i_stole_ur_taco @ i_stole_ur_taco @lemmy.ca

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The tariffs will be lifted in no time.

This is the man who for over a decade has climbed onto his soapbox and complained endlessly about how you have to flush modern toilets 10 times. This is the obese man who subsists off fast food. That man uses a lot of toilet paper.

I think this is just a picky optimization.

The first one runs the constructor to instantiate a new string, then gets its class (which is presumably a static property anyway). The second doesn’t have to run any constructor and just grabs the static class name from the type.

Maybe there’s more implementation nuance here but it seems like an opinionated rule that has zero effect on performance unless that code is being called thousands of times every second. And even then the compiler probably optimizes them to the same code anyway.

They never reply whenever I respond to their survey question with wishes that they’re having a good day and asking how their data harvesting scam is going. ☹️

OH MY GOD I SAW A TIT

Wasn’t it Visual SourceSafe or something like that?

God, what a revolution it was when subversion came along and we didn’t have to take turns checking out a file to have exclusive write access.

This happened to me once and I completely overthought it.

In my case, I removed the PCB from the drive and took a close look and saw a single scorched IC that I figured was the problem. I think it was a voltage regulator or something like that.

So I bought a scrap drive and tried to transplant the PCB onto my dead drive, but of course that wouldn’t be able to read my old data.

So took it into a local electronics repair shop and asked if he’d be able to make it work.

He took one look at the damaged PCB, pushed the scrap one back at me and said “yeah I’ll just replace this part.”

40 bucks later I had a working drive again and was able to rescue the data.

Amazon pro tip: if you find something that has lots of good reviews, sort them by Recent. Those ones are the reviews by the people who were suckered in by the initial dump of 5 star fake reviews and you’ll probably see a lot more honesty from those people.

Even better: run Fakespot on the listing to see if it detects manipulation or fake reviews.

Best: don’t use Amazon to buy things.

Idiocracy is the only movie I’m aware of that was released as a comedy and became a horror movie.

Some people prefer to make people wait 15 seconds while they fool around with their settings before they can make their audience watch a 10 second video they didn’t want to see in the first place.

I hadn’t even heard this was being written or published. But thanks to Meta’s lawyers, now I have and I ordered a copy.

The short answer is no.

You can do an easy experiment to see this using image files. Grab a random JPG file and open it in a graphics program and save it as a BMP format image.

JPG is already compressed, and BMP is absolutely not compressed. Then try compressing each image. You’ll find that the JPG doesn’t get much smaller, or might even be a bit bigger when compressed. Now do the same with the BMP - that one makes for a smaller RAR!

The main issue here is that compression is about removing empty space in a file (it’s a weak analogy but bear with me). If the file itself already had some kind of compression (basically every AVI or MP4 or MKV you download probably is already compressed), then there’s already a lot less empty space inside the file. RAR doesn’t have much empty space left to work with, so it can’t really reduce the file size any more.

It’s worth doing some testing on a single movie to see how this all works. You’ll probably find that it’s best to just leave the files exactly the way they are. No RAR. No ISO. No tricks. The gains simply aren’t there.

If you’re looking to save on some disk space with your movies, you’d get a lot farther by just deleting one movie you don’t really want that badly. The amount of space you get back from that will exceed your compression gains. It also means you don’t have to go and uncompressed the movies every time you want to watch one.

On the surface, the policy sounds completely reasonable. That kind of thing is probably standard in most schools the world over.

What’s insane is that we’re at a point where “welcoming people” is offensive to somebody.

Or maybe more realistically, it’s easy to feign offence at a bland statement like that and be a bigot without being forced to say the quiet part out loud.

This policy is designed to maintain consistency across all classrooms while ensuring that no one group is targeted or offended by the display of certain items.

Mmmm.

They’ll feel better after sending a few dozen fundraising texts to half of America.

I have to assume they had already bought tickets before the fuckery all started.

There are scripts you can run (there’s a few people have posted on GitHub) that will do one better.

If you mass delete all your posts, Reddit can detect that and just undelete everything. I haven’t seen evidence of that happening, but that’s why people wrote those scripts so maybe there’s something to it.

What those scripts will do is go and edit everything post and comment you’ve ever submitted and replace it with gibberish generated content. That effectively poisons your history in Reddit so the poor AI training runs have a bad time.

X is coming with it. Won’t be long now.

It looks like Shrek infiltrating the cybermen.

Guys I don’t think this is real. It’s possible AI was involved.

If you look very closely, you’ll notice that Elon Musk looks young and is ripped. I don’t think that’s right.

The rest checks out.

HE STEPPED ON AN ANT?!