A lot of people aren’t on either the left wing internet OR the right wing internet. They’re just not on the internet. They don’t even watch Fox News. The sum total of what they know about party policy is “Republicans = Christians, Democrats = Atheists”.
“Comments are turned off” yeah I’ll fucking bet
Hand out the arms and ammo, we’re gonna blast our way through here
We got to get together sooner or later because the revolution’s here
And you know that it’s right
We have got to get it together now
Yeah, some of the bandwagonny replies I’m seeing in this thread do not make their posters sound like someone you’d want to spend your working life sat next to.
You don’t have to show interest in the company to help the CEO get richer, but you should probably show an interest in the company because it’s where you’re going to be spending 1/3rd of your entire waking hours from now on, and you’re going to have a fucking miserable time of it if you’ve already decided to mentally check out before you’ve even got to the interview. Have some self-respect.
I remember they once tried some similar shit with the Kerberos protocol, sneaking a patented feature in there so they could then seize the whole thing in the name of Active Directory, but I think they were forced to back down(?)
I’m actually having difficulty finding details on it now because they’ve done a solid job drowning the story out from the search results…
Corbyn in the UK ten years ago had a huge groundswell of popular support that at one point looked like carrying Labour to a 1997-style landslide, until he was taken down by an organised campaign of pearl-clutchy disingenuous accusations of anti-semitism over his support for Palestine; a campaign that the neoliberals in his party were all too happy to play along with.
I think he’s probably trolling us, because he’s doubling down on it elsewhere in the thread in face of all the people explaining it to him. Nobody is that dumb.
Sure, I’m just bemoaning the fact that you’ve taken cloud hosting to be the default. It’s as much a complaint about the world in general as anything specific to you. Good luck with it all.
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I’m old enough to consider the framing of the question to be weirdly loaded.
It does not feel that long ago where people would be asked to justify entrusting their product’s functions and data to a bunch of strangers who can make unilateral decisions about your service with zero comeback. Now we’re being asked to justify not doing that.
There seems to be a common thread amongst all the Japanese camera manufacturers that their software is all “this must be done in exactly this (often convoluted) way”.
I’m convinced that they put their hardware engineers in charge of writing the software.
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A significant percentage of developers regard frontend dev as a branch of the Arts, and therefore not “proper” software engineering.
I once had a fresh grad Junior complain to me about being given a frontend ticket, because they wanted to be writing Real Code and apparently thought they were too good to learn how to change the margin on a div.
My LinkedIn has recently become flooded with Suggested Posts from 3rd degree connections who have “Vibe Coding Guru” listed as their job and post lots of stuff saying “people who mock Vibe Coding just don’t get it, and you too will be left behind if you don’t subscribe to my newsletter (which ChatGPT writes for me)”
That one wasn’t the one I had issues with, since the concept is essentially the same across all languages. We say it’s false because we can’t conclusively say that it’s true. Same as the reason why null != null in SQL.
The code is a set of preprocessor macros to stuff loads of booleans into one int (or similar), in this case named ‘myFlags’. The preprocessor is a simple (some argue too simple) step at the start of compilation that modifies the source code on its way to the real compiler by substituting #defines, prepending #include’d files, etc.
If myFlags is equal to, e.g. 67, that’s 01000011, meaning that BV00, BV01, and BV07 are all TRUE and the others are FALSE.
The first part is just for convenience and readability. BV00 represents the 0th bit, BV01 is the first etc. (1 << 3) means 00000001, bit shifted left three times so it becomes 00001000 (aka 8).
The middle chunk defines macros to make bit operations more human-readable.
SET_BIT(myFlags, MY_FIRST_BOOLEAN) gets turned into ((myFlags) |= ((1 << 0))) , which could be simplified as myFlags = myFlags | 00000001 . (Ignore the flood of parentheses, they’re there for safety due to the loaded shotgun nature of the preprocessor.)
Back in the day when it mattered, we did it like
#define BV00 (1 << 0)
#define BV01 (1 << 1)
#define BV02 (1 << 2)
#define BV03 (1 << 3)
...etc
#define IS_SET(flag, bit) ((flag) & (bit))
#define SET_BIT(var, bit) ((var) |= (bit))
#define REMOVE_BIT(var, bit) ((var) &= ~(bit))
#define TOGGLE_BIT(var, bit) ((var) ^= (bit))
....then...
#define MY_FIRST_BOOLEAN BV00
SET_BIT(myFlags, MY_FIRST_BOOLEAN)
The terrifying thing is that this is just a temporary technical misstep.
Musk’s response to this won’t be to pack that shit in, it’ll be to order his goons to figure out how to make it more subtle.
I was sort of on Mike Goldman (the challenge giver)'s side until I saw the great point made at the end that the entire challenge was akin to a bar room bet; Goldman had always set it up as a kind of scam from the start and was clearly more than happy to take $100 from anyone who fell for it, and so should have taken responsibility when someone managed to meet the wording of his challenge.
Are you trying to get rickrolled?
This a phenomenon seen the world over sadly. Immigrants in every country are often keen to pull the ladder up behind them. Trump is German married to a Slovenian. As for Musk, the US isn’t even his second citizenship.
It’s a similar impulse to the one that creates violent homophobia in closeted men; an immigrant wants to feel like they’re a full member of their adopted society, but when they see another immigrant they instinctively judge them as an outsider, which in turn creates cognitive dissonance because it forces them to reckon with their own identity in response.
They hope that getting rid of the other immigrants will make them more accepted because in their minds they’re already Real Americans, but don’t realize that when it comes to bigotry, what goes around comes around.