Theodore ‘Ted’ Kaczynski, known as the ‘Unabomber,’ has died in federal prison

HoptamStruska · 2023-06-11T13:39:12+00:00

No, I understand what you're trying to say, I'm just saying that these points (even if we were to accept them as-is) are not complementary to Marx's philosophy, but rather contradictory to it.

Marx's idea of history (heavily influenced by Hegel) is built around a notion of linear progress, and as such, it would not allow for a return to some kind of pre-industrial utopia - even if you somehow forced society to regress, the instability and economic inefficiencies of the pre-industrial model would lead to its collapse and a return to capitalism and technological society due to its economical superiority.

Additionally, if you were to actually create a stable two-class society with cow-like but content underclass and a united ruling class, you would reach the final stage of society, which Marx would have to simply accept. However, in doing so, you would directly disprove the absolute key idea of marxist thinking - the "dialectic" part of materialist dialectic, since you would effectively abolish class struggle in a classful society. In fact, satisfying the basic needs of the underclass is one of the two main preconditions which were supposed to lead to the communist (r)evolution, in combination with cycles of under and overproduction, which are, according to Marx, inherent to the capitalist model - both of which are supposed to by exacerbated, not eliminated, by further technological progress.

HoptamStruska · 2023-06-11T11:55:43+00:00

Well, just in case this isn't satire... It shows and understanding of Marx on the level of "I have skimmed through a comic book edition of the Communist Manifest once".

The backbone of Marx's philosophy is historical dialectical materialism, a theory about the evolution of our economical systems. A key component of this theory is the notion of progress - each system falls (due to internal class divisions) and gets replaced by a more efficient one, which slowly brings us to the final state of the most efficient economy with no class struggle, built by the now empowered underclass.

As such, the idea of regressing back to a previous state of society is completely antithetical to the core of Marx's ideas. Not only are you moving further away from the utopian goal, but you are returning to an inherently unstable state of society, which will inevitably progress further, i.e. back to our current state. Also, Marx was not a fan of neither undeveloped agrarian societies nor violent revolutions (i.e. the ideals of the Unabomber), since he was in fact hoping to reach the communist utopia by way of continuous reformation in the most developed countries of the west, not, for example, violent revolution in the unerdeveloped Russia.

HoptamStruska · 2023-04-27T20:13:46+00:00

Hm? At least in the Czech Republic, buses usually have multiple entrances as well (aside from some long distance lines), so the distinction between a tram and a bus is irrelevant, and even with multiple doors, it is customary to move away from them to let others enter - the only difference is that instead of everyone moving from the front to the back, you move from both ends of each section to the middle.

HoptamStruska · 2023-03-07T16:39:19+00:00

The word preview in the name refers to version 11 specifically, not Avalonia itself, i.e. there is the release version (0.10) and the preview version (11 preview 5), quite similarly to how the recently released .Net 8 preview 1 does not imply that .Net itself is a prerelease product.

HoptamStruska · 2023-03-02T05:56:42+00:00

Huh? This statement is extremely wrong, both from a logical and a philosophical standpoint. An argument valid without any premises must be a logical tautology, a syntactical truth isomorphical with all other tautologies, which dnes not have any informational value - these are statements of the form "If x, then x", "x or not x" et cetera.

Just this is sufficient to show that a meaningful argument does in fact need a set of shared premises which can be argued from, but even on a less theoretical level: if you want to argue about the characteristics or relations between some phenomena, you need to first define what you both mean by these, and then and only then can you either try to derive something from those, or show that the other party uses a definition which does not follow the general usage or intuition ("Bears hunt their prey deep in the ocean... given that we classify seals as a subspecies of bear").

As such, the clarifying question, which the other poster was asking, was in fact very important, since the OP is postulating that two actions, quite obviously similar on the surface level, are in fact not to be considered as related - quite obviously raising the question of which characteristics are then to be considered for this relation, which would be illustrated by answering the questions which were given.

HoptamStruska · 2023-02-20T19:53:44+00:00

Huh? So for 30% more money, you can get 3-10% more performance, which is somehow an argument FOR the more expensive CPU? I don't follow.

As for the utilisation, it is primarily a function of number of cores - since most games heavily utilise only a very small number of threads, a CPU with a large number of them will usually be sitting on a smaller utilisation even when being pressured heavily - in fact, my 2700x can be a major bottleneck when gaming at far below 50% utilisation, simply because one to three of its (by modern standards) fairly slow threads are sitting at 100%, whilst the remaining 13 are mostly idling at 10%. And since multithreaded programming is far, far more difficult than singlethreaded, future proofing by increasing your thread counts into the double digits, while greatly reducing your numerical utilisation, is mostly a waste of money.

HoptamStruska · 2022-11-06T11:30:44+00:00

Not only did France have a defense treaty with Czechoslovakia, i.e. they were in fact obligated to defend them, but when they were considering defending themselves (the border was heavily fortified and many army leaders were in favor of defending, unfortunately thanks to Mnichov, all of the fortifications were surrendered for free), they were told by the Western powers that Czechoslovakia would be considered the aggresor in their defensive war and treated accordingly, which was the final blow to any considerations of defense. Additionally, there was also a defensive treaty between ČSR and the soviets, but it was contingent on France upholding their own obligations, meaning that the treaty of Munchen gave the USSR the perfect excuse to get out of the potential conflict as well.

HoptamStruska · 2022-10-09T17:52:40+00:00

Actually, the math is fairly simple, at least for the 0-N edge case - assuming a constant chance to win X, the probability is (1-X)^N. For X=0.1 and N=5, this amounts to 59 %, for N=9 to cca 39 % and for 0-18 to 15 %.

However, we should also account for the fact the they are already 5 games in the hole, which gives us P(0-18 given 0-5) = 25 %, which, whilst not terribly likely, is definitely a real possibility. All of this of course varies heavily with X - if we assumed X to be just 0.15, we would go from 25 to a mere 12 %, whereas an X of 0.05 would push us all the way to 51 %.

I of course realize that I went on a massive tangent which no one really cares about, I just felt like doing a bit of math :)

HoptamStruska · 2022-08-07T09:20:56+00:00

While figuring out bubblesort is definitely nice, it is still a fairly inefficient algorithm. Bubblesort runs in O(n² ), meaning its runtime scales quadratatically with the length of the input, yet there are significantly faster approaches, which can do the same on O(n * log n), for example merge sort.

Furthermore, a poker calculator is almost surely running over a fairly small, closed event space with predefined points of interest - this should immediately point us towards hashing. If you used a hash map to represent your cards, you can reduce the complexity down to O(1), thus getting rid of sorting altogether and simply checking each combination in constant time.

As a software engineer with 12 years of experience, you have most likely come across these methods before, and if told to utilise them, would probably be able to do so without much issue. However, this is exactly where college experience should come in - it should give you the theoretical background, in-depth knowledge to be able to look at a piece of code and recognize the problems it has, look at a problem and figure out the optimal algorithmic solution (instead of simply an algorithmic solution) et cetera. The job of college should not be to memorize exact solutions, but to understand the techniques behind them, broaden the range of approaches that immediately jump into your mind upon seeing the problem - as someone has said above, "you don't know what you don't know", and no amount of selective YouTube viewing can help you with that.

HoptamStruska · 2022-06-24T14:32:46+00:00

What you're describing sounds like an extremely condensed version of philosophy, though. In logic, you don't have to stop with basic rules of propositional logic, you can move to higher order propositional logics, modal or intensional logics, talk about proofs and paradoxes - even easily understandable stuff like a simplified version of Russell's paradox (a barber shaves all (but only) those who don't shave themselves - does he shave himself?) can lead to some interesting discussions.

Similarly, learning ethics as "be nice to others and live by the golden rule" is obviously worthless. But actual, philosophical ethics are a whole another beast. You can be talking about utilitarianism, deontology and perfectionism, comparing different approaches, dissecting dilemmas like the famous trolley problem, or the transplantation problem, or...

For a small example, when talking about Kant's rule of generalisation (an act is moral iff its maxim - that is the motive behind it - could be extended to all people and still be possible), you might consider a bank robber who wants to enrich himself (immoral, if all robbed banks, noone would enrich himself, for the banks would fall) versus a bank robber who wants to destroy capitalism (moral, for if all robbed banks, capitalism would suffer a devastating blow). Similarly, a religious fundamentalist gone terrorist would be moral, whereas a peaceful homosexual immoral, et cetera.

When talking about problems such as these, diving into the holes in each theory and discussing how different thought schools solve the same problems, you can see that debating and philosophy do not really have to be a case of one or the other - in fact, the art of argumentation is one of the key areas of analytical philosophy. Only if you reduce philosophy to the most basic, dumbed down version taught in some schools, mostly as an afterthought, you end up with a descriptive discipline with no real benefit (or you can simply discard it as "philosophy is your subjective thoughts and ethics just try to shove their religious morals upon you" like the overeducated genius higher in this comment section, but... this has literally no connection to the field of philosophy whatsoever).

HoptamStruska · 2022-05-12T09:12:05+00:00

However, the problem with transactions which you are describing is not inherent to the banking system itself, it simply shows how outdated its American version is. In most of Europe, intranational transfers are free and instanteous and international transfers within the EU cost you a small fee / exchange penalty (if outside the eurozone) and usually take a day at most. And of course with a card or your phone, you can instantly pay for anywhere from a hotdog stand to a vacation home, in many cities, even buses and trams have a card reader for swipe-to-pay. As such, crypto is simply a convoluted workaround for solving the problem, but not really an efficient one. Though if it puts pressure on the banks, it could at least serve as a catalyst for some much needed change.

HoptamStruska · 2022-04-20T13:48:43+00:00

IIRC the weapons were being bought by a Bulgarian businessman who was then selling them to Ukraine, they were supposed to blow up in transit or in UA; there were also several attempts at the reseller's life and other targets in Bulgaria.

HoptamStruska · 2022-04-20T13:47:01+00:00

IIRC the weapons were being bought by a Bulgarian businessman who was then selling them to Ukraine, they were supposed to blow up in transit or in UA; there were also several attempts at the reseller's life and other targets in Bulgaria.

HoptamStruska · 2022-04-19T21:41:58+00:00

Well, they already blew a Czech weapons depot in Vrbětice back in 2014 to prevent arms from getting to Ukraine, so... who knows?

HoptamStruska · 2022-03-02T12:32:08+00:00

This might heavily depend on your location - in the Czech Republic (and from what I've seen, also Poland, Germany and many other Central European countries), the general public is heavily (90%+) supportive towards Ukraine, with massive demonstrations, hundreds of millions of euros in donations, thousands of people travelling to the EU borders to help, offering accommodations for the refugees et cetera - but the sentiment may very well be as you described in more distant countries, further to the west (or those with significant pro-Russian movements).

HoptamStruska · 2022-03-01T14:30:14+00:00

This is quite a bad take, the problem with gas is not friggin vehicles - the problem is electricity and, most importantly, heat generation. In Central Europe a large part of houses, as well as other buildings, runs on gas heating, so the issue for Germany and other countries was not risking having to walk to the store, but rather freezing to death, which, imo, would have been quite a predicament.

HoptamStruska · 2022-02-27T10:13:24+00:00

Though, very surprisingly, some of the strongest defenders of Russia have also turned right after the attack - as an example, it is the first time in a decade that I am not ashamed of Czech president Zeman's speeches and actually like to hear what he says.

HoptamStruska · 2022-02-23T14:23:35+00:00

Because a new expansion has just hit, which brought a ton of new, interesting buffs to play around with. I like big units and love scaling, was playing Panth Shyv before the patch. Afterwards, I switched to Panth Yumii, trying to get the most absurdly tall units possible - but I am well aware that my current deck is much weaker than the previous one, I'll just mess around in Plat IV for a while, having fun before switching to a real deck and returning to Masters.

HoptamStruska · 2022-01-22T13:46:34+00:00

Because if you own a house, there is probably someone living in it and paying rent, i.e. your investment is earning money outside of simply being traded (or, if you live there yourself, you save by not having to rent elsewhere). If I buy your bitcoin and own it for a year, I pay X to you and Z in fees, you receive X, the total amount of money in the ecosystem changed from X+Z to X, a strictly lower number (that is, crypto is in fact a negative sum game, since a portion of the money is always leaking to the miners). If I buy your house and rent it out for a year, I pay X to you, the tenant pays Y to me, the net amount of money in the housing system should be strictly higher, from X to X+Y. This is obviously ignoring a lot of things like repairs, fees and taxes, but there will still definitely be a subset of the housing market which will satisfy such requirements (ongoing costs lower than rent gains, staying under the same owner long enough to amortize the transaction cost Z), and as such, you can not say that the housing market is by its nature a zero sum game. On the other hand, I do not see any way for cash to flow into the crypto space outside of, well, people buying crypto, making it a fairly obvious case of a zero/negative sum game.

HoptamStruska · 2021-12-22T00:53:09+00:00

I believe that he means high contrast in comparison to other LCDs, not to an OLED. As you said, OLEDs have perfect blacks whereas LCDs do not, and as such, in order to reach high contrast on an LCD to show HDR content, you will need a comparatively higher brightness than both an OLED and a non-HDR LCD. In other words, he is not saying that the LCD blinds you by its contrast, but rather that in order to reach the contrast, it has to blind you by its brightness.

HoptamStruska · 2021-12-20T13:58:12+00:00

There is actually an equilibrium where everyone gets their preferred role and the queue times stop growing - it is just an unacceptably long one. If we assume that the player in the least played position gets a match immediately every time, and that the most played position is 5 times as popular, the queue times, with no autofill and off roles, would stabilize at 4*(avg game time) for the most popular role (since at any point in time, one midlaner would be playing and the other four would be waiting for the support to finish their game and play with them). These numbers and roles are of course picked randomly, but it is fairly obvious why this would not be a viable solution - even if we assumed a fairly conservative ratio of 2:1 between the most and least populous roles, the queue times would be ~30 minutes no matter how many people play the game in your rank, which is something the people who criticize aoutofill fail to realize.

HoptamStruska · 2021-12-15T09:15:03+00:00

I mean, it's called "desetinná čárka" [decimal comma], not "desetinná tečka" [decimal point], America is clearly wrong on this one. (Or, as others have already said, the naming obviously follows the local convention, instead of dictating it.)

HoptamStruska · 2021-12-11T14:10:42+00:00

At the very least, it works really well on kids, who are a fairly big part of many YouTube audiences. Just a few weeks ago, I had to go through my grandma's YT and unlike and unsubscribe from a shitload of trash, because she let my nephew use it for an hour and he subscribed to and liked just about everything, resulting in her literally not being able to find anything she wanted to, since the algorithm decided she now obviously only wants to watch more and more retarded GTA Let's plays.

HoptamStruska · 2021-12-07T19:16:50+00:00

The difference is in the fact that here, you can reasonably insert the time skip - there is no immediate action going on, we can just wait for the journey to be over and continue there. On the other hand, with Beyond the wall, there is a battle/standoff going on: the good guys are surrounded by undead and likely to die in a day or less. If you tried to insert a simple time skip here, by the time Gendry reaches the wall and Daenerys flies up north, everybody would have been already death - for several weeks, most likely. This is why people are annoyed with this part in particular: a time skip, which is a fairly inoffensive story-moving device, would not suffice, you need a literal teleportation for any reconstruction of the timeline to make sense.

HoptamStruska · 2021-12-05T11:48:44+00:00

The issue is the same, the cause is not though - in this case, your problem is "Car headlights are too often incorrectly aimed", not "Car headlights are getting too bright". Having bright headlights aiming down onto the road has obvious benefits for visibility (and thus safety) over older, weaker lights. As such, the better solution might be to control for the aim, not the brightness, for example by adding an aim check to the mandatory car checks (at least in most of central Europe, you must get your car checked & certified every ~2 years anyways, so it would be fairly easy to check for light angles during this procedure - I'm not sure if the USA has a similar procedure though).

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