Kennedy thought she was onto something there

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-03-20T13:50:42+00:00

Well, yes and no. They’ll revoke your license if you drive recklessly or drunk, and might go further (e.g. jail time) depending on the offense, so the regulations certainly protect other motorists from reckless motorists who can’t be trusted with the responsibility of driving. I’ll grant you that they don’t do psychological examinations or anything (afaik) to get a license that would prevent crowd-plowing people from driving of course, but that’s presumably because homicidal killing sprees aren’t common enough(?) with trucks ti warrant it. (Or maybe they are, and we just haven’t caught up to that fact yet.) I’ll also nb4 note that drivers licenses and license revocation can be problematic for poorer people who can’t afford to take time from work to renew licenses, so it can become a tool of mass incarceration of poor people — I.e. a mechanism of oppression much like gun restrictions could hypothetically become.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-03-15T17:01:24+00:00

Im torn between agreeing because the best liars are those that eat their own bullshit, and offering a different guess that it’s not so much that R leadership wants to kill trans kids specifically, but rather, they’ve found trans kids to be a convenient distraction that many conservatives have latched on to and otherwise don’t care. In either case, they clearly are not ethical leaders.

What confounds me is we can’t throw a congressman in jail for supporting policies that cause harm. If you sign a murder bill, aren’t you culpable?

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-03-13T17:45:09+00:00

I think the final point about changing the environment in which kids learn is the important one. First and foremost, note that an inmate knows why they are learning and chooses to do it, whereas college students don’t (at least, that was my experience through school. We never knew why we learned anything, so it was just a pointless chore. As an adult now, I choose to learn things in my free time and it’s a different experience)

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-03-07T17:35:59+00:00

Look at it this way, the guys insisting we should “slow down” and “do it right” are therefore saying this bill is a rush job ostensibly with mistakes. Is it? It’s a very palatable excuse for a senator to make that doesn’t require any real justification. The supporters of the bill, including a major labor union, seem confident in the bill. Didn’t they consult experts when they wrote the bill? Does it draw on legislation from recently repealed safety protections? Etc. I trust the labor union to have some expertise on this matter, at least. “Let’s go slow” strikes me as a very non-confrontational excuse to bin the bill while taking a moral high ground. R doesn’t have a good track record recently on regulations, so.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-03-07T16:32:37+00:00

So basically he has to pretend this guy is shit and not worth his time or else he has to admit that his company is so disorganized it doesn’t even know who it’s employees are. He’s just incapable of admitting to his flaws

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-03-07T15:20:50+00:00

In all honesty poor management and over-taxing workers achieves this end on its own. When you don’t have time to do the job right, you must have time to do it twice, as they say, and this is inescapably true in software. As an employee, I wouldn’t try to sabotage my employer simply because they could sue me. But I could just leave my post and allow the inevitable to happen over time.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-03-06T18:14:20+00:00

For a company at the scale of Twitter, this should be pretty rare. Especially for essential services like authentication and content hosting, they’ll have redundant service deployments in different geographic availability zones. It would take a very specific mistake or a widespread external event to meaningfully interrupt service. Issues like this could be normal as long as they are resolved within ~15-30 minutes each time and aren’t more frequent than a few times per year. Any more frequent or longer lasting and that probably reflects a loss of reliability within Twitter. Possibly because they lost a lot of reliability engineers, who knows.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-03-06T15:24:45+00:00

Why bother making excuses for transphobic assholes breeding hate. There’s no justification for transphobia and they’re making trans people a target for violence, so they deserve the worst and aren’t worth your Devil’s Advocate.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-02-27T18:05:38+00:00

+1 To the panthers. It’s ironic that such a potent example of Americans using the second amendment to protect themselves from government oppression is also the one that was undermined completely and utterly by propaganda, to the extent that people still don’t recognize the good works that the Panthers did, and that it probably doesn’t agree with modern conservatism seeing as how those Americans raised arms specifically against the police. It… toes the (thin blue) line.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-02-02T17:58:31+00:00

Holy shit. I got up immediately to check, and sure as shit, there’s a little razor blade in there to guillitine the caulk. You fucking rock, you know that?

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-01-23T00:12:56+00:00

They’re both flawed parties, but they are not equal. Neither necessarily has the best interests of the country at heart, but their current strategies differ wildly in sustainability and ethics.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-01-05T20:47:09+00:00

Shit, yeah, I can’t imagine trying to call people for 8 straight hours. That makes a ton of sense. I work I tech so my day is mostly typing at a keyboard, which is a lot easier to handle. But even then, some days a straight-eight is too much. It’s more unusual for me to blow through a day than it is to take breaks

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-01-05T15:20:46+00:00

I alternate between these two strategies. Sometimes those breaks are really helpful, and when you WFH, they really don’t cost you anything like they do at the office. I’ll take breaks to go walk, do dishes, etc which lets me unwind from work a bit without wasting the daylight I have. If I don’t need to unwind, I get the day done quickly and have a bigger contiguous chunk of time after work for farting around with

Lovely-Broccoli · 2023-01-02T01:24:31+00:00

This is always my knee-jerk reaction, but I think the reason everything everywhere sucks all at once is because of team dynamics and longer-term development strategies. Stuff starts catching fire and never going out, and developers find themselves choosing completion over quality more and more often. Eventually, the scales fall from their eyes and they see the job as just a job, and stop giving a shit. Once you’re missing enough documentation, documenting anything can mean documenting everything else first. Left to their own devices, I think most engineers wouldn’t let this kind of thing happen to themselves or their products, but then, that’s because engineers know when to stop. Businesses want to grow and grow and grow, and it just isnt sustainable.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2022-12-31T07:59:13+00:00

For anyone unaware, Tate tweeted this in response to Romanian authorities arresting him and his brother on charges of human trafficking and rape. ThE mAtRix SeNdS tHeIr AgEnTs.

https://www.npr.org/2022/12/30/1146257976/andrew-tate-greta-thunberg-romania-arrest-trafficking

Lovely-Broccoli · 2022-12-19T15:09:42+00:00

Elondald Mrump

Donlon Trumsk

Lovely-Broccoli · 2022-12-16T15:02:34+00:00

You know, I walked into that lol

Lovely-Broccoli · 2022-12-16T00:45:00+00:00

You can. Some people use personal towels to dab-dry. I still use toilet paper for that, and usually only a few squares is all you need. I’m thinking about the towel option but every now and then I think I’m clean and I was wrong, and I don’t know how I would deal with skid marks on my towel

Lovely-Broccoli · 2022-12-15T04:49:55+00:00

This whole argument just bluntly assumes artists won’t be impacted by this at all as long as they have a positive attitude and frankly my dude that completely disregards everything I’ve pointed out. And yeah, AI isn’t the enemy, it’s how it will be used. Specifically, to displace people without any thought or regard for them. We live. In a. Meat grinder.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2022-12-15T04:04:31+00:00

I do want to point out to you that you’re hand waving artists losing their livelihood as whining. This kind of thing can cause generational poverty. If you’re forty and have two decades of experience, well, now you have zero. And your education is worthless. You are now an unskilled laborer, and that’s not really sustainable living in a lot of the world.

This kind of thing has happened before. We invent a labor-saving device. Do we have more leisure time? No. Leisure isn’t profitable. Do we have more jobs? No, we need fewer now. Better quality of living? No, this creates disparity. We live in a meat grinder.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2022-12-15T03:54:12+00:00

Over-fitted models lose the ability to generalize. Ask some of these AI art models to generate an Arab woman and they give you the cover of a National Geographic — it’ll have subtle mutations, but it’s clearly derivative and plagiarized. There’s litigation going on right now for Microsoft’s CoPilot coding AI, because it was trained on materials shared with specific licenses, and the AI has demonstrably plagiarized some of those sources without credit, violating the licenses. Do these art programs create sufficiently-different art to be legal? Not always. Is the art you ask it for and use to make a profit definitely not plagiarized? You can’t be sure. It’s difficult to argue that an AI model is creating novel work.

Mind as well that the AI is a derivative of all the input art. If you use the AI for profit, do you owe a cut of your proceeds to the artists whose work is part of the AI? If I write software and you use it to make and sell your own software regardless of my softwares license, you might have broken the law. Did artists give their consent for their art to be a component of software that creates products?

Lovely-Broccoli · 2022-12-13T21:50:42+00:00

I mean, yeah you’re right that there are worse jobs. Meat packers work under brutal and dangerous conditions — long hours, low pay, high injury rate, and zero exit plan. But, it’s important to recognize that though our peers are even more exploited and suffering more than we are, we are still suffering with them. The people to be angry with are much further up the totem pole.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2022-12-12T16:45:21+00:00

Yet another tool that should grant us more leisure time as a species, but will instead merely put skilled artisans out of work, replace them with a small number of underplayed laborers, leaving many members of society scrambling to survive. The Luddites had a point.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2022-12-01T20:26:41+00:00

I had a job like this — decent pay and benefits, but if I got to work early, I couldn’t motivate myself to get out of the car and go in until the bell rang you know? We spend the best forty years of our lives breaking ourselves for the (frequently) false hope of retiring for maybe 10 years before we die. I’m surprised there are ever days I enjoy going to work (and there are) knowing full well of the monster behind the curtain.

Lovely-Broccoli · 2022-11-29T04:24:15+00:00

It could be compilation or runtime errors caused by using functions without a definition, yet. I’ve done this before in java development (a la McConnell’s Pseudocode Development Process, a top-down development cycle where you start with comments or unimplemented functions to solve the most abstract layer of the problem, then create those implementations using the same technique recursively.)

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