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Definitely not in the CS campus.

From your own link:

There’s no proof that ejaculating more actually lowers the chances of prostate cancer. For now, doctors just know they’re connected. It may be that men who do it more tend to have other healthy habits that are lowering their odds.

Ejaculation doesn’t seem to protect against the most deadly or advanced types of prostate cancer. Experts don’t know why.

I'm not the expert but, like all things, exercise, sleep and diet probably goes a long way.

I think for media/assets, CC-BY is the equivalent of MIT/BSD for source, and CC-BY-SA similar to a GPL. Anything more restrictive than that (e.g., "NC") wouldn't really qualify as "free". The licensing in this case seems to have too many strings attached.

Isn't this one of the stupidest versions of capitalism?

Phones should be banned in school. Really that simple. No serious school/parent that cares about the kids' education would allow phones.

Someone's not grounded in reality.

I'm ready to be grounded for this comment.

liber/a/um is Latin.

It is French, so not specifically 501c3.

https://en.liberapay.com/about/legal

This doesn't hold at all. Path tracing doesn't "just work", it is computational infeasible. It needs acceleration structures, ray traversal scheduling, denoisers, upscalers, and a million other hacks to work any close to real-time.

Except that it isn't like that at all. All you get from the driver in terms of ray tracing is the acceleration structure and ray traversal. Then you have denoisers and upscalers provided as third-party software. But games still ship with thousands of materials, and it is up to the developer to manage lights, shaders, etc, and use the hardware and driver primitives intelligently to get the best bang for the buck. Plus, given that primary rays are a waste of time/compute, you're still stuck with G-buffer passes and rasterization anyway. So now you have two problems instead of one.

I thought this was sarcasm, but it isn't. Seems like a very weird choice to me to build network infra on top of Python. C/Rust would have been the more obvious choice since you can then bind to that from any language (at least with C).

Investment disclosure?

Forcing Chrome to display a search engine choice doesn't even begin to solve the issue. Chrome spies on you regardless, and it also banned UBO and other ad-blocking extensions. It is a product made to deliberately spy on and harvest more data from you.

It advertises that it runs locally and that it is "extensible" but then requires you to set up a remote/external provider as the first step of installation? That's a rather weird use of "local" and "extensible". Do words mean anything anymore?

I think that comment is a copy-paste mistake. If you look at the next code snippet, the comment actually makes sense there.

That being said, I've also given up on C++ and learn it mostly to keep up with the job, if that's where you are coming from. I don't find Rust to be a satisfying replacement, though. No language scratches the itch for me right now.

You put it well. It should also be noted that the embargos and tariffs will only sabotage the US's own interests in the long term, as if the Chinese were not intelligent enough to make their own in-house technology. Wait until their own GPUs beat NV's; there are already startups at work [1]. The NSA used to put backdoors in US-made hardware, which it was then happy to distribute worldwide; now, somebody has decided that encouraging China to make their own will work well for US interests? I have no idea what this foreign policy is meant to accomplish. Even if you were the most patriot of US patriots, I have no idea why you'd support this policy. Even Huawei is striking back [2].

[1] https://www.tomshardware.com/news/chinese-gpus-made-by-moore...

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/features/2025-01-28/huawei-ha...

What do you mean? Are you too stupid to read some literature?

Well, I can't wait for the day when Microsoft just disappears. All their life trying to stifle innovation and competition, and here we are again, where this time they have essentially been scammed by OpenAI thinking that they could pull off their anti-competitive practices once more with exclusive access to their models, only to then learn that they've lost and resorting to litigating their sorry ass out of the situation, all the while the US government is living a crypto wars dejavu trying to manufacture as much propaganda as possible to make us believe China is the new enemy we should be worried about this time.

Yep, nope, thanks. Keep those papers coming, bois. Make those models small enough that they can run locally so we don't depend on an online feudal lord.

I can't even listen to 50 Cent unfiltered on Youtube.

Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras, Indonesia, Vietnam, ...

Muddling the term 'open source' is one of his latest achievements, for example.

Yeah, that's what I thought. I wasn't tracking what GP meant to imply. Both people and companies have been moving to Austin recently.

who solve only 50% of the problem and have another tool to solve the rest, which in turn only solves 50% etc.. ad infinitum

This actually converges to 1:

1/2 + 1/4 + 1/8 + 1/16 + ... = 1

You just need 30kloc of maven in your pom before you get there.

How do you mean exactly?

Interesting. But the time here is basically "indefinitely", the place one that affects 150m+ people, and the manner the most draconian possible. Not a lawyer, but that seems like overreach to me.

The propaganda works well indeed. People taking sides is perhaps the saddest part of this story since the politics can be well understood with just a little review of history. You put it well in saying that none of the two are on your side. Wake up, sheeple; stand for principles, not one or the other government.

See Myanmar for what Facebook has done.

The ban on a communications platform effectively censors people's speech.

So you've never worked on a code base with a 3-level+ deep inheritance tree and classes accessing their grandparent's protected member variables and violating every single invariant possible?

As if requirements are set in stone.

The parent comment is a bit exaggerated but it still has a point. One needs to be able to predict things and make sure whatever you do today isn't so rigid that it can't adapt to other things in the future without a major overhaul. Typically this means being cognizant of the assumptions made along the way, and making the minimal set of them. This kind of insight requires experience. People preaching YAGNI just don't seem to have much of it. They just read "YAGNI" in a blog post and then yell it at other people.

Strawman, what is absurd is your own reduction. Hopefully you see the difference between running a build/install command that pulls 100+ dependencies from the network that may change any moment without notice versus downloading a standalone software package that is appropriately licensed.

(You should have no trouble peering at the depths of your own stupidity.)