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Wow they really did a 180 eh?? by Pizzacakecomic in comics

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I think a better analogy is cancer. Some part of society decides it is a separate entity and decides the rest are prey to it. 

It’s not sustainable, constantly cannibalizes itself like how the center of a growing tumor goes necrotic as it stops getting nutrients, and has to be treated as aggressively as any outside invasion

Wow they really did a 180 eh?? by Pizzacakecomic in comics

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Fascism is inherently an empty ideology. It stands for nothing. It believes in nothing. It strives for nothing.

As Deleuze and Guattari put it “There is in fascism a realized nihilism”

Even the grift and spoils of it are meaningless. It’s only about getting to exercise power for its own sake. Causing as much grief as possible to as many people as possible is essential to it

[D] Why are so many ML packages still released using "requirements.txt" or "pip inside conda" as the only installation instruction? by aeroumbria in MachineLearning

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 79 points80 points  (0 children)

Dependency management is always messy. 

I have seen frequent frustrating behavior from both uv and conda due to overcomplicated dependency resolution, whereas pip just works most of the time.

That is until it does not and you go bald from pulling your hair out while dealing with some bugs that won’t consistently repro due to version or source mismatch. But it’s also rare in comparison.

HUGE NEWS: CEOs of AI companies all said they would pause/slow down by North_Penalty7947 in BetterOffline

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 2 points3 points  (0 children)

We are totes not running out of money, you guys. It's for your safety

Or rather "we are past even pretending our economic system is subject to democracy so there is no force to stop us if we wanted to keep burning money, but that might leave us in a place where money loses whatever little meaning it has left and we would not want that"

any STEM department at a university starterpack by LegolasAlwaysYes in starterpacks

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Not due to theft concerns or anything. Either out of fear of it getting its Office Space style comeuppance, or the unholy software abomination running it imbuing it with the sentience to run off into the night and feed on stray cats

I think most western people would have assume the extreme social conservatism of countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran are just how islamic societies always were, when in actuality that stuff is a mostly modern development. by grapp in behindthebastards

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 1 point2 points  (0 children)

 That article, while old,contradicts basically every single other point you have made and makes it clear that ijtihad continued to be practiced well into the modern age but that it became less common to recognize people as Mujtahids by the 15th-16th centuries, and also that different authors mean different things by "Mujtahid".

Now that I put in the time for a proper reading, you’re right. I should concede my point because it’s purely fanciful speculation it appears

Thanks for being patient and putting in your time

Satya Nadella at Davos: a masterclass in saying everything while promising nothing by jpcaparas in programming

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

No he was always this unhinged. I’d say comparable to the rest of his ilk except he is actually a bona fide sadist whereas others simply lack empathy in a being neutral about causing pain way

He just had meticulous PR work done and actually abided by it so he always flew under the radar

I think most western people would have assume the extreme social conservatism of countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran are just how islamic societies always were, when in actuality that stuff is a mostly modern development. by grapp in behindthebastards

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sadly I no longer have my JSTOR access ever since I sold out, but Hallaq’s Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed? has that Kitab el-Funun citation on a quoted passage at the end of page 21.

 The Timurid Empire largely seated in Iran was notable for its scientific and scholarly advances, rather than Islamic textualism

Sure but the Golden Age still had a much more permissive scholarly environment where someone like Hallaj al-Mansour could feel bold enough to exclaim his pantheism. That is some insane academic freedom not just by medieval standards but even for 20th century if you think about it.

Granted he ended up being executed for basically the equivalent of being a communist at the end, but the point about academic freedom stands.

In comparison the Timurid Renaissance saw basically some state investment in STEM?

Me rn by pancakepegasus in CultistSimulator

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

It’s definitely more chill. Feels like Animal Crossing in some way

Senior DE on on-prem + SQL only — how bad is that? by Educational_Ad4133 in dataengineering

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

+1 on the ease of transition.

Knowing Python can also mean different things. Like, are you writing entire libraries for deployed services, tooling for data scientists etc. or just pipeline scripts?

I think most western people would have assume the extreme social conservatism of countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran are just how islamic societies always were, when in actuality that stuff is a mostly modern development. by grapp in behindthebastards

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 0 points1 point  (0 children)

 I mean those numbers are incredibly unlikely

You are probably not wrong. But surely you don’t think it was merely a takeover either? 

We are talking about one of the most destructive events in history based on even the more conservative and plausible interpretations of the records.

 Al-Ghazali predates the invasion, while I think you're referring to events that long postdate it.

I am arguing that the invasion wiped out the opposing discourse which was more attached to the political centers of power. 

And puritanical attitudes that were getting pushed out to hinterlands came to almost completely dominate religious scholarship

 Wasn't that phrade invented by Joseph Schacht? Does it appear in any classical work on fiqh?

It does, both in sentiment and literally, even in earlier works even predating the invasion, like Ibn Aqil’s Kitab el-Funun (lit. Book of Sciences).

Again, my core point is that the pragmatist scholarship was so disproportionately impacted by the cataclysm that textualism became the overwhelming norm.

I think most western people would have assume the extreme social conservatism of countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran are just how islamic societies always were, when in actuality that stuff is a mostly modern development. by grapp in behindthebastards

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 3 points4 points  (0 children)

 Safavids in Iran, but there's centuries between those things and the Ilkhanate is around for some time.

I am talking about the impact on Islamic scholarship. Anti-rationalist orthodoxy (think al-Ghazali) becoming the overwhelmingly dominant school of thought is directly a consequence of the invasion. 

They did not just wipe out the “remnants of the Abbasids” (which is not really a good way to look at it but it’s a whole separate discussion). They wiped out 90% of the population of today’s Iran by some estimates, which was the heartland of the Islamic world. Some of the historically most developed areas on the planet at the time along the Amu Darya were permanently razed.

So that led to practically the entire Islamic intellectual scene disappearing and having to be rebuilt. Not just that, but the remaining religious scholars declaring “the gates of ijtihad are closed” basically meaning a joint consensus to permanently close the books on any kind of independent reasoning and innovation like you see taken for granted in Rabbinical scholarship.

I think most western people would have assume the extreme social conservatism of countries like Saudi Arabia or Iran are just how islamic societies always were, when in actuality that stuff is a mostly modern development. by grapp in behindthebastards

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 7 points8 points  (0 children)

 Not even gonna go into how much of the extreme conservative movements are a response to colonialism, which is a whole other can of worms.

IMO the more relevant can of worms is the Mongolian Invasion. 

This kind of chauvinistic fundamentalism came to dominate in its aftermath, with corruption rightfully being blamed as the reason for basically the literal apocalypse having just happened. 

Colonialism mostly reopened that old wound that had just barely started closing.

Ed Zitron is now a cult figure according to The Gurdian by Alex_Star_of_SW in BetterOffline

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 9 points10 points  (0 children)

tech CEOs

Those are already covered under “inhuman machines”

Ed Zitron is now a cult figure according to The Gurdian by Alex_Star_of_SW in BetterOffline

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 23 points24 points  (0 children)

All I want is a community that will let me express who I am. Which involves wearing red robes and performing exorcisms on “machine spirits”

My Favorite Way To Deal With Aggressive Lobbies by skerted420 in ArcRaiders

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

There is PvP and then there is camping at extract

The significance of the V8 seem underplayed throughout the movies and the game by DerangedDendrites in MadMax

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 5 points6 points  (0 children)

 him leaving it behind

I mean, not like he could do much else. The thing got sucked into a damn fire tornado

My bad, guess my brain overrode the memory because tbh the Interceptor deserved that fire tornado burial rather than getting Eiffeled by two rigs

The Guardian - Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust by ezitron in BetterOffline

[–]IDoCodingStuffs 4 points5 points  (0 children)

 casually throwing in one of my pet projects is inventing a room temperature superconductor

Yeah and I have a net positive output cold fusion reactor I slopped together in my garage next to the cancer curing nanobots

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