socalgal2
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Comment · 1 day ago
What is the sexist part? That two men have a fight to marry a female airplane engineer/mechanic? That a woman runs a restaurant and is holding out for some man?
Comment · 1 day ago
we can pick it apart forever. Who gets the penthouse or the beach view property and who lives in the basement? Replicators will not solve all the reasons we have money today. Maybe uploading into cyberspace will but where you can have every place and every thing, though I'm sure someone will point out how that won't lead to utopia either.
Comment · 1 day ago
A medieval king had a better life than a medieval peasant. A medieval king, most of them, arguably did not have a better life than most of America's poor in 2026.
My memory might be faulty but I remember watching "The Lion in Winter" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pqz3gkrmBbo) and feeling really happy I was not alive then, even as royalty. (hope that's the movie)
Comment · 2 days ago
Entirely irrelevant - Chrome really stepped up both security and speed over WebKit at that time.
Comment · 2 days ago
To me your description is mythical reddit. Actual Reddit is every bit as hostile as stack overflow and unlike stack overflow, old questions can not be updated with new answers when existing answers get out of date.
Comment · 3 days ago
My worry is mostly storage. SSD do not last forever
Comment · 4 days ago
Mixed on this. I rarely use a printer. Once or twice a year to print a sign or some government form required to be paper. Maybe you shouldn't encourage printing?
That said, I've gone out of my way to make my sites printable so ...shrug...
Comment · 4 days ago
It it still a thing in many California based tech companies.
Comment · 4 days ago
does this mean they'll reopen pages that are out of date and where comments are closed so you can't post "this is out of date, see this MDN article?"
Comment · 4 days ago
The thing that makes it "hard" is that it's all indirect. You compile a program for the GPU (a shader). Then you have to setup data (textures and buffers) for it. Then, you need to spend a bunch of time telling the GPU how to use that data, offsets where each piece of data is, what formats the data is in,, how to advance to the next piece of data, etc.. etc..
There are a few libraries that try to abstract over all this indirection but all the graphics APIs themselves are lower-level so you're left to do all of that yourself.
Comment · 4 days ago
Personally I wouldn't teach OpenGL ES 3.0 or any OpenGL because its state machine (https://webgl2fundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/resources/webgl...) and horrible error system means tracking down bugs is hard. Instead I'd teach WebGPU as it's portable and has great error messaging.
I'm sure people will objected but I'd argue WebGPU is easier to understand, has better errors, has no state machine, works C++, Rust, JS/TS and other languages, and closer to modern GPU programming if you want to move to Metal or D3D12 or Vulkan later.
Further, OpenGL (and ES) are a nightmare of bugs and incompatibilities students might run into that WebGPU fixes.
That said, the article mentions Apple platforms where you can use ANGLE if you happened to have students stuck there.
Comment · 6 days ago
I genuinely can not understand how anyone with basic knowledge of economics could believe that government intervention is not responsible for the majority of rent price increases
The market, left to its own, will keep building because someone will see the prices people are willing to pay and think “I want in on that” but then the government comes in and blocks them from building. No building = supply lower than demand which always equals higher costs
Further, It would only have taken you one 5 second search to see the ways government regulations can cause unoccupied apartments
https://www.google.com/search?q=in+what+ways+can+government+...
Comment · 6 days ago
That’s another bad metric without more nuance. if I used to pay 30% and now pay 50% but the remaining 50% buys 2x what it used to then overall I’m still doing better
I’m not saying that’s the case. I’m only saying the metric “housing cost as percent of wages” isn’t enough to judge if people are doing worse or better
To take just one example: a 65inch tv costs just $700 compared to $4k just a few years ago