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  • We've been putting our lives in the hands of automated, programmed decisions for decades now if y'all haven't noticed. The traffic light that keeps you from getting T-boned. The autopilot that keeps your plane straight and level and takes workload off the pilots. The scissor lift that prevents you from raising the platform if it's too tilted. The airbag making a nanosecond-level decision on whether to deploy or not. And many more.

  • Carefully eases over speed bump

    Sssssccrraaaape

  • Yeah, just like the FBI warnings on VHS tapes about massive fines and jail time stopped us from copying them in the 80s and 90s...

  • Its from Rise of the Planet of the Apes.

  • I'm just using "[n]" to access each element and ".size()" to make sure I don't go over. Solved it now, was an off-by-one mistake deep in some other function I didn't catch. I was trying to access an element in the vector that didn't exist yet.

    I have been playing with STL's built in iterators, but still in the process of learning how to use them. Thanks for the heads up though!

  • Oh my god I've been using this shit for years and just found out about this. I've never seen it enabled. This is awesome! Thanks.

  • "I hate how everyone always stereotypes and makes fun of us southern states so much, it's not fair."

    Then they go do shit like this.

  • Me still learning C++ and traversing a file path string and adding each subdirectory to a vector so I can pop them off later and move back up to the root one dir at a time.

    I am still figuring out why it's crashing. Been two days. I think half my code is just print statements now, all saying "here", "here now", "now running blahblah()"

    This shit can make you feel so stupid sometimes. Because this has been a solved problem for half a century. Coding is definitely an exercise in tolerance for failure and frustration.

  • How politically aware were you at 18-20-something years old? All I remember from my first vote was Bush sounds like a cowboy, and I'm not into cowboys. Gore was the familiar one, and he and Clinton didn't seem too bad during my childhood, so I voted for him. I was way too busy trying to get high and laid to think much deeper than that. I'm sure today's kids are still into that, plus the added stress and depression of growing up in this modern world. I am so glad social media and a constant connection weren't a thing until I hit adulthood.

    I didn't realize the consequences of someone's vote until we invaded Iraq for....reasons. I too thought it was a game that would never affect me personally.

  • M'kernel is euphoric.

  • unless there is specific reason to revert them because the patch is known to cause more issues than it fixes

    Just experienced this for the first time on Debian last month. They had some issues with a kernel update corrupting some filesystems or something, and while the new kernel was right there available in the Discover app, they had blocked the download as an emergency measure.

  • I'm not sure how a tokomak or laser confinement reactor translates to nuclear weapons. Those are completely different processes for creating fusion reactions. A fusion bomb literally just explodes a fission bomb next to the fusion fuel to get it started. No lasers or magnetic fields required, because the fuel in that case is compressed by a carefully engineered blast wave.

  • I like the tirolerhut though with all those pins and feathers in it. I'd rock that in normal clothes if I had one. The one I had as a child unfortunately doesn't fit anymore.

  • It's the Texas of Germany. Strange accent, conservative values, and always considering themselves "independent" from the rest of Germany.

  • Eventually there will not be enough employed consumers to be able to buy those products your pumping out at record rates.

    That's when they'll all combine and become Buy n Large and create a corporate "basic income" just so that people can keep buying crap.

  • Probably avoid anything by Hikvision if you don't want to risk having Chinese backdoors in it. My own system is just a hodgepodge of different used cams I pulled off job sites. Just need to make sure they can do ONVIF and they should be compatible with any NVR out there.