I point out that in the USA, a dude can literally shoot an unarmed teenager with skittles in their pocket (likely 2nd degree murder or worse) and a Jury of his Peers will acquit him.
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What the fuck in the George Zimmerman are you talking about? Did you fall asleep through the entirety of Black Lives Matters?
Wtf?
- Premeditated Intent: Murder
- Intent without premeditation. Heat of the moment: 2nd degree Murder
- Doing something you weren’t supposed to and killing someone: involuntary homicide
- Failing to do something you were supposed to and killing someone: negligent manslaughter.
Who made this meme (and topic) and why is everyone so ignorant of the law? This almost certainly is vehicular manslaughter case or… If it can be suggested that it’s the pedestrian maybe was partially at fault it might be negligent manslaughter (ex: failed to stop when someone jumped out).
dragontamer@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•WTF is a rural town in the USA?English201·2 months agoMy uncle lives up in Omak
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Omak,_Washington
This is a small town. We don’t call them villages, we call them towns for some reason.
Technically speaking, Omak is a city actually. But pretty much everyone will call it a town around here.
Be sure to give your demons plenty of exercise!!
dragontamer@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea?English7·3 months agohttps://www.investors.com/news/auto-tariffs-stellantis-mexico-canada-factories/
Mexico was importing these car parts and then exporting the Truck back to USA. Because we Tariffed Mexico and Canada, the Mexico and Canadian factories are closing down.
Which is now closing down factories in the heartland of America.
Lose lose for everyone. Who is the winner when the singular Truck was being made across Mexico, USA AND Canada?? Tariffs have now ruined the price of these parts and consolidation efforts, so now everyone is losing their jobs.
dragontamer@lemmy.worldOPto Programming@programming.dev•Datastructure for intervals across 64-bits or 128-bits??English2·3 months agoGreat answer!!
After thinking about all this for a while, I’ve gone with the basic binary tree (leaning towards AVL tree as I expect my use case to be read heavy).
In my use case, multiple ‘intervals’ can merge together without major penalty (and should be merged together). It looks like a lot of these interval trees (including ph trees) are best when the intervals need to be kept separate.
There is a part of my algorithm where ph trees might be useful though. I’ll have to give it some though.
I’m kind of shocked that a basic binary tree ended up being so usable. Its a classic for a reason, lol. I guess I saw the intervals and got confused and overcomplicated things…
dragontamer@lemmy.worldOPto Programming@programming.dev•Datastructure for intervals across 64-bits or 128-bits??English1·3 months agoAnd typical RAM speeds are 100GB/second for CPUs and 500GB/second on GPUs, meaning 512MB operations are literally on the order of 5 miliseconds for CPU and 1ms on GPU.
Below certain sizes, the ‘billions of intervals’ is larger than the damn Bitmask. Seriously, 8 bytes per interval (aka one pointer and 0 data) and that’s 8GB for the data structure.
Instead of a billion 32-bit intervals to store (4GB of RAM at the minimum) it’s obviously a better move to store 500-million byte Bitmasks. And modern GPUs can crush that in parallel with like 3 lines of CUDA anyway.
dragontamer@lemmy.worldto Programming@programming.dev•Can anybody explain why CUDA and Rocm are necessary and why OpenCL isn't the solution?English3·3 months agoBecause CUDA and ROCm/HIP are far easier to program.
The Khronos competitor to CUDA/ROCm is SYCL not OpenCL.
SYCL vs these other options is a fun theoretical problem, but only Intel seems to be pushing SYCL at all. OpenCL got stuck in OCL1.2 (the 2.0 release was dead. 3.0+ OpenCL ignores OCL2.0 but it’s too late, OpenCL is seen as a dead end tech these days).
The biggest issue is that OpenCL is a different language, while CUDA/HIP/SYCL are ‘just’ C++ extensions. This means that if you ever shared data between CPU and GPU in OpenCL (or DirectX or Vulkan for that matter), you have to carefully write and rewrite structs{} to line up between the two languages.
Meanwhile, CUDA/HIP support passing structs, classes and more between CPU and GPU (subject to conditions of course. GPUs can’t do function pointers or vtables for example, but cpu-only classes can have vtables)
dragontamer@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Why is Jury Nullification a Thing, But You Can’t Talk About It in Court?English163·4 months agoPretty simple. A jury is 12 rrandom-ish people (ignoring the Voir Dire process where lawyers argue about who deserves to be on the jury).
If you openly are for jury nullification, then the prosecutor will try to throw you out in the Voir Dire proces (its unfair to the prosecutor if you think that you can ignore the Prosecutor’s argument entirely). Then they select someone else to be part of the jury.
Secondly, all 12 members of the jury have to agree on the decision. So all 12 of you have to agree that the law is unfair in this case and opt for jury nullification instead. There’s examples where this happens: ex a child gets charged for child pornography when they send a picture of themselves. After all, they “distributed child porn” which is grossly illegal by the law, but the jury can agree “Yeah, they broke the law but don’t deserve to be punished in this case”. That’s the kind of thing jury nullification was created for, when everything is “technically correct”, but the jury is smart enough to realize that its not “Truly a crime”.
Now people bring up the Jury Nullification as a potential… erm… way to get someone out of a murder case. Highly unlikely that you’d get all 12 people agreeing on that. At best, you’d probably get a hung jury if say, 2 or 3 people agreed ahead of time to use jury nullification.
Furthermore, by showing that you’ve got “interest” in a case means that you’re no longer a random person off the street, but instead someone who may have been misinformed by media about a case. A jury must be ignorant about the case and have an open mind for the trial process to work at all. So people with pre-existing knowledge about cases are often thrown out during Voir Dire. This is because many pieces of evidence are often determined to be illegal. (Ex: if the police illegally wiretapped you, then the evidence CANNOT be shown to the jury, even if the wiretap was published in the media). So the evidence that shows up in court is itself part of a large process and selective ignorance is in fact key to the whole shebang. (How else can you punish a prosecutor for illegally obtaining evidence? Even if the evidence is true, it must be struck out of the record and the prosecutor is not allowed to use such evidence in their case).
dragontamer@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•*Permanently Deleted*English81·4 months agoBasic psychology.
Anyone who has already decided that they like Elon (or MAGA) do not want to believe that they are the bad guy. So they will reach for even the worst of arguments to make themselves believe they aren’t the bad guy.
Remember: Nazis themselves refuse to believe the Holocaust happened. Same same really. No one wants to think of themselves as the bad guy.
dragontamer@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•Did people experience doom scrolling with newspapers and magazines?English222·4 months agoCartoon published in 1910. What do you think?
Note: Spain did NOT in fact, blowup that ship.
dragontamer@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What ever happened to QAnon?English9·4 months agoYeah, the non-existent Deep State. These fuckers are firing important people looking for ghosts and goblins.
dragontamer@lemmy.worldto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•What ever happened to QAnon?English1633·4 months agoThey became the Government and are using their power to mass fire everyone to get rid of the Deep State.
Why do you think MAGA is so willing and ready to fire huge swaths of the US Government?
dragontamer@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•Trump to impose 25% to 100% tariffs on Taiwan-made chips, impacting TSMCEnglish11·6 months agoIf you optimize code, it will still run faster if the CPU or GPU is 30% faster.
If you make 50% speed improvements with code, you get 65% improvement with code+hardware upgrades. The hardware multiplies your software gains.
dragontamer@lemmy.worldOPto Technology@lemmy.world•Prius Prime 2024 Followup: More TestsEnglish1·6 months agoThe Prius PHEV manual states that there is a battery conditioner: both battery-cooling when its hot and and battery-heating when its cold.
I assume that a significant amount of the electric charge from L1 charger is going towards battery-heating. Ex: I have a 1000W L1 charger (measured from the wall). If 100W is going to heating, then that’s a 10% loss before other voltage-conversion losses. (The Prius is a 400V battery, so 110V to 400V will incur additional losses).
The L2 charger likely has 100W of heating in these cold nights as well, but at 3,300W charging, that’s only a 3% loss. Far more efficient. Furthermore, 220V is closer to 400V, so there will be less voltage-conversion losses associated with L2 charging.
A lot of reasons to favor L2 charger installation. So that’s going to be my recommendation to anyone doing Electric.
dragontamer@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•TikTok says it is restoring service for U.S. users, thanking TrumpEnglish5·6 months agoThose NPCs are going to be part of American Politics for the next 20 years.
This isnt a laughing matter. This is the new reality of politics for at least 4 years and with serious possibilities for decades or even a century.
dragontamer@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.world•TikTok says it's restoring service to US users based on Trump's promised executive orderEnglish193·6 months agoUhhh, Trump is literally the executive.
He just commands the FCC or other authorities to ignore TikTok. He can extend this ban evasion for all 4 years if he wants.
Congress and Supreme Court do not control the executive powers. The President does.
They already did.
There’s that ‘Raw Edit’ video that is missing over a minute of footage because they forgot to edit out the timestamps.