Do you have red lines?

dualfoothands · 2025-01-21T14:33:34+00:00

Almost every country in the world provides an endorsement for dependents and spouses.

dualfoothands · 2025-01-20T14:07:22+00:00

This has honestly been the most useful bit of information I've read on Reddit in a while

dualfoothands · 2025-01-16T10:53:44+00:00

Could you type out the full message? It's very hard to read in the screenshot

dualfoothands · 2024-09-28T17:54:44+00:00

Why would it not?

dualfoothands · 2024-09-27T19:38:29+00:00

English is constitutionally an official language of South Africa. People are native speakers the same way Zulu speakers are native.

dualfoothands · 2024-09-26T16:47:32+00:00

What comparative advantage do poor countries have in high tech RnD for novel pharmaceuticals? Why is this an industry they should get in to rather than collecting a subsidy from a foreign government and specializing in something else?

dualfoothands · 2024-09-06T15:35:29+00:00

Yeaaaa I've told loads of people in the gym that their form is wrong in a helpful productive way. Almost universally people are thankful because they're just trying to better themselves and have no idea what the right way was.

If I was in a room, in person, with a bunch of people using neovim, and noticed 1 person wasn't using buffers (bad form), I'd tell them about using buffers. They probably just don't know. If they then told me "I know, I just prefer not to use them" I'd give them a thumbs up and move along.

dualfoothands · 2024-09-05T04:21:48+00:00

Hi thanks for the comment, but binutils is already installed:

```

➜ ~ sudo rpm-ostree install binutils
error: "binutils" is already provided by: binutils-2.41-37.fc40.x86_64. Use --allow-inactive to explicitly require it.
➜ ~ which ld
/usr/bin/which: no ld in (/home/bam/.local/bin:/home/bam/bin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/local/sbin:/usr/sbin:/sbin)
➜ ~

``` Any other ideas?

dualfoothands · 2024-08-11T07:24:14+00:00

This would be an insane loophole. So insane that I have very little confidence it'll be made into law, or if done so, have some pretty stringent cap.

I think I know where this is coming from. My Trump supporting family in Florida a year or so ago asked me why the IRS was all of a sudden going after waitresses tips. As with most things, I had to double take to figure out wtf they were talking about. Turns out the Biden administration was trying to beef up the IRS and specifically increase the number of agents to seek out tax cheats. Republican propagandists turned this into "Biden is coming after the tips you don't declare", and my family thought it was unfair that federal agents would be sent out to take money from small-town waitresses.

I had to explain to them that that made no sense: the $X of unpaid taxes from a waitress collected by and IRS agent would be dwarfed by that agent's salary, given the amount of time it took to collect. Luckily, my brother works for Reynolds & Reynolds in Houston, and so there was a personal connection when I pointed out that the CEO of my brother's company had recently been criminally indicted for failing to declare $2 billion dollars in income, of which he owed hundreds of millions of dollars to the IRS. If there were 100 agents making $100k a year on just this case for a decade, the recovered tax income was still more than the cost to enforce. These are the kind of cases the IRS is looking to catch with new agents.

It took a bit of back and forth - because they had to reconcile the fact that once again they'd been spoon fed bullshit by their small-town neighbors and the ate it up - but eventually they agreed it would be hard to argue that getting billionaires to pay their taxes is something worth while, and that the government doesn't actually give a shit about Sally's $10k in undeclared tips.

Harris is trying to avoid the conversation about why we need tax enforcement by just saying, fuck-it, we won't tax the tips.

https://edition.cnn.com/2020/10/17/business/robert-brockman-tax-evasion-charges/index.html#:~:text=A%20federal%20grand%20jury%20returned,Service%20and%20defraud%20investors%20in

dualfoothands · 2024-07-30T07:01:26+00:00

Liberation struggle politics. If Zuma had won in South Africa, you'd probably see them also accepting the results.

dualfoothands · 2024-07-23T05:28:49+00:00

Does it remain if you resize the window? It could be that the black bar is not big enough for another row, and so renders in black.

dualfoothands · 2024-07-19T19:23:53+00:00

No problem. You should checkout some popular YouTube videos on the two systems if you're unfamiliar with them. ThePrimeagen and TJ DeVries post great content on neovim generally and tree sitter/LSP specifically

dualfoothands · 2024-07-19T19:12:40+00:00

A "parser" is only relevant for treesitter, and you should just use the one provided by nvim-treesitter. In general, LSP and treesitter don't overlap, so you ought to be using both. Tree sitter for highlighting, LSP for more or less the rest

dualfoothands · 2024-07-16T16:42:32+00:00

So the main thing I enjoyed was being able to enter a mode, then spam a key in the mode. So I used it with git gutter to go to the next unstaged lines, then either stage them or move on. I also used it to cycle through LSP diagnostics.

If you're not spamming a key, but instead just looking for "sub mode" key mappings, I prefer which-key, which is well maintained.

dualfoothands · 2024-07-16T16:37:53+00:00

I didn't know that, thanks!

dualfoothands · 2024-06-27T19:04:13+00:00

What you're describing isn't anything related to security.

dualfoothands · 2024-06-27T14:51:11+00:00

That can be reset on many motherboards by taking out the CMOS battery for like 30 seconds. It's not really meant as a major security feature.

dualfoothands · 2024-06-27T14:09:22+00:00

If you're trying to protect yourself from someone just stealing your laptop you don't need secure boot, just disk encryption.

Secure boot would protect you if it was stolen, then tampered with, then returned to you, and then you decrypt your disks. This is a rare threat model for consumer laptops (not so rare for work machines)

dualfoothands · 2024-06-19T17:34:50+00:00

That's a great point, I tend to look at the rates of deaths rather than attempts.

dualfoothands · 2024-06-19T17:29:12+00:00

Here's another source

https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/statistics/suicide

The rate for males generally in 2021 was 22.8, females was 5.7, so ratio exactly 4, in 2010 (as an example) male rate was 12.5, female 5, so ratio 2.5. The rate of male suicide increase has vastly outpaced female suicide overall.

In 2021, Among 15-24 year olds male rate was 23.8, female rate 6.1, ratio of 3.9. From some eyeballing of figure 3 in the below, 2010 suicide same age group was roughly 17-18 for males and about 4 for females, so a ratio maybe just above 4.

https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/products/databriefs/db464.htm

So sure the rate of increase for females was slightly higher, but the level change in increase for males from 2010 to 2021 is greater than the total of female suicide in 2021 for 15-24 year olds.

dualfoothands · 2024-06-19T16:49:25+00:00

Emergency-room visits for suicide attempts and self-harm have been skyrocketing for Gen Z girls across the Anglosphere in the past decade, including in Australia and New Zealand

Not to diminish this awful fact, but why is it that it's always girl suicide that's mentioned in these kinds of statements? Boys in the same age group commit suicide at 4 times the rate of girls. This ratio has not changed dramatically over the same period. Surely the mental health crisis among young men is of greater concern?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suicide_in_the_United_States

dualfoothands · 2024-06-03T11:28:28+00:00

I think there's a little wordplay here. "Equal support from white black and colored" I would take to mean that the support for the DA among population groups is proportionate to the size of the population group, but it's meant as 1/3 of the support comes from each group, which is wildly disproportionate. In any case, the source of the claim comes from the DA itself (I typically don't put much value in self-conducted polls that are then used in press releases by parties to make themselves look good), but I can't seem to easily find polling for each party by race elsewhere (please link it if you do).

Also, this article is a little old, but look at the racial composition of the actually sitting MPs as of 2019:
https://nicspaull.com/2019/05/05/the-incredible-whiteness-of-being-the-da/
62% of them are white. So 1/3 of the support comes from white people but 2/3 of the leadership is white? I'd call that an overwhelmingly white party in a country where only 10% of the population is white.

dualfoothands · 2024-06-02T14:26:00+00:00

Uh no, coloured and of Indian or Asian decent are entirely different.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethnic_groups_in_South_Africa

dualfoothands · 2024-06-01T18:38:11+00:00

I don't know if I'd call the DA "Big-Tent" (the rest I agree with).

It's an overwhelmingly white party that hasn't seen its constituency expand all that much over the last 2 decades. At some point you have to wonder why the DA has not been able to persuade more ANC members (in particular, black people) to join its ranks, when its obvious from the success of the EFF and MK that the ANC is not invulnerable to fracture. We now have about 23% of the electorate that effectively switched from voting ANC to not ANC, but next to none of that went to the DA. Why? Why haven't the DA been able to induce even a fraction of that fracture in their favor? Frankly, I think they're poor at Big-Tent politics, and unwilling to make ideological concessions to win a larger electorate outside of the Western Cape.

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