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AbsoluteCabbage··on Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe
I’m pretty sure we need farming to continue existing as a species. Insane rhetoric like blaming cow farts on the end of the world will lead to the death of hundreds of millions due to starvation.
AbsoluteCabbage··on Legend of Zelda game sells 10M copies in three days
> Nintendo proved again that gameplay and art direction matter more than anything

More like- Nintendo proved that in spite of barely listening to the fan base over literal decades, a solid brand will still get sales with just bleh content.

They barely caught onto the open world concept and sandbox - and it took years and years.

AbsoluteCabbage··on Where have all the hackers gone?
C is making a big comeback. More and more people are waking up to what utter garbage the modern frameworks and languages are.
AbsoluteCabbage··on Who wants to be tracked?
There are likely dozens of others out there that can lay claim to the same. What specifically do you define as the innovation behind this “invention”?
AbsoluteCabbage··on The Great CPU Stagnation
At least now people will start to focus on how bloated and slow software has become in the meantime. And stop referring to it as “tech”.
AbsoluteCabbage··on Farmland practices are driving bird population decline across Europe
Is “farming to blame”, or is farming being blamed to suit an agenda?

Don’t push ridiculous articles like this with zero factual evidence. What we put out to the world has real effects- especially dangerous rhetoric like this that incites the left side of the Bell curve into a frenzy.

AbsoluteCabbage··on A weed is swallowing the Sonoran Desert
I have found the name for the AI that takes down chatGPT.

StinxNet

AbsoluteCabbage··on Programing Best Practices 2023
Not a very good source.

From the C section:

“We all study C in high school or intermediate. But, most of the aspirants or programmers struggle while coding”

“15 Tips to improve your coding skills for C”

This is borderline Engrish.

It would be nice if the people writing this used the “best practices” for the language the article is actually written in.

AbsoluteCabbage··on Faster CPython at PyCon, part one
I love me some Python, trust me. But this is just putting lipstick on a pig. The language needs to be rewritten from the ground up. If you’ve ever analyzed the machine code a simple python script spits out you’ll see how helplessly bloated it is.
AbsoluteCabbage··on IRS files $44B claims against bankrupt FTX
So cutting peoples heads off is your criteria for being a cartel? Okaaaay.
AbsoluteCabbage··on Faster CPython at PyCon, part one
I prefer C without braces
AbsoluteCabbage··on Qsort.h – Quicksort as a C macro (2019)
C is still the King of languages.
AbsoluteCabbage··on How much can you earn creating content on Youtube?
It all depends how many phones you have running in your farm
AbsoluteCabbage··on Ocean-surface temperatures are breaking records
Lol. No.
AbsoluteCabbage··on New study: 70% of type 2 diabetes cases linked to food choices
You mean eating a diet of pure sugar and vegetable oil might have consequences?

:surprised pikachu:

AbsoluteCabbage··on Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (2012)
Perfect pitch can be acquired by anyone. It’s the ability to distinguish notes by their unique sound characteristic much like seeing colors of the rainbow. It’s akin to “color hearing”.
AbsoluteCabbage··on Children aged 2-6 successfully trained to acquire absolute pitch (2012)
That’s not what perfect pitch is. Perfect pitch is “color hearing”- recognizing the unique sound properties of each not along the scale, much in the same way colors of the rainbow can be distinguished. It can also be trained for.
AbsoluteCabbage··on Performance excuses debunked
“ Where you fall is a discussion to be had, because like ALL product requirements, it comes with a cost to develop and maintain. I don't drive an F1 car to the grocery store. I don't take my minivan to the track”

No. The authors point is that you don’t have to drive an F1 car to the grocery store. All you have to do is stop slashing your tires, dumping sugar in your gas tank and driving a Kia.

The amount of mental gymnastics you people go through to keep your delicate little worldview from crumbling is truly a sight to behold. Thank god we have people like Casey in this world to balance out the bell curve.

AbsoluteCabbage··on Performance excuses debunked
No, his previous video cited that premise.

This video was clearly about debunking your excuses, which he did succinctly.

AbsoluteCabbage··on Performance excuses debunked
yeah, and now people here are making the new excuses we already predicted lol
AbsoluteCabbage··on Performance excuses debunked
The point is that performance is so important to customer satisfaction and the bottom line that even a horrendous company like facebook would begrudgingly spend time and money to improve performance. If anything your comment reinforces his point.
AbsoluteCabbage··on Performance excuses debunked
you realize that you are literally parroting talking points that we have already predicted you would come up with as additional excuses, right?
AbsoluteCabbage··on Performance excuses debunked
That's literally one of the excuses he debunks. Case in point: it is such a large factor on customer satisfaction and the bottom line that large companies such as Facebook would spend significant sums of time and money improving performance.
AbsoluteCabbage··on [dead]
It’s all true and you know it. No more excuses folks.
AbsoluteCabbage··on The problems with live coding interviews
Just use n & 1 then. An odd number ends in binary 1; and’ing it with 1 yields 1 if its odd.
AbsoluteCabbage··on The problems with live coding interviews
Bonus if you use n & 1 instead of n % 2 != 0
AbsoluteCabbage··on The problems with live coding interviews
Flashbacks to losing out on a dream job because the husband and wife interviewers had a nasty argument after a long plane flight right before the interview. Sigh.
AbsoluteCabbage··on Could we stop Yellowstone from erupting with a giant geothermal power plant?
No, but you could probably start it erupting.
AbsoluteCabbage··on A Map of Places in the US with the Same Name
Doesn’t load.
AbsoluteCabbage··on Amazon CodeWhisperer, Free for Individual Use, Is Now Generally Available
We are still going to evaluate code in our heads. If anything, we need to enhance our capacity to do so. That is where AI can assist. A simple overview or graphical representation of a codebase will be a good start.
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