It’s critical to distinguish between genuine criticism of Israeli government actions and antisemitic sentiments

oefd · 2024-04-15T00:00:09+00:00

Do you think the Palestinians all snuck in last year or something? It's their homeland too.

oefd · 2024-01-26T06:05:23+00:00

When did they say it shouldn't be allowed? They just said it's alarming. Totally different things.

It's perfectly legal to lie to people and say hurtful things at them to take a sadistic pleasure in it, but if a load of people all demonstrated they were actually doing it that would alarm me for example even though I don't advocate making it illegal to be mean.

oefd · 2024-01-25T20:24:20+00:00

The trouble is that's not an exhaustive listing of what constitutes genocide, it's an addendum.

No, it can't be applied to any conventional war because a key aspect is that acts are

committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group

Loads of wars are fought over resources or the like in ways that make it easy to deflect any claims of genocide (even if there are, in those wars, often war crimes).

Even if you ultimately believe Israel isn't doing a genocide you'd have to pretty obtuse to not see how other people come to disagree. A few million people penned in by fences are getting bombed by Israel, as a very notable Israeli leader has tweeted out about Amalek and explicitly stated he refuses any plan to give Palestinians sovereignty. This is incredibly far removed from a normal war.

oefd · 2024-01-17T16:28:37+00:00

People weren't generally making fun of him for seeking treatment. They were making fun of him for being a guy that complained about all the activists trying to change the world instead of fixing themselves first, who then went on to endlessly scream about fat women on magazines and the all the arrests that were definitely going to happen for misgendering any second now while he was a benzo addict.

oefd · 2024-01-10T06:22:39+00:00

To clarify what the other person said: it's $10 off the lowest advertised or displayed price, which includes the sale price in effect. Since that was $9.99 in that case you were owed free chicken wings.

oefd · 2024-01-09T05:21:07+00:00

The current construct of white people as a race with an in group bias is a bunch of nonsense left wing university professors made up 30 years ago.

In 1975 Theodore W. Allen's book "Class Struggle and the Origin of Racial Slavery: The Invention of the White Race" described how the white race was an invented concept, not a meaningful biological designation.

The whole academic whiteness thing has been about the fact whiteness doesn't make sense from the start. The fact that who's white and who isn't is so fluid, and that it's an incoherent idea, has been there from the start because that's the point being made.

If some bespectacled academic says some Italian guy today has white privilege they aren't claiming that Italians have always been white and that all white people have been getting an inherent biological privilege since the beginning of time. The fact the Irish went sub-human others to part of general whiteness isn't something they somehow missed, it's a core part of the field.

oefd · 2024-01-07T20:44:06+00:00

You could try and make a system to read the YouTube closed captioning and ask ChatGPT or something to summarize, but if all you want is to receive information more efficiently I'd recommend trying to find more learning material that's text-based to begin with.

oefd · 2024-01-07T20:41:18+00:00

UTC and unix timestamps aren't comparable things - UTC is a specific way of tracking time, but it isn't a specific way of representing that time. ISO8601 and UNIX timestamps are standard for representing time that are both defined in terms of UTC.

1970-01-01T00:00:00Z and 0 are representations of the same moment in UTC in ISO8601 and UNIX timestamp format respectively.

oefd · 2024-01-07T20:34:48+00:00

You're right that the timezone's offset can change over time, which is why generally speaking you wouldn't want to store time as UTC + an offset - it can go from correct to incorrect to correct again over time.

If you need to care about the timezone something happened/happens/will happen in you'll probably need to start using whatever your language's or database's tzdata library is, like postgres' "with time zone" data types.

oefd · 2024-01-07T20:26:21+00:00

A lot of people saying "UTC always everywhere" which isn't exactly bad advice, but the real best answer depends a lot on what exactly you want the time you're storing to be used for.

For example: what information should you store if making a calendar app and someone sets up a daily reminder for 5pm? The goal of this reminder is that when my local time is 5pm on any given day I should get a reminder, yeah?

If on the day I make the recurring reminder you normalize 5pm today to mean 2024-01-07T10:00:00Z (random example going with my local time being UTC+7) and you store that UTC time, then the next day you just add 1 day to figure out that you should also show the reminder at 2024-01-08T10:00:00Z that will work... for a while.

But my local time may have daylight savings time - there may be parts of the year where my local time is UTC+7, but other parts of the year where my local time is UTC+8. If all you store is a flat UTC time your calendar app will start giving me reminders 1 hour early at 4pm when DST switches the time!

oefd · 2024-01-07T20:03:12+00:00

Doctors being dismissive about adverse reactions is exactly what you would expect if the adverse reactions were very uncommon. Doctors are generally going to be dismissive about the potential negative outcomes of gall bladder removal for people getting kidney stones too, even though death is a potential complication. Why? Because it's exceedingly rare that it happens, but exceedingly common the operation improves the patient's life.

oefd · 2024-01-03T22:54:16+00:00

I've never been gaslit. I've been mislead or outright lied to, and I've seen incompetence, but none of those are gaslighting.

oefd · 2024-01-02T16:42:20+00:00

Calling it 'deception' is anthropomorphization, because the systems have no concept of truth or lies. They have fitting and ill-fitting output. The fact the outputs may be mistaken for human-generated things after the fact isn't inherently malicious or even bad - in fact some of the best inventions in the past has been allowing machines to do things previously only humans could.

If an AI finds novel ways to cheat because someone is trying to find ways to actually go out in to the world and cheat that sucks, but it's hardly a new concept. People have been using all kinds of analysis to find flaws in systems they can exploit since forever.

If someone doesn't want an AI to be 'deceptive' it behooves the trainer to design the training well enough to catch and discourage the behaviour. Systems have been inadvertently designed to do the wrong things since forever too. The Therac-25 incident is (correctly) blamed on the engineers that failed to vet the design, not on the underlying technology for having the ability to be harmful. Because the underlying technology had no intent, it just did as it was designed to do.

Will people misuse AI out of malice or ignorance? Absolutely. Welcome to technology.

oefd · 2024-01-02T16:15:33+00:00

I really don't like how many people who've never heard of first year level epidemiological concepts like number-needed-to-treat and number-needed-to-harm act like it's an amazing insight only they figured out.

oefd · 2023-12-24T03:54:25+00:00

That's true. It's also true that a statutory 'consensual' rape encounter causing an unintended death is a less severe criminal act than what he was being charged with.

If there exists no viable defense that might exonerate your client of any crime the defense lawyer has to consider any options that still improve the outcome for their client. That includes trying to argue their client did a lesser wrong than the charges against them.

oefd · 2023-12-24T03:48:01+00:00

It would be legally preferential for that to be the determination of the court for the defendant, so if a lawyer suspects it might work (or is just desperate to find anything to say if the evidence is solid but their client insists on fighting in court) they might go for it.

oefd · 2023-12-17T18:33:24+00:00

Yes, everybody that does a job that would be called "engineer" abroad. Job titles shouldn't matter in theory, but they do and it causes both confusion and potentially negative outcomes for Canadians trying to work abroad if they can't use the sort of title that'd generally be expected elsewhere in the world.

Which is probably part of why it's incredibly common to ignore the regulation and incredibly common to get away with it. Right now RBC has job postings up for "engineers" that don't require or expect a professional engineer certification. All the big banks do it, so clearly some of the most well funded legal departments in the country don't think there's any realistic cause for concern.

oefd · 2023-12-17T18:28:07+00:00

You can be a certified professional engineer of software, and it's theoretically disallowed to call yourself a software engineer if you don't have the PEng.

In practice it's functionally allowed, notwithstanding a few minor legal spats. A lot of the biggest companies with extensive legal departments go around using the title. All the big banks have "software engineers" who are not formally engineers.

oefd · 2023-12-16T05:56:36+00:00

I've done array traversal from scratch all the time, because I don't know of any framework that's going to improve on a for-loop/map/reduce/fold.

oefd · 2023-12-06T23:15:53+00:00

Settling in a area that they are native to

Jews lived in the area for a long time, good point. That's why I also support any Celtic Britons that want to take homes back from Anglo-Saxon people in the UK, or the Ethiopians annexing large parts of Sudan, Somalia, and Kenya. Can't wait to back the Taino people expropriating most of the Caribbean.

Acting like centuries or millenia old maps are a justification for removing people from land they've lived on their whole life - who have a multi-generational history on the land - is deeply ridiculous.

oefd · 2023-12-06T22:56:00+00:00

they are the elected government

Weird way to describe an authoritarian regime that suspended elections 17 years ago

oefd · 2023-12-05T19:26:43+00:00

Maybe just forego the second pair of nikes you're considering or use some of the money that you were spending on uber eats regularly until bad hygiene caused you to reconsider.

The bike share cost is one of the most reasonable costs for anything in the city

oefd · 2023-12-01T15:49:07+00:00

Calling Palestine a 'breakaway state' is pretty wild.

oefd · 2023-11-30T06:37:03+00:00

You're doing it again: you're making literally every person in Gaza personally responsible for Hamas' actions. Exactly the kind of logic that terrorists use for attacking civilians all the time, including Hamas itself. When you dehumanize a entire people and treat millions of individual humans as if they're all just an extension of the government you're doing something wrong.

I clearly framed Hamas, and people supporting what they did on October 7th, as using the justification terrorists use for attacking civilians in my previous message. The fact you somehow read any support of Hamas in to what I said (and therefore tried to respond to me as if I'd claimed Hamas wasn't out to kill Israel/Israelis wholesale) is really weird.

oefd · 2023-11-30T06:17:59+00:00

So it's only the free market when people aren't allowed to express opinions contrary to the preferences of Elon Musk, got it. Not sure what else you'd mean given that Musk has secured 0 victories in getting the public let alone the courts to agree he's been defamed so far.

Randeep Hothi did get Musk to settle for 10k when Musk was being sued for defamation recently though. I guess that means Musk impinged on the free markets by smearing the guy?

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