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I cannot get the dumb embedding thing to work.

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grimhilde00 posted...

Hmm I've seen generics in my company's codebase. I haven't spent much time with it in go but it looks like there is some support

https://medium.com/swlh/experimenting-with-generics-in-go-39ffa155d6a1

Well then I guess I'll wait for a mature and popular graphics library. Seems like its biggest problem is that it's pretty new.

Support for browser is what I'm really looking for. I'm getting that the appeal of Go is that it's compiled and has a great garbage collector. It's like it takes all the benefits of C# C++ and Python and leaves behind the bad parts.

I love the fact that it imports directly from GitHub as well. I was thinking of a concept like that just earlier today. The dream is that it just spits out an Android Windows Linux iOS and Mac executable without even thinking about it.

2 years from now hopefully I'm using it as my language of choice. We're due for another groundbreaking language at this point I think, and it's always refreshing seeing talented people cut the fat off our workflow. I feel like Google in general is more competent than Microsoft.

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grimhilde00 posted...

golang

Haven't gotten into it, but it looks very interesting. It looks like it addresses a lot of problems with Python, so I'll keep an eye on it. I do like a lot of things that come from Google. It looks like it's still early in development, but I see that several things are being rewritten in Go. I'm worried about the lack of generics though. I love generics. How can I live in a world without generics?

I remember writing an AI with Python (Python not being the code that runs the machine learning algorithms, just compiles and deploys them) and Python was actually taking up a huge chunk of processing power just parsing the results I got from the real workload.

One of these days I will port my UI library to Go. Could be the language of the future, could be a fad, but I like it.

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GrabASnickers posted...

Why not, I'm curious? You seem to know a fuckton more than me and a lot of actual software engineers that I know.

Though outside of interviews, knowing stuff that mostly amounts to trivia isn't all that useful. If you ever did try for a job I would even say that having that strong of opinions about these things could be a potential turnoff for an employer. The reality IME is that outside of a few companies doing true high tech stuff, a bunch of it is just web app shit and computers and even phones are so efficient now that performance shit really matters less and less.

I know, I'm going to be more opinionated on a forum of course. Argument is just fun sometimes for shooting the shit, even if people think I'm toxic.

Idk why I don't have a software job, I've got bad ADD that keeps me from focusing on anything, and I don't have a degree. I just obsess over learning whatever I feel like in my free time, so I work 8 hours and go home to code for 11. I have no control over my brain, but I am working on a start up.

I do know SQL, C#, C++, HTML, Python, assembly, the fundamentals of emulation and hardware (I obsessed with emulation for a couple months until I was able to write an NES emulator). I even took the goofy little exams on Linkedin and got a 10th percentile score on some of them. Sadly I have nothing to show for it. Most employers won't look twice at me.

I think in my upcoming 1 week vacation I will have to dedicate myself to finally finding a development job.

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grimhilde00 posted...

looks like Java and Python are more popular, and those are both good languages to learn.

From a design point of view I hate those languages. But yes, they are more popular. For good reasons? No. I just think they are more catchy for some reason.

Grudges with Python: Good luck deploying, it's slow as fuck, useless for a lot of things that are basic to most languages. Intellisense and autocomplete are hard to use, the syntax is arguably harder to use. Most overrated language of all time.

Java is just a slower version of C# that's harder to deploy. It was never meant to be used the way it is used and it shows. If you really understand what's going on under the hood, you know it's silly. Like Python, it's slow as fuck.

C++ is just ancient and a lot of things it does don't make sense. There are a lot of things you have to do manually that should be automated (writing header files ffs... do I live in 1980??) But it is the fastest and people who know how to use it love it as the "main" programming language, a step up from assembly that gives them the most control.

C# is like my dream come true, but the garbage collection will give you some nasty stutter because it holds your hand too much. Overall it is the easiest way to accomplish a task as quickly as possible with performance being "above average".

Interpreted languages are fundamentally flawed and should only be used in fringe cases (security, runtime code, browsers). Unless the dev environment demands it (other people demand you use it). I will go to the grave with this opinion. CPUs are fast? Great, make them 10 times faster by not interpreting your source code and instead using CPUs the way they were intended to be used.

I will concede that I desperately need to learn Javascript. No, I don't have a job that uses code development, it's just a hobby of mine.

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Cool but note if you don't already know a language maybe don't start with C++

Start with C#, html, then SQL for databases. C++ is still relevant, but it'll be easier to grasp later as a more advanced language. SQL is fundamental in most jobs. Honestly, isn't C# a catch all these days? .net is basically on everything now

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I must be old too because I gave up forgot I owned it and never played it again.

I was on the hardest mode though.

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captpackrat posted...

While my insurance payed for most of the $200,000 bill after I was in the hospital for emergency lung surgery a few years ago, I still owed several thousand for the deductible. I filed for financial assistance and they knocked 90% off so I only had to pay a few hundred.

Right now? You're welcome

jk I know. I posted it on Facebook, doubt it'll get any attention because Facebook fucking sucks as a way to communicate with people in a serious way, but I know so many people with medical debt that may not know this so I'll have to talk to them irl.

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Don't be like bean dad

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That's either a meme or your wife is an extortionist and a terrible person.

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Give this a try.

https://twitter.com/DareBear1226/status/1350511629977452547

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Haha funny

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tUx4eksG1g

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deoxxys posted...

Um yea....he literally had a badge saying he was meant to work there

They said it was fake, that's a lot of coincidences

That said, something about him doesn't seem like the terrorist type, even with the guns. He seems too... healthy?

Seems like they only charged him with what was indisputable, his unlawful possession, so I guess it doesn't matter what we think. Not knowing the law doesn't really matter.

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How to do right wing commentary 2021;

1) Find something someone said or did that was a highly inappropriate lie where they faced consequences from their employer or the law
2) Tie that lie into a political philosophy (not yours of course)
3) Claim discrimination
4) Reach millions of susceptible ears looking to confirm their world views any way they can

Make sure you don't actually lie yourself, otherwise you might face the legal/employment repercussions of lying. You don't want to be the shark, just the little fish that follows the shark around and picks up scraps. You can basically spread any terrible idea you want this way without being held accountable, and you can make that massive grifter money too.

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I could get into a PotD Age of Empires group, I have no one to play wi irl except AI, and they always do the same thing (either storm you down before you're stable or become meat sacks after they fail)

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I think if you read the context with an unbiased view you could probably see the obvious context. Like someone throwing quarters at you and you recognizing they aren't just giving you money.

Or you could go "it's just an ok sign never go full..."

This isn't something that would change someone's positive views about Kyle because they would just choose to interpret it as an ok sign. It would make a racist happy because they would interpret it as the white power sign. Conservative politics is founded on appealing to as many fringe groups as they can with openly interpreted messages that leave wiggle room.

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Stronghold Crusader lol.

Ancient game but I love it.

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I find it hard to believe a lobbyist group could actually become bankrupt. It's like mold just dying and falling off.

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Cool but I was hoping for a real one.

Someone do it already, damn it! Fly around and kick someone's ass!

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Not unifying and fighting problems that will upset the status quo because there are people who pay thousands for insulin. Despite who's feelings are hurt.

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I like RTS because it allows me to feel happiness in the only way I know how, reveling in other people's misery

Sometimes I let them come back just so I can crush them again. If you got that kind of high from a video game you would be pretty good at it too.

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I'm more into RTS

That's too complicated. I could get into that... but I could also spend the same amount of time learning a useful skill and it would be just as fun.

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And btw we're going right back to the BLM protests as soon as Covid is under control, so look forward to that. Us real anti-authoritarians. Because the government has conceded nothing.

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zebatov posted...

Yes a nationwide riot that started over black people being kneeled on that was largely peaceful is comparable to armed extremists storming the state capitol to overthrow democracy over lies that the president came up with.

It may be that BLM did more damage because BLM existed in every single state. Because police brutality is real. Trumpism is not.

These rebels and their trickle-down economics though. Your outrage is so manufactured it might as well be in a corporate training video.

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Stockholm is real

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Sorry I snapped, I've just heard the list of things that are supposed to help depression and they don't work for me at all.

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thedeerzord posted...

But again, like that topic I posted a while ago, suicide rates would drop if Climate Change wasn't a thing.

Wow you're really dismissive and condescending to depressed people

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Apparently, Satan is different from mortals in that he has the option to end his eternal suffering by permanently dying, but he chooses not to just because he knows he has the option to go out.

I don't know why but that story speaks to me probably more than any happy pep talk. It did more when I believed in that stuff, but still.

Also idk how Satan keeps getting out of hell that seems like a plot hole, he might as well just live his life as a snake.

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This is probably the main reason why I'll never run for public office or start a commentary show or whatever. My hippocampus is shot.

"The previous impeachment..."

"What impeachment? What's that do again? Oh yeah thanks bro"

*career over*

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Mead posted...

He was impeached but not convicted by the republican majority senate.

Wow my memory is awful. That's right.

Now they're hoping to kick him out 5 days early I guess.

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Zangulus posted...

Cool. You just had to debase yourself in front of an audience.

You mean I should have used Google instead of interacting with humans? Yes I know thanks.

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streamofthesky posted...

If he's impeached, he can be banned from ever running for federal office again and he can lose all his post-term privileges like his pension and such.

Also, you know...to make the statement that if a president incites an insurrection, he's not above the law and will be held accountable...

Makes sense. So was he not impeached before? Did it pass the house but not the senate?

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Why? It didn't do anything.

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BlackScythe0 posted...

Stop trying to social engineer me.

If people spend their time hacking my gamefaqs account, as cool as it is, it's pretty worthless.

They'd get their lols for 3 seconds posting stuff that I wouldn't and people would be confused before I'd recover it. Or maybe they'd get me banned and I would be sad.

As such my password is terrible and I've never changed it.

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I really am worked up about the pushback from the uprising going too far though. Imagine taking away the leader's nukes

Far more than I was worried about the violent revolution. He needed those nukes. The nukes were keeping Pelosi in check, now there's no limit to her power.

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LuciferSage posted...

There's literally no fucking hope for any of you.

Damn that's sad to hear.

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Imagine starting a "revolution" over a 1.6% tax increase, and the ability to wage war in Iran for no reason.

Your revolution is a smelly cum stained neckbeard revolution. Say what you want about BLM, they didn't accidentally kill themselves 4 times in one protest out of pure stupidity.

There was that Kyle incident, but that was another Conservative accidentally shooting up a crowd.

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LuciferSage posted...

Where was this outrage when leftist succesionists were taking over several blocks of private property, and trying to burn a police station with police and custodies inside for weeks? No, there were fundraisers to support them.

On Parler
r/thedonald
twitter

And possibly other places.

LuciferSage posted...

The real "coup"/"insurrection" that day is when the Joint Chiefs of Staff had to sit Skeletor Pelosi down and inform her that asking to strip Trump, the sitting POTUS, of the Nuclear Codes would in fact by definition be a military coup...she was surprised when it sunk in. That was the real coup attempt that day, and nobody wants to talk about that.

Did you hear that on Parler?

Sorry I was focused on the (your) violent uprising over your defense lawyer philosophy.

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But listen guys, college is a scam. Take it from the developer of that website!

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dainkinkaide posted...

OK, the "hack" here was just an unsecured/public API and posts that were identified via sequential integer IDs. This means that the only information obtained from this "hack" are public posts (parleys, photos, and videos, potentially even those that had been deleted) and any metadata associated with those posts (including geotags in photos and videos).

No driver's licenses, SSNs, or IPs were revealed through this "hack".

A little under 60 TB of information was downloaded in this manner before Amazon shut the servers down.

Seriously, though, Parler was extremely shit at security on numerous levels, but at least Driver's Licences, SSNs, and IPs weren't public-facing.

No, it was on a public server. Their whole site was downloaded pre-November 24th including internal data. APIs are public and almost all sites allow you to access them for free. I can connect to GameFAQs' API right now and download all your posts the same way a developer would create a third party app.

It was leaked by "security researchers" recently. Aka people made what was already public more public. This was made confusing by the fact that these journalists are mixing up their details and reporting a random Twitter user using a scraping bot as a hacker.

If you want to know what's been leaked so far you can go dig it up. Be wary: I promise you there is child porn in there. This may be why it's not so clamored about. But they don't have so much a confirmation that the data exists so much that they have confirmation that the entire site was almost definitely exploited and private data was taken considering how long it took them to fix it (I don't even know if they fixed it).

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I'd just like to say that before we go free speech warrior (well, after at this point), Parlor bans leftists on the spot. Not so much the free speech central they claim to be. It's fascism.

Also they hosted terrorism. Like, where the fuck are you supposed to draw the line? Their moderation was nonexistent.

There are so many hoops you have to jump through to even remotely make the argument that Parlor should have been left up on Google's play store, Apple's play store, whatever.

One other thing I'd like to mention, Parlor was """hacked""" and all information about all its users is now public. This is because they didn't even remotely secure their databases and all their data was literally in public domain. Think about this before you give your data to someone who can't read a chart or a scientific study. But if you had an account, your private messages, address, driver's license (I'm not shitting you they required this and left it on a public server), are now readable by me, every user on this board, every law agent, and every employer you may have in the future. It's a good thing we're not stupid enough to use Parlor, right??

Lot of leftists are going free speech warrior over this and it's really silly and stupid. Not all slopes are slippery. Normal people do not post terrorist threats.

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Yeah I went a period without a car and had to get one daily.

I liked it when they didn't try to talk to me. Nothing personal. I just find it exhausting to have a 20 minute conversation with a new stranger every day.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKIgv8AhffA&list=PLpyK4qKgaszGscV4c2ePIGunWZiKDEK3c&index=76

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TyVulpine posted...

487

If the topic doesn't hit 500 you'll look dumb now.

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Maybe... but Sam wouldn't be so loyal if there was no Frodo?

Apparently Sam was just as resistant as Frodo but had less exposure. It's not like Gandalf knew exactly which one would do better.

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What? Frodo is awesome. He's not talented in any way (except stealth), but he's the only one humble and innocent enough to be near the ring. He's the inspiration that kept the fellowship together.

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Zeus posted...

Just further proof that Twitter exists to prop up the left and leftist causes. Granted, it could partly be the result of government encroachment into these platforms, as we've seen in senate and congressional committees that have tried to strong-arm them.

They shut him down because he was telling lies. Blatant lies. In order to get millions of people to literally start an uprising and overthrow Democracy. That's not bias. He should be in jail.

But what you're telling me right now is that Democracy and free speech is anti-leftist. TRUE. All around the world leftists are oppressed in developing countries in favor of fascism! Which is the equivalent of a gang coming in and taking over because they can!

But that one purple haired bitch thinks dry erase markers are racist and she's also vaguely on the same political spectrum as a leftist so basically leftists are anti free speech.


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2021 is unironically off to a great start.

People died, sure, but statistically you keep that many old people in one place and you're bound to have at least 5 die for no reason, and some did.

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Can we stop being crazy and get a life or

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Metalsonic66 posted...

Trump isn't to blame

There's that revisionism

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