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I think all groups engage in in group preference. If you look at businesses run by Indians in the US, they clearly favor hiring Indians, you see the same with other groups. Same with various East Asians, Jewish people etc.

It isn't just the dominate group, it is everyone.

So simplifying, if you have only 2 groups, one being 30% and the other 70% of the population, it would at first appear the 70% group has an advantage for finding jobs, but in reality they do not, as while they are favored at 70% of jobs, they are also competing against an equivalently larger group of people.

Anyway the implementation of racial preferences in college applications, and DEI has led to a system that systematical favors certain groups, and gaslighting that somehow this isn't the case.

I don't support Trump but liberals denying this reality, along with various other incredibly stupid woke positions, has led to the current situation, where we have a complete and utter imbecile running the country, because hey, at least he doesn't deny reality in regards DIE/social issues.


> incredibly stupid

Never a smart thing to write; only a reflection on the author's blindness and arrogance - a toxic combination that is, indeed, what you describe.

> has led to the current situation

> he doesn't deny reality in regards DIE/social issues.


Trump is wrecking the US at the behest of Putin, directly or indirectly doesn't really matter.

Hence he didn't put tariffs on Russia.


> Hence he didn't put tariffs on Russia.

He’s maintaining crippling sanctions on Russia…


It means like king/queen/emperor, you wouldn't use it for an elected official, so here it is more sarcastic because Trump is acting like he is an emperor.


Yes I found CPP AMP really interesting, but since it only ran on Windows..never used it for anything.


It’s unfortunate they have deprecated it. We how have DXVK which implements D3D11, including compute shaders, for any platform which supports Vulkan. Making that (or a conceptually similar) thing work across platforms is no longer prohibitively expensive.

I believe that approach, i.e. the compute shaders, is the correct thing to do because modern videogames use them a lot, the runtime support is stable and performant now. No need for special HPC-only drivers or runtime components.


  1. who says it hasn't?
  2. most of the vul code is C, which is obviously much harder to harden, and the Rust Evangelism Strike Force loves to pretend that C++ is the same as C, so no matter the improvements to C++, they will just point at C.
  3. I think many simply didn't know about these hardening modes, MSVC has had this for 10-15 years, but I still encounter people who don't know about it..somehow.


It hasn’t enough to satisfy industry or regulators.

As long as that C code is valid C++ code, it’s still a problem for C++. Backwards compatibility with C is a strength, but also a weakness. The Go and Java folks invested in rewriting dependencies in their own language to prevent problems, if C++ is truly that much safer than C, the C++ community could do the same, and demonstrate that it’s safer.

This is the power of opt out vs opt in. You can’t forget to run the borrow checker in Rust. That’s a practical, real-world advantage.


Interesting, for all the winging about C or C++ this shows most of these apply to all languages, and the ones that relate to C or C++ are actually pretty easy to prevent in C++(less so in C) by enabling hardening modes and using smart pointers.


Because these are ranked by prevalence x severity, and most programs are written in memory-safe languages, the UB-related weaknesses are probably at the top of the list for programs written in C or C++, especially because "ordinary" servers are usually not written in those languages. But the point is that, indeed, even within these unsafe languages, not all kinds of unsafety are equal.

It is true to say that memory-safety issues are among the biggest problems in C and C++, but it is not true to say that unless you absolutely prevent them all you remain in the same spot. If you significantly reduce or prevent some of the memory safety issues, you're in a place that's not too different from that of programs in memory-safe languages.


Oh that explains why the tariffs are focused on China.. Oh wait, that is what Biden did.

Trump? Yeah, no, he is just a moron, and prefers to tariff our allies, which means eventually we don't have allies, which makes your war against China abit more challenging, eh?


You don't really need to use sfinae anymore, concepts are cleaner and easier to follow, also this library appears to use concepts


What is the point of making JS go faster? It is already fast enough even on older computers for the stuff it is designed for, making crappy UI.


It is using c++ 26 features, so of course it looks slightly alien, nobody uses it yet.


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