Sockets, in comparison are not simple. For a 1:1 connection they are overly complex, have too many failure states… UDP packets can get lost EVEN on the same machine. This isn’t acceptable (even if it happens rarely). TCP can have lag. The only thing faster is shared memory (which is NOT simple to keep from being mangled).

Okay, I’ve decided to go with named queues for my IPC. I thought briefly about using sockets but it’s really a bigger PITA than the examples show (I’ve done it before and it was “Oh, yeah, that’s right” pulled up some old code—over a decade—full of pitfalls).

Named queues are simple. You have a path and you open-read/write-close it. Easy peasy. It’s even atomically locked if you are into that.

I tried out a simple example yesterday. Worked perfectly in a teeny amount of code.

#DevLife

About women voting liberal: “They have no respect for men in this country at all. You wonder why we would even want to vote for you, the idea that a man can look at a woman in a voting booth and say ‘go ahead, honey,’ and still have his balls when he leaves is amazing to me,”

Right before she plunges the voting stylus through his left eyeball. “I’m making my vote count, ‘honey’”

#TooViolent?

https://www.lgbtqnation.com/2024/11/conservatives-freak-out-at-the-idea-that-women-may-undermine-their-conservative-husbands-votes/

Partner was watching Trump do his anger issues and OMG he just kept repeating himself.

She turned it up and OMG he was barely coherent. He kept repeating himself and about the microphone.

He sounded sick.

This man is sick in the head.

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-wisconsin-rally-mic-fail-b2640015.html

So, let’s break this down: If you are white and middleclass (like Vance) the only way to get into Harvard or Yale (like Vance did) is to become trans so you can HOPE to be part of the DEI bureaucracy?

Is Vance saying he is trans?

Because this makes no sense.

I did not know this was how it worked.

Vance on drugs: “If you are…middle-class or upper middle-class White parent and the only thing that you care about is whether your child goes into Harvard or Yale, like obviously… but the one way that those people can participate in the DEI bureaucracy… is to be trans, and is there a dynamic that’s going on where, if you become trans, that is the way to reject your White privilege”

It’s Day of the Dead, not Day of the Dumb.

https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/31/politics/vance-transgender-college-admissions/index.html

Rep Elise Stefanik self-owns: “And then we have Kamala Harris’s top ally basically calling women who support President Trump weak and dumb, saying that you can’t be strong and intelligent and support President Trump.”

🤷🏻‍♀️

https://thehill.com/homenews/campaign/4965970-stefanik-mark-cuban-trump-women/

Bro, you’re boring me.

“‘Nobody leaves early,’ Trump said, just as a man behind him wearing a shirt with the former president‘s mugshot on it, could be seen walking out.”

#PoliticsIsFunny

https://www.yahoo.com/news/trump-boasts-crowd-no-one-104511713.html

QANON QULTIST: “The parading of Jill Biden in a panda suit yesterday — right in front of our eyes”

Wut?

Apparently there is a QAnon conspiracy about “‘panda eyes’ refers to ‘the puffy eyes received by children abused in Satanic rituals by the cabal’”

Meanwhile in reality children are murdered by guns and these nuts do nothing.

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/nicole-shanahan-qanon-trump_n_6724f6d9e4b01f6919d9e831

Let me clarify: if you need an abortion, you cannot get one when it is safest for you. That option is illegal.

The only option is when it IS NOT safest. When you are on the brink of death. For ANYONE to predict that is absurd. That is why the law is written that way. To make it nigh impossible to perform an abortion.

So if you are healthy but the fetus has died, you are not allowed an abortion. Ted Cruz knows that.

Ted Cruz: "The Texas law makes clear that any procedure that is necessary to save the life of the mother can be done and should be done”

This is a lie.

In fact, a suit was filed and it went to the Texas Supreme Court for clarification. Rather than clarify they muddied it further.

TODAY if you have an abortion the doctor must wait until you are at the point of death. If you are not (but still need an abortion) you have violated the law.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/houston-womans-death-shines-spotlight-on-state-abortion-law-texas-lawmakers-react-as-election-day-approaches/ar-AA1tiMwq

@Alfred You throw a snowball at a temperature of 31 degrees Fahrenheit at a brick wall. The snowball weighs 30 grams and the velocity is 10 feet a second. How much of the snowball melts.

So close.

@Alfred You are the bus driver and start with 20 children. At the first stop two children get off. At the second stop four children get off. What color are the bus driver’s eyes?

@Alfred If I have twenty tomato’s, go to the store and purchase three tomato’s and two cucumbers. Fix ratatouille using all the tomato’s, how many cucumbers do I have?

Alfred got a SIMPLE math problem right but when I added the word pigs… well, things got weird:

@Alfred what’s two plus two plus 17 today.

This actually is to be expected as they are word glomming programs and not really math tools (never mind they run on computers).

AND you can really fuck up the results of you toss in common phrases (like “two and two equals four”—two plus two plus one or variants).

It’s fun.

You know what AI’s get wrong? Math problems:

“ Oliver picks 44 kiwis on Friday. Then he picks 58 kiwis on Saturday. On Sunday, he picks double the number of kiwis he did on Friday, but five of them were a bit smaller than average. How many kiwis does Oliver have”

“The AI bots, they found, consistently got it wrong.”

Not a surprise. I tested Alfred, Bard and one other (which I conviently forgotten) and all stumble when it comes to word problems.

https://9to5mac.com/2024/11/01/apple-researchers-ran-an-ai-test-that-exposed-a-fundamental-intelligence-flaw/

Damn that First Amendment… it’s like people can say anything they want?!?!

“The unauthorized 43-foot nude statue of Donald Trump in a Philadelphia park has been condemned by the city's Republican Party leader, who has filed an obscenity report with the police.”

Quick, break out the emergency fainting couches (but not too close to JD Vance).

https://www.newsweek.com/obscene-giant-donald-trump-statue-pennsylvania-angers-gop-1978456