calcopiritus

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[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 11 hours ago (16 children)

Yeah. Go tell that to the people/slaves of the countries I mentioned.

As I said, USA is no good, but it's not the worst.

You don't seem to understand the meaning of "worst".

"Bad" is absolute and can be judged with just the USA.

"Worst" is relative and you have to consider the other ones.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 12 hours ago (18 children)

The United States is pretty bad, especially for being a supposedly rich country. But no, it's not the most brutal.

Even though I would not travel to the USA under any condition, if I have to choose between USA, north Korea, Iran, or some other random authoritarian country such as the UAE, Saudi Arabia, sudan or somalia, I'm going to USA. Even though I'm a non-gay male.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago

It not happening to everyone doesn't mean that it's not an issue.

Years back there was an issue with a windows update that eliminated the "Documents" folder on some people. I updated my computer and the folder was still there. It didn't happen to me, but it did happen.

There are millions of possible computer configurations. Some issues may happen in some computers but won't happen in others.

Even if 2 people have the same computer, they might have followed a different path to reach the current version of windows. Some might've started at win 10 and upgraded from there, others might've installed the latest version of win11.

All those things might result in bugs happening in some devices but not on others.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

Not only are you a Microsoft developer. Are you also a maths PhD? I thought I was using maths of a level I'm comfortable with. Mainly addition, abstraction, and multiplication if real numbers.

Perhaps I've committed a grave mistake. Please show me where my mistake is.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 7 points 19 hours ago (22 children)

So a guy got imprisoned by the most brutal government in the world. And then he fell into vegetative state. But said government has nothing to do with the vegetative state?

Do people just do that? Do people just go "eh, I've had enough, maybe I'll just turn my brain off for a while".

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 19 hours ago (3 children)

You can guarantee it? Are you a Microsoft Windows developer? In that case, I'd like to fill in a bug report.

When I turn my machine on, without me doing anything at all, task manager would display >20GiB used. I don't have many applications to run at startup. At most iCUE (Corsair keyboard drivers). I don't think iCUE is using 20GiB if RAM.

Then, I open 2-3 vscode instances. Each instance launches its own rust-analyzer, since I'm looking at 3 rust projects simultaneously.

Each rust-analyzer instance uses ~3GiB of RAM.

That is enough to reach 100% ram usage and the computer becomes noticeably slower, even if CPU usage is at 7%.

Tell me, Microsoft Windows developer. Why does my machine grind to a halt when I use ~10GiB of RAM, if win11 says that the recommended amount is 16GiB and I have 32? 10+16 = 26. I should have a minimum of 6GiB left. The math ain't mathing.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Yeah no. I'm at 32 and task manager says that 28+GiB are being used on idle. The sum of everything that appears on task manager doesn't reach 2GiB.

And it's not "the OS is using it because you aren't", because if I do anything demanding, the OS won't give me back that RAM, it'll use the swap instead.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

There are many C++ features that make the language worse. Exceptions is one of them. It's not strange to have them banned.

Critical systems often only allow you to use a subset of the language. Dynamic (heap) allocations, recursive functions, exceptions are features that are often banned. In medical devices, safety is critical, so it makes sense. Otherwise you could get a Therac-like scenario due to an unhandled exception.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Why is a pair of scissors separated in halves? Shouldn't a pair of scissors be separated into 2 unit scissor?

EDIT: so you would have 2 half pair of scissors? A pair of half pair of scissors?

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago

Chromium based ones are at the mercy of Google. Firefox, however, is independent in that sense.

When google decides to drop support for manifest V2 (which is the one unlock origin uses), every chromium browser drops support for it. Unless they make a fork of chromium and add manifest V2 back in. Which means extra effort every time they want to update with upstream, since there probably will be merge conflicts.

Firefox can just not drop support for it, literally 0 effort.

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Of course the random dude I replied to on Lemmy owns a set of semaphore flags. What else would I expect?

[–] calcopiritus@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago (3 children)

It's a simple concept.

You need at least 2 people to form a conversation.

One of them has Whatsapp, Telegram, signal, MSTeams, smoke signals and those flags that ships used to communicate.

The other only has Whatsapp.

They are going to communicate over Whatsapp.

Even if the dude with 1000 communication methods meets another dude with 1000 communication methods, they are going to use WhatsApp, because they are used to using Whatsapp with everyone, so it's just easier to have everyone on WhatsApp.

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