politics

Nobody is Ruining America

Donald Trump is not ruining America. People who voted for Trump are not ruining America. Republicans and their "identity politics" are not destroying America. The Left is not...

March 2018

#politics #both-sides-are-wrong

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social-media

Both Sides are Wrong: Joel Osteen

One of the dumber social media stories coming out of Hurricane Harvey is how Joel Osteen, one of the most popular preachers in America, did not use the Lakewood Church...

September 2017

#social-media #both-sides-are-wrong

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c++

CRC Part 2: Templates vs Performance

In CRC Part 1, we created an ideal function for computing the CRC-32C value for a range of data. Can we create a template function without losing performance? Many people...

June 2017

#c++ #performance #templates

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social-media

On the Mathematics of Fast Food

Social media is the worst. Every time I log on to Facebook, I'm inundated with half-baked political arguments and advertising masquerading as memes. The latest one is totally not an...

February 2017

#social-media #math

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politics

Kremlingate is a Stupid Name

I'm sick and tired of conspiracy theories being named SOMETHING-gate. Watergate happened in the 1970s. We're sick of this meme. It is such a damn commonplace thing that Wikipedia has...

February 2017

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c++

CRC Part 1: Programmer vs Compiler

C compilers are quite intelligent when it comes to performing optimization tricks. When compiling code with something like GCC, you get man-centuries worth of optimization passes applied before seeing the...

February 2017

#c++ #performance