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by vacuity 3y ago
While I don't deny many of the atrocities that the Israeli government seems to be doing, it's only part of what's going on. I support Israel withdrawing from Gaza (aside from providing aid) and focusing on actual defense, but
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by vacuity 3y ago
That's not the point that GP is making. Rather, discussing these kinds of topics tends to produce a lot of low quality and emotionally charged discussion that makes it dubious whether one should've engaged in the first place.
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by vacuity 3y ago
There is some point at which a nation's "self-defense" is pertinent, although in reality that self is both composed of many people and nebulous to reason about. If people unjustly attack, it's not like saying "Hey!
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by vacuity 3y ago
Whether by nature or nurture or some combination of the two, many people seem to lack compassion and empathy for those significantly outside of their personal bubble. If it was "their people" going through that suffering, they wou
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by vacuity 3y ago
I don't condone those Israeli policies, but I don't think terrorist attacks are a productive way to incite peaceful reform. There's no fair solution when one side is much more powerful and cruel with that power, but respondin
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by vacuity 3y ago
Whether Israel is proportionately attacking Gaza remains to be seen. Just because Hamas doesn't care about Gazans doesn't mean that Israel is giving them a reasonable opportunity to thrive, though. That's without mentioning t
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by vacuity 3y ago
Hamas is certainly a bad actor. I'm of the opinion that while Israel is somewhat better, it still did some bad things and is doing bad things that should be addressed. I wouldn't describe the Israeli government as a "defender
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by vacuity 3y ago
To your last paragraph, as I understand it, 9/11 was also moreso caused by lack of intelligence being acted on properly, rather than being completely blindsided. Of course, it may be that all the surveillance measures could mitigate fu
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by vacuity 3y ago
I hear you. While reading your comment, I had the thought "'atrocities coming from all of the actors'? Are you saying they're equally bad?" Of course, that's not what you said and there are far better responses
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by vacuity 3y ago
Datalog (intentionally) isn't Turing-complete, though. That might hurt applicability for a generalized ECS model.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Perhaps, but a lot of people misuse it. It's easy to accidentally get breaking changes when some part of the chain is misused.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Now the real question is, what does the top 1 person use? Emacs? VSCode?
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by vacuity 3y ago
The line you quoted is clear, my bad. The example by itself doesn't really disambiguate.
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by vacuity 3y ago
I await Advent of Code 2069, where the flavor text includes (tasteful) memes to increase the humor.
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by vacuity 3y ago
I think the description of the cube game is ambiguous, and I initially misunderstood it. I'll start off by saying, no shade to the AoC people, and I greatly appreciate and respect their efforts. Just pointing it out. The intended meani
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by vacuity 3y ago
Consider it a distributed systems synchronization problem.
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by vacuity 3y ago
I think it has to do with the notion that many (most?) people who could hone, and employ, respectable cognitive skills neglect or refuse to do so in favor of putting down other species and LLMs. They point to the human exemplars and think h
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by vacuity 3y ago
Assume is a strong word. It's defined by the standard by way of undefined behavior.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Can nuclear power plants make livestock less energy intensive to raise?
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by vacuity 3y ago
Overpopulation needs to be qualified with the context of the living standards. Ten billion vegetarians is probably feasible, but ten billion Americans (we don't currently have as many at such a standard) is a different story.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Hi to you too, Darwin.
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by vacuity 3y ago
The issue is that a bunch of people living in conventionally valid ways are contributing to climate change and overpopulation. Not making a value judgement, because no one is used to or equipped to deal with the scale of billions of humans.
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by vacuity 3y ago
The AI doomerism is definitely overblown, but I don't think the same is true of climate change. It won't be a fast extinction by any means, but if the heaps of scientific evidence are to be trusted, we are rapidly losing leeway to
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by vacuity 3y ago
If there's a bug in a Unix derivative, does the issue lie with the implementation or the POSIX spec? Answer: It lies with the people wanting a fix! Moral of the story: backwards compatibility is a menace.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Well, it hasn't stopped memory safety bugs from being a thing, that's for sure.
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by vacuity 3y ago
It is a catch-22 of sorts. I would like for us to move on from POSIX and the current libc interface, but that's easier said than done.
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by vacuity 3y ago
Land isn't just fungible. Arable land that can be used to grow crops, fresh drinking water, greenhouse gas emissions (human transportation, freight, farming, computing, utilities, etc.), and housing are all factors to consider (some no
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by vacuity 3y ago
We mostly agree then, but I think the scale of enterprise software development in languages such as Go and Rust is such that telling people to vet their dependencies isn't a feasible solution. If the dependencies are free software, it
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by vacuity 3y ago
Is there something like an IOMMU to provide secure access to the NIC?
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by vacuity 3y ago
Why is this? Memory usage?

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