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  • The runoff voting downside is incorrect, the "drag the voters up to yellow and watch how it makes red win" example. This is not "see how making yellow more popular makes yellow lose". It's actually "see how making red more popular than yellow makes red win". The movement of the voters is not for yellow, but for red and yellow in a way that gives more voters to red.

    There is no way for yellow to be the only candidate to get a boost of voters in the demo. If there were, it would only demonstrate further that yellow would still continue to win.

    Runoff voting is the way.

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    Rafah
  • He gave them the weapons and is STILL giving them weapons today knowing exactly how they're being used. "We're trying to hard to stop this" while handing them the bombs they need to continue uninterrupted.

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    What’s your “I can’t believe other people don’t do this” hack?
  • Someone just suggested to me that I should be putting my chocolate bars in the freezer first. I've never heard of this, but apparently it's a thing that I've been missing out on for a while.

    So I guess I'm the one who can't believe that I don't do it.

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    tragic
  • After watching Pocahontas for the first time in many years, it shocked me that anyone could value personal wealth over coexisting. The antagonist only cares about mining out gold, looking at the hills as having potential as opposed to perceiving them as implicitly valuable as they are. Nature is worth protecting.

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    Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C?
  • Oh, okay. Thank you for clarifying. So doesn't that mean we should never have a compiler written in the same language that it compiles? Why would we ever choose to make the mistake of using the same language? Is it ever not a mistake?

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    Why am I writing a Rust compiler in C?
  • Why would a Rust compiler written in C be more trustworthy than one written in Rust?

    If the idea is that, in an ideal world, we would compile each layer of compilers from assembly-up-to-Rust for each build, that seems even more risky as then you have to trust each compiler instead of just one.

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    What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"?
  • It just felt so cliche, that the crazy discovery they make is that the strange stuff is alive. The writers couldn't make it sentient because then they'd need to explain why it's just like the Great Lake but different from the Great Lake. It just exists and Star Fleet happens to be the only ones who know about it.

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    What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"?
  • lol, I love that you're conflating the creator having the budget to make the show more in-line with his original vision with someone else making a lousy change for no clear reason. It's a nice knee-slapper of a comment you have right there. Good luck with it.

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    What are the biggest red flags when talking with a Trek "fan"?
  • Who wanted a visual reboot of the Klingons?

    Discovery had so many problems for me: ship flies on magic mushrooms, her mom basically doesn't care about her anymore by the end of it - the show-starting plot line, and the Klingons look like sweaty orcs.

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    This Development-cycle in Cargo: 1.81 | Inside Rust Blog
  • The idea that someone would introduce the verbiage "garbage collection" in the context of Rust is crazy to me. I hope they change that to "file cleanup" or... anything else.

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    Up up and away we go
  • I save "template" SQL queries in a special directory so that I don't have to google how to do specific things. It's basically my own personal "examples" folder.

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    wtf I hate using AI for programming, but today it was useful for Rust
  • AI is surprisingly helpful with providing a starting point. When you want a helloworld app, an example of how to use some part of a crate, or a code snippet showing how to take what you have and do something unusual with it, AI is super useful.

    I would love to be able to get the same quality of AI locally as I do from ChatGPT. If that's possible, please let me know. I've got two 3090s ready to go.

    But for now, I'm just enjoying the fact that ChatGPT is free. Once they put up a pay wall, it's back to suffering (or maybe/probably trying out some open-source models).

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    The State Fair of Texas is banning firearms, drawing threats of legal action from Republican AG
  • There are some people who both start and end every gun debate with the "good guy with a gun" argument. Nothing gets through the impenetrable logic of "it makes sense to me".

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    Ladybird browser is switching from C++ to Swift
  • This comment would make sense if he hadn't stated that the PR was politically biased but had instead said that it was unnecessary or that it would be inconsistent with the vast majority of the documentation. I'm just reading what he said. He claimed it was a PR based on politics, not language norms or historical norms. Only certain kinds of conservatives view gender-inclusive language as a political issue.

    I appreciate that you don't want to see this person as a hateful bigot and I don't think he is either. Most people I've encountered that share the same reaction as him have basically been tainted by conservative influences, like media or parents, but they don't have any real hate for trans people in their hearts. They've associated the idea of gender-inclusivity as being political and moved on with their lives, accepting the framing and narratives around the topic.

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