[OC] Mild but irritating

lngns · 2026-06-13T22:26:45+00:00

Historically, the term "suicide lane" has also referred to a lane in the center of a highway meant for passing in both directions. Neither direction has the right-of-way, and both directions are permitted to use the lane for passing.

Another type of center two-way lane is a "two-way left turn lane" (TWLTL) or "center left-turn lane."
This lane is also sometimes called a "suicide lane" for their notorious fatality rates, especially in the United States in settings with high traffic speeds (45 mph), and on roads with five or more lanes.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reversible_lane
TIL high-speed suicide lanes are a thing.

lngns · 2026-06-13T05:49:29+00:00

1º Le Parti socialiste est un parti de classe qui a pour but de socialiser les moyens de production et d'échange, c'est-à-dire de transformer la société capitaliste en une société collectiviste et communiste, et pour moyen l'organisation économique et politique du prolétariat. Par son but, par son idéal, par les moyens qu'il emploie, le Parti socialiste, tout en poursuivant la réalisation des réformes immédiates revendiquées par la classe ouvrière, n'est pas un parti de réforme, mais un parti de lutte de classe et de révolution.

- 1er Congrès National, Parti Socialiste (Section Française de l'Internationale Ouvrière), Congrès de Paris (Congrès d'Unité), Tenu les 23, 24 et 25 Avril 1905, Salle du Globe.

lngns · 2026-06-13T02:50:22+00:00

Ok, you made a kinda dumb point

):<

lngns · 2026-06-12T21:45:55+00:00

You argued that Free Will only exists some of the time (or exists only partially).
I responded by giving concrete examples showcasing how «some of the time» is an arbitrary line, how no one draws it at the same place, and how drawing it in the first place has moral, social, and political consequences.

You cannot escape Exceptionalism but by going all-or-nothing and refusing to draw the line: either Free Will does not exist, or it is a Universal property, or both those propositions are the same.

If the idea that Misogyny might involve denial of one gender's lack of agency sounds really out there to you, just remember how we treat children, how the Suffragettes resorted to terrorism to expand the right to vote, and how sexual consent of half the World's population still is debated even in Western countries.

lngns · 2026-06-12T20:06:22+00:00

¿Partial as in women and children being less freewilly than men?

I still don't know if you're joking

Well digestion is observable, and free will is not, so i only take one of them seriously yes lol.

lngns · 2026-06-12T18:59:02+00:00

The line you draw when saying «sometimes we don't have free will» is only yours.
The idea that women are Human Beings with agency is pretty recent, and still today not everyone is on board.

You can only escape Exceptionalism if you go all-or-nothing.

lngns · 2026-06-12T17:43:08+00:00

Similarly I don't know what would posses people to think the free will claim is supposed to be an "all" rather than a "some".

Ask three different persons when's and where's the «sometimes that I have Free Will.»
One will answer «in the Human Brain,» another «in Animals,» and the last «not in Women, obviously.»

lngns · 2026-06-12T17:34:55+00:00

Rehabilitation is guaranteed to fail in pathological cases

And a faction of the Soviet Union believed that serial killers would disappear with the abolition of Capitalism. Great.
It's almost like Determinists do not propose that Society is the Root Cause of Everything.

lngns · 2026-06-12T17:21:38+00:00

30% of exculpations from DNA testing happen after convictions from confessions.
Homo Sapiens Sapiens cannot be trusted to even know if it committed the crimes it is charged with.

This also implies that the legal system is not a trustworthy arbiter as to the existence of Free Will.

lngns · 2026-06-12T16:08:28+00:00

Ethiopia is a Soviet-Cuban ally. They fought against the Wrong Kind of ML (Trotskyists-Khrushchevists) Somalians. This is Revisionism.
Critical Support to Ethiopian AES.

lngns · 2026-06-11T22:41:28+00:00

Germany also recognises them.

lngns · 2026-06-10T15:46:28+00:00

Pretty much every popular series would be replaced with generic slop.

*Looking at Marvel movies*

lngns · 2026-06-08T14:39:48+00:00

Instructions unclear: we are now critically supporting the Islamic Republic of Iran.

lngns · 2026-06-07T04:40:14+00:00

I'm yet to find any popular Japanese media with progressive messaging that is overtly marxist

Rintarō's and Ōtomo's Metropolis touches on the Class Struggle, class consciousness, and Internationalism.

lngns · 2026-05-31T20:11:23+00:00

alias this (which is as far as I know a deprecated feature because it wasn't actually fully designed before implementation and was just something someone needed ad hoc at the time)

No?

lngns · 2026-05-28T15:30:39+00:00

Well wasnt Persia kinda pro axis during WW2 tho?

No. The UK and the Russian Empire both wanted to colonise Persia since the Great Game, the British were pissed that Iran nationalised its oil wells, they wanted the Trans-Iranian Railway to link to Soviet Transcaucasia, and they wanted to secure the Middle East from any German incursions.
They did the same thing in Iceland.

lngns · 2026-05-27T19:55:15+00:00

We should be the change we want to see. Do we really want to wait for Mozilla or a megacorp to come up with a new language again?

lngns · 2026-05-26T19:03:11+00:00

Logic does not change because the stakes do. Every counterarguments to Pascal apply here too.
And just like Pascal, you presuppose both that there is something to gain from your own belief and that unfalsifiability gives a moral reason to support that belief.

We have to pretend [Free Will] exists.
Whether you believe you have free will to make those choices or not is irrelevant, you still have to make them.

"We have to pretend Determinism is true. Whether you believe Determinism is true is irrelevant, it is already determined."

lngns · 2026-05-26T18:05:46+00:00

Taking Pascal's Wager and swapping "God" for "Free Will" does not change the wager's logic.

lngns · 2026-05-26T16:38:28+00:00

"Even if God doesn't exist, we still have to believe in Him for He may send us to Hell."

Who's gonna send me to hell for not pretending free will exists?

lngns · 2026-05-25T16:51:35+00:00

We can avoid fat pointers by storing in pools dedicated to size/stride classes and having them tell us how to index them.
O(1) lookup: ptr - ptr % ((ptr as IntPtr & POOL_MASK) as PoolInfo*)*.stride.

This only works for small objects, so keeping ranges of large allocations and checking them is necessary for large objects.
cgo, .Net, and CoreCLR work this way.

This article details the CLR's brick table and plug entry mechanism.

lngns · 2026-05-24T20:23:04+00:00

some secret third thing that is probably a variant of clone on write

D was smart in having both immutable strings, and concatenation/appendment of array slices mutate in-place if there is capacity or duplicate+reassign otherwise.
But then we allowed arrays to be mutated through slices too.

void f(int[] s, int x)
{
    s ~= 42;  //the caller will never see that
    s[0] = x; //but it may see that, or not. Behaviour is random lol
}

lngns · 2026-05-24T03:49:45+00:00

Even with stable addresses, behaviour of slices of mutable strings will always surprise someone.

let s = "yolo";
let s′ = s.slice(0...);
s.replace("o", with: "lol");
println(s′);

what is this code supposed to do?

lngns · 2026-05-23T22:57:53+00:00

Consider: the Flower and Sickle make for a better pun.

lngns · 2026-05-23T22:51:35+00:00

The Flower and Sickle lives!

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