Pluckerpluck

Huh? What does having some jobs replaced have to do with humanity being replaced?

Jobs can disappear overnight due to technology updates, and it's always highly disruptive when that happens. If large sectors suddenly have to find new jobs, then that creates highly stressful environments and people suffer during that transition.

The reason AI is scary is because it seems to be something that could result in many job losses very quickly without opening any new accessible jobs as working with AI tools isn't super accessible.

I appreciate how weird this comment is if you don't know what computers used to refer to...

It's also a good example of how you very much can have technology replace jobs.

While not impossible, you have to try fairly hard to fuck up your phone like this. I'd be actively impressed if your story is true (particularly as you used the plural), and if so I'd like to know what they were specifically trying to install that fucked up their phones.

It's just statistically more likely they downloaded a malicious app from the Play Store than had any chaos side loading.

No you fool! Don't you see that because Wish exists buying from Best Buy is also a scam?!

Honestly I don't get people like this. Are they trying to protect other people? I've never seen it framed that way, but it's the only reasonable explanation.

Fractal cases are basically black boxes with decent airflow designed to be quiet.

Latency is still so bad. It doesn't really have to be either. Low latency tech has existed for ages, but nobody seems to care!!

I can't stand it though. How anyone uses Bluetooth headset with, say, the Steam Deck, I have no idea.

My first thought. You could put up three 2 person benches there without too much trouble. It'd still look fine with spaces between so people can sit alone.

If you didn’t happen to do string replacements it wasn’t so bad.

Yeah. I was using regex to find the numbers as a quick implementation before realizing that floor. Just switched it to use a positive lookahead to solve that issue.

Day 3 was one of those challenges that if you thought of a good method quickly it wasn't too bad. Ended up compiling strings and using regex again. Worked really well actually.

Of course WeChat dominates china when they ban other apps from even operating. WhatsApp can't operate there. Facebook is entirely banned in fact. Twitter is blocked as well.

Amazon failed to get a foothold due to complex regulations restricting them, which forces them to shut down their marketplace there.

So you can't really compare that to a much freer market.

Except the point of this post is that a different sort with worse Big O could be faster with a small dataset.

The fact that you're sorting those 64 ints billions of times simply doesn't matter. The "slower" sort is still faster in practice.

That's why it's important to realize that Big O notation can be useless for small datasets. Because it can actually just be lying to you.

It's actually mathematical. Take any equation:

y = x^2 + x

For large x the squared term dominates. The linear may as well not exists. It's O(x^2). But when x is below 1? Well suddenly that linear term is the more important one! Below 1 it's actually O(x) in practice.

Just for clarity, I'm actually from the UK, but we also have FPTP voting and a number of similar issues. The Democrats would (for many issues) be considered right wing in the UK though... The really difference though is we actually have minor parties that can leech power from the big parties (see Brexit for a side effect of that).

This is a wonderful condemnation of our electoral process...

I agree with this actually. The electoral process is horrible and needs reform. We just disagree on how to hopefully eventually achieve said reform

Lower voter participation is a threat to “moderate” parties, forcing them to appeal to radicals they’d previously written off as irrelevant if they wish to remain relevant themselves.

and Democrats follow the Overton Window to the right in search of the new middle.

Gonna combine the rest here, because I think the crux of the issue is this. I believe that not voting leads to the Democrats shifting right, feeling no need to chase the "lost votes" that are too "radical" to ever convince. They're too focused at trying to take votes from the Republicans to care about those further left.

Your (simplified) argument, if I'm correct, is that by not voting you present a base of people that are currently untapped, and hope to encourage the democrats to move towards you in order to convince you to vote for them again.

It's effectively the same argument I used to claim that voting for the dems would encourage the republicans to shift left, but you're trying to shift the dems further left instead.

My concern is I think I agree with you regarding how the dems are chasing the republicans to the right, but trying to think about this now (after a few drinks) I still think not voting is worse than voting. The not voting method seems to rely on things getting worse before they get better. i.e. you shift far enough right that there's a big chunk of people not voting on the left that you can grab up in one fell swoop with a big policy change

Hmmm... I'll have to think on this further, because you do raise interesting points to consider. So for now instead I would like to say thanks for replying in full and in detail. It's rare to see people engage this way.