ChairmanMeow
@ChairmanMeow@programming.dev
- Comment on She's a keeper 1 week ago:
This does assume that these are independent variables, which may not necessarily be the case.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
That’s true, those happened when Israel was funding and using Hamas to deliberately destabilize the more secular PLO, and followed decades of Israeli occupation.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
But then Hamas got into power with a plurality of the vote and have been constantly attacking Israel ever since.
Hamas has always been extreme in rhetoric, but the violence afaik began when Israel, the US and the PA attempted to coup them out of power.
There have been a few times in this war there has been ceasefires with hostages exchanged for prisoners. Hamas eventually stops releasing hostages and the conflict resumes.
So far every ceasefire was broken by Israel, because they were unwilling to enter the next phase of negotiations which was a precondition to the release of more hostages.
It doesn’t seem like Hamas wants sovereignty, they could have had that if they wanted it.
Like how Israel respects the sovereignty of the PA in the West Bank? Yeah right.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
At this point the hostages are Hamas’ only bargaining chip left. At the same time, Israel has very publicly stated that their primary war goal is not the release of the hostages but the total extermination of Hamas. So even if Hamas released the hostages, by Israel’s own admission, the war would not end (it may even intensify as there’d be no hostages to avoid bad PR for).
Also, nobody thinks Hamas are saints. But the people of Gaza should not have to face extermination by explosions, gunshots or starvation because of their crimes.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
The historical pronunciation of this letter is irrelevant because it’s a modern word with a modern pronunciation.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
The k-sound is used when the chi is prefixed in front of certain vowels. The ch-sound is the truly correct pronunciation here, there’s no history involved for that.
Knuth, the guy who coined it, also says the ch-sound is the correct one, though he also says the k-sound is also acceptable. As long as you do not use the ks-sound at least :)
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
It’s also wrong, it’s supposed to be a ch-sound as in Bach.
- Comment on I 🖤 LaTeX 1 week ago:
It’s actually a ch-sound, as in Bach. But Knuth also thinks the k-pronunciation is fine.
- Comment on Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures? 1 week ago:
Does he actually have a diagnosis or are you making that up or assuming things?
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 2 weeks ago:
Normally speed checks take into account that the car’s speedometer and the speed camera are off by a bit, always in favour of the driver. So whilst the violation might be 38 in 30, the actual speed was likely a little bit higher (eg 40-45).
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 2 weeks ago:
Chargebacks are incredibly expensive, yes.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
According to Krafton’s statement the remaining employees are getting their bonus though.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 4 weeks ago:
I made it up.
- Comment on is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal 4 weeks ago:
“Turns out all we needed to travel forwards in time is to burn homophobes!”
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 weeks ago:
That’s not specific to having a constitution. Judges in the Netherlands for example also cannot do a judicial review to determine the constitutionality of any passed laws. And that’s with a written constitution. There’s also no supreme court. The closest thing is the Raad van State (the “state council”), which evaluates all laws on proportionality, constitutionality, and executability, and then advises the government what to do with a law. It’s convention that that advice is followed, but it’s not required.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 weeks ago:
There’s still a judicial challenge happening. And just because the UK doesn’t have written constitution doesn’t mean there’s no constitution at all. Most of it is even written down, just not in one place.
- Comment on Welcome to the Labour police state 4 weeks ago:
Not sure that matters too much, frogs in the US are boiling fine too. The constitution can be brushed aside just as easily.
- Comment on After Israel and USA's bombing, wouldn't any supposed nuclear bombs go off if there were any? 1 month ago:
Also, since they’ve been bombing nuclear facilities I can guarantee you that they have boat loads of very shitty (radioactive) chemicals laying around there which with these bombings now will also be spread around everywhere
So far no radiation was detected, so perhaps it was stored more securely (or somewhere else).
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 1 month ago:
Because the UK (and the US and Russia) agreed to protect Ukrainian sovereignty after Ukraine willingly had the Soviet nuclear arsenal dismantled after the Soviet Union dissolved.
In 1994, Ukraine agreed to transfer these weapons to Russia for dismantlement and became a party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, in exchange for economic compensation and assurances from Russia, the United States and the United Kingdom to respect Ukrainian independence and sovereignty within its existing borders.
See en.wikipedia.org/…/Ukraine_and_weapons_of_mass_de…
The other reason is basically the same reason why the UK got involved on the side of Poland in 1939.
- Comment on Anon watches a romance movie 1 month ago:
I mean, you could only read it like that if you ignore the post’s context, as well as the next sentence that clearly talks about the movies.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 1 month ago:
At the time the prevalent belief initially was that the mighty British empire, together with the French, would beat back the Germans and Italians. Remember that these countries had fought a destructive war already which an at the time more powerful German empire lost. US sentiment also was against direct involvement in the war, and many in cabinet were more concerned with the rising threat to their west: Japan.
That’s not to say the US did nothing. The US supplied China via the Burma road agains the Japanese, supplied the Allies with arms and they also did the destroyers-for-bases deal. The US also held their first peacetime draft in 1940, well before it officially entered the war.
At the time, the belief was that the US would have to defend the west (against Japan) and that the UK could defeat the Germans. It’s why the US moves the fleet to Hawaii, to hopefully pressure the Japanese into backing down.
The US had both domestic and geopolitical reasons to not declare war immediately. It’s fair to criticize that, but to characterize the US as doing nothing in that time is just a falsification of history.
- Comment on Russia is at war with Britain and US is no longer a reliable ally, UK adviser says 1 month ago:
The UK could, if Russia would stop interfering with Ukraine.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Perhaps a slightly less doom-and-gloomy scenario (because not all muslims hate women): in many muslim cultures it’s expected that a relationship turns into a marriage quickly. A non-muslim colleague of mine started dating a muslim girl and her family was totally supportive of the relationship, but he did have to marry her within just a couple months of dating. They were both happy to do so but they’re a fair bit older than you are. Your girlfriend might not feel ready for such a thing.
Talk to her about it, and ask if she’s worried about her family’s reaction, what she expects and why. Don’t pressure her into introducing you to the family, but clarify that you’d just like to know why. You can express you’d like to meet them of course, but just remember that her decision should be final in all this. That will help your relationship going forward, and once she is ready for it you’ll get to meet them.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 2 months ago:
On Thursday the Reform website was updated to accept cryptocurrency donations. There was a disclaimer stating that all donations were subject to Electoral Commission rules and that anonymous donations were not permissible.
They don’t accept anonymous donations. So that doesn’t appear to be a concern at least.
- Comment on There's a noticable influx of trans kids in my job. Are there any topics I should avoid or considerations I should take into account when training them? 2 months ago:
Gender dysphoria is a mental problem, in the sense that it causes mental distress to be in the wrong body. The treatment is not therapy, it’s surgery to correct the body to fit the mind. A therapist can help identify the cause of the distress, but if the cause is the body then that therapist will recommend surgery.
I recall seeing research suggesting that trans people’s brainwaves more closely match that of their “desired” gender than that of their sex. It reinforces the idea that being transgender isn’t a mental issue, it’s a physical issue that causes mental distress.
A trans man isn’t a woman who merely thinks she’s a man, it’s actually a man inside that skull. Only the body underneath it is wrong. It’s as if tomorrow you woke up in the body of the opposite gender. That will (after the novelty wears off) start distressing you. Trans people didn’t wake up like that, they were born with that feeling.
- Comment on Reform UK to accept donations via bitcoin, Nigel Farage says 2 months ago:
Why did the Guardian even bother to write this article? It isn’t really newsworthy imo.
- Comment on ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code 2 months ago:
I think the point is that even if LLMs suck at task A, they might be really good at task B. Just because code written by LLMs is often riddled with security flaws, doesn’t mean LLMs also suck at identifying those flaws.
- Comment on White House Health Report Included Fake Citations 2 months ago:
So scientific fraud then. Will anyone be punished for it though?
- Comment on Dammit dad 2 months ago:
Goldilocks no?
- Comment on Mario Kart 64 got finally decompiled! 2 months ago:
It will read a dump from the ROM. The project obviously can’t be held responsible for how you may have obtained that ROM.