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  • Fascists are building the camps right now and you’re mad that people are shouting outside of the q&a portion of a town hall.

    Yes. Because this proves you don’t got my back in 2026.

    If you can’t prove you’re going to be useful to me in stopping Trump next time, then I don’t give a shit about anything else you say.

    And sitting here talking about how Biden was a genocide supporter and Kamala deserved to lose is just that. Fucking propaganda designed to stop our best chance at ending Trump last election or this next election.

    You fucking get on board for 2026. None of this bullshit about fucking AOC up in her next speech.

    I’m here to support the people who are doing things. Not to pull Jill Stein bullshit or whatever you think you are doing.

    Get your head out your ass. Fucking up the Democrats won’t help you vs Trump in 2 years or 4 years.


  • YOU are the ones not pushing back about anything

    No. I’m pushing back against YOU. A danger to the 2026 election if you continue on this path.

    I’ve explained plenty to my friends why Donald Trump and his policies are horrible. I don’t need to explain that to you, because you’ve gone far over to the point where your words are now counterproductive and helping Mr. Trump again.

    What I need to tell you, in particular, is that you’re counterproductive and worse than useless. You’re like this protester in AOC’s town hall. You can’t even see the fucking context of the situation in this fucking thread. Take a step back, calculate the politics a bit better, and see what’s best for you and everyone. Including those in Gaza. The #1 goal is the defeat of Donald Trump.

    And you continue to prove my point. This is a topic about “Free Palestine” protesters going too far and attacking of all people, AOC on this issue.


  • Glad to know I can’t count on you, or anyone from your political ideology, to help us defeat Trump.

    I just want to make sure everyone else is aware of this. Thanks.

    We’ve confirmed that Trump is part of the Warmongers with this move. But instead of pushing back vs the genocidal maniacs, you fuck up our overarching political moves and political strategy.

    It’s fine. My point here is to show who is, and who isn’t, part of the reliable bloc of anti-Trump moving forward. It’s better to know today that the Free Palestine idiots will die on this hill rather than work with us on the issue. Nothing is enough for you, and you’ll continue to espouse anti-Democrat talking points even in our moment of need and unity.





  • dragontamer@lemmy.worldtoWork Reform@lemmy.worldunnecessary expense
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    The board of directors removes the obvious corruption argument.

    And shareholders select the board of directors anyway, so if shareholders agree to new terms of values then CEOs can and will be fired.

    I’m looking at Intel for example and how they mistreated Pat Gelsinger and fired him despite being a technical leader. And the new incoming CEO is Lip-Bu Tan, who is a non-technical finance bro who is worse. Why did the shareholders (and board of directors) prefer Lip-Bu Tan?

    There is a large scale hero worship bro culture that’s at the root of all the problems here, a culture that millions of shareholders have which is then passed to the Board of Directors and finally the C-suite that the Board hires.

    But no. Let make shitty memes that misunderstand the power dynamics and perpetuates misinformation. That will help your argument lol.


    EDIT and that doesn’t even get to say, all the CEOs who take a $1/year paycheck just to prove you wrong. The problem here is hero worship cult culture. The pay and salaries are a distraction and easily avoided with various simple political / Public Relations moves.


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    Exactly, except in reverse.

    If you want to attract the talent of someone who has networth in the millions+++, you need to pay them more.

    The form of your argument and where you are going with the discussion is very short sighted. This isn’t a path to any actual winning argument. I suggest you start elsewhere.

    This is the problem with shitty memes. They poison your brain and make you dumb. If you actually want to make a reasonable argument throw this topic away and start anew.

    It’s not you who is wrong. It’s this meme. It’s just a terrible starting place for discussion and is innately to your disadvantage.




  • Great answer!!

    After thinking about all this for a while, I’ve gone with the basic binary tree (leaning towards AVL tree as I expect my use case to be read heavy).

    In my use case, multiple ‘intervals’ can merge together without major penalty (and should be merged together). It looks like a lot of these interval trees (including ph trees) are best when the intervals need to be kept separate.

    There is a part of my algorithm where ph trees might be useful though. I’ll have to give it some though.


    I’m kind of shocked that a basic binary tree ended up being so usable. Its a classic for a reason, lol. I guess I saw the intervals and got confused and overcomplicated things…


  • And typical RAM speeds are 100GB/second for CPUs and 500GB/second on GPUs, meaning 512MB operations are literally on the order of 5 miliseconds for CPU and 1ms on GPU.

    Below certain sizes, the ‘billions of intervals’ is larger than the damn Bitmask. Seriously, 8 bytes per interval (aka one pointer and 0 data) and that’s 8GB for the data structure.

    Instead of a billion 32-bit intervals to store (4GB of RAM at the minimum) it’s obviously a better move to store 500-million byte Bitmasks. And modern GPUs can crush that in parallel with like 3 lines of CUDA anyway.


  • Because CUDA and ROCm/HIP are far easier to program.

    The Khronos competitor to CUDA/ROCm is SYCL not OpenCL.


    SYCL vs these other options is a fun theoretical problem, but only Intel seems to be pushing SYCL at all. OpenCL got stuck in OCL1.2 (the 2.0 release was dead. 3.0+ OpenCL ignores OCL2.0 but it’s too late, OpenCL is seen as a dead end tech these days).

    The biggest issue is that OpenCL is a different language, while CUDA/HIP/SYCL are ‘just’ C++ extensions. This means that if you ever shared data between CPU and GPU in OpenCL (or DirectX or Vulkan for that matter), you have to carefully write and rewrite structs{} to line up between the two languages.

    Meanwhile, CUDA/HIP support passing structs, classes and more between CPU and GPU (subject to conditions of course. GPUs can’t do function pointers or vtables for example, but cpu-only classes can have vtables)





  • Hitler relied upon the Reichstag fire to sieze power.

    The Nazis were the specific kind of political entity to judo-reverse protesters and “prove” to the public that it was the Communist opposition who were truly the enemy. As the German public demonized the Communists, the Fascists gained in power weeks after Hitler took power.

    The opposite is happening here: ever so slightly, public opinion is turning against Elon Musk (maybe not Trump yet, but DOGE is becoming a toxic word right now). A leftist “attack” in these times could consolidate the right much like the Reichstag fire did (or for a more American example: the two assassination attempts on Trump only allowed his side to grow stronger).


  • The prison camps will take years to build. The current plan is to send people to Guantanamo Bay, which literally doesn’t have enough room to make a dent in our protests.

    The ideal is to wait long enough to convince the maximum number of dumbass MAGAts that they’ve been tricked by Trump. This number is smaller than people expect, but its not 0%. I’m already seeing some questions being posed in my Republican circles (ie: “Why isn’t Trump more focused on these Federal cuts?”) but not the right questions (ex: “Why is Trump so dumb??”).

    So the current environment is to our political advantage. We need to move before things reach the concentration camp or authoritarian stages of course, but we have some degree of time to work with.


  • Lol. Trump and Vance just sucked Putins cock for the world to see last week, while cancelling US Farmers contracts to USAID and mass firing USDA during a bird flu pandemic destroying our egg supply.

    There is no final straw. This is what we got.

    I’m not saying we need to take action immediately. Letting this toxicity stew for a few months is to the Democrats advantage. But the vast, vast majority of conservatives are brainwashed peasants who will not change their opinion.

    GOPs explicit goal is to seek control of the majority of the majority of voters, which is only like 16% of people. (60% voters best case, 30% Republicans, only 16% of hardcore Republicans to keep in check). That’s all they need to continue to stay in power.

    What we can do is try to split that 16% group explicitly and try to turn them against each other. Farmers who lose government contracts, hawks who don’t want to work with Russia, etc. etc. it’s all microscopic fractions of a fraction of people but it adds up.