If you use a compiled language, you should periodically look at Godbolt and see what your code is doing and what changes to your code will do in the compiled output.

In this case a positively insane way of calculating squares and cubes generates 311 lines of ARM assembler output that will swallow your memory. With even something as simple as -O1 on the command line it's replaced by one or two multiplications respectively. With -fwhole-program it removes the functions entirely and interlaces them into the loop in main().

Know your tools. It makes huge differences!

You know, for a lauded "genius", Apartheid Edgelord seems to have a problem with basic arithmetic.

cross-posted from: https://mander.xyz/post/7593930

This is the most comprehensive analysis of the Threads situation that I have seen to far. I recommend giving it a read.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/9813149

It's so frustrating that something anybody even only peripherally aware of attempts to automate driving knew for years is only slowly coming out while the Apartheid Edgelord gets richer and richer from his lethal lies.

TL;DR: If you use Meta products you are a quisling supporting war criminals. It's that stark and that blunt. Meta are war criminals.

The title translates roughly to "eat brains".

When western countries start using language in their laws and policies that reads like it comes straight out of Chinese law books, the world is going to shit. It's unbelievable that this is coming so close to actually being enacted in a "democratic" nation.

Canadian polka-metal at its finest!