@ars1

Fatalis. Also known as "oh God I'm melting" PTSD.

Now then, the timers are there to introduce some element of challenge and competitiveness.

Don't play many puzzle games, but in the case of MH it is indeed kind of a legacy mechanic (confusing it's a game people played on the tube going to work and such).

In the case of world which is oh so much more newb-friendly, I don't think I failed a quest due to time ever. (I failed some of the bounties with like "kill these two tempered elders in 15 mins", but those aren't mandatory).

Then again I have like 800 hours on the game, at this point a regular hunt depends the most on where the monster spawns and how long it takes me to get there. The carnage that ensues is over in 2 minutes.

@jestdotty

Thing is, in Spain at least, it's illegal for the state to do that without a court order.

Things in that aspect are going downhill fast (hence why I fled to Portugal).

But well, in the end it's an arms race, and no matter what states will always lose, and thus keep trying to assert dominance through regulation.

Open source is like idyllic communism, but we all know it doesn't work like that.

I remember I tried to push an initiative (which was of course shut down) in my last company to actually donate 1% of revenue to open source projects that helped us bring the projects to fruition.

I don't actually know if this is real or a meme, but I heard they went with the hash/sharp, because it wanted to be the nth unsuccessful successor to C++, by continuing the trend and adding two more +, and thus #.

@jestdotty

I know fiat is not backed by gold or anything, but it's backed by the state itself, or rather, how trustworthy the state is to their loaners.

Anyway, their problem with crypto is not really the transactions. Those are public by design. Their problem is that they have no way to trace a wallet to any actual person, and without that they can't really do shit.

On the rest, I agree, politics lost their actual meaning long ago, and democracy isn't real democracy, and even democracy isn't a good system, it's just the least bad.

@jestdotty Thing is, as much as they want to claim crypto is a way to hide stuff from the State (which it is), at least nowadays you still have to convert it to fiat at some point, and that's where they rob you.

Also, keeping your retirement in Bitcoin (or similar) is very risky, since those aren't backed by anything really, and could lose value and leave you with nothing without warning.

I thought it was called just "hash".

The whole hashtag thing is twitt-, sorry, X-speak.

@jestdotty

In Spain at least crypto is not regulated, so you'd just pay whatever agreed, no tax or anything.

However, if you try to cash out your crypto, then that'd be taxable income, both as transaction (25%), and as yearly income (17-47%).

@nosoup4u

You couldn't ever predict a gamma ray burst, because, well, it travels at the speed of light. No way of knowing where it comes from until it has already hit you.

@12bitfloat @retoor
With today's CPUs and caches, std:: vector will actually beat std::map in performance (in map-like usage) up to several tens of thousands of elements.

I wouldn't be surprised if they just pulled some kind of SSO so that if the map is below, say, 512 kb or so, it's just a vector.

Must say, because I just checked.

Thanks unity, you made me 1k euros for selling my 250 shares 😂.

I don't think they can ever beat that.

@JsonBoa

Well. Certainly nothing beats visiting their bullshit hyperdonut, have them struggle for 20 minutes trying to connect to the projector, only to have to ask me to do it, which I did in half a minute, of course, with a MSI laptop and a Samsung phone.

I think I still get nourishment from their tears, and it was 5 years ago...

@netikras

I mean, in a perfect world sure, but half of that would fall into the purview of system administration rather than DevOps, though unfortunately, they tend to be conflated into the same thing.

As in, IMO, a sysadmin doesn't need to know how to deal with dependencies of programs or errors in apps, just "I need x thing installed", so you just apt-get it and then it's the DevOps problem.

Or ideally even, just give root on their chroot to the DevOps, and have them do the work xd.

@Demolishun @retoor

It can definitely be traits.

I mean, "autism" is just a catch all term for the whole spectrum, but there are common things, and you can definitely have high functional autism (I do).

Many of the things said here can be traits, such as, but not limited to:

- inability to perceive sarcasm or jokes.
- lack of fluency in social situations
- lack of empathy (note this doesn't mean you can't feel anything, just that you can't relate to others')
- ability to see patterns and solutions to problems neurotypical people can't (one of the reasons we do well at STEM, but also at music, for example).

Of course, nothing of this is black or white. It comes in degrees, and it's not unusual that traits surface when under stress of similar. (It's the equivalent to when the stereotypical autistic child would go into a tantrum)

@retoor

It's sadly a more and more common strategy nowadays.

Guess made easier by the whole online thing, but it's still disrespectful IMO.

Then again, it doesn't help either that many gen z workers do it too.

I've seen it happen, them accepting an offer and then pulling a no show for whatever bullshit reason.

Guess you fight fire with fire, and again, (even if this sentence will trigger a certain someone more than dissing JS), the fair pay for the foul.

Having fun watching unity pull back on their retarded monetization schemes because it took them this long to realize they dug themselves into a hole.

I think the time machine question was asked in a previous rant.

In any case, probably to some place at the beginning of the middle ages.

With just some very basic science you could probably boost human development by centuries. (And no ruler would burn you if you showed them how to make a cannon and make them rulers of the world) XD

@retoor

It's not that glibc itself is heavy.

All compilation is a heavy task, and has no limiting factors such as screen refresh rate, so naturally, the compiler will use all available resources to compile faster, thus using all available CPU and driving the temps up.

You can however easily set up ulimits so that GCC doesn't push 100% usage.

@jestdotty

Dunno, I wasn't the one being hurt when someone told you you were unlikeable.

What you think of me, I couldn't really care less.

But the way you think about all of this is just so stupid, but anyway, carry on.

@jestdotty

You really should stop going about that incel shit.

True incels never expose themselves to these situations.

Boys bear the weight of near assured rejection (and that's fine), but if you insist on being truly equal, be the ones making the first move (and deal with rejection), and that would expand minds.

@retoor

Dunno about cheating. That can go both ways. Divorce, however, is initiated by women mostly.

Their reasoning, some bullshit about "not feeling it".

And that's the problem.

We are logical, we don't understand you throwing a life away for some feeling. (Note the careful use if quotes).

Problem is, women are taught nowadays that they hold no accountability for their decisions, and that's plain bad for everyone.

Women: if you want to play the strong independent woman thing, you pay for the date, for the trips, or at least fifty/fifty.

Men: don't simp. Love is demonstrated when everything goes south. Fake it if you need, but make sure you have a good woman, and if so, care to provide, protect and whatever.

Voulez vous coucher avec moi?

SIMD performance can be really hard to analytically predict.

In the case of compute shaders, it really boils down in the end on them needing access to something else besides their own vertex/geometry/pixel/whatever.

That forces intrinsic dependencies between them, which coupled with, as you correctly said, caching and threading phenomena, can unpredictably impact performance.

Back on topic I guess it's normal to have doubts before what is, at least in theory, a lifetime commitment. Specially coupled with the whole stress of wedding prep.

Not necessarily applicable to you, but I was very close to marrying my ex-gf, and now I know, it would have made me really unhappy. I dodged a bullet there.

Not saying that it's the same for you, just trying to show that having reservations and doubts is normal.

Hopefully she's a good fit for you, unlike in my case, and you live happily ever after.

@b2plane

Since that's what allegedly happened to you, does that mean you are the loser beta here or something?

@jestdotty

Well, what I said before, I don't know if it's Spanish, European union or international law (guessing the second).

Also (again I don't know if applicable) they are required to cover your food expenses. Drinks could fit there no prob if you just have them during dinner in the worst case...

I too fell in love with xfce since the Kali days.

I can't stand gnome (tho it's gotten better), and KDE sometimes does weird shit.

Then again, 99% of my Linux boxes are tty only, and my daily driver is windows, so I guess I just accept whatever the next live distro I use uses 😂

Was a fun thing that trip too, because I was originally not slated to go, and the CEO comes by my desk one day like.

- "You must be excited, right?"
- "What for?"
- "Durr, you're going to Japan, and you've always wanted to go!"
- "I'm not in the manifesto for that event."
- "Why, wha-, hold on...".

I could hear the screams from the meetings room...

"Are we so retarded that we have an activation (event) in Japan and don't send the one person in the company that speaks Japanese?!!"

"But we already have everything tested and didn't want to add extra expenses, if something happens, he can assist remotely, besides, we have a translator"

"The translator is not with you 24/7, what if something happens at some other time? I don't care, he goes, if you need justification, just put 'just in case'."

And that's how I went to Japan.

Sure enough, the just in case worked because one day we had to set up a second venue while attending the first, and the translator couldn't be in two places...

@retoor

The small print is that for international trips, they must give you at least 2 days before and 2 days after the "working" days.

I exploited the shit out of that.

It was fun too because, usually, I'm rather frugal with money that's not mine, and would spend the bare minimum, and pay outta my own money for beers and such.

Until our CFO scolded me telling me that it was money that was already written off and paid by the client. As long as I could produce reasonable receipts, I could do as I wished.

When I was sent to Japan, it was for 7 days (3 working days), and we were given 3k euros for each, just for expenses (hotel and trip was already paid for).

I don't even know what to do with more than 400 euros a day.

Ended up abusing the shinkansen to use our free 3 days to go places (Kyoto, Tokyo, Osaka...)

@retoor

Nah, not really.

Considering most of my work is proprietary, can't really show examples.

I do have, however, a long list of successful events all around the world that I took part in.

And what that gives you is networking really.

Now that I'm freelance I get calls from people I've met in different events when they have trouble with something, because you built a rep for actually solving problems, and not causing them.

Because

- I was fit enough (thanks to sec guard) to actually being able to help load/unload/move the machinery.

- I have driving license (again sec guard) for semis and trucks.

- I had knowledge about electricity and electronics to do basic field repairs.

- Used to working complete shifts standing up or on uncommon hours.

And of course, if there was something tech related, could solve it on the go.

If you can do all that, you quickly become indispensable, and on top of that, you can easily leverage some of the money the company saves with you, into your own pocket.