FloppySlapper

I'm exploring the language. In C, you only have to free memory, in general, when you use malloc or something similar. In Odin, when do you have to explicitly free memory?

It's not that I don't want to work and accomplish things. I do. It's that my current job really sucks and it only pays biscuits and bones. It's not the sort of job I want to do in the first place and then they pay me so little I have a hard time caring about it despite my own personal work ethic of always wanting to do a good, complete, and competent job.

Of course the obvious solution would be to get a job I was more interested in doing, if not one that also happened to pay more. Hah. Like I haven't already applied for hundreds of jobs in pursuit of that goal with less nibble than a porcupine gives a cactus.

So I guess I'll just keep grinding away with my current job, toiling under m

Beer is one of the biggest cons going. It tastes awful, it tastes like urine, but people convince themselves they like it because of all the marketing and because everyone else is doing it. It's the best most universal example of people doing things just because everyone else it.

The mods of this particular subreddit are truly a great example of why the stereotype of Reddit mods exist. They put the "honor code" team at BYU to shame, as they swarm around the statue of Brigham Young, doing their very best to lick his toes and moan his name.

If you really want to see something interesting, you should go back through the old archives of the subreddit to see all the issues surrounding ArchimedesPPL, especially when there was quite a bit of controversy swirling around them and they said they would step down only to later refuse. I guess they have to keep that good ol' sphincter lubed up somehow.

Unless those old posts have since been deleted, of course. Those were cer

So yesterday I made a post about how the lds subbreddit banning people that haven't even posted there yet is not good for their goals of community outreach and growth. Nothing disparaging about the lds subreddit was said, other than disagreeing with how they handle things and pointing out it's not in keeping with the original idea of common consent. I also mentioned that I had to post the post here twice because apparently the mod team here has strange rules about how you refer to the lds subreddit, as in, you can't use the regular r/ format like you would everywhere else when referring to them. I mentioned that the online Mormon community is a really wacky place.

Some of you saw that po

I've never posted in the lds subreddit before but I'm familiar with its reputation. I decided to write a sincere post over there asking about why the subreddit is governed the way it is. This was the post I wrote:

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I have a genuine question about the subreddit. It's fairly well-known in the Reddit Mormon sphere that posting dissenting or alternate positions here gets you banned almost immediately. But, why? Doing such a thing gives the subreddit a certain kind of look and only furthers the narratives of how no one is allowed to walk in any way except exactly how they've been told.

It even goes against the earliest days of the church when the church was still largely governed by comm

You can't just play your old D&D books or your own homebrew D&D, it has to be an actually published system.

I've noticed something interesting about the prequel movies. Many of the people that were adults when the movies came out and were reasonably deep Star Wars fans found them to be absolute garbage. Horribly cast, horribly written, horribly acted, plenty of continuity issues with the original movies.

At the time a channel on YouTube called Red Letter Media even did some videos going into great detail about how awful they were, including lots of interesting behind-the-scenes details about how the movies were filmed, directed, and put together. Those videos are worth a watch if you haven't seen them before and if they're still kicking around on YouTube.

Most people, it seemed, were largely

I know that in laptops there's an algorithm which helps to control the charging of the laptop and helps estimate the charge and discharge rate that gets displayed on the indicator battery icon.

Is this algorithm part of the firmware of the laptop itself, or is it part of the OS? If you dual-boot between Windows and Linux will that confuse the algorithm?

I think there really needs to be a discussion about the moderation style of this sub. I know, I know, that's nothing new. The moderation of this sub has been controversial for years, lurching from one style to the next, almost since its inception. But I do have some concerns which, surprise, I think are genuine.

I recently wrote a reply to a post on here and my reply was removed for two separate reasons, both of which I think are troubling.

First, in my reply I used the apparently-banned no-no C word, the one that's used to describe the dynamics of certain religions and groups. Despite all the discussion over the years of how the church compares to the BITE model, apparently this word

Just looking through job listings and I really have to shake my head at some of the requirements these jobs have. They want you to already have years of experience in the position even if it should be a relatively simple position, you have to be familiar with about 20 different programs, be available to work weird hours in addition to the regular hours, be available for all sorts of video conferencing, have multiple monitors, dress a certain way, jump through all sorts of other hoops, and all for less than you'd make working fast food.

I see this kind of junk all the time.

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