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Dan Olson@olson_dan·
There are two types of people that hate C++. The ones in my camp who don't mind abstractions but think C++'s implementation of them sucks. Their answer is Rust. And the ones who think C++ is made too complicated because of abstractions. Their answer is zig... I guess.
Robert Clausecker@FUZxxl

C++ is a terrible language and every time I have to work with C++ code I get sad. Would love to find a job doing performance programming in something else.

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ProgrammingMadness@programmadness·
Moreover, the government cannot lawfully tell (or imply, or make necessary to another legislated duty to comply) an information "service provider"--aka publisher, that they must do surveillance "for the children" before they may speak, publish, or republish, because these activities, rights endowed by God and recognized by Amendment I explicitly, are now activities "with a computer." It's not hard: parents have control over children. @IJ @Devon_Eriksen_ @EricRWeinstein @Cernovich
H-1Beez Nuts@H1BeesNuts

People fail to realize that even if it's "narrowly tailored just for porn," ID verification and/or biometric verification systems are inherently infrastructure for permissioned access. Age isn't the only attribute that can be determined from your ID, face, or credit card.

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He actually does. The whole movie is about him being shunned/bullied by his friends (who also bullied her) and everyone else. He grows up, develops social anxiety and wants to kill himself because he hates himself that much for the way he treated her. Only not going through with it because he wants to make it up to her, even though they were actual middle schoolers when this occurred. He learns sign language, helps her sister and practically dedicates himself to her, and the entire message is a beautiful one. That you can always atone for what you've done and anyone is capable of change and becoming a better person. How ironic that message is lost on Twitter users.
Anime mix@animemixxx

لا يعلم مدى الاذى الذي تسبب به لها 💔

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ProgrammingMadness@programmadness·
Oddly, the issues here are understood ad nauseum among certain kinds of conservative Bible nerds: dynamic vs functional equivalence a d thr distinction between translating word for word vs sense for sense, and pitfalls of approach because... they're fearful for their very souls if they stray in translation from meaning. It's a very old area of many considerations.
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Brandon Varnell
Brandon Varnell@BrandonBVarnell·
Nobody is asking people to translate "私は猫が大好きです" into "I regarding cat really like". We're asking translators not to change the original meaning of the source content. We're asking translators not to add "skibidi rizz toilet" or to change "Male pride is such a pain" into "Fragile masculinity at it again." We're asking translators to keep the content as authentic to the original intent as possible. You can clean up direct literal translations to be more palatable to the English tongue without changing the meaning of what's being written or spoken. I really don't understand what's so hard about this.
Kelly Quinn Chiu 🧭@kellyqute

Some people on this website suddenly seem to be clamoring for hyper-literal translations and I am here tell you that is not good translation. It just isn't.

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ProgrammingMadness@programmadness·
Immacing distinction is that high intelligence often correlates with general capabilities including social abilities. Inability to connect is often autism. But once you get into the ultra-high range of intelligence, general abilities break down and ability to connect with people, actually does become severed at a point. Try asking anybody with an IQ of 75 to 80 to think through consequences sometime rather than just a emote. Then take someone with an IQ in a range like 150+ and autism and have them try to connect in a room that's an average population sample-- or even a room of college grads. You'll find they just don't connect. There's no one to talk to in that room. There is no one who will share their interests, the level of detail, or pay attention to the same things throughout their lives.
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memetic_sisyphus
memetic_sisyphus@memeticsisyphus·
Something very odd happened over the last few decades where the common conception of a highly intelligent person became the socially inept autist. It kind of goes hand in hand with the “don’t judge a fish on its ability to climb a tree” mentality, that views humans more or less as an rpg character with a fixed amount of skill points. To be strong in one area is to have a deficit in the other. “Sure he’s really smart, but he doesn’t have any relationships in his life.”
Hitchslap@Hitchslap1

EQ fake confirmed.

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Rudelgenudel@rudelgenudel·
Im getting better at drawing references but anything "original" my mind just completely blanks
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Nate
Nate@nnwakelam·
All of these Twitter infosec thought leaders informing me that it’s time to assume every company can be trivially compromised, as opposed to the last decades where it was just in the ~90% range. Brilliant novel insight.
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ProgrammingMadness@programmadness·
@tome_anticic I bet after seeing his article and then seeing that he wrote that book in the bio that your experience (realizing the issue and doubting the book) would happen to a lot of people.
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Tome Anticic
Tome Anticic@tome_anticic·
@programmadness Yeah, a very sloppy, ignorant, and shallow analysis by Carreyrou. I read his "Bad Blood", and found it interesting, but after this NYTimes piece, I am starting to doubt some of Bad Blood's conclusions...
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Will Kinney
Will Kinney@WKCosmo·
We need to address the gender gap in the crackpot community.
Niko@NikoSarcevic

@msdavi01 @WKCosmo Where are the women engineers tho? Never got “Einstein is wrong” an email from a female engineer. Under represented.

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ProgrammingMadness@programmadness·
The best part of being blocked for the quoted post below--I knew it would happen, and it's why I quoted an artist post showing a very specific female reaction! Discussing even differences of nervous system and social ramifications is just. too. taboo. That is the irony: her art piece **LITERALLY SHOWS THIS IN A MANIFESTED FORM UNDERSTOOD UNIVERSALLY IN THE MENTALLY HEALTHY IN NON-PSYCHOPATHIC POPULATIONS!** But you can't say it. Of course this means women die all the time because you can't research the differences even for medicine. @EricRWeinstein The woman who taught me about that is one of the most famous molecular biologists on earth, winning an award that makes the Nobel look cheap. :D Of course, she's pissed--but she's also 1 in a million brains and has F*** YOU money! That wouldn't even be enough for protection, but HER DISCOVERY WAS JUST THAT IMPORTANT! So she can say what she wants--and Universities beg for her. I understand the JB Peterson (Harvard University) lecture material because the studies he cites about "lobsters" were by a researcher that taught me (directly, we were friends--he'd show me horse hearts and the poor lobsters) about nerves and the nervous system (sonofabi*ch was using the equations for electrical engineering on us!), in a premed program: I still have an invite to go through one of the more prestigious medical programs on the planet! I just have reasons not to go that route at this time! So yeah, you can't even discuss nervous system differences **MEDICALLY TO SAVE LIVES** MUCH LESS FOR THE RAMIFICATIONS FOR WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WE ENTIRELY DISRUPT/REORDER SOCIETY TO FIT "PROGRESSIVE" VALUES. Which would save societies: at no time in history when people stopped having children did their nation (a) not disappear within generations (though a husk of a system with hangovers and masses of importees might still remain, constantly in turmoil), and (b) not suffer social transformation so thoroughly that the people who came out the other side were unrecognizable. ALL MODERN SOPHISTICATED PEOPLE ARE DESTROYING THEMSELVES TO APPEAR SOCIALLY ACCEPTABLE TO THOSE WITH ANTI-REAL VALUES! Which would save souls: like the unkind truth vs. nice lies meme, the warped realities we live under for social purposes are corrupting, immiserating, impoverishing, atomizing (isolating and severing relationships), and making millions pathological. Same deal where you're not supposed to mention transing gender dysphorics catastrophically multiples their rates of self-elimination. YOU CAN'T SAY THAT! (Even when it's...trying to save lives of people who need help!) But follow @_liz1023for for cute art--I knew she would block me just like the art below where she captures a certain reaction/expression (that all non-psycho men understand without comment, meaning it's an inbuilt mechanism!), and I'm not offended since I understand the social programming. x*Deoyjomx
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#musings #autism #slowstart #methidolical #systematic #employmentviolations #schoolofhardknocks #embracingsuffering The expression (in the image post quoted) represents a real adaptation in nature to trigger (in non psychos or worse memln) the "don't fight too forcefully or punch this, it's cute/fragile--protect it: don't punch even if fighting over the most incredibly stupid nonsense, based on the nost incredibly stupid nonsense." Whereas in men who behaved in a similar way (as often seen), men around them would go gloves off. JB Peterson may be right that the nervous systems/cognition of women are likely, not adapted for themselves, for objective sensitivity--but for "the dyad" of self+infants. (And yes, as ASD guy, I know there are apparent exceptions.) I add, for relationships: with men (bigger, dangerous); for other women (clever--MORE dangerous). There must be mechanisms inbuilt to restrain men--and if some bitch reputation savages another woman, to find it humorous rather than provoking: An unmentionable reality is many of the supposed bigoted ills in men toward women, are in fact likely drivers of instincts to protect women, and to not punish them too readily or harshly (particularly when they often only get social information via the grapevine of, by, and through other women, who spread it for themselves, as women who've been savaged by gossips lament). The insanity: the "progress" surrounding the liberation of women has done tremendous damage to this sort of bio-emergent disposition in men and the possibility to express it in society as manly behavior: a man who doesn't take her too seriously "because she's a woman" will run to her rescue "because she's a woman; a man who does take you seriously who'll run to you is probably a weirdo masculine-auristic; a man who takes you seriously (who isn't that) is a liberal who likely won't run to save you unless LEO or paramedic. For the "but I'm 5'7" though"--I understand, not you! The gal I nearly married was a mathematician and medicinal chemist from one of the most prestigious universities. I get it! My best female friend is a PhD in Neuroscience. I get it! A modern problem is (a) we don't go gloves off with those "too stupid men", who understand nothing else so cannot think through consequences to motivate self control: only persistent terror upregulated their self control; (b) and courts dismiss charges when men are too stupid to restrain themselves for social purposes. This must increase relative misery and violence. Such stupid men (who are disorderly & immiserating), after all, engage in more domestic violence, chaosmaking, and foolishness that breeds violence and chaos. Stupidity of a sufficient degree (the kind of third world nonsense rising everywhere) is functionally equivalent to psychopathy: inability to think through consequences or understand "why those meanies are xyz to me" (like excluding a damn idiot from important family matters) results in indistinguishable behaviors and calamities for all around such persons. Relatedly, I'm a believer that without a sufficient, particular, supportive and mentoring environment, even high IQ autists should perhaps hold back, examine, think, & work on growth before diving into or trying to make decisions and participate in many things--on the above basis--since it's a blindness to many social things: they need time and experience (probably of being punched in the face, again and again--which is probably why some of my literally abusive, threatening, and aggressive bosses ever, were extremely confused that their behavior couldn't drive me away, as I understood the danger as accelerating personal development and need to pay accute attention at all times) to do "superstimuli"--to force the brain to pay attention (form capacity for perception, executive self control, empathizing and understanding many others)), to understand the dynamics that drive the fearful, inane, dysfunctions of "normies."

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Eric Alper 🎧@ThatEricAlper·
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KittyCatRightMeow@KittyCatRightM3·
@programmadness Perhaps you can say what is instead of trying to say what isn't. Using "layer 0" consensus to reorg the chain is a rollback?
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ProgrammingMadness@programmadness·
"Technically[ one event] was a chain reorganization driven by the longest-chain rule—Bitcoin's core consensus mechanism. The new software enforced stricter validity rules, so the invalid chain became shorter in terms of accepted work. No one "rewound the ledger to the fourth block" or manually edited old data in the new software; the software simply treated the patched rules as correct from the point of upgrade onward, and the network converged on the valid chain. That said, critics (and some defenders) call it a "rollback" because: It required a software patch + coordinated upgrade. It effectively erased the economic impact of the invalid creation (the fake BTC disappeared). It relied on social consensus among early miners/nodes to tip the hash rate balance. From a purist view, it highlights that Bitcoin's "immutability" is ultimately backed by economic incentives and majority hash power, not pure mathematical perfection." Which is the funny thing because Bitcoin has always been designed to be constrained by an economic incentive. Everyone knows the 21 million rule and the value that comes from this and everyone knows, therefore, anybody who manages to create extra or modify software to do so gets rejected by the consensus. So there's nothing here, literally at all, that's unexpected or out of the ordinary. "[In the other event--] 2013 Chain Fork (Versions 0.7 vs. 0.8) [...] Bitcoin Core 0.8 switched the internal database from BerkeleyDB to LevelDB for performance. Unintentionally, this removed a subtle limit on database locks, allowing a block (height 225,430) with many transactions that older 0.7 nodes couldn't process/validate properly. Result: A clean split. 0.8 nodes accepted the block and built on it (pulling ahead initially). 0.7 nodes rejected it and built their own competing chain. Resolution: Developers and major mining pools [downgraded 0.8 back to 0.7]. This shifted majority hash power to the 0.7-compatible chain. The 0.8 chain was abandoned as the 0.7 chain overtook it, triggering reorgs on remaining 0.8 nodes. blog.citp.princeton.edu No new software rule change was needed to "fix" validity—the fork was purely due to divergent implementation behavior. Miners literally switched software versions and pointed their hash power at the older, compatible chain. Once the 0.7 chain became longest, the network converged. (Later, a proper upgrade path was rolled out more carefully.) This was even less of a "protocol rollback" and more of an emergency hash-rate vote to pick one fork over the other for compatibility."
KittyCatRightMeow@KittyCatRightM3

@Chriscrasscross @MartyBent Roll backs plural. Twice. en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Value_ove… blog.citp.princeton.edu/2015/07/28/ana…

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ProgrammingMadness@programmadness·
X remains pretty broken. e.g. type a post, save as draft. Try to return later on a PC--you often can't get your draft if you started on a phone. Really awful. :|
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ProgrammingMadness@programmadness·
@pmwnyc The protections already exist: Amendment 1.
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