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if you were to ask people to rate crimes on morality i would presume littering would rank among the least immoral.

your point makes no sense. yes, if i had to pick one crime for someone to commit i might pick littering and many people think the same thing because littering is one of the most common crimes.

same thing is true for web development with php.

you absolute moron you don't even understand what you are saying just making random points that have a midwit cleverness, but when thought over by any respectable mind easily prove to be nonsense.

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how could somebody like you think they deserve life enough to conjure up a breath let alone a word. It's a shame, and one you are too ignorant be aware of.

php is a great language. there is a reason why the majority of the web runs on it.

they just put llama. maybe i am missing something

llama is from meta

we are going to beggar the Treasury to buy 2CTA on CoWoS out of Taipei and DCs the size of Manhattan

what does this mean?

Righteous judgment according to which set of beliefs?

Right is right; Belief doesn't effect truth.

Such as in physics, there are differing theories, but the underlying truth doesn't change.

Only the delusional are certain about anything that happens in the afterlife.

Just because you are blind doesn't mean others can't see.

I would have an easier time finding value in a refuse pile than I would within New York City.

ignorant by most of the inhabitants of the developed world

"developed world", ah yes the part of the world marked by sedentary lifestyle, obesity, mental illness, suicide, mass shootings, and vast disparities in power.

Only beasts are joyful in Hell. I can recognize the demons just in their happiness.

Yes, you are correct to assume. I should be more humble as I just revealed my own ignorance when it comes to the meaning of "equivocating" :P

But in both cases the value only existed because of the people offering the deal. XeroX doing nothing with a UI or native Americans doing nothing with some land would mean the UI and the land would continue to be worth nothing. It was the others coming with ideas and effort that made them valuable.

Specifically, "XeroX doing nothing with a UI or native Americans doing nothing with some land would mean the UI and the land would continue to be worth nothing" is what I am getting at.

"Valuable" as quantifiable in a capitalist economy.

You just reveal your own ignorance by equivocating value with monetary value.

so the way llms work in the first place. training on original research that was acquired the hard way.

Helping one's community encompasses much more than just the political realm.

Practically, focusing on the things you can change (mostly small scale evils in your community) will have the highest degree of positive effect, rather than focusing on stuff you are bombarded with online that is out of your control (mostly large scale evils).

However, don't think you get vindicated from duty just because the task is impossible. You are as just as much responsible for yourself, your family, your friends, your community, as you are responsible for the person living on the other side of the globe. Whatever you decide to do with that information is up to you, but you will suffer with any of those who suffer, whether that be in life or death. Only the delusional think they can escape righteous judgment.

Maybe I used imprecise wording. Not root, but must be part of sudoers. Or am I misunderstanding how the process works? Don'tWhenever I have installed a package from aur with yay it requires user being part of sudoers.

And you and me would be better off for it. You can rely on such insanely complex technologies that have required millions of man hours to develop in which even the most knwoledgable will lack a complete understanding, or you can live within your station.

I agree. Care is highly expensive out of neccesity. You need someome to basically do everything for these individuals, and this includes many undesirable tasks such as helping them use the commode, shower, dress, etc.

Additionally, the typical pay and hours worked for the nurses and care workers is, in my opinion, much lower than it ought to be. The cost will only increase as the nursing shortage increases.

Even ignoring economics, the quality of life for someone living in a nursing home isn't very high.

The first time I emailed a stranger, I swear my cursor hovered over Send for a full five minutes.

I would estimate communication is 95% non verbal and 5% verbal. The problem with online interaction is you are limited to this 5% while interacting with an almost infinite number of social groups and people.

Learning how to adapt to online socialization is learning how to adapt to being blind. Only you aren't blind, you are choosing to wear a blindfold.

Running external code will always be a risk. Even if it is not intended to be malicious it could still have issues that compromise security.

Read the source. If you don't have the time then you shouldn't run the software.

It was bad enough when finding out more than 400 AUR packages for Arch Linux users had been infected with malware but now that number has risen to around 900 a few hours ago and now in the end at more than 1,500 user-contributed packages.been infected with malware

I never had a need for the AUR.

If I want a package not in the official repository I build it myself or if it has a binary release I will download it. this way i don't have to use root when building and can have program installed locally just for a single user which is how it should be anyway for most desktop use cases.

At least in this way there is one less level of possible malicious code insertion in developer -> user, vs develeper -> maintainer -> user.

Not from the UK, but this person's experiences is similar to mine in the US.

The cost of care, especially nursing/assisted living, is so high that even millions of dollars in savings can be used up relatively quickly.

The worst is for situations where their income (ssi/pensions) exceed qualification for medicaid, but are less than what could cover a nursing home. this can be solved with a miller trust but it takes time to setup so you better have another way to take care of them while sorting out.

Navigating the cost of care for my 79-year-old mum has been complex, and there is something deeply uncomfortable about reducing a lifetime of achievements into savings accounts, assets and financial assessments to be handed over to near strangers.

Just as the health and happiness of a child is in large part determined by such unimportant and irrelevant factors as material wealth so is for the elderly or the infirm.

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In a perfect world children would take care of their aging parents, but (of course) this isn't always possible.

The US was fine without an oversized influence on foreign countries and the burden of defending Western values and democracy. We accepted the empire given without thinking of the added responsibilities. Vietnam, Korea, Cuba, israel, Afghanistan, Iraq, Syria, Iran are those conflicts worth having a higher global influence? The standard of living is higher in the countries we protected in Western Europe than in our own country. It's a Pyrrhic victory. Without this 400 lb weight around our necks, America and its citizens would be in a better, more sustainable position.

The cold brew order is no new behavior. We know what it is. The American empire is just the fourth incarnation of what started as Roman, became Christian European, and then predominantly British. We know what it is. We still have it in our veins, the disdain these tourists are showing. Their carelessness and abstraction. They are the rulers, the ones who believe they are giving meaning to reality for the first time.

When it's your time it's your time. And in comparison to the empires of old, the American empire is far more humane to it's subjects. The biggest mistake our nation has made in the last 100 years is being merciful to the war mongers; Perhaps if they received justice instead of undeserved tolerance they wouldn't be so insolent to complain of what is put in their bowl.

I don't have any commentary to add, just a passage from the last prompt I found particularly moving:

*But it wasn’t just that. She’d also grown religious. She went to the Buddhist temple with my parents—I stayed home—and sat at the base of a twisty tree, meditating. She believed in Jesus, too. She said she was ready to die. It seems like that gave my parents peace, but I always thought she was deluding herself or us or both.*

Found this post through a review from Siobhan Brier: https://siobhanbrier.com/932/review-of-confessions-of-a-vira...

Review is worth reading as well, but you should read the original post beforehand.

I don't care for coding new stuff. Everything I may need either already exists or is too complex to do on my own

I think this depends a lot on the operating system, desktop environment/window manager, and tools you are using. Tools that are more opinionated are naturally going to have less need for additional niche software to accommodate different workflows. Of course it goes the other way as well.

If you are using Linux and a tiling WM like i3wm, xmonad, hyprland, sway then you quickly find there are many different tools that don't exist that would be beneficial to your workflow.

Just some examples from my time spent using i3wm as my primary WM:

1. key hinting (like which-key for vim)

2. drawing on desktop

3. non-visible window / workspace previews

4. key hints for qt/gtk/etc buttons (like vimium)

5. detection and automatic mode bindings for communication with applications through ipc (most likely using dbus)

I will say coming up with ideas for a project with a non-niche/tech focused audience is significantly more difficult, but the most fun I have programming is when I am building stuff that would help me.

Basically, the spark I felt some 25 years ago seems to be completely gone.

Computers are tools. I challenge the notion that Computers ought to be intrinsically entertaining. If you no longer have fun on your Computer then it's probably best to focus on other things.

I must not be that keyed in to AI because I didn't notice. Thankfully I checked the comments before I got too far into the post.

Boredom is a bigger issue than hunger or thirst for the average person living in one of these obscenely wealthy countries. For them, impeding entertainment is to impede nourishment. Of course, while anything that aids the entertainment industry is despicable, I do think obstructing the internet is a nice treat for humanity. The only down side is to your point about the relatively insignificance of the people effected (nerds).

I mean the wikipedia literally states:

CPE generally refers to devices such as telephones, routers, network switches, residential gateways (RG), set-top boxes, fixed mobile convergence products, home networking adapters and Internet access gateways that enable consumers to access providers' communication services

From my understanding any type of device that is used to extend or facilitate provider services is a CPE. So a router just acting as an extender would still be a cpe, as would a modem, as would anything that is on the customer side and facilitates provider services. Only situation a router wouldn't be a cpe is if it was just for a local lan network.

Googling "cpe vs router" shows websites comparing "Customer Premises Equipment" with routers. I don't think it fits though.

The few niche social media websites I have seen able to prevent rapid deterioration in quality without dying in active user count typically have a high barrier of entry. Reminds me evilzone one of the few decent hacking websites on the clearnet that actually had a decent community. They had some challenge you had to complete I can't even remember what it was, but it prevented new users from joining unless they could solve it. Was very simple iirc but it stopped large amount of the skids/hf peeps.

This is awesome. I find myself seeking out blogs nowadays as many of the best forums have died out and reddit has dropped in quality significantly.

I typically use marginalia and wiby to make finding posts from blogs easier, but I like the idea of providing hn style mechanics to blog posts, so many of which lack the ability to comment/discuss the material. At the same time, while I think this is a useful tool, I am a little weary of the aggregation and consolidation of the web.

Alternatively, you can use the guix package manager. See here: https://guix.gnu.org/

Configuration is in scheme (guile) so that may be a turn off though.