JarJarJedi
Streamlined derailments and counteridea reeducation
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JarJarJedi
2d ago
The movie American Fiction is essentially that. I quite enjoyed it.
JarJarJedi
2d ago
I wonder what is the true nature of the Democrat opposition, as a party - do they want the tech bros to bend the knee, hire unionized trans-minority illegal immigrant workers and everything will be ok (as long as they pay the danegeld consistently) or do they want the whole industry to just go away (likely, to China), out of sight, out of mind - as many other industries did? I mean, the hippie wing definitely wants the latter, for them bread appears on the shelves of the supermarket by government magic, but what is the established position here?
JarJarJedi
2d ago
So if there's no economic benefit, why the tax breaks? Is it just plain bribery, i.e. the tech guys bribing the local government? Because if there's little local benefit, why give them the tax breaks at all? Somebody must be getting something from this deal, otherwise why not tax them as much as possible - they'd have to build somewhere anyway, and if nobody gets any benefit locally, then nobody should be giving them the tax break. I suspect there's some benefit at least to somebody here. Is that just the bribery benefit or there's more to it?
JarJarJedi
2d ago
I guess the question is - is this data center thing a fad that will be gone in 5 years, or a long term trend, where a long-term investment would make sense?
JarJarJedi
3d ago
I've read SMRs can be built with as little as 3 years. That seems to be a reasonable timeframe.
JarJarJedi
4d 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
4d 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
4d 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
4d 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
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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
7d 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
8d 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
10d 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
14d 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
15d 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
15d 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
18d ago
I used an audiobook on Libby, it's about ~4 hours long and I listened to it in several takes.
JarJarJedi
18d ago
About the
JarJarJedi
18d 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.
A lot of things on Wikipedia are bullshit. Anybody can write anything there, and it's only corrected if somebody else comes and corrects it. Sometimes there's nobody interested, and the nonsense stays up there for a long time. Russian Wikipedia (and any smaller wikis) is more vulnerable just numerically - less people participate, less coverage, less chance to fail to notice some bullshit somebody inserted there for lulz. If Claude does not trust Wikipedia, it's a point to its favor.
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