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  • People of Color Aren’t Invited

    Many are of Asian descent—a reflection of the strong presence of Asian talent in global tech

    This is something I really have an issue with: they’re trying to paint it as a race thing when it’s a wealth/class thing.

    They’re trying to frame it like they hate anyone non-White while I’m willing to bet good money they have nobody, White or otherwise, from places like the Deep South/other poorer places in the US, and it’s just that Latin & Black people are more likely to come from less privileged backgrounds for historical reasons than White/Asian people.

    That’s not to say that racism doesn’t exist, it’s just to say that it’s definitely not the biggest factor here. Don’t buy into corporations trying to divide the working class by race, when it’s so obviously a class struggle.


  • Yeah, it’s a classic of locking you in and hiking up the prices, and the people capable of porting those sheets are probably way too overworked dealing with supporting the vast majority who have no idea how they work to spend time on it (or getting fired by Elon for not doing anything while being the single block that supports the tower)

    It sucks, but I wouldn’t give up on trying to get them to convert, just be aware that it’s very possible that this will be one of the biggest technical (as opposed to administrative) blocks.







  • There’s a difference between libertarians and republicans looking to make more money. Most of the supposedly anti-taxation anti-regulation billionaires just want less tax for them and fewer regulations for their business; everyone else and especially imported products can be taxed more to give the billionaire’s company more subsidies, and regulations to prevent competitors from growing or starting up is even more welcome. Even when it comes to personal freedoms, they don’t care and will gladly support the government in reducing those freedoms if it earns them some sway.

    This all goes directly against the libertarian principles of government non-intervention in the free market and people’s personal lives, both of which are vastly more important than just reducing taxes, which supposedly comes as a side effect later (even if in reality taxes would probably stay the same as you’d need to provide more assistance to low income people)

    This isn’t to say that more principled libertarians are necessarily noble or right or whatever compared to people who just want lower taxes, just that saying it’s about reducing taxes and giving power to corporations is buying in to the direction that corporations are trying to move the ideology in



  • This is Rust not Python

    They’re both optimised out by the compiler. If you disable compiler optimisations, they’re identical in machine code anyway, unless you introduce a second loop, in which case the first will be more memory efficient as the memory used in the first loop can be reused in the second loop, whereas if you declare the variable outside the loop it can’t (again, without compiler optimisations, which make the whole comparison pointless).








  • Yeah even gpt4o couldn’t keep track of encounters, run battles etc. in my case…

    I think if you wanted to do it mechanically consistently you’d probably need to integrate it into a vtt where you give it context and potentially fine-tune it to give quest related summaries & gming rather than just “stuff”


  • Yeah, of course it varies place to place but I think for the majority of at least somewhat developed countries and urban areas in less developed countries 50Mbps is a reasonable figure for “normal home internet” - even at 25Mbps you’re looking at 4½ hours for 50GB which is very doable if you leave it going while you’re at work or just in the background over the course of an evening

    Edit: I was curious and looked it up. Global average download is around 50-60Mbps and upload is 10-12Mbps.