It’s a useful word with no direct equivalent in English. You don’t need to integrate the cult aspect of the book into your identity to understand that.

Because names mean nothing Nvidia has also labeled their frame generation as “DLSS”.

Not just a US thing. Canadian pension plan and employment insurance deductions also stop once you reach a certain threshold of income within a year.

Your example of giving a poor person money which they spend and circulate into their local economy is literally the opposite of “trickle down”.

That’s more of less the starting line of my point. The Dems won’t change anything, I agree, but if the republicans never win that opens the door for another group to fill the void, or at least for things to begin shifting left at the parties chase the votes.

That was your starting point, yes, but I disagree with your conclusion. Both parties pissing everyone off just deepens the current mire. At best you can argue from an accelerationist standpoint that the faster we make things worse the sooner people rebel against it, but I’m not enough of a pessimist to believe that’s the best option.

The dems attracting consistent support would begin the lamentably slow process of digging out of the current situation. It should’ve started 20 or more years ago, but now is still better than never.

I don’t expect so.

The Democrats are unlikely to enact meaningful change, sure, but if they consistently started winning it would create a political environment more conducive to change in the future. The republicans being unable to win would start shifting things in the other direction and it’s delusional to think otherwise.

On the other hand, if both parties piss everyone off then the needle doesn’t move as the parties lose support in equal measure. This seems to be where things currently sit.

Hey. There could also be some Record<string, any>.

Everyone is clowning on the order, but clock faces also traditionally use IIII instead of IV.

// these are unicode characters in four hex…

If your dev team needs a comment explaining this I have some serious concerns about their qualifications.

This is already pretty close to how many EVs are designed.

You can have sensible tariffs that do the intended job of encouraging a domestic market, but you need to have both supply and demand available domestically.

For example, Canada has an import tariff on milk and other dairy because we produce and consume our own dairy products. If some giant US milk conglomerate could start importing on the cheap it would legitimately harm the Canadian economy.

This definitely varies by person. I never found it bad at all to take that first breath, and even found myself with the opposite problem. Once I was used to SCUBA I had to remind myself not to breathe while swimming without gear.

Additional “fun” fact about lung over-expansion. The pressure difference necessary for it to happen is startlingly small if you, for some insane reason, completely fill your lungs. You can do damage rising single digit numbers of feet.

Ugh. Literally refactored multiple factories into straightforward functions in the most recent sprint where I work.

Someone saw a public factory method which was a factory for a reason and just cargo culted multiple private methods using the same pattern.

They’re all paying each other. That’s literally the point this image is trying to express.

What’s especially insane is that the companies that are actually providing the service to end users, i.e. Coreweave et al, are not the ones seeing massively inflated prices, contrary to your point about the monthly fees justifying the higher evaluation.

There a progress bar in an application I wrote that has a one in twenty chance of saying “Reticulating Splines” instead of its usual label.

I have a few hundred users so there are definitely people who have seen it, but so far no one has mentioned it.

Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it’s the most appealing way to do so.

I have about the same in Elite Dangerous. What does that mean?

Reddit had no monetary cost.

It’s much easier to stick to a boycott when it requires a layer of active acceptance and payment to acquiesce.

Reddit is just… there. A query on basically any search engine is going to serve you up reddit links, and clicking one of them costs you nothing.* Since you don’t have to commit to the decision there’s far less resistance to backsliding.

*Yes, I know, there is a privacy and personal content/traffic cost. We both know that’s not what I’m talking about.