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by dolni 4y ago
> This is a straw man. No, it isn't. Your claim is "punishment as a deterrence is dead". I am claiming that: If the punishment for murder is 20 years in prison, there will be X murders per capita. If the punishment for mur
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by dolni 4y ago
Honestly, that sounds selfish. Plenty of others gain from a system of justice where heinous acts are deterred. And you do too, even if you don't acknowledge it. Prisons can and should do better. But you are incredibly naive if you thin
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by dolni 4y ago
So you would be okay with the person you assaulted you not facing consequences, like prison?
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by dolni 4y ago
Have you ever been wronged in a substantial way? Something that shook you so much, that you carried it with you for months or years afterwards? It's the kind of thing that when it happens, you think: "I wish nobody else had to go
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by dolni 4y ago
Personally, I think prison ought to be structured a lot more like life outside prison. You teach people what they need to do to be successful outside, which has some obvious benefits. Provide for jobs, pay a reasonable market wage, a fair a
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by dolni 4y ago
Only the most naive people think that "punishment as a deterrent" is dead. It only takes a simple thought experiment to see why that idea is stupid. How many additional murders do you think there would be if the punishment for mur
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by dolni 4y ago
Despite the whining of anti-systemd people, it worked for systemd. I fail to see why it would not have worked for Wayland.
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by dolni 4y ago
I am not an X11 "fan". I use what works best for me. I put a lot of effort into using Sway and the experience sucked. > People with deep knowledge of this area (like Keith Packard) stated the exact opposite many times (that thi
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by dolni 4y ago
Yes, that's a large part of it. What we needed was a server and a standard library. Not a barebones protocol for everyone to implement with a different set of bugs. wlroots showed up too late to the game. Now we have GNOME, KDE, wlroot
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by dolni 4y ago
Wayland is 10 years old, the importance of it as an X11 successor cannot be understated, and somehow it still has big problems.
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by dolni 4y ago
Unfortunately, I think Wayland really botched things. That's a shame because it would have been a great improvement. Wayland and friends have taken far too long to build and the tradeoffs to me, an end user, are not convincing. I tried
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by dolni 4y ago
One thing that drives me up a wall about Ruby (versus Python) is that function and method calls have basically zero context so you have _no idea_ where a piece of code actually lives without investigating or relying heavily on IDE features.
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by dolni 4y ago
I don't think it is a question of moderation. It's a question of "does this chunk of code make sense as an abstraction?" If I change the common code, do I want all users of it to realize those changes implicitly? Terrafo
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by dolni 4y ago
There are ten MILLION police arrests in the United States every year. The police kill roughly 1100 people every year. The entire job of police departments is to interact with people who are breaking the law. If 0.25% of police arrests turne
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by dolni 4y ago
Functional programming with immutable state cannot possibly win in the general case. There are two truths that ensure the dominance of imperative software: 1. At some level of software complexity, programmers MUST start to organize data int
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by dolni 4y ago
Do you think that the free software movement would have adopted "free as in speech" if the US was hostile to free speech?
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by dolni 4y ago
The first amendment to the US Constitution provides very strong protection for the right to free speech. Presumably that is the origin of "free as in speech".
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by dolni 4y ago
When I hear such stories, I always remember that there are two sides to a story and people often lie or embellish to make themselves look good. Police don't do everything right. But if you think that _everybody_ who had a bad interacti
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by dolni 4y ago
There is some literature out there about pure RO water not being great for you. My anecdote: I have been purchasing RO water from the local grocery store for quite some time because I dislike the taste of my tap water after softening. For a
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by dolni 4y ago
This "well regulated militia" stuff is so disgustingly ignorant. And people keep parroting it like it is some kind of "gotem". First of all, what do you think a militia even is? It is a group of CITIZENS that form an ad-
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by dolni 4y ago
Our entire justice system exists "as a way to get away from outrage" and we're better off for it. Angry mobs don't produce good outcomes. That's true even when they're angry about bad cops.
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by dolni 4y ago
Yeah, because gaslighting is DEFINITELY not a thing.
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by dolni 4y ago
This will make it much more difficult for people who receive threatening iMessages to provide proof to the police. But Apple doesn't care.
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by dolni 4y ago
Bit of a shortsighted assessment IMO. Systems abstract tons of stuff that you don't see, even being a programmer. And not having to worry about that is VERY convenient. It sure is nice to not have to give a rip about how to arrange dat
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by dolni 4y ago
> In this case you probably shouldn't pull it out into it's own thing because it's so specific (and weird) that you'll want it nearby it's use case (and not available for developers to accidentally use for the no
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by dolni 4y ago
> Obviously the point is, arbitrary 'unbiased measurements' can be cherry-picked to get whatever discriminatory result a bigot wishes. And just as easily, constructive means of measurement can be attacked as "biased"
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by dolni 4y ago
The trend of decrying unbiased measurement standards as discriminatory continues. I guess you have to stoke the outrage machine somehow.
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by dolni 4y ago
Yes, "only" a 33% increase from 2012 to 2020.
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by dolni 4y ago
> Especially so if you are in a value-adding position and not something like internal tooling. Why the knock on internal tooling? If internal tooling helps a value-add position go 10% faster, that's worth a lot. And most likely it i
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by dolni 4y ago
> It's an unacceptable solution but it seems to me that the US is just too big and splitting it up would make more sense. We already have this. The divisions are called states. And it's solid argument for a weaker federal gover

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