Then drag and I are in agreement :)

I saw drag clarification that drag comment was just about milk and not politics or economics. Myself and others had a different interpretation, which is where things were misunderstood.

Understandable. I hope drag has a good day and glass of ethical milk.

If drag does not support China, drag is probably not a tankie. If drag calls drag communist and consider Russia and North Korea communist-led countries, drag is wrong, however. A charitable description of those countries would be “socialist” by Marx’s definition.

So, Drag thinks countries that act as though their neighbors are part of a greater whole ruled by them as the motherland, and have political structures where the governing body consists of a small cohort (and not the proletariat) are communist?

That’s imperialism, buddy.

Let me know when: 1) China stops trying to exert absolute control over Tibet, Taiwan, and Hong Kong; 2) North Korea accepts that their ownership ends where their globally-recognized territory ends; 3) Russia stops invading neighboring countries; and 4) All three of them abolish the ruling class and give the power to the people.

The constant cheerleading of brutally-repressive regimes that don’t have any values in common with actual socialists or communists just because they oppose the US and its allies.

This is my main issue with tankies. Yeah, late-stage capitalism sucks and exploits the layman to enrich the rich further—I take no issue with that. It’s the knob-slobbering of Putin, Xi Jinping, and Kim Jong Un that makes no sense. Modern-day Russia, China, and North Korea have about as much in common with communism as oat milk has with milk: nothing but the name.

In late-stage capitalism, they are.

Echo chambers suck, I’m sorry. It’s assbackwards when people dismiss real, lived experiences that don’t align with what they optimistically imagine those experiences would be like.

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This might be the only valid reason to ever name a kid “Jayrahmyie”

Something can be objectively correct yet still presented in an opinionated manner.

Oh, don’t worry. The guy who answered vmlinuz beat me to the joke in general :)

There’s always BSD, Hurd, Darwin… or NT 🤮

The kernel. I can take or leave most things, but I’m not going back to the days of writing directly into memory-mapped registers.

A thought on the upper half of the meme: those “fans” sound like creeps with a fetish.

Streaming is just acting for a digital audience. If someone is going to be so upset over the identity of the streamer outside of their streaming persona, they are unhealthily invested in that person’s life.

Edit: I’m not surprised about the downvotes, but I am disappointed. This isn’t very different than followers on Twitch getting pissy when they find out their favorite gamer girl streamer actually has a boyfriend, and I’m sure most of you would agree that those people are creepy, obsessive, and fetishising women gamers.

The “P” stands for “Private”

Recursion makes it cheaper to run in the dev’s mind, but more expensive to run on the computer.

Maybe for a Haskell programmer, divide-and-conquer algorithms, or walking trees. But for everything else, I’m skeptical of it being easier to understand than a stack data structure and a loop.

In a single one-off program or something that’s already fast enough to not take more than a few seconds—yeah, the time is spent better elsewhere.

I did mention for a compiler, specifically, though. They’re CPU bottlenecked with a huge number of people or CI build agents waiting for it to run, which makes it a good candidate for squeezing extra performance out in places where it doesn’t impact maintainability. 0.02% here, 0.15% there, etc etc, and even a 1% total improvement is still a couple extra seconds of not sitting around and waiting per Jenkins build.

Also keep in mind that adding features or making large changes to a compiler is likely bottlenecked by bureaucracy and committee, so there’s not much else to do.

Not necessarily. It depends on what you’re optimizing, the impact of the optimizations, the code complexity tradeoffs, and what your goal is.

Optimizing many tiny pieces of a compiler by 0.02% each? It adds up.

Optimizing a function called in an O(n²) algorithm by 0.02%? That will be a lot more beneficial than optimizing a function called only once.

Optimizing some high-level function by dropping into hand-written assembly? No. Just no.

Yeah, you have to be pretty deranged to mix multithreading and recursion together.