> Nor is peace possible without true disarmament! The requirement that every people provide for its own defence must not turn into a race to rearmament.
The sentiment sounds great but I think we now see in the real world with Ukraine that if you rely [too much] on others (re: US), you have a real problem if they are no longer there for you. Peace through strength is real.
I wrote an app that has minimal Objective C that then just calls C++ code. You can either add .cpp files to your project, or if I recall correctly, you can just define C++ functions in your obj c files. In my app, Objective C just sets up the UI and then it calls C++ functions to do calculations. Not exactly your question, but might be helpful.
Ugggh, credit card rewards. We all pay higher prices on goods because of the fees credit cards charge merchants, and then can get "rewarded" some of that money back. No thanks.
You either play that game or subside others who do, regardless of of whether you like it or not — you are still participating. Prices are already higher for everyone.
We should have some form of Faster Payments scheme, backed by the state, because cheap, reliable transaction networks are the sort of infrastructure that's good for business. At the very least, this screams "make FedNow the default payment rail". Then if people actually want to spend money that isn't theirs, let lenders build something pluggable on top, so their costs and needs are solely limited to the credit aspects, rather than skimming of of every single transfer of value.
I also dislike the concept, but whether you personally participate or not doesn't change anything about the underlying game theory causing the emergent phenomenon.
If you really dislike it, maximize your points and fund a campaign to lower credit card interchange from them :)
> When he goes, all the voters that voted for him will still be there, and they’ll still have all the reasons they voted for him.
IMO this is a problem with the Democratic party not connecting with voters. Voters voting for Trump don't feel represented by Democrats, and that is something Democrats should be solving for.
It's many things, and that is certainly one of them.
But a crazy percentage of voters thought the economy was literally in a recession. Not even that it was doing poorly, but that there was a recession. Some people just live in an alternate reality.
I agree partially. But there is a large part of the MAGA movement who hate anyone that is not a Christian White Straight male getting ahead. The Democrats will never get those people.
The Democratic Party is not blameless. They are seen as being soft on immigration now. Obama deported more people than Trump.
They forgot the lesson that allowed Bill Clinton to win - “It’s the Economy Stupid”.
And no matter how you feel about it. There is a large part of the United States, even among the LGB crowd who don’t want biological men in women’s sports.
DEI the way it is framed is toxic to millions and I as a Black guy rolled my eyes at much of the indoctrination and “ally” nonsense I had to endure during my stint at BigTech.
No matter how you feel about this either, it takes a remarkable amount of lack of self awareness by the DNC not to know how toxic this attitude is to a large swath of American voters.
> The rules specify that when we have a gender-nonbinary candidate or officer, the nonbinary individual is counted as neither male nor female, and the remaining six officers must be gender balanced
Out of curiosity: how come only LGB? I'm trans, and I'd be quick to complain about how bad the narratives are there. Especially in terms of people over-focusing on such a small issue when hardly any trans people are in competitive sports and there's issues 1000x more important to our daily lives and safety that need to be handled sooner than "competitive sports teams".
I'm not the only trans person like this, so it seems odd to exclude a whole group from even the possibility of agreement.
I honestly don’t personally know anyone on personal level who is trans who would talk about the issue. I do have close LGB friends who I talk to about these issues and they are opposed to it for the most part.
I have heard my gay friends say that the issue is causing support for issues that do affect them lose support because of narratives around trans issues.
If you even look what Trump is doing, he isn’t erasing LGB teens from government websites, just everything else related to it.
No, I’m not in favor of that anymore than I’m in favor of him removing everyone from government websites that is Black.
I’m all about RealPoliticks. Obama distanced himself from radical Blacks (repeat I a black) and Bill Clinton through Sister Soulja under the bus to appeal to moderates.
> Only a single ethernet port in the basement. Then the kid wanted a gaming station and we moved where the TV was. I should have put like 4 down there.
I have, but now I have cable running along the base boards. That isn't optimal. Also I have 10G networking, so the ethernet switches are hot and expensive.
> Also I have 10G networking, so the ethernet switches are hot and expensive.
I never understand why anyone needs anything faster than 1G (other than to flex for Internet points). Seriously, how often do you need to move data faster than 100MB/s? Almost never. FYI: A 2.5G switch should be fine. There are many fan-less options here: https://www.servethehome.com/the-ultimate-cheap-2-5gbe-switc...
I was thinking about this and it is very expensive. And do I need 10G really? I do not think so. I did calculated few things when I was thinking about 10G and most probably I will not saturate 1G for few years.
And with phones ans laptops mostly WiFi is used anyways.
So can I ask you what is the advantage for using 10G equipment in your case? Even something really dull like network card costs around 100€.
10G is awesome for (1) downloading steam games - many are +50GB these days, (2) downloading Ollama models, (3) downloading ISOs, (4) downloading app/OS updates and (5) I have a NAS also on the 10G network for media backups.
I have symmetric 3Gbps fibre to the home via Bell Canada and it reports 4.5Gbps via fast.com.
I’ve got Virgin cable and can pull 6Gb a minute from fast.com. Your hypothetical 50Gb steam game would take a whole 9 minutes assuming steam can saturate my connection. So that’s like enough time to hit start download , make a brew and come back to the pc.
Why bother.
Which is fine? It's getting capped to 3 at your modem anyways... And the difference here is reaching the "doesn't matter" phase.
Like - 50GB at 3gbps is ~130 seconds, ~160 seconds at 2.5gbps, and ~400 seconds at 1gbps
You're always waiting at least a couple minutes, and never more than 10 for that download.
Personally - I have a couple 10gbps switches that run my backbone in my house (NAS, k8s cluster, HomeAssistant, etc) and I have a 2gbps symmetric wan, but all of the offices (my wife and I both work from home, plus the media room, plus the kid's playroom) all just run 1gbps switches.
They're cheap, normal office work basically never saturates those speeds (even multiple conference calls with video is a-ok), and there's just not enough value in bumping up to 10gbps across the whole house compared to the equipment cost.
The 10gbps switches live in the basement and just connect those zones.
You are completely right that I can always just wait. I prefer not to though... there are a lot of times when it is amazing to have 10G between my main machines.
The devices attached to the 2.5G switch, will be limited to 2.5G per connected port. There won't be any slow down on any other connections. If you still want 10G in the basement, put in a 10G SFP+ switch (they can be had for $15-20 per port and use DACs to control the heat some). You'll only have one shared 10Gbps to the rest of the house, but that is really unlikely to be saturated.
XikeStor SKS8300-8X costs about 100$, can do L3 routing, has 8 10G SFP+ ports, no fan and consumes ~9W. I'm running it in my homelab without any issues.
Friendly reminder: newer modem, router (especially for wireless), cat cable and fast speed switches really make a difference. I had the fastest speed my ISP could provide, but then discovered I needed to upgrade some of my equipment. It made all the difference in the world, especially cat 6e cable.
This is from memory, and I can't find the sources - but at one point I read that some company developed some new pesticides for lawns and as a side effect, dandelions were killed. Which meant the company did a PR campaign to re-brand dandelions as weeds... and here we are.
I worked with a new co-worker that ... had trouble writing code, and tests. He would write a test that tested nothing. At first I thought he might be green and just needed some direction - we all start somewhere. But he had on his bio that he had 10 years of experience in software dev in the language we were working in. I couldn't quite figure out what the disconnect was, he ended up leaving a short time later.
I've worked with these sorts of people. It is never clear why they don't perform. One of them had clinical depression, another claimed to have low blood values that they simply couldn't fix. And one other just didn't seem to have any working memory beyond one sentence for whatever reason. Do people become like that? Are we going to become like that? It is a scary thought.
Also random aside. I dislike this pattern for modal dialogs. Often times I will need to gather information from somewhere else, and in the process of attempting to get focus back to the dialog I've touched/tapped/clicked on something that dismisses the dialog. Very annoying.
I'm okay with modal dialogs working that way as long as people get the message: dialogs are supposed to be ephemeral. If closing the dialog loses important state, or you need information from something under the dialog in order to use the dialog, what you have shouldn't be a modal dialog. And you can tell, because in most UI frameworks that widget is just begging to be closed. Unfortunately, a lot of teams don't get the message.
I don’t say this often, but Jira got this correct. When you’re creating a new ticket, it’s done in a modal. But if you close it or click the “X”, it minimizes to the bottom of the page so that you can look at other tickets, or look up something relevant to the one you’re making.
I’ve been trained that modals are ephemeral, and I have to take a sec of “ugh I have to close this to look stuff up…wait, no I don’t” when using Jira
Just noticed this bug in Simplifi expense tracking web app. The drop down to update the category of a transaction has multiple levels (e.g. Business:Travel:Lodging) and as soon as I hover over a nested drop down the whole thing disappears.
The sentiment sounds great but I think we now see in the real world with Ukraine that if you rely [too much] on others (re: US), you have a real problem if they are no longer there for you. Peace through strength is real.
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