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Buddy, I’ve got some bad news for you: if you want to move everyone you don’t like to an island so that you don’t have “shit all over your streets,” you are actually siding with fascism.

the entirety of your post assumes that homelessness is a moral failing of individuals when the entirety of what we know about community development and psychology shows that that is not the case; you can believe in this plan, but you are supported by money and ego, not by actual fact friend

Fascists think up this kind of plan; this kind of society is a fascist society

My dude I saw homeless people in towns with a population of 4000 in Mississippi. This is just false.

Minimum wage in the US is $5.15/hour iirc. At 40 hours per week (which many jobs won’t reliably get), that’s ~$824/month BEFORE taxes, food, and so on. Even in the rural south where I used to live, where the cost of living is very low, many one person apartments would be $400–$500/month. That leaves maybe $400 for everything else BEFORE taxes on a GOOD month. Combine this with the fact that employers aren’t required to, and pretty much never do, provide medical benefits to this sort of employee.

Maybe you can squeak by if you’re lucky… but you have to be consistently lucky. One bad month and the whole thing can fall apart. It’s basically impossible to build wealth or savings in this situation (not to mention care for your own fucking health).

Most people care a LOT more about the easy audio and video chat.

I have tested multiple Windows games on M1 MacBook Air through Crossover

So you had x64 binaries calling a DX API that called a Vulkan API that called a Metal API all on top of a JIT translation layer to ARM on two month old hardware and it worked well?

That’s fucking incredible, man.

I think it’s interesting that not many people here bring up Discord. It’s by far the most challenging competitor for the average user, IMO. Full of features and very easy to use.

Yes, it is also police brutality, that is correct. The people fighting the police (many of whom are police themselves, and whom some police are collaborating with) also just attempted a violent coup. So they all suck. And surprisingly, Donald Trump managed to support all of the ones doing the systematic violence AND the ones attempting violent coups.

So really, yes, it all around sucks, and we need to fix a lot. But some people are clearly hurting more than helping! Maybe when they’re gone, we can finally focus on fixing these longstanding systemic problems rather than arguing about a man-child.

The capitol police definitely don’t seem to have been acting as one unit in this. At least some were trying to protect the capitol.

Because after 9/11 we spent twenty years pretending that brown men are the perpetrators of mass violence in this country

Given that there were literally millions of protestors on the streets over the summer, 20 is a pretty tiny number. Multiple people have already died from the DC attacks, just in two days in one city, with a much smaller number of people.

That’s just comparing the number of deaths, and putting aside that one was a massive distributed protest of government brutality and the other was an attempted coup.

I don’t think wanting a regulatory framework is bad at all (though I think in the last few decades, we have naïvely tried to regulate companies into doing things that are simply counter to their nature rather than solving problems directly, eg minimum wage vs UBI).

A utility is different than a regulated company.

I think this is an instance of the biggest, most disastrous fallacy of the last half century: that a company is a social utility.

It’s not. It’a a bunch of rich people in California. If you want a public utility for communication and socializing, go help build one. Contribute to Mastodon or the rest of the fediverse. Write to representatives (or become one yourself) and propose legislation to fund a public tool that is actually owned by the people. It could even be part of the fediverse!

But asking Twitter to do any random thing someone wants because they are a big company is insane and is going to cause us nothing but pain.

In defense, I would argue that many modern language design advancements DO relate to multithreading in some way. Rust’s borrow checker and linear/affine types can help with thread safety; OCaml is using algebraic effects to implement multi core behavior; GPU-related experiments (such as Formality [1]) are all about enabling more scalable and reliable parallelism.

That said, I don’t think that multithreading is the only interesting or worthwhile part of programming language theory these days. However, I think it is extremely fertile for innovation while also being somewhat isomorphic with other interesting correctness/performance/ergonomics problems.

[1] https://github.com/moonad/Formality

Have you heard of ransomware? Expired certificates? DDoS?

Security deficiencies are technical debt

Running with uid 1000 in the Docker group in prod is a very bad idea to begin with

I’m not so sure; I think a _lot_ of people would be interested in advanced in non-ML image analysis tech. While ML has been effective for a recent period in industry, it has a number of issues such as intensive training costs, extreme difficulty in fully understanding the behavior of a model (since we can only do experimental verification, and only on behaviors we know to be interesting already), and ethical issues such as unintended gender/racial bias. Just off the top of my head.

I think what you are pointing is really the most toxic part of tech: marketers and investors have found that tech is a good way to aggregate money, and so they have a thrown a lot of funding at tech that can aggregate for them. However, we haven’t actually proven that that tech is the best solution or a sustainable solution. We don’t understand most of what we do with computers very well, we just approximate until it works well enough (for the marketers and investors, of course).

ML and deep learning are very valuable, of course, but their recent market dominance doesn’t indicate that they are the final or most correct solution to the problems they are being used for. It indicates that people want to spend money on it right now.

Have you played with NixOS or Guix at all? They attempt to solve this problem from the ground up for the entire OS. It obviously has trade offs, but IMO it is the best solution around today (other than Kubernetes, but that is an abstraction level higher).

I know that there is at least some speculation that autism in women is under diagnosed v men. Does this paper account for that?

Edit: yeah, that’s the conclusion of the analysis. I wonder if there is still more to be found there (ie if it is still closer to 1:1).

Debian also did this.

I don't mean to bring back the forum lifestyle of the 00s, but this is just plainly FUD. Linux does not cause hardware issues like this with any high frequency (of course it may occasionally, but any software will damage that hardware eventually). I've installed Linux, and helped others install Linux, on dozens of machines over my life. I've worked with others who install Linux on everything they touch. I've literally never heard of a story like this.

So it is POSSIBLE that Linux might have caused your issue. Your computer repair guy, however, is probably just wrong. And I would personally guess that your damage was due to power or environmental issues rather than Linux.

Well, Apple has managed to move all the way down to a 5nm process while Intel still hasn't made it past 14nm. AFAIK that's the largest limiting factor for Intel. I can't speak to why they have been stuck there for so long.

At which point in history did words have a centralized and objective meaning across all usages?

Free speech is about government laws, not private action. Racist speech is protected, but so is the right to not propagate racist speech on private infrastructure.

No one is seriously claiming that none of the elections have any errors. That would be insane; all human activity is full of errors.

What we are saying is that literally all experts and the people who run the elections themselves — from both political parties — have stated that they don’t believe that there is any organized fraud, and that any error they have isn’t significant.

The fact that several recounts didn’t change the results shows exactly that: the detected errors did not make a significant impact on the results. The election was safe to call because Biden was ahead by more than the margin of error.

There is one man who has objectively lied constantly for his entire life in the public record, who had lied about his results in polls (both political and entertainment related) his entire life, and who has repeatedly stated that he will not admit defeat. (In the past, he even called magazines under a fake name to try to convince them that he should be higher in their “richest people” rankings!) On the other side, we have literally every election official in the country across party lines.

That was exactly my point. It being a “free market” is why it sucks in the first place — but if it’s going to be a shitty adtech-driven brain-sludgifying monstrosity, the very least we can do is not actively promote the worst things people put into it.

Do you have any examples of that happening to people for actions that aren’t straight up pedophilia or racism (ie Stormfront)?

Do you think Germany lost their fucking minds when they outlawed Holocaust denialism?

You have full access to facts here. Nothing is being truly hidden. Hell, all of these videos can still be shared a million other ways. It’s insane, systematic misinformation that YouTube doesn’t want to actively help spread.