Trump Tells the Navy to View Half the Country as the Enemy
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In a speech at the Norfolk Naval base, former President Donald Trump delivered a highly political address during the U.S. Navy's 250th anniversary, attacking Democrats and referring to them as a 'gnat' that needs to be swatted. The article argues this continues a pattern of dehumanizing rhetoric and represents an effort to turn the military against half of the country, which is out of step with the military's tradition of nonpartisanship.
Key Points:
Trump used a Navy anniversary speech for political attacks, calling Democrats a 'gnat on our shoulder'
This continues a pattern of dehumanizing rhetoric where Trump has referred to opponents as 'vermin' and 'the enemy within'
The article contends this represents an effort to turn the military against half of the American people
Trump's comments violate the U.S. military's tradition of nonpartisanship
This was the second time in a week Trump delivered similar partisan rhetoric to military audiences
"Trump warned that, 'We have to take care of this little gnat that's on our shoulder called the Democrats.'"
AOC Mocks ‘Short Troll’ Stephen Miller And Urges Dems to ‘Laugh’ at MAGA Men - The progressive congresswoman took a jab at MAGA men and diagnosed them with “insecure masculinity.”
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Comments: 715
In an Instagram Live session, Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mocked Stephen Miller as a 'clown' and criticized MAGA men, diagnosing their political movement as being driven by 'insecure masculinity.' She urged Democrats to laugh at and make fun of these figures as a strategy to dismantle their movement, while clarifying her insults were aimed at overcompensation, not physical stature itself.
Key Points:
AOC mocked Stephen Miller's height, calling him a 'short troll' and a 'clown'.
She characterized the MAGA movement as being predicated on 'insecure masculinity.'
She advocated for laughing at and making fun of these figures as a political tactic.
She clarified that the critique was about overcompensation due to insecurity, not about being short.
She acknowledged the real dangers of authoritarianism but promoted ridicule as a cultural counter-strategy.
""People talk about toxic masculinity, let’s put that to the side for just one second, this is about insecure masculinity, and one of the best ways that you can dismantle a movement of insecure men is by making fun of them," she said."
Marine Veteran Says Hegseth Is A 'Laughing Stock' Within Defense Department
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Democratic Senator and Marine veteran Ruben Gallego criticized Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth, calling him a 'laughing stock' within the Department of Defense. Gallego argued that a recent, costly summit Hegseth called for top military officials was an unnecessary show of force that could have been handled via email, suggesting Hegseth was trying to compensate for his lack of knowledge and effectiveness.
Key Points:
Sen. Ruben Gallego criticized Sec. of Defense Pete Hegseth for a summit he called for top military officials.
Gallego, a Marine veteran, suggested the meeting was an unnecessary show of force to 'compensate for' Hegseth's incompetence.
Gallego stated that Hegseth is viewed as a 'laughing stock' and one of the worst Secretaries of Defense within the DOD.
Multiple anonymous defense officials agreed the summit was a waste of money and 'could have been an email'.
The mandatory meeting at Quantico reportedly cost taxpayers millions and lasted just over an hour.
""He knows that within the Department of Defense, people think he’s a laughing stock and that he is probably one of the worst Secretary of Defenses this country has had," he explained."
Posted on r/programming |
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Comments: 78
The author details their journey optimizing a Physarum (slime mold) simulation model using GPU programming, specifically comparing PyTorch implementations with custom Triton kernels. The project was inspired by a graphics professor's lament about ML dominating GPUs and the author's interest in code art. The blog focuses on performance analysis, profiling, and the technical challenges of implementing the simulation's core steps like sensing, movement, and pheromone deposition.
Key Points:
The project was motivated by a graphics professor's complaint about ML workloads hogging GPUs and the author's personal interest in code art.
The Physarum simulation model involves agent movement based on pheromone sensing and a trail map that undergoes diffusion and decay.
The author compares PyTorch implementations with custom Triton kernels for performance optimization.
Key simulation steps include sensor reading, motor movement, pheromone deposition, diffusion, and decay.
The work was conducted at Microsoft Research India, focusing on systems and GPU optimizations.
"The first professor I worked with was a graphics researcher who in our first meeting started out with a short rant about how his GPUs are being hogged for ML workloads, how students don’t approach him for graphics research anymore and that 'The G in GPU is for Graphics'."
What’s something from your homelab/selfhosted setup that made its way into your workplace?
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Comments: 63
The article discusses how skills and tools developed in personal homelab environments often cross over into professional workplaces, leading to improved practices and solutions. It highlights a specific example where a homelab networking solution was successfully adopted by an IT team. The author invites readers to share their own stories of crossover between personal and professional tech setups.
Key Points:
Personal homelab experimentation often leads to beneficial crossovers into professional work.
Habits like thorough documentation and testing in containers can be transferred from home to work.
Specific tools and solutions discovered in homelabs can be formally adopted by workplace IT teams.
The crossover can also happen in reverse, with workplace practices being applied to home setups.
These 'lab experiments' can evolve into real, impactful solutions for organizations.
"An example I saw recently: someone started using a solution in their homelab for connecting their network, liked it, and ended up recommending it to their IT team. They actually rolled it out at work and it stuck all because of a homelab experiment."
Too many services, too many logins — how are you handling access?
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Score: 43 |
Comments: 62
The author describes a common problem in self-hosted environments: a growing collection of services, each with its own separate login, leading to a chaotic and cumbersome user management experience. They are seeking solutions from the community, asking if others have centralized access or simply accepted the disorganization.
Key Points:
Self-hosted setups often start small but can grow into a complex mix of services.
Each service typically has its own separate login system with no centralized access control.
Managing multiple logins becomes a significant headache for the user.
The author is looking for community input on whether to centralize access or live with the chaos.
"I’ve reached the point where I’m logging in five different ways depending on the service, and managing users (even just for myself) is becoming a headache."
Posted on r/programming |
Score: 38 |
Comments: 18
The article explains that .NET 10 introduces significant garbage collection (GC) improvements that can lead to 2-3 times better memory usage and speed, but these come with trade-offs that require evaluation. Key changes include enabling DATAS by default, enhanced escape analysis for stack allocation, and various heap and optimization tweaks. Developers are advised to benchmark their applications with the intended GC mode to understand the impact of these changes.
Key Points:
Escape analysis for aggressive stack allocation is a major new feature.
DATAS (Dynamic Adaptation To Application Sizes) is now enabled by default in most configurations.
Region size and range tuning improves allocation efficiency.
Delegate and closure optimization reduces overhead.
The improvements offer significant performance gains but require evaluation due to potential trade-offs.
"What if I told you that starting with .NET 10, several of your fundamental ideas about garbage collection are now outdated? Imagine that there are actual improvements that can sometimes cause two to three times better memory usage and speed."
This article analyzes Chess.com's use of regional pricing, a strategy to maximize global profits by adjusting subscription costs based on a user's location, primarily determined by their IP address. The author investigates how to retrieve these different prices, specifically by using a VPN to spoof their location, and highlights a restriction on the Family & Friends plan designed to prevent users from low-price regions adding members from higher-priced ones.
Key Points:
Regional pricing adjusts product costs per country to maximize global profits by accounting for differences in purchasing power.
Chess.com determines pricing based on a hidden 'billing country' linked to your account, detected via IP address and activity, not your profile country.
The 'Family & Friends' plan has restrictions in certain countries to prevent users in low-price regions from adding members in high-price regions, protecting profits.
The author's method for discovering regional prices involves using a VPN to change their IP address to appear in a different country.
GeoIP databases, which map IP addresses to locations, are a key tool for online services like Chess.com to implement regional pricing.
"This restriction prevents users in low-price regions from adding members from higher-priced regions, which would reduce profits."
The article argues that solution design documents should be concise, typically just a few pages, rather than the lengthy 40-50 page templates commonly used. Compact designs are more effective because they're faster to produce, easier to maintain, and actually get read by technical teams. The author provides a practical structure focusing on essential information that implementation teams need.
Key Points:
Lengthy solution design documents become unreadable encyclopedias that nobody reads
Compact designs reduce copy-pasting, are faster to produce, and easier to maintain
The core audience is technical implementers who need practical implementation details
Good solution designs should answer what, who, timeline, how, maintenance, and available resources
The author recommends a five-part structure: Introduction, Application Architecture, Data Architecture, Security, and Infrastructure
"If your document captures everything, it captures nothing. As people will not take three days out of their workday to go over the entire document. And even if they did, they will not remember it."
The article explains how the grammatically correct sentence 'buffalo buffalo buffalo...' can be implemented in C++ due to the 'injected-class-name' feature. This mechanism causes the class name to be treated as a member within its own scope, allowing seemingly redundant qualifiers like 'buffalo::buffalo::buffalo' to refer to the same constructor. The author demonstrates this phenomenon through AST analysis and explores its implications in various code contexts.
Key Points:
C++ allows infinite repetition of class names in qualifiers (e.g., buffalo::buffalo::buffalo) due to injected-class-name rules
The injected-class-name feature treats the class name as a public member within its own scope, enabling self-reference
AST analysis proves that constructor definitions with varying numbers of qualifiers produce identical abstract syntax trees
This behavior applies beyond constructors to other contexts like variable declarations and template specializations
The discovery originated from discussions about Clang's -Wdtor-name warning regarding destructor name usage
"Constructors do not have names, but the injected-class-name of the enclosing class is considered to name a constructor in constructor declarations and definitions."
My criticism towards UBI/CD, and my simple solution for it
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Comments: 39
The author criticizes Universal Basic Income (UBI) and Citizen's Dividend (CD) for providing the same payment to everyone, regardless of their circumstances. They argue this is unfair because a flat payment is more than enough for a single person but insufficient for a large family. The proposed solution is to adjust the payment amount based on individual needs.
Key Points:
UBI and CD provide identical payments to all individuals.
A flat payment is inadequate for varying life situations, such as family size or location.
A single person in a small town would find the payment sufficient, while a large family in an expensive city would not.
The core problem is the lack of differentiation in payment amounts.
The proposed solution is to tailor the payment to the individual's specific circumstances.
"That means that a single young guy with no children who lives in a small town will receive the same as a married family with 3 children that lives in NYC. So, the payment of, say, 800$ monthly, will be well above enough for every expense for the single guy, while the payment will not be enough for the family with three children."