Yes. Sometimes you’re limited by the hardware you’re controlling. This code is a bit hard to justify with that excuse though. Normally your code would do a read from hardware to see if the value decremented and then repeat the write. (Possibly a sleep/yield in there if required.)

Are we asking questions that we already know the answer to? ;)

Don’t forget! A lot of the slop on those first few pages of results is AI-generated.

Ouroboros is a very apt moniker for this phenomena.

Trump and Co. are gambling that they can achieve dictatorship before the violence and other shit starts.

Putin smiles in Moscow. Chaos and violence in America is his win. It’s also his win if the US slides into dictatorship and the US population shrugs and goes along quietly.

Exactly! It’s going to be a flying wiretap with every enemy of the US scrambling to get their electronics in before Qatar closes the deal with Trump. I wouldn’t be surprised if there were eavesdropping circuits baked into the silicon of every system in the plane.

What a fucking nightmare - but on brand for this kleptocracy of an administration.

Anything to diminish California. Trump and MAGA can’t abide California functioning well because it contradicts their message that liberal-run states are implicitly worse off than conservative-run states.

I was there in the 90s for a bachelor party. I can assure you it was skeevy then too. I think I got black lung from the amount of cigarette smoke in the air inside.

Yup. Saw the Bazzite group presentation at SCALE a few weeks ago. Very impressive.

The massive amount of cognitive dissonance is infuriating.

This has the same energy as the Russian cannon fodder in Ukraine who film those videos appealing directly to Putin about their situation. They refuse to believe that he would allow it. If only he knew - he would fix it.

Cult!

Lol, just Ohio?

Alcohol must interfere with the anti-dementia cocktail of drugs he has to take every day.

I agree, but this dumpster fire is burning inside the US government. It’s going to take some critical stuff with it as it burns itself out. :(

If that’s pizza, it’s seriously undercooked.

I love AntennnaPod - except when I’m in the car. It doesn’t have Android Auto support.

It was painfully apparent she was confused after returning to the Senate earlier in the year. This is a clear-cut case of manipulation. Also elder abuse.

Yeah, you’re right. I did leave that part out. Thanks for pointing that out. sigh

It’s fucked when you’re looking in from the outside. From the inside, they’re all convinced that they’re correct about everything and that Trump is their Messiah. It’s a cult.

My parents adopted a quirky cat that seems to have had some past trauma. She’s finally getting more friendly and less skiddish - AFTER FOUR YEARS.

Sometimes it’s just love and time that helps them get over past trauma.

It’s definitely possible to convert in both directions. I’ve never done it though. The technical hurdles made it unpalatable. My main method of moving back and forth was to keep my personal data on a separate disk from the OS disk. That way I could always take my data with me when I changed OSes or VMs.