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- Comment on Just a little more compute ... 10 hours ago:
Have we really become so lazy that we don’t even want to learn a minimum of a programming language
It’s worse than that. I’ve seen people who used to be good programmers, writing complicated FPGA data processing applications, reduced to barely being able to read simple python scripts and making extremely beginner mistakes when they ever have to change a line of code themselves.
- Comment on Languages have rules and follow predictable patterns. French: 14 hours ago:
Not really, even that has almost completely fallen out of use. Everything except people and anthropomorphized animals like pets are ‘it’; nobody’s going around calling ships and newspapers ‘she’ anymore except people holding on to extremely quaint historical oddity.
- Comment on Boy dinner 3 days ago:
coke isn’t great for you, sure once in a while won’t kill you but it’s probably similarly bad to alcohol. also the supply chain is really unethical. ket sure fine.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 week ago:
Yeah no, I completely agree they still did loads of very evil stuff, it’s just the last time that they did any thing that was somehow helpful
- Comment on Rich ppl live longer 1 week ago:
Yeah but these (usually flawed) studies that have wormed their way into the public consciousness were done long before gen z was drinking age. From up-to-date information it’s pretty clear that any amount of any kind of alcohol is quite bad for you. Obviously increasing with quantity.
- Comment on Food served to US service men & women. 1 week ago:
The last time the US military did anything not evil was WWII and that was not really by choice. It’s their fault they were told to do stupid shit because they have at least three generations of murder as examples they could have looked at.
- Comment on Jimmy Neutron confirmed Chad? 2 weeks ago:
It is because of the hydrogen, but it’s not really to do with the mass, but rather because a “collision”/interaction is much more likely. For instance, ^58^Ni has the same likelihood to interact as hydrogen, while deuterium has only a fifth. ^135^Xe meanwhile has some millions of times the absorption power of hydrogen and it’s quite a lot heavier. It’s just not very practical as an absorber.
- Comment on What's yall's favourite Pythagoras quotes? 2 weeks ago:
Why is it called the Pythagorean theorem and not the Babylonian theorem then, huh, smart guy? Checkmate atheists.
- Comment on America needs a moratorium on AI data centers 2 weeks ago:
it might be even less flattering to suggest they only know it because of sportsball lol
- Comment on Uh-Oh 2 weeks ago:
I’m not into that lol, I just don’t have pretences that my feelings are based on absolute mortality.
- Comment on Uh-Oh 2 weeks ago:
Eating meat isn’t a necessity to stay alive, or be healthy in any way, plenty of entire cultures don’t do it. Keep deluding yourself my friend. The conflict isn’t mysterious, it’s just narcissism. You just find post hoc rationalisations for things that you like or don’t like, and decide it must be based on some kind of fundamental morality. It’s exactly right-wing extremist logic.
- Comment on Uh-Oh 2 weeks ago:
That’s a real sheep take. If a lot of people do it then it’s normal human behaviour. If you wanna apply some prescriptive values to that based on some moral ideas you have and say that common behaviour is wrong you’re gonna need to be consistent about the consequences. If you’re justifying your idea of its wrongness in terms of sentience and consent you can’t just then drop that for the thing that you like to do. Either you’ve got values or you don’t.
- Comment on Uh-Oh 2 weeks ago:
So you are a committed vegan, right? Since imposing confinement, forced impregnation and slaughter on unconsenting animals in real life is clearly a lot worse than wanting to fuck them in a fantasy.
- Comment on just temporarily embarrassed billionaires, one good idea or lottery ticket from making it rich 3 weeks ago:
Haha, 5 million? They would do that for 50k, a fancy dinner and a first class plane ticket.
- Comment on onions 4 weeks ago:
Indian food uses loads of onions
- Comment on 92% of American adults aren’t going to a doctor because they cannot afford it. The health insurance industry must be dissolved & all of its executives criminally prosecuted for murder, conspiracy, an… 4 weeks ago:
Sorry but I doubt it. Brits are really not good at standing up for themselves. They are replacing it with an American style system, just a little bit at a time. In the last 30 years it’s come about half way, and it might take another couple decades to really finish the job, but I think it’s likely they’ll succeed in the end.
- Comment on Anon is an imposter 1 month ago:
Sure. I consider myself a fairly good dev. Not an amazing genius or anything but pretty competent in my area. Wouldn’t have a clue how a load balancer works beyond what’s in the name, I guess it balances loads. I can assume it does this by distributing requests to different servers because that just makes sense, but I don’t even really know that. Networking might as well be black magic as far as I’m concerned. I’m grateful we have a decent infra team who knows about all that. So I’m not surprised.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 2 months ago:
Yeah, so it can possibly go wrong, instead of being guaranteed to go wrong.
- Comment on I wonder why the world is on fire? A mystery 2 months ago:
The thing about the slow way is that it’s too readily reversible, and since the existing order allows the wealthy who would lose under such policies to consolidate power quite easily, those changes can be undone much more easily than they can be made.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 2 months ago:
So clearly you haven’t been to the dentist in Germany, or even read that very article you posted. Yes your 6-monthly checkup is covered, that’s great. But the subsidy for fillings in molars, for example, only covers amalgam fillings. Dentists don’t actually do those anymore, so you have to pay more than 100€ “extra” to get a resin one. The majority of other situations are similar to that. In the end, even though the rule says that medically necessary things are supposed to be covered, in practice they really aren’t.
- Comment on Newsflash pal 2 months ago:
fresh tomatoes: 10€/kg
wtf, do you live in like Svalbard or something? They are 2-4€ per kilo in the summer and 4-6€ in the winter in most places on the continent for normal truss tomatoes. I live in a country with very expensive food but basic Spanish tomatoes are 2€ right now in the cheaper supermarkets.
- Comment on America continues to fall behind the rest of the world 2 months ago:
Dental treatments are paid
Nonsense. Dental treatments are slightly subsidised, but even with the subsidy are more expensive than paying outright in cash in France. They are only covered if you’re, like, gonna die from a tooth infection or something, and then they’ll remove it but not do anything about the missing tooth. The subsidy doesn’t even cover simple fillings, which still cost more than 100€ even for shitty resin ones. Why do you think everyone goes to Poland or Turkey when they need real dental care?
- Comment on Yes, yes they are 2 months ago:
It’s obviously not a strict one-to-one relationship but I do think more intelligent people are on average slightly less racist.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 2 months ago:
You have clearly been misled by propaganda. There is no broad disagreement about these issues. If there is debate about “how much climate change is caused by human activity” it is regarding the third nine after the decimal point of the percentage figure, which might be debated fiercely but makes no difference at all to the overall message.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 2 months ago:
No, not in the cases of vaccines or climate change. The incredibly overwhelming majority of scientists are on the plainly correct side of both of those, they don’t have to be geniuses for that, just somewhat educated.
- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 2 months ago:
Feels to me like they are related, rugged individualism is much easier to sell to people who feel this way.
- Comment on Ascend 2 months ago:
I want to write something here about the best conference catering ever, but it would probably dox me, so I won’t.
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 2 months ago:
No, the theory of electromagnetism and by extension physics in general is knowing how it works. How to use it is engineering, a different set of knowledge which we also have some of.
- Comment on Anon pets a dog 2 months ago:
They are not bigger than big dogs, they aren’t always in packs, and they’re skittish yeah but not usually that aggressive. This story could well be fake but it’s perfectly plausible.
- Comment on average physics student vs POTUS 47 2 months ago:
Sure, but between nothing and the axioms of the standard model we end up with a fairly comprehensive description which can predict how different kinds of magnets behave in a wide variety of situations.