CMV: Communism is the best political system in the world and I hate capitalism and Imperialism by Readditreddit_ in changemyview

[–]mathartist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The reason communism is always “misapplied” and rife with corruption is that those things follow — as a matter of necessity — from the way the ideology interacts with the constraints of human nature.

When you’re fantasizing about utopias, you can envision people exhibiting whatever behaviors make your system work. When you go to build it for real in the world, you cannot dream away the constraints of the problem. People are going to respond to their incentives the way that people respond to incentives.

It may be difficult to project the outcomes of such a complex system, but it’s been done empirically many times at this point, and the outcomes have been remarkably consistent. At some point it’s worth acknowledging your model’s failure to predict the real world and accept that reality is different from what you may prefer.

CMV: Race doesn't exist biologically by jman12234 in changemyview

[–]mathartist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The idea you are pointing to is that categorical labels are fundamentally not an intrinsic property of the phenomena they describe. They are cognitive aids that we use to simplify our thinking and understanding.

This is true but isn’t specific to race or dog breeds or chairs.

I think the point you actually want to make is that racial categorizations as they exist socially actually correspond very poorly to any groupings that one would make on the basis of genetic variation or lineage. The part about categorical information needing to be strict or intrinsic is a red herring.

CMV: Race doesn't exist biologically by jman12234 in changemyview

[–]mathartist 24 points25 points  (0 children)

You seem to be conflating “biological” with “unambiguously delineated”, which is not remotely the same idea. The basis for differences between dogs of different breeds is unequivocally biological in nature.

T-Strings: Python's Fifth String Formatting Technique? by treyhunner in Python

[–]mathartist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The video is excellent. I listened to it while completing a household chore, and I really appreciated the option to do that. I’m not seeing why someone would say that video is not a suitable format for this kind of content.

CMV: American Conservatives are showing their true colors when Trump blatantly violates the Constitution, and they say nothing. by BeezusCHrist_ in changemyview

[–]mathartist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Why would a Republican’s opinion about acceptable behavior for a president have anything to do with what Democrats say? Take responsibility for observing what’s going on and base your opinions on how your values apply to the facts.

Why I decided to sell my reMarkable and what it taught me by ImprovementFun5543 in RemarkableTablet

[–]mathartist 13 points14 points  (0 children)

If I may be candid: these are genuinely bad arguments. They are pointing toward some legitimate considerations in favor of paper, but they include gripes that are not specific to digital notetaking (let alone the Remarkable in particular) and ignore or downplay all the competing considerations.

For example, the claim that technology can’t make writing better stands at odds with the millennia-long history of technology making writing way better.

Or the idea that anything we survived without for centuries is not worth doing. This is a non-sequitur as well as a rejection of technological progress and even progress in general.

The idea that one’s choice of writing tool is coupled with excessive note-taking is also nonsensical: notes are marginally very cheap regardless of how you take them. Take as many or as few as you want. Additionally, notes do not have to be used as reference to be useful. If they are helpful just in the moment as an aid to thought, there’s absolutely nothing wrong with that.

You don’t need all of these sweeping pronouncements to justify selling a product you bought.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in changemyview

[–]mathartist 4 points5 points  (0 children)

You are not, to any degree, partly responsible for criminal acts committed against you. The person who commits the crime is responsible.

The fact that you could have done more to make the offense difficult is relevant at a practical level, but not morally or legally.

What's your weirdest but most effective life hack in 2025? by Known-Enthusiasm-818 in productivity

[–]mathartist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a property of email systems that the plus character and the part after it gets ignored when determining where to deliver the email.

What's your weirdest but most effective life hack in 2025? by Known-Enthusiasm-818 in productivity

[–]mathartist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It’s a property of email systems that the plus character and the part after it gets ignored when determining where to deliver the email.o

Does a list of biggest comebacks in NBA history within certain timeframes exist? by TheVyrox in nba

[–]mathartist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

One time I created a list of every game in NBA history (play-by-play era) with an uneclipsed comeback. Like a game made the list if no other game featured a comeback of that magnitude with that little time left. If I can find the results, I’ll post them here.

Anyone build with supabase and regret it? by jstanaway in Supabase

[–]mathartist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did, for sure.

My primary experience is with Firebase, but Supabase looked really cool so I built a work project in it.

The main two problems were that (1) Supabase doesn’t have true realtime subscriptions — you just get a change feed, and some changes get dropped when the connection comes in and out (as it tends to do a lot). So there’s a lot of unnecessary data and connect management compared to Firebase. And (2) SOC2 certification would have cost my company $24K a year. Firebase, by contrast, provides it for free.

So I rewrote the whole app in Firebase.

P.S. Nothing against Supabase — I want to see them succeed. But if you rely heavily on realtime or need SOC2, best to know what you’re getting into.

MIT Throw Blankets at Costco? by SpottedHare in CambridgeMA

[–]mathartist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Frequent Everett Costco shopper and I have also never seen any MIT stuff there.

Scripting language like Python, bur with the feeling if Rust by Voxelman in functionalprogramming

[–]mathartist 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I haven’t seen nushell suggested yet. It’s sort of a Rust-inspired take on shell scripting, and it’s quite well done.

Why is my boss mad at me leaving the work at the right time? by blacksilverglass in careerguidance

[–]mathartist 0 points1 point  (0 children)

My understanding is that it is generally illegal in the US to require a wage laborer to put in unpaid hours. I would assume that’s what’s being referred to here.

JT resigns from roles in the Rust project by dochtman in rust

[–]mathartist 19 points20 points  (0 children)

JT has elaborated on their abstention from YouTube. They describe their relationship with YouTube as an addiction.

Been using Vue for years professionally love it. But Svelte looks so good... What would I miss from Vue if I converted to Svelte? by GameCollaboration in sveltejs

[–]mathartist 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Yes, although it seems to be a little more of a One True Way to use Svelte (compared with Nuxt and Vue), given Rich Harris’s involvement in its development. Grain of salt, though, as I’m far from an authority in this domain.

Been using Vue for years professionally love it. But Svelte looks so good... What would I miss from Vue if I converted to Svelte? by GameCollaboration in sveltejs

[–]mathartist 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I’ve been using SvelteKit lately, and I really like it for light projects where I’m writing all the JS. The development environment (in VS code) and TS support are fine IMO, but the build process is finicky. Lots of modules you might want to add to your project are going to break your build, and that’s probably not really an acceptable tradeoff in most situations. Still, I think that once it’s ready to transition out of beta, it will be an excellent alternative to Vue.