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Cake day: July 1st, 2023

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  • If anything, to me it seems more important for a slower language to be optimized. Ideally everything would be perfectly optimized, but over-optimization is a thing: making optimizations that aren’t economical. Even though c is many times faster than python, for many projects it’s fast enough that it makes no practical difference to the user. They’re not going to bitch about a function taking 0.1 seconds to execute instead of 0.001, but they might start to care when that becomes 100 seconds vs 1. As the program becomes more time intensive to run, the python code is going to hit that threshold where the user starts to notice before c, so economically, the python would need to be optimized first.








  • You have a good point, the value of any money (even a lot of gold’s value) is a social construct, i.e. only what the population makes of it. For that reason, I don’t think that crypto is inherently bad, but the fact is that most people trading aren’t using it as money (you know, an intermediate good to facilitate trades), they’re attempting to use its wildly fluctuating value to make a quick buck. Those types of trades ironically only make it more volatile, and are what made it volatile in the first place, so there’s now a vicious cycle. Will crypto ever stabilize? Fuck if I know, I’m not qualified to talk about this, but frankly I think you could say the same about most people in the stock market and especially in crypto. Maybe if a critical mass of people start actually using cryptocurrency as a currency it’ll change, but who can say.



  • Lots of good advice in this thread, here’s one more that I discovered: spread the sauce thinner in the center of the pie. As the pie cooks the fluids will often pool in the center, so intentionally leaving the middle dry-ish can help compensate for that. I like my pizza really saucy, but I’ll leave the center barely wet with sauce, and that’s fine because it’s only the first couple bites of the slice anyway.

    Also just mind the fluids you top the pizza with. If you’re doing pepperoni, then you really don’t need olive oil on top of that.




  • I heard once that the reason that those phishing emails are (usually) pretty obvious is because the phisher doesn’t want to accidentally catch a more attentive and careful victim, spend time trying to wire money from them, only for the victim to realize that it’s a scam before following through, therefore wasting the phishers time. The type of person to fall for the Nigerian prince stuff is not common, but they exist and the odds of them paying out are much higher.