gnutrino

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[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 25 points 15 hours ago

Time for the UK government to make good on all that money we spent rescuing OneWeb...

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 19 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

If he was scared of being hanged for treason you would have thought he might have stopped committing treason for five minutes.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 47 points 2 days ago

I'll take "why is my codebase full of technical debt" for 500, Alex.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 4 points 4 days ago (3 children)

This asteroid is way too small to end the human race, at most it could wipe out a single city.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 13 points 5 days ago

Feels like it would be quicker and easier just to write the code myself at that point...

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 4 points 6 days ago

Everyone seems to be forgetting that France has already offered/threatened to send troops to Ukraine but got shut down by the US (and other NATO countries). Never underestimate the ability of a French leader to go full Napoleon if the opportunity presents itself.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 30 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Would be a sad day if we no longer could reduce entropy locally under the invest of energy.

I don't think there'd be anyone left alive to be sad in that case...

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Depends what you mean by "our current theories". In classical General Relatively the answer is pretty conclusively no but many people think that a quantum theory of gravity should be able to remove the singularities. In fact, this article is about an attempt to do just that with a fairly natural extension to GR (albeit one that is only mathematically tractable in 5 or more dimensions) and seems to have succeeded for the static spherically symmetric case at least.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 22 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Are the Democrats in the room with us right now?

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev -1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Sure but who's got time for all that aggravation? Especially if it's not part of the codebase I have to work with personally. LGTM and let it be someone else's problem.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 24 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/386194/why-do-we-still-grow-the-stack-backwards

TL;DR: For historical reasons stacks growing down is defined in hardware on some CPUs (notably x86). On other CPUs like some ARM chips for example you (or more likely your compiler's developer) can technically choose which direction stacks go but not conforming to the historical standard is the choice of a madman.

[–] gnutrino@programming.dev 33 points 1 week ago (7 children)

What's up with the sink plug thing?

You mean the collar? It's... umm... for a thing.

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