Also true, but he’s definitely obsessed with Reiner specifically too since Reiner has criticized him in the past.

Looks like Donny has Reiner Derangement Syndrome.

One smile from a girl like that and the brain melts. I think the only vaccine is to be in a healthy relationship already so you don’t have interest.

the function is a switch-case that returns false by default. As complaint tickets are opened, more cases get added to the switch-case”

Oh if that is acceptable, then my secondary idea of using an API call for this should work too. I thought that it would have to be guaranteed to be correct (as long as you don’t reach a stack overflow or something)

That’s , uh…

Yeah. Cooler than anything I could’ve achieved for purposefully bad is_even

My first idea of a purposefully bad is_even is this:

def is_even(i):
    return True if i == 0 else not is_even(abs(i)-1)

But I’m sure I could come up with worse given enough time.

Now that we’re getting CAMM2 modules, we might see more non-soldered RAM again.

LPDDR just couldn’t be done with DIMMs. LPDDR saves power and laptop manufacturers want to compete on battery life. CAMM allows for LPDDR.

You can’t measure memory consumption like that. You could run the same shit with 8 GB and it’d be using like 6 or 7 I bet.

Operating systems use spare memory to cache things for faster access.

It’s the companies forcing everything to be done super fast in the first place. You think any developers go out thinking “Hmmm, today I’ll create a really slow Electron application”? No, it’s management going “We need an MVP in 2 weeks, and then new features shipped every week after that”. So shortcuts are taken.

It’s all about velocity. Electron allows you to ship bullshit to multiple platforms REALLY fast because you only develop for the web, but get Windows, Linux and MacOS as a bonus.

Nobody wants to do C++ anymore, otherwise you could ship most things in Qt and get way better performance and still keep it cross-platform.

2 or 3 of them were scientists, but they only chose the most famous ones who don’t have time for science anymore.

On mobile, why would I play Angy Birds when I can play Dead Cells

Well I wouldn’t know! 12 or 13 years ago when I still played mobile games, angy birds was the shit lol

Do they still give out bread tho?

I mean that is also indirectly an investment in mental health, just not directly in mental health services.

But I don’t think it’s JUST the “nothing left to lose” mentality. If it was, you’d see more rich people being shot. There’s a huge factor of the “nothing left to lose” people being indoctrinated into hating other people like themselves instead of the rich.

Let’s just say some people I know lost their mother at a very early age and when one of them finally asked the father about it 30 years later, his explanation was “well person X was at work that night, ask him”. Person X being a business partner of his, somewhat of a low-end organized crime guy. Dead for like 10-15 years at that point.

When I say lost, I mean she hasn’t been found decades later. Not even a body.

Early 90s were a crazy ass time here in Estonia.

There’s more details I know, but honestly if I go too into detail and the story makes its way out of our tiny community here, people who know about the whole thing will instantly figure out who I am and who I’m talking about and I don’t want that. Not because I’m in any danger from anyone - just because I don’t want it to happen.

Some do.

Soldiers who killed enemy soldiers

Starting to get more likely in Eastern Europe now than the US I’d say. Never know when you might run into a former Russian or Ukrainan soldier.

People who killed in self defense

Probably less likely outside of the US since no guns, but assault is still a thing and you can kill an assailant without a gun.

Doctors and nurses who have made mistakes that accidentally killed patients

This is universal.

People who killed people in accidents such as driving accidents or hunting accidents

So is this.

Damn. That still going on in your extended family, or has it died down now?

It is quite likely that someone I knew either killed a person, or had them killed.

Said potential murderer is dead for a few years now and tbh I don’t think anyone wants to uncover this mystery anymore. Since the whole thing was very long ago, it’s easier to just ignore it instead of ruining everyone’s memory of a person. The other person who could’ve done it has been dead for a decade or 2 too.

Diogenes

It’s my opinion that the CEO pay is bait to draw attention away from the dividends and stock buybacks.

Fight those and the shareholders will no longer vote for exorbitant CEO salaries. Unless we’re talking about companies that do something else that’s highly unethical and need a fall guy. To me, CEOs are almost patsies. They’re the people the board can fire when the peasants start revolting, or when the company gets caught covering up a toxic chemical spill, or whatever.

Reduce their value to the shareholders, and their pay packages WILL start to go down.

I’m just saying, the fact that you’re worried about CEO pay means they’ve fulfilled their purpose. They’re meant to be bait for us.

Imagine how good an investment it is to pay a guy 95 mill so you (the shareholders as a whole) take essentially zero heat while you get paid several billions.

There’s about 500 companies in the S&P 500 and on average their CEOs earn 19 million a year. That’s just under 10 billion per year on CEO salaries.

Total dividends and buybacks from these companies added up to about 1.6 trillion in 2024. This doesn’t include normal (non-buyback related) stock price increases which also improve the theoretical value shareholders receive. Just the money that literally exists as actual money on the company balance sheets and is wasted on making the owners happy instead of improving working conditions, raising salaries, etc.

And as long as we make a fuss about CEO compensation packages, they will continue to rise. Ignore them and start annoying shareholders and the ridiculous CEO compensation packages start lowering again.

What really needs to happen is that stock buybacks need to become illegal, or at least highly limited. And there needs to be a way to have a cap on dividends linked to median employee salary. Then there’s not only an actual incentive to increase salaries, but the CEO pay problem will take care of itself naturally. There’s no point in paying them this much if the dividends you receive in return aren’t as high as they used to be.

Hell, if all you want to do is reduce the inequality, link dividends directly to income inequality within the company. (lowest paid employee salary) / (highest paid employee salary, this being the CEO generally) * (some coefficient) = max % of profits that are allowed to be paid out as dividends. This is actually not as great because now there’s no incentive to raise the lower end salaries, only an incentive to lower the higher end salaries.