You are the fucking cancer that is killing this country. Look at your fucking moderation.

McDonnell v. US was an unanimous decision that held: "merely meeting with someone is not de facto corruption"
It didn't make corruption legal, it made really bad fucking prosecutions of corruption suspects illegal.

Snyder v. US wasn't unanimous, but its holding was also sound- the statute doesn't criminalize acceptance of money without prior agreement or explicit exchange.
It didn't make bribery legal, it made really bad fucking prosecutions of bribery suspects illegal.

In both cases, what you've got is a court that has tightened up prosecutions of corruption and bribery to be limited to... get this.... actual corruption and bribery.

In neither case did the court limit Congress' ability to be alter the statutes to clarify, it merely said that prosecutors can't bend the rules to catch the bad guys.

You seem to be arguing that bending the rules to catch the bad guys is necessary, and that any enforcement of the rules is the legalization of corruption and bribery.

It appears that you're an idiot.

When the motherfucker dissolves Parliament and starts ruling by decree, or declares his son with the brain cells (nominally, at least) his successor, then we have a King.

What we have right now, is a corrupt piece of shit in the office of the Executive, with all of the awesome powers that implies.

Executive orders are not "rules by dictate".
They're directions to the executive branch. They don't set law, they don't override law, and they have no force outside of the constitutional powers of the office.
Every single President has pushed those bounds with their orders to their departments.

This isn't a defense of Trump, but can we please stop skullfucking the language so that when a day comes that we have actual Rule by Diktat, we can fucking recognize it for what it is? Thanks.

That means you get to sell more volume licensed copies. It's a win-win scenario! As long as you give zero fucks for the future, that is.

Careful, you're getting mighty close to criticizing capitalism and slashdot won't stand for that.

Some people get really mad when I post facts

"f you look at platforms like the amiga and atari this was exactly what happened - new hardware stopped being made,"

It didn't. New accelerators are STILL coming out.

For now, pele sleeps.

I tried some kailh switches, they were junk. sloppy, yet sticky. (Eew.) I am now using outemu silent peach v1 switches. Nice and quiet (this is a factor both at home and at work) and also very very smooth. I put a clicky, firmer switch in for caps lock as this makes it both harder to press, and more obvious when I do. If I had it to do again I would get silent peach v3.

I'm not sure that copy makes sense. But assuming it does, then it's because water is better at absorbing heat than oil. In that case the oil is provided as a lubricant and to help control some causes of corrosion. Think cutting fluid, which commonly uses water to remove heat, though there are multiple kinds of cutting fluid. (I've read that you can make great cutting fluid with bacon grease with 5% flower of sulfur, but I haven't tried it.)

Ok, so we judge the conduct of the President off of flippant quotes you hear at freshman year MBA school and don't actually apply to reality? This is just useless snark. Thanks for nothing.

Easy to say when you are the leader of a nation state with billions of dollars in trade with the largest economy in the world. We and they are all just chips to bargain eh?

The kneelers we are concerned with are Congress and our own elected. I don't begrudge any foreign leader for doing what they need to do. Like I'm not gonna hold however far Zelenskyy has to put his head up Trump's ass because he has his own problems to worry about.

Hahaha no. We developed language to give imperatives.

No, Trump feels like they accomplished something. If Trump wanted to just enjoy playing businessman he didn't need to be President.

What he likes is negotiating *without any personal stakes to himself* and with parties who are forced to deal with him. He has a cheat code to make them come to the table since he can't do it himself, because he is bad at business and negotiating.

Compilers are quite a bit better than they were 20 years ago. The level of optimizations you can get out of LLVM, including automatically applying SIMD operations to ordinary C/C++ code without having to use compiler intrinsics.

For the most part, writing a concise program that solves one problem can be quite fast. And it doesn't really matter if you wrote it in C++ or Java or Cython.

But in this day and age, when we make a large project, we pull in hundreds of libraries or packages. And there is not a lot of optimization in trimming out the unnecessary bits from these libraries. Especially when they have a lot of run-time decisions for their feature set, it can be difficult or impossible for a compiler to automatically elide unused portions since almost the entire library gets touched during initialization.

But the biggest trick, that I think we often don't admit. Is throwing out a working project, and redoing the entire process of collecting requirements can yield a much more focused and minimal program. This isn't easy of course, as removing legacy features can be a real battle. And it can be difficult to identify where an original requirement came from, and the least confrontational course is to preserve feature parity.

Seriously, Google needs to go back to how their search worked back when they first updated that icon. Because it's way worse.