Nano is love.

Canada joining the EEZ.

This is a bit embarrassing but the last time I actively worked in C++ it was with Qt and pre C++11.

Be a rebel - learn Catalan and just try and speak it to French and Spanish speakers. The world needs more fluent Catalan speakers!

Real C++ programmers pass by const ref and tell pointers to fuck off.

1. Switch date tracking over to trimesters
2. America suspends the advancement of time because they assume it has something to do with abortions

I’m not certain - the genre would probably focus around the hero’s journey to get there. It could be a modern/sci-fi adventure novel?

I wouldn’t consider it particularly dystopian with a condition - the modern world is a dystopian corporate hellscape so nearly all modern setting tales are dystopian… your description of the setting and plot are certainly a society under pressure but assuming the new country isn’t also a dystopian corporate hellscape it’d break with the tradition of dystopian literature where the actions of the characters leave the world no different than the initial state (sometimes names will change, or governments be overthrown only to be replaced with nearly identical ones) or, potentially, worse.

I think the “everything is awful and can only ever get worse” is pretty integral to dystopias.

Boost for Lemmy is also incredibly similar to the old experience. That may work for you?

Design choices are never universal, people have different tastes so anyone who shits on you for your UI preferences is just an asshole. We all like habits and form strong preferences about what we’re using.

Ah right on, that’s a fun and difficult thing to optimize for!

If that’s a genuine non-sarcastic question that isn’t whooshing me then no - there can be other things like memory/disk usage… but if I’m optimizing for CPU I want it to use less overall cycles. It may be that the easiest fix is to throw money at the problem (always a fair option) which would mean getting a beefier/more processor cores to make the performance acceptable but this would usually just shift how cycles are being used to process them faster.

My joke above was that it’d use more total cycles which actually is generally the case if you’re solving a problem by throwing resources at it (since you’re likely incurring more overhead) but generally when you optimize you want to reduce the total number of cycles by somehow locating and eliminating work that doesn’t need to be done.

I think the great peacemaker is uncontroversially seen as a historical figure (sort of similar to Jesus was probably a dude) but while Jesus said really nice stuff they’re better known for miracle stuff… the great peacemaker does have some miracles like crossing a lake on a granite canoe but most of what he did was negotiating the peace to unite the confederacy. All that stuff he did is probably historically accurate with the miracles likely being embellishments over time.

Also the great peacemaker and the creator and their twin are distinct figures. It sounds like you understand that but I just wanted to clarify that.

Perhaps interactive, perhaps just directed. You set a setting, some actor/character preferences, and finally details about the action - then you have a curated and customized scene.

The real question is how it’ll stay fresh, if that can be solved it’ll capture immense value…

Now, whether that’s a good thing I can’t say, but it’s worth a boatload of money.

It’d be porn. The answer is porn. The answer is usually porn but for this question in particular its absolutely porn. That is what’s behind the GenAI revolution - a desire to see Marge Simpson bang Captain America in 4k.

I consider myself an atheist but the faith I identify the most with is Haudenosaunee Long House traditions. I’d say I loosely follow that religion but it’s incredibly niche and regional and I now live on the west coast so I mostly just feel thankful for shit which is like 90% of the beliefs anyways - I’d consider myself agnostic because I have no genuine belief that the Creator nor his brother exist or that there are sky people, a strawberry road or an afterlife…

I actually consider myself an atheist because I was raised in Boston among rapey catholic priests and unless the metaphysical universe actually is a disinterested God like in the Long House tradition then, if God exists, they’re a fucking asshole and can eat my ass. I find comfort in the universe being uncaring because if it does care the immense cruelty of the world means that God is a sadistic asshole.

But… yea, I’m most closely aligned with Long House traditions where the Creator made a bunch of sweet (rivers flowing both ways? Yes please) stuff, his evil brother fucked it all up and they’ve all fucked off somewhere and left just us, the plants and animals - praying is useless because nobody is home but you should appreciate the natural beauty of the world and thank the plants and animals for helping to give you life and shelter. I vibe with humbleness in the face of the universe.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

The Breeders kicked fucking ass - Kim Deal went on to form the Pixies but her first project is absolutely worth a listen as well.

Indeed, anytime I optimize code, it ends up taking more CPU to run.

Almost certainly HTTP 418:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Status/418

So how about that SPORTING EVENT last weekend?

Caring about your employees as if they were humans.