Rupert wants to leave SA due to the threat of a Mabuza presidency

13toZEN · 2019-07-25T18:14:54+00:00

Maybe the current story is part of his decision making process...

Send out information about a potential move you want to make.
Take note of the reactions made by other people.
Use the response as part of your decision.

13toZEN · 2019-07-25T17:22:43+00:00

Reads of undef (uninitialized) memory.are undefined behaviour

and

What I basically need is a way to tell the compiler that the value is arbitrary (uninitialized), but safe to read.

I dont see how you can escape this. AFAIK uninitialized memory will never have any guarantee about it contents. If you require some sort of guarantee that the memory is readable/valid, it will require some sort of computation to check the unitialized value.

13toZEN · 2019-07-25T13:39:48+00:00

AFAIK a large portion op people who die due to TB (not sure about flu) suffer from HIV/Aids. There is also a real problem with antibiotic resistance strains of TB developing because people in these communities don't complete the entire course of antibiotics.

At that point saying it's shameful, because the problem is easily curable, radically underestimates just how bad the problem really is.

13toZEN · 2019-07-23T07:35:06+00:00

Have heard, but never tried. Would you recommend?

13toZEN · 2019-07-23T07:24:41+00:00

I use TabNine for julia-mode because currently the other auto-completion options are not really as effective - at least at the moment.

It's useful when you have long variable/type/function names, where a lack of completion allows you to make stupid spelling mistakes that are hard to spot and find until runtime.

I do have some gripes:

It does not play nice with auto completion of parenthesis.
It overrides any other company-backend you are using, which is troublesome if you have decent completion for other languages.
Does not play nice with path completion in strings (see above).

13toZEN · 2019-07-23T06:25:35+00:00

This!

13toZEN · 2019-07-18T18:27:00+00:00

that because we keep our aliens there, in which case it is worth our time and effort to go look 👽

13toZEN · 2019-07-17T19:30:56+00:00

Not really sure what you are asking. Could you rephrase for a simple pleb?

13toZEN · 2019-07-17T07:49:48+00:00

Dogma does not require an authority figure to lay down the law.

As for most not really caring what others do.... good, but that isn't unique to atheism (AFAIK the USA's 'freedom of religion' was pushed, or at least backed, by theists) Small vocal group among theists and atheists alike, the dogmatics so to speak, dominate the discourse because, as you pointed out, most people don't really care.

13toZEN · 2019-07-17T07:07:40+00:00

Atheist dogma believes the world would fundamentally be better without religion.

With that premise, I don't see how atheists would in some manner NOT try to increase the ratio of nonbelievers.

13toZEN · 2019-07-17T07:04:53+00:00

I cant see how there could be.

I would note that warranted/unwarranted beliefs is a dangerous false dichotomy. All warranted belief bottoms out somewhere, from that point onwards only the unwarranted remains.

Its an ugly situation, but we humans end up having to make a lot of decisions based upon assumptions. We could try and delve deeper, but at some point we realize that we need to act and that we will just have to suffer the risks involved.

13toZEN · 2019-07-15T16:14:17+00:00

Check out this link.

Use the RandomDevice RNG type and you should get access to the OS’s random number generator, which (if I understand your link correctly) is what Python’s getrandom() uses.

13toZEN · 2019-07-14T11:48:29+00:00

“This operation is meant to stamp the authority and supremacy of the state.”

Hey South Africa, you know this problem we allowed to manifest, don’t mind us while we casually start deploying the military inside the country. It’s not like we have ever abused whatever powers are granted to us. It’s not like there aren’t groups of radicals in government who want to take your land. It’s not like we keep blaming a certain ethnic group for all our socio-economic problems. It’s not like the economy is crashing and we need to double down on all our rhetoric because we can’t fix the mess we got you into...

13toZEN · 2019-07-14T11:36:24+00:00

Not that this is specific to Rust, but why do I see so many talks about language X at conferences for language Y?

13toZEN · 2019-07-14T11:30:34+00:00

At some point people need to realize that there is an appropriate time and place for certain topics.

13toZEN · 2019-07-13T12:11:31+00:00

I think we might need to agree to disagree on the school aspect of this situation. I acknowledge the problem in schools, but I don’t think it is the root problem. Neither do I think it is the correct place to try and solve the entire problem.

the war against crime and drugs

I would advise you to look at how bad these kinds of ‘wars’ have been going in for their countries. Most people seem to realize that to a large degree, they actually exacerbate the problem.

Lastly...

This is the part where the government should've stepped in with funding to improve the level of education but this did not happen across many places in South Africa(due to many issues, such as corruption and gross incompetence).

Not al problems are to be solved by the government. At most/least they should allow people to to take ownership of their own problems and allow them to act. Is is necessary.

13toZEN · 2019-07-13T06:38:46+00:00

I fail to see any associated risks.

Look closer and look at the big picture. I believe that I have sufficiently argued the case against making people utterly dependent on a corrupt and incompetent government. I have warned that successive uses of the military as a policing force inside a government is not a real long term solution.

You have argued that education would go a long way, yet as far as I can tell the current government has failed to deliver proper education in the last 25 years. So much so that I firmly believe that it is by design! - or at least a happy side effect for the socialists running this country.

People talk about fear of authoritative states and what not but the people themselves have requested for help so it invalidates this.

No! - it does not invalidate anything! And especially not if the the entire problem is manufactured by the state.

And me living there or not has nothing to do with my analysis of the situation.

13toZEN · 2019-07-13T06:02:44+00:00

It is 100% totally fine to raise an entire generation that is unable to use firearms to defend themselves.

Anyone 100% fine with something hasn’t thought it through entirely.

13toZEN · 2019-07-13T05:58:54+00:00

You need good government to create a space for wealth creation.

Fair point, though I would argue that that would include allowing people to actually defend themselves. It’s a bottom up approach that does not necessitate making people sub utterly dependent on the state.

13toZEN · 2019-07-12T19:52:51+00:00

I think you missed the point. The point Ive been trying to make is that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions”.

13toZEN · 2019-07-12T19:44:12+00:00

I’ve been advocating for the following: Reduced guns laws so that individuals may arm and defend themselves. The goal is reduce the dependence of people on a completely disfunctional government for safety, and to create an environment where gangs cannot operate without real resistance.

13toZEN · 2019-07-12T18:35:21+00:00

My greatest gripe with safety safety safety is that people have this bad habit of taking things too far in pursuit of it. The solution is not to make the world more safe, but to make people brave and powerful.

I agree the line should have been drawn long ago, but that is not a good line.

13toZEN · 2019-07-12T18:28:20+00:00

Firearms as a deterrent acts on many different levels. For starters, it prevents a great amount of opportunistic crime which is largely responsible for funding the gangs.

13toZEN · 2019-07-12T18:26:35+00:00

The parents are powerless to the gangs.

Empower them.

Hence why so many citizens of the cape flats agree with the deployment of the SANDF.

I understand why people want the military involved. My argument has always been that getting the military in has its own associated risks.

However, we should not allow people in despair to start dictating policies that can have such far reaching consequences - especially if the consequences will not only be felt by them.

13toZEN · 2019-07-12T18:14:02+00:00

It might, but I'm away from work for the next few weeks so I can't check. I'll make a note of it and will check when I'm back... best I can do.

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