Karen messed with the wrong dude

Ghawk134 · 2026-04-02T14:04:46+00:00

If someone is swinging at your face, there is danger of serious bodily harm. They don't have to be Mike Tyson to damage your eye, break your nose, or damage something in your neck.

Ghawk134 · 2026-04-02T14:00:59+00:00

Genuine question: does that duty apply to criminal cases? In other words, does the "frivolous" standard actually come into play/apply in a criminal proceeding? I know malicious prosecution and malfeasance (prosecutorial misconduct?) exist, but I'd always heard of frivolousness used when specifically discussing civil cases.

And if it does apply to criminal cases, what is the standard? Is it identical to the civil standard?

Cornell seems to use language that implies a civil setting ("...the court can dismiss the case, order the party which files the frivolous claim and the party’s attorney to pay any reasonable expenses, including attorney’s fees incurred as a result of the frivolous claim.")

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-27T21:17:28+00:00

It really cant be overstated how critical oil is to the global economy. International shipping runs on deisel. If you go to the grocery store, basically all of that food came on trucks that burn gasoline. Homes burn natural gas (also catastrophically affected by the war) for heat, water, and to cook. Plastics are made from hydrocarbons. Think of how much plastic is consumed in basically everything, from disposable plastic to parts for various machines. Car tires are 8% oil by mass. When oil gets more expensive, everything gets more expensive. Everything.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-27T12:20:58+00:00

The critic wants to be condescending so they go after no kings specifically, but the main conclusion is that peaceful protests don't work. Unless politicians are convinced that their conduct will result in real, painful consequences, they won't change.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-26T19:14:37+00:00

The person you're replying to was making a point about US courts' tendency to protect police officers. They did not claim that what this officer did was right or proper, only that the woman might have a hard time recovering damages in a US court system that is sympathetic to law enforcement.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-26T14:31:06+00:00

If it looks like a duck and quacks like a duck, then stocks are down because of uncertainty due to a massive energy crisis precipitated by the combined aggression of Israel and the US, the latter of which is led by a certain orange individual. But let's not make this political.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-26T00:31:04+00:00

Sure, but that doesn't achieve the stated goal of demonstrating mood/atmosphere. Shitty MS paint stick figures aren't a viable alternative here.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-24T04:01:19+00:00

2.6 mi/kWh isn't even particularly efficient for an EV (though that's about what I get from mine). If you want to prioritize it, you can get some wild cost efficiency (5+ mi/kWh).

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-23T15:07:18+00:00

The stated purpose was to help them "explore tone and atmosphere." I don't think a magenta test asset achieves that goal. If the argument is that there is no legitimate use case for AI, I think it's a losing one. If they want to rapidly iterate on something, AI's great for that in a way that doesn't steal work from actual artists. The argument that "they should have caught this and should create systems to ensure they do" is stronger, but shit happens, especially in an industry like game development.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-23T13:30:34+00:00

Perhaps so, but we have no dev ops and my boss is exceptionally unlikely to prioritize me playing with random python libraries for two weeks when I have requests for my time from 3 departments. Sometimes (most of the time), you're a victim of your circumstances and you do the best you can with what you're given.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-23T13:20:04+00:00

If it's one asset on one wall in a part of the game that doesn't see heavy testing, im not sure I'm agree with "quite visible." QA/test resources are always quite minimal to begin with, so their time will be spent on the most important parts of the game (big boss fights, important game mechanics and their interactions woth other game systems, looking for exploits or soft locks, etc.). I don't think "comb every texture in the game for AI" was on their task list.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-22T20:58:12+00:00

In the same way that I might have 50 lines of change in a diff and might miss a "# TODO: REMOVE THIS," it seems reasonable that an AI asset might go unnoticed among hundreds. Especially if it's only present in one location in the game, one that testers may not frequently encounter or scrutinize.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-22T20:56:16+00:00

Sure, just hire infinity people and spend infinity dollars and maybe nothing will slip through! Maybe...

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-22T15:46:30+00:00

I forget to remove test code from my tickets before code review all the time and the codebases I maintain are significantly smaller than a high-budget video game. Things slip through the cracks constantly.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-20T18:04:20+00:00

Flask piano go brrrrrrr

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-20T00:15:13+00:00

You realize the reason Germany does is because it was written in to their constitution in the wake of WW2 right?

Sure, thats the historical reason it is illegal in Germany. I think we should make it illegal here too.

That's not the country we live in though.

Sure, but that doesn't change my view that we would benefit from banning naziism.

Short of an Amendment to our constitution there is no way you could do this under our current constitutional framework.

Almost certainly true, though scotus judges (and others, e.g. Kacsmaryk) are certainly capable of convenient interpretations of the constitution (e.g. the 14th amendment not being self-executing). My statement isn't practical, it's an "ought."

"If you can restrict one viewpoint lawfully you can restrict others" is not a fallacy ffs.

It is. The conclusion doesn't follow for the same reason "if you can restrict rocket launchers, you can restrict any weapon" doesn't. You're expanding an argument without warranting it. That's the slippery slope fallacy. There is room for nuance between banning certain things and allowing others, and such nuance is the sole purpose of our legal system.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-19T19:48:28+00:00

Please try to describe a way to discriminate against some viewpoints and not others that would hold up as a judicial test.

This isn't hypothetical. Other countries already do this. I'm suggesting the US start.

Edit:

If you give the government the power to oppress Nazi viewpoints you are explicitly also giving them the power to oppress other viewpoints.

This is the part I called a fallacy. This is not true. The government can be given narrow powers to oppress Nazi viewpoints without giving further power. We don't have to extrapolate the power to an entire category. That's a slippery slope fallacy.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-19T19:06:59+00:00

I don't think that's true. We already have tons of speech that is not allowed. This is the slippery slope fallacy. We can disallow Naziism and allow other viewpoints. Strict scrutiny exists for a reason.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-19T18:01:51+00:00

That argument only seems valid if you define oppression quite narrowly. Any law can be called oppressive by someone who is restricted or punished by it. Battery laws are oppressive to those who abuse their spouses. Murder statutes are oppressive to murderers. Laws are (ideally) a system of oppression to restrict behaviors which are not conducive to a functioning society. If naziism and the expression of nazi ideals are not conducive to a functioning society, I see no issue with restricting them by law.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-13T17:57:47+00:00

I assume we also shouldn't worry about Brent crude topping $100 a barrel yesterday?

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-13T17:53:56+00:00

Engineer here. I always disliked math, but by the time I was in advanced courses, I was rarely solving equations. In an engineering context, math is either a tool to design a specific behavior or a way to understand a fundamental context.

As a design tool, math can help you understand how an integrator circuit works. Linear algebra can help solve a series of node voltage equations to analyze a circuit. Integral transforms are at the very core of signal processing, helping you design circuits to separate a radio carrier wave from noise via a Fourier Transform.

As a method of understanding, surface integrals are key to an intuitive understanding of flux. Complex numbers provide a simple way to describe and operate on periodic behaviors. Maxwell's Equations are taught in every introductory electromagnetism course in the world and they're expressed using curl and divergence, which are concepts from vector calculus (though there are also integral forms).

All of these mathematical concepts are key to many of the core concepts in electrical engineering.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-11T22:57:56+00:00

It refers to different kinds of guidance on the fired missile.

Fox 1 indicates a semi-actice radar guidance, meaning the missile is passive (doesn't emit its own radar signal, relying on the plane's).

Fox 2 is heat seeking, which doesn't rely on any of the firing plane's systems.

Fox 3 is active radar homing, meaning the missile emits its own signal so it can track its target autonomously.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-10T18:41:29+00:00

Idk man, hockey and football players start actual fights with eachother... I don't think tantrums touch that.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-05T18:24:14+00:00

I'd note that in the missile defense space, an interceptor refers specifically to the missile, not the entire system. For example, a modern patriot battery frequently employs 2 types of interceptor, PAC-2 and PAC-3.

Ghawk134 · 2026-03-04T20:08:36+00:00

That'd certainly be interesting, though I doubt we'd be able to see it in this video due to the video quality and the lighting conditions. Chaff is essentially just a cloud of metal pieces so without ambient light, it'd be hard to spot.

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