God I’m getting old. They don’t look anywhere near old enough to vote to me.

I hate going to the pub now as it’s full of children looking people.

I got into programming when my disabilities hit as a teenager.

So fucking lucky I did as I now get paid decent money to sit in my pjs in bed at a computer.

Yeah the people of Gaza don’t want to die either. Israel would have 100% destroyed all their homes and moved in by now otherwise.

This is why it’s such a complicated situation. Everyone at the top is a complete piece of shit and it’s the civilians on both sides that pay the price.

No one is saying defend the terrorists. They are saying accurately report the genocide that is being waged against the civilians.

Half the population is too young to vote. So you can’t say they brought it on themselves.

But then they’ll only refuse in areas they think they’ll lose.

Most of the time yeah. But it depends as you can write c# with very little GC use if you avoid allocations.

Ahead of time compiling also gets things much closer. But then you lose runtime optimization.

Actually jit languages can outperform compiled languages by using runtime analysis to perform tiered compilation and profile guided optimisations.

C# has made some great strides in this regard.

All the normal optimisations are applied when it is compiled to byte code. Like loop unrolling etc.

Then once it detects the hot paths during execution it can apply even more based on how it is called. It can also do optimisations that aren’t possible at initial compile time.

Dynamic PGO it’s called. It’s a really interesting topic.

Indeed. But the pdf file itself isn’t the issue here. They very clearly don’t know what serialisation is.

And while there are risks with java serialisation it isn’t being deserialized here.

It’s literally just the format of the file here. If you skip the java serialisation header it’s a normal pdf file. I said nothing about the pdf file itself.

I did explain what it is. I just don’t know why certain programs encode it this way. It’s supported by multiple pdf readers so it must be semi common but I can’t find a reason for it to be encoded this way.

I’m trying to help you out there’s no need to be a dick.

The file is a serialised java array that contains a pdf file. I’ve seen a few things online about this. Some pdf readers accept it, some don’t.

And I’m not sure why an application would output a pdf this way. But there’s nothing harmful going on.

You’re kind of freaking out about nothing.

Money. Sone people will look past almost anything if they think it’ll make them richer.

Ok boomer.

But seriously this is the sort of stuff our grandkids will roll their eyes and laugh at

Good for you buddy 👍

And that’s a privilege not everyone has.

And tbh most cis people wouldn’t enjoy being misgendered either.

That is literally the worst use case for AIs. There’s no way they should be letting it provide contact info like that.

Also they’re stupid for dialing a random number.

Go talk to your doctor mate. If you can talk to your wife. If not any friends/family who you trust and who don’t use it.

Cocaine isn’t physically addictive so it’s much easier to get off than something like heroin. But don’t get me wrong it’s still difficult.

You may also be suffering depression or similar. I use drugs to deal with the symptoms of mine when they get too much. It’s worth having a think about. Did you have other issues with happiness or functioning before the coke.

This is a big first step. Best of luck mate.

That second one is a solar farm / battery installation. So it’s included.

How would you check two variables have equal values without changing the value of one otherwise?

Assignment you are assigning a value to the left side. Equality you are checking if the left and right are equal.

It’s “set equal to” Vs “is equal to” one is an operation the other is a condition.

In sane countries cases like this end up with lifting abortion bans.

America is so fucked up.

Use your bed only for sleep. No screens for a few hours before bed. Milk before bed. Reading or audio books are a great way to settle your mind.

If you aren’t asleep after 30 or so minutes get up and do something chilled for a little bit. Laying there getting pissed you aren’t asleep doesn’t help.

Stick to a sleep / wake schedule. I’ve found getting up early and consistently much more effective for sorting out my sleep.

You’re never going to have to worry about it. If you won the lottery every week you wouldn’t be close to what these people have.

Your labour value is already massively capped by the super rich. You earn a fraction of what you produce for others.