 3 people in government who don't accept super pac and lobbying money, proving that you can indeed survive off of grassroots donations. So we have to be careful here. Optics is not enough to make a conclusion, and people will try to use that against you.

Plastic is a petroleum product and the petroleum industry controls nearly every news station (Fox + Murdoch is the big one) have trillions in lobbying dollars and has complete capture of the most powerful governments on Earth. What you think and the science about plastic and climate change that we've known for decades doesn't matter.

You literally can't just "clean it up" it's not possible. This is there American hyper-individualistic mindset at work. The problem and solution is cut and dry, anything else is a comfortable lie.

"don't worry, don't worry, once the environment gets unliveable we'll just pull the carbon out of the air. We don't need sustainable resources"

Is a lie on par with:

"I don't need to go to rehab, I can stop at any time" except the oil companies are the drug dealer and you are the deluded addict who will suffer the brunt of the consequence.

I think copyright is counterproductive and destroys innovation more than copycats. Companies will evergreen patents eternally and then sit on it forever and either die out or become litigious trying to protect their patent. Just look at Disney with Mickey mouse, Amazon bought up the best text to speech system known to man and they literally don't use it at all, or look at the medical industry... They spend billions on slightly tweaking delivery methods to keep patents alive for decades. It's grotesque. Or the nemesis system in gaming.

Those countries are not going to abide anyways (and I honestly don't care because this system is so messed up anyways, 5 years should be more than enough time to make your money) but instead we get rot.

This looks bad. I'm no expert though, there could be a plausible explanation here. But running it through some common tools all seem to return suspicious behavior.

The desire to do something and understand something is the root of everything, and who are to preemptively decide who has that capability? What a pompous thing to say. On top of that you are operating on the assumption that it matters. If someone wants to learn, they should be able to learn. I guarantee you that we as a society have stifled people who would be this generations Einstein so to speak.

The Unix pipe paradigm was honestly way ahead of it's time.

We are so cooked. I don't see a clear pathway out of this. I fear we've crossed the Rubicon and people will choose willful ignorance or the people who believe they stand to benefit will silently stand by. After decades of Neo-Liberal austerity measures, the rise of fascism is inevitable.

It also dismisses the effect it has on society entirely. In a sane world, we would enable anyone who wants to pursue a PhD in hopes in advancing things like medical science or our understanding of the world. The fact that people really can only care about the economic value education can bring, and the fact we all act like that's normal, is very radicalizing to me.

Why pay an American worker 100k + benefits out of college when you can pay an H1B worker 60k for the same level of education and also have a massive amount of leverage over them?

A private electric grid is a nightmare. Look at Texas. People pay more, and they get less coverage. It's worse by every metric. The conversation should revolve around, how can we fix the government so that it isn't 5 corporations in a trench coat who systematically defund public utilities and social safety nets in hopes of breaking it so they can privatize it and make billions sucking up tax payer money while doing no work. See the billions in tax funding to ATT, Google, etc... to put in fiber internet that they just pocketed the cash and did nothing.

I run containers with podman as well as Waydroid for Android apps. I install novel reader applications or whatever and have them open in the background using TTS, while I play.

They also have a simple uninstall command now as well. It used to be kind of a pain in the butt to do but now you can just install it and uninstall it in a couple minutes.

The determinate systems installer for Nix is honestly a really great example of a great command line tool. It very transparently tells you "this is what we're going to be doing. Will you allow me to do all of these things?" and it tells you what when it is doing them. Then they bundle the uninstaller.

Nix is great on the steam deck in so many ways. I use home manager just to install my general development environment, but at the same time there are some issues. like the sleep/suspend button will often cause the Nix Daemon socket to stop working, and you and you have to restart it, which can be kind of hard if you don't have access to SSH or whatever.

I mean going to school for 10 years only to be in debt for 100K-300K+ dollars, and not have a good idea of whether you will be able to pay that back... is a massive problem. Most countries don't have this issue, for example. They have an abundance of doctors and engineers, because people who actually want to do those things, are able to pursue those careers without financial investment. We are snubbing an entire generation of people and then acting surprised when the very obvious consequences of those actions start to come back to bite us. Its the definition of insanity.

```sh

sweet@nadeko ~ $ mkcd test

sweet@nadeko ~/test $ zig init

info: created build.zig

info: created build.zig.zon

info: created src/main.zig

info: created src/root.zig

info: see `zig build --help` for a menu of options

sweet@nadeko ~/test $ time zig build

zig build 5.08s user 0.58s system 119% cpu 4.745 total

# cached

sweet@nadeko ~/test $ time zig build

zig build 0.01s user 0.03s system 132% cpu 0.026 total

# after rewriting the main function to call a function that takes a pointer to another function

sweet@nadeko ~/test $ time zig build

zig build 0.02s user 0.03s system 136% cpu 0.032 total

```

Its honestly pretty dang good now. I can bootstrap Zig from C in about 3-5 minutes, and then use the self-hosted stage3 compiler to compile Zig very quickly (under 1 minute iirc) Once the cache kicks in, its even faster. I guess my overall gauge on this is the impression I get. Zig build times never annoy me and I never think about it... especially compared to clang, gcc and Rust.

Yay for Zig! I'm a big Zig fan. It's seemless interop with C makes it super fun. I really enjoy writing code in a C-style way. Its still got some rough edges, but its definitely super fun and enjoyable to write imo.

You could use this logic to posit that any government, group, system, nation state, militia, business, or otherwise, isn't "evil" because you haven't gauged the thoughts, feelings and actions of every single person who comprises that system. Thats absurd.

If using AI and other technology to uphold a surveillance state, wage war, do imperialism, and do genocide... isn't evil, than I don't know if you can call anything evil.

And the entire point of taxes is that we all collectively decide that we all would be better off if we pooled our labor and resources together so that we can have things like a basic education, healthcare, roads, police, bridges that don't collapse etc.. Politicians and corporations have directly broken and abused this social contract in a multitude of ways, one of those ways is using loopholes to not pay taxes at the same rate as everyone else by a large margin... another way is paying off politicians and lobbying so that those loopholes never get closed, and in fact, the opposite happens. So yes, taxing Google and other mega-corporations is a single, easily identifiable, action that can be directly taken to remedy this problem. Though, there is no way around solving the core issue at hand, but people have to be able to identify that issue foremost.

We're talking about corporations here, where are they going to go? If you had a competent government, you would say "fine, then leave. But your wealth and business is staying here" at some point the government has to do its job. These corporations pull in trillions of dollars, its wild to me to suggest that suddenly everyone would stop working and making money because they were taxed at a progressive rate. Its an absurd assumption to begin with.

We could literally have high speed rail, healthcare, the best education on the planet and have a high standard of living... and it would be peanuts to them. Instead we have a handful of people with more wealth than 99% of everyone else, while the bottom 75% of those people live in horrifying conditions. The fact that medical bankruptcy is a concept only in the richest country on earth is deeply embarrassing and shameful.

Okay 404, its evil that you put a fake hair on the github screenshot lmao...

Side note, I really don't give a single shit what anyone thinks about Diversity equity and Accessibility initiatives (though, I do think being opposed to requiring businesses to have wheel chair ramps and such, comically cruel) I don't know how anyone can support having 18 year old randoms having access to Federal databases and direct access to the governments pocket book, and support going far past judicial processes to illegally gut the minuscule, nearly non-existent, social safety nets that we do have. Idk how anyone in their right mind can say the wealthy deserve a trampoline, and everyone else can't even get a safety net.

I don't use an LLM in my editor whatsoever. I use snippets all the time for repetitive things and common expressions.

If I ever do use llms it's for searching for something like "what kind of expression is this called: (i = 0; I < x; i++)" so that I can do better research myself.