JarJarJedi
Streamlined derailments and counteridea reeducation
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JarJarJedi
1d ago
That's sometimes lead to onsite gas turbine builds, which are genuinely loud.
There of course is an obvious solution to this, but I am not sure we're allowed yet to say it aloud. It beings with "nu"... But ok, I can get this reason. Weird I never heard this complaint from DC haters before though... I hear water (which is largely BS) and power prices (which I assume is BS too, local utilities are usually under local control and can just ration the power if they want to)
A smaller number are video game fans who want to buy RAM sometime this decade
Nah nobody cares about those folks. I mean I feel their pain - a little, I haven't seriously gamed for over a decade now, but I get it still, it stings to have you hobby require high-priced accessories, I have hobbies like that too. But this wouldn't move the public opinion in any way.
And others are just generically anti-big tech.
I mean I can get it. Big tech behaves like a bunch of assholes, much worse than proverbial "robber barons" - those built schools, libraries and museums (many of which we're still enjoying today), techbros literally are destructively consuming our culture but of all ways to fix this having DCs built somewhere else seems the least productive.
JarJarJedi
1d ago
There are a lot of politicians whose public story has significant mismatches with available facts. From Warren claiming Native ancestry, to Obama being marketed as Kenyan and associating with domestic terrorists, to Ilhan Omar descent from a genocidal war criminal and her fraternal marriage... Seems to be a common theme there. Does it raise to the level of Arday or Abagnale? Probably not, at least not in the public record. But is it in the same direction couple of steps removed? I think so. Most politicians are fabulists by trade, and many of them do not resist the temptation to apply this trade to their own story.
JarJarJedi
1d ago
BTW why so much hate for data centers specifically? Is it just "those folks make tons of money and don't give any to us, we must hate them" or is there more to it? I mean yes, they consume electricity/water/space/whatever, so do many industrial sites and nobody (excepting hippie Gaia lovers which are entirely different crowd) cares. Is it just a new fashionable thing to hate or is there anything deeper here? As big industry projects go, they seem to be far from the worst - they don't smell, barely pollute, don't look egregiously bad (in fact, if we ever manage to get away from endless brutalism, they can look as good as one wants) and can be, as I understand, located on the shittiest terrain ever without a problem. Why are they the devil exactly?
JarJarJedi
1d ago
One big issue is men dropping out of the labor force.
How this related to replacement fertility? I mean, I was under impression you don't need a lot of men to produce a lot of babies - one male can produce hundreds of babies, given the opportunity. Of course, there would be long term concerns about genetic variety, but that's a different issue. Also, from what I understand, the birth rates are actually not positively correlated with jobs and success at those jobs - poor people can make babies very well, and jobless fathers can (and do) father babies with many women, again if given the opportunity.
As a side note, when you have a combination of ideology-driven oppression, declining real wages, welfare state and economic regulation making hiring low-productivity workers unsustainable, it is no wonder that people on the margin of productivity peel off and choose not to bust their asses working for questionable benefit. But I still don't see how that connects to fertility. Traditionally, low fertility was rather a problem of rich societies.
JarJarJedi
4d ago
Restraining someone who does not want to be restrained requires either beating them until they don't resist anymore or using human mass to prevent their movement.
Yes, but. Human body is a collection of parts which can only move in certain ways. How much leeway do you have in this depends on how much you are willing to hurt yourself but even that has limits since you can only power your muscles in certain ways and they are connected at certain points. The cops of course also are limited by the ways of restraint that are allowed by their manuals, which presumably are selected to cause minimum possible damage to the arrestee (not sure if that's true but that's the premise).
Specifically, if you have somebody in the prone position, cuffed, and are turning them over, you're not doing it by going around their head, and their head has pretty limited range relative to their torso, he's not a goose or a snake after all. And unless it was a really short cop, the guy would have to cover quite some distance to get to the cop's crotch - unless the cop was sitting on his head or kneeling next to it for some reason, while the guy was being turned over. Maybe they turned him over by the mid-section, and he bent up and then bit? Then it was a mistake, as somebody should have controlled the shoulders to prevent it, but maybe they didn't have enough people for that.
Spitting is much easier, you can spit quite far with little effort, but biting requires certain range.
JarJarJedi
4d ago
I think it's actually below zero, as in being actively harmful to anybody who consumes such work, tries to understand it or, Lord save us, use it as a tool in actual education of actual human beings.
JarJarJedi
4d ago
After working it for a while, I get the impression there's a right way of asking it and a wrong way. And if you ask a wrong way, you get something, but that would be an quite shitty code which sometimes does things that make no sense at all. But if you let it split the task into bite-sized parts and go through them one by one while consistently controlling quality and not letting it do stupid things, you get very decent results. Making it plan things first and only then execute (after you verify and correct the plan) is often the key to getting good results. "Just tell it what to do and it'll do it" is not exactly it - unless you don't care about the quality of the result. Sometimes it works - e.g. for throw-away scripts that it doesn't matter how good/bad the code is, just that it runs, but for code that is going to be maintained it needs more effort.
JarJarJedi
4d ago
A homeowner places in the front yard a large, grotesque statue depicting a unicorn with a deranged grimace and an erect penis. Include discussion of the First Amendment.
Probably will violate some kind of obscenity statute, or local authorities would claim it does. Unless it's a deep blue state, in which case an appropriately placed political sign would make it immune to any attack.
JarJarJedi
4d ago
While resisting arrest, a suspect bites a police officer's penis hard enough to draw blood and require treatment at a hospital
This raises so many questions... Like, how can a person lying on the ground bite somebody in the penis, yet multiple times? What were they doing to him?
JarJarJedi
4d ago
Is Megan Fox what is supposed to be a stereotypical 10? I didn't remember how she looks like so I went and looked up, and tbh I am not a huge fan. Kinda confirms I have weird tastes - I'm not a big fan of many celebrities (speaking purely visually) that are commonly considered 10 in the US. Of course, comparing virtualized image on screen with a living person in the same room is pointless.
JarJarJedi
5d ago
Of course, the whole "trans rights" thing is based on the truth never coming out despite being obvious to everybody involved. That's what they are training the public for. So that's exactly what they expect and want to happen - everybody would know the truth and nobody would dare to say it. And it should not be just in one place - it should be everywhere, for everything, until there's no such thing as the truth - only what is allowed (and mandatory) to say and what is mandatory to never say.
Works for me, I am doing a lot of code generation with it. As for any tool, you have to watch it, and there are cases where it just doesn't work, but in general I think it works fine for me. My job pays for the enterprise subscription, which has $1000 token limit, but I never use that much, maybe $100 or so in tokens per month. But some people do get to the limit (not sure what they do to get there, I just hear them complain about it so I know).
JarJarJedi
7d ago
Yes, a person can be sick enough that the disease kills them. It's not the case for Arday though - he was definitely healthy enough to function as a lauded professor in a prominent university, and none of the glowing profiles that were done on him had any hint of him being terminally ill. The only sickness he had is him being a pathological liar, and his woke peers enabling him and pushing him deeper and deeper in the bizarro world he invented, which he could never sustain. When it all came crashing down, he chose violence, and turned the violence onto the reason of all his troubles - himself. It wasn't a disease, at least not any medically curable one, and to advance your point of view you'd need more than "I read some books that you didn't" - it's much less convincing argument than you think, especially when you don't even point out what those books say and how they are relevant to the topic.
JarJarJedi
11d ago
I think initially the model was something like couchsurfing but for money. So you literally were supposed to stay at someone's house while it's being occupied as a temporary roommate, in which case sharing the breakfast is only polite. Of course, once it took off it basically turned into less-regulated apartments for (short-term) rent. And now it's just differently-regulated apartments for rent.
JarJarJedi
12d ago
Second this. I enjoy reading it when I'm in the mood, and if I'm not, I can just scroll past it, not a problem.
JarJarJedi
12d ago
Elizabeth Warren identifies as Cherokee, or at least she did when it benefitted her. That doesn't make her one. If we abandon the actual ancestry, then the only thing left for us is what is profitable for a particular individual in particular moment and do they have enough power to enact it.
JarJarJedi
15d ago
I used an audiobook on Libby, it's about ~4 hours long and I listened to it in several takes.
JarJarJedi
15d ago
About the
JarJarJedi
15d ago
To be fair, it's not only third-worlders. They oppose criminal justice, on the premise that the criminals are never responsible for their own actions - it's the society that formed them and the circumstances that the external oppressive powers put them in. Since the society, in their ideology, is hopelessly broken, nobody can be held accountable for their crimes. They would apply it to the neighbor next door as readily as the third-worlder - provided that the neighbor belongs to one of the privileged categories. Of course, this instantly dissolves once the subject is of the disfavored category - then the script flips and it's the inherent evil always present in people of such category that is the reason.
JarJarJedi
15d ago
should require an abandonment of old loyalties
That wouldn't happen - people do not work this way. I mean, you can get people to say anything, especially if you pay them to say it and punish them if they don't, but words are wind, they'd say one thing and will enact another. Retaining the feelings for the "old country" is a common immigrant theme, and you will never get rid of it. You can, however, combine it with the loyalty for the new country - and in the US, this had been successfully achieved by generations of immigrants. People may be proud of their Irish ancestry (completely random here on the specific origin, would apply to the most of other origins) but you wouldn't find many to keep up with contemporary Irish politics and try to mold US society in was that would benefit Ireland - most people don't think that way and wouldn't know where to begin if they did. There's no need to burn any bridges because those bridges, for the longest time, stayed in one's imagination and one's past. You don't need to burn the past to have a future.
This however changed with the advent of wokeness and multiculturalism. This is a religion that says your past is your future, and there is no escape. Not only you are not expected to go towards your future without being bound by the past, the mere suggestion that one might do it is considered the supreme sin. Nobody can ask you to assimilate, and whoever even hints of it is the enemy. This is what broke the model. The premise that your old loyalties always define what your new loyalties must be, and it can not be and must not be otherwise. What previously had been a weird exception, became the norm. And since it is hardwired into the ideology ruling one of the major US parties, it is hard to de-normalize now - any attempt at it would automatically be considered as a partisan attack.
Finished The Screwtape Letters - extremely illuminating and thought-provoking book. On the lighter side, continued my quest through the Dresden Files with the Ghost Story. Dresden seems to reach peek goofiness in this one, it's a fun read but in the terms of universe/character development it seems to walk in circles. Hopefully it's a gravity assist maneuver for what's to come next.
Started The Seventh Function of Language - sounds to be fun so far, though a lot of it might be outside my depth, as I am not that knowledgeable in the details of contemporary French philosophy and linguistics and its personalities. I know the names but I think a lot of stuff he's making fun of them for goes right over my head.
JarJarJedi
19d ago
IIRC Tolkien initially intended for the Nazgul to keep the rings and wear them, but later changed it to Sauron taking the rings from them, once the subjugating their wills was complete, and keeping them for himself. I think the final structure was that it was Sauron's will that controls them, and the rings are only an accessory to that.
Does "to those who would accept them" then mean that those recipients were the ones willing to at least pretend they accepted Sauron as their overlord?
I am not very good at finding quotes, so if you find something to the contrary then that's what it is - but from what I have read so far everywhere, it doesn't seem to be at least explicit. And not how Sauron worked in general, at least on that stage. He'd pretend he's just a friendly gift giver. So why not accept? Later, of course, he was the Dark Lord, but that was much later I think, and those guys probably wouldn't join somebody like that willingly, they initially weren't evil, just ambitious. That's kind of the broader point I feel - you don't need to be evil and consciously join the Dark Side to get in trouble, the temptation will lead you there subtly and imperceptibly, and you will never sign the Evil Contract in blood, everything will be justifiable and reasonable, until it's too late. It's a very Christian message.
JarJarJedi
19d ago
Here the trick was that the big S pretended the guys he's giving the rings to are not owing him anything, he's just a cool dude giving out free gifts, for the love of humanity and the public benefit. Certainly not vassal loyalty - those were kings or people that saw themselves on the same footing as kings, and didn't see themselves as a vassal to anybody, not even the Valar. When they discovered what's actually going on, it was too late for them. But giving up the game upfront and saying "I am your leader and you are my subjects now" would certainly not work and not how it went in Tolkien's world. These guys were not stupid and very proud and powerful.
And yes, rings are traditionally used - not only in Anglo culture - as a sign of borrowed authority and dependency. But it's not the only use. He literally pretended to be distributing gifts from the Valar and teaching everybody how to do cool things. Including making the rings. That's what Valar did too, and there was no servitude involved. So describing it as if everybody saw what's going on is directly opposite to Tolkien's intent - the whole point is that they didn't understand what's going on, not even the Elves, initially, certainly not humans. It took centuries for them to realize what's up.
JarJarJedi
20d ago
I am giving you those pretty rings, totally gift, because you are so awesome, no strings attached whatsoever, no negative consequences, and henceforth I am going to call you "my servants by the power of the Rings" but don't pay any attention to it, it's just a technical term, there's really nothing to it, does not concern you in any way.
I've read SMRs can be built with as little as 3 years. That seems to be a reasonable timeframe.
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