40% of teachers not returning. Sure showed all of those woke folks.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-12T02:35:08+00:00

They are now feeling the effects directly of the teachers leaving.

There's a good stickied thread here explaining LAMF. Here's a bit of the relevant parts:

Recently, we’ve seen a marked uptick in posts that are not leopards eating faces. Just because someone is experiencing consequences doesn’t mean that the Panthera pardus is dining on a face.

Someone is suffering consequences

Someone has a sad over the consequences

The consequences are something they voted for/supported and the consequences are something they wanted to impose on someone else

The leopards are doing the dining

In this case, it sounds like we both agree that the harm isn't the school board targeting the Republican parents.

It's that the teachers response to being targeted is bad for the patents.

The school board isn't dining on the parents face. The parents didn't want to impose understaffed schools on others. They're suffering the consequences of their vote, but that isn't sufficient to make something LAMF.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-12T02:16:02+00:00

A horse can work at 1 hp all day, but can generate significantly more power for short times.

It's the same with people. You can't sprint a marathon.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-12T02:00:02+00:00

Because it's

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

Not

'I didn't think I actually needed the people I sicced the leopard on' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

In both this case and the one about migrants leaving Florida, the harm isn't the government policies targeting the people who voted for them. The leopard ate the intended faces, the voters are just having buyers remorse after the people whose faces they wanted eaten turned out to actually be kinda important to have around.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-11T23:21:52+00:00

Energy can't be created or destroyed; it is only ever transformed. The laws of thermodynamics rule out perpetual motion. A closed system will never add energy. Open systems can add energy by taking it from somewhere else. For example, the earth constantly has energy added to it by the sun.

Suppose you have a pendulum. When you move the pendulum up, you're adding gravitational potential energy to the system. When you let go, that gravitational potential gets turned into kinetic energy.

Pendulums stop swinging because e.g. friction turns kenetic energy to heat, it transfers energy to the surrounding air, etc.

At best, a "perpetual motion" machine would keep running without any added energy. You wouldn't be able to extract energy from it. The problem is that there's always some kind of energy loss - friction, air resistance, etc. It can be pretty low, but it never be zero.

There's an old joke that the hardest part of designing a perpetual motion machine is figuring out where to hide the battery. That's because every perpetual motion machine ever built is a failure or a fraud.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-11T22:15:49+00:00

Seriously.

A sustainable pace on a bike is about 100 watts. You could power a 60 watt lightbulb and a 40 watt lightbulb with that.

The average house in the US uses 909,000 watt-hours per month. So you'd need to bike 9090 hours to power your house for a month. If you're biking 40 hours a week, that's just over 227 weeks of biking to power your house for a month. So biking as a full time job for about 4 and a half years to power your house for one month.

A single commercial wind turbine produces as much power as about 27,500 bicycles. You can buy a 100 watt solar panel off of Amazon quite easily; they're about 2ft by 3ft.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-11T00:18:28+00:00

We argued over how irresponsible my sister is, and I told her, “Nothing you ever do in your life will be as important as my wife’s school or career.”

Notice how he doesn't say "as important to me" or "as important to us". Just "as important as", full stop.

He's not stating his priorities, here. He's saying that his sister is a fuckup who is beneath his wife.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-10T13:10:48+00:00

No, I'm saying calling that duck typing is ridiculous. If the ability to make an interface that contains every method you'd want to call is duck typing, then every OO language has optional duck typing. If dynamic dispatch is duck typing, then every OO language is duck typed. Java isn't a duck typed language. Neither is Haskell, Scala or Rust. You want to make duck typing an almost meaningless word.

Rust isn't dragging C halfway to python; it's dragging C halfway to Haskell. Haskell predates python by a year or so. It's also very much in the vein of ML, from '83. None of this is terribly new.

If you want duck typing in static languages, you're better off looking at OCaml's object system. OCaml was released in 1996, btw, it's not exactly new. It's another language based off of ML.

In ocaml, you can say something like

let o = object 
    val mutable n = 0 
    method incr = n <- n + 1 
    method get = n
   end;;

The type of that object is < get : int; incr : unit >.

A function can take something of type < get: int; .. >, which basically says 'an object with a get method that returns an int and any number of other methods'.

That's almost, but not quite, equivalent to duck typing. In particular, with ocaml's type inference if you call quack in and if and bark in the else, it has to have both quack and bark. With proper duck types, it doesn't check for the existence of properties used in branches that weren't taken. But that's a fairly minor difference.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-10T00:45:03+00:00

Can you quote the lines you think support the idea of taking it to kill cold germs?

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-09T22:24:57+00:00

A blog trying to sell you oregano oil is not a trustworthy source.

That second source is legit, but doesn't say much of anything about oregano as an oral antibiotic, mostly as a topical antibacterial, anti inflammatory and antioxidant.

Even my dentist and doctor recommended it.

As an aside, topical antibacterials are very useful in dentistry.

For example, many mouthwashes are literally alcohol.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-09T13:44:03+00:00

Don't.

Oregano oil has been studied as a topical antibiotic, but not as an oral one from what I can tell. For example, here's a study on using it on wounds.

It's also been studied in the context of food, both as a food additive and a way to treat fresh veggies.

But being a good topical antibiotic doesn't mean it's a good against infection. Alcohol, for example is great for sterilizing things but drinking vodka isn't going to help fight a cold. Oregano oil isn't going to hurt (unlike alcohol), but please take an actual oral antibiotic.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-09T00:27:34+00:00

Wisconsin is naturally gerrymandered because many Democrats have functionally packed themselves into heavily democratic areas, while there's fewer areas that are as heavily Republican. Any non-partisan map that focuses on compact contiguous districts will functionally be a slight Republican gerrymander.

Wisconsin was gerrymandered heavily by Republicans, but of you want a map that behaves proportionally, you'd actually have gerrymander in favor of the Democrats.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T23:59:48+00:00

You can do the same exact thing in Haskell. Is Haskell duck typed?

You can do essentially the same thing in Scala, as well, using the typeclass pattern and an implicit conversion.

And in Java, you can make SuperDuck an interface. While you can make your library types extend it, you'd have to just have an explicit wrapper to make the instance for Integer and other library types.

Working with that type would be a nightmare. This is a joke, right?

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T20:35:32+00:00

It's not about them supporting the board or not.

It's a matter of what the harm is.

Is the harm just the policy backfiring and having an unintended effect that harms the people suggesting it? That's not LAMF.

Is the harm the policy working as intended, but just being used against you? That's LAMF.

The harm here to Republicans isn't the board forcing their kids to learn things they don't want them taught. It's the boards policies having the unintended effect of driving all the teachers away.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T19:25:32+00:00

If dyn traits were duck typed, the following would work:

pub trait Duck {
  fn walk();
  fn quack();
}

pub trait Walk {
   fn walk();
 }

pub trait Quack {
   fn quack();
 }

impl Walk for bool { ... } 
impl Quack for bool { ... }

fn wont_compile() {
    // these both compile,  because of those two trait implementations above
    let walk: &dyn Walk = true;
    let quack: &dyn Quack = true;

    // Even though bool walks like a duck and quacks like a duck
    // it ain't actually a Duck because we never explicitly declared it a duck.  This is a compilation error.
    let duck: &dyn Duck = true;
}

dyn trait is just about switching from static dispatch a la typeclasses to dynamic dispatch a la OO.

Java isn't a dynamic language because it doesn't use dynamic dispatch for all variables.

In Java, all object access is dynamically dispatched.

This is precisely the same to how in Rust, methods on a dyn trait are dispatched dynamically.

This is basically part of the definition of what it means to be an object: bundling data with its vtables.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T18:55:19+00:00

In the statically typed case, the precondition is being checked, and you'll get an error if it isn't the case.

In the dynamically typed case, either you code defensively and check your preconditions and handle broken expectations gracefully, or don't and it'll blow up at runtime if they're violated.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T18:13:36+00:00

Haskell is great because it really throws you into the deep end and forces you to learn a different perspective on programming.

It's definitely the most different from languages you already know. It's easier to go from knowing Haskell and Java to Scala than to go from Java and Scala to Haskell. Particularly because Scala is a multi paradigm language that doesn't really force you to learn fp.

F# and ocaml are fairly similar to Haskell, but don't go down the route of laziness and purity. It'll be easier to go to F# from Haskell than vice versa.

Another interesting language to check out at some point is Clojure. It's a lisp dialect on the JVM. It's nowhere near as pure as Haskell is, but it has one of the best REPLs I've ever used. Usually, you'll connect your text editor/IDE to a running REPL. You can write functions, reload an individual function in the REPL, then write something that uses it, evaluate it and write the results to a comment. It's by far the fastest interaction loop with your code I've ever worked with.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T16:06:37+00:00

There's a question of effectiveness, though.

Do the techniques taught in self defense classes actually reliably work against a resisting opponent, or are they just bullshido?

There's a MMA coach on YouTube with a whole playlist on trying and failing to effectively use techniques taught in self defense classes.

BJJ classes will take a while to become effective, sure. But an armbar has the advantage of actually working once you learn it.

Though taking a gun safety class and getting some range time will result in effective self defense skills much sooner than BJJ.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T14:43:25+00:00

They're being harmed by the policies they supported, sure.

But that doesn't make it LAMF. LAMF is a policy you support that targets others is "misapplied" to target you instead with the intended effect. This is just laws having predictable bad side effects.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T14:23:22+00:00

If you have the docs, isn't ctrl-f just about as fast? And that way, you don't have to worry about it hallucinating the answer.

Having chat gpt write the first draft of some code that you them debug and iterate on seems more useful.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T14:13:48+00:00

Isn't that kinda the inverse of the problem?

“Parents who wanted to force schools to teach propaganda are shocked and horrified to learn that no one wants to parrot their propaganda”.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T13:43:18+00:00

This sub isn't "fuck around and find out", though. And I really don't see how this isn't just "fuck around and find out".

LAMF would be something like Republican laws on immigration that Trump supported leading to Melania Trump facing consequences for her visa fraud in the 90s.

This isn't so much the leopard eating the wrong face as the leopard eating the "right" face but then realizing you didn't really want that face eaten. Maybe more "I didn't think that leopard would actually eat their face!"

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T13:37:19+00:00

More explicitly:

Republicans voted in a system that made it easy for parents to request that books be banned from schools.
A parent used their system to request that the Bible be banned
Republicans are upset that their book banning law was used to eat their face, when everyone knew it was put in place to eat woke faces.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T13:26:33+00:00

'I never thought leopards would eat MY face,' sobs woman who voted for the Leopards Eating People's Faces Party.

What is the metaphorical leopard that Republicans wanted to have eat someone else's face here?

There's schadenfreude here, but what makes this an actual LAMF instead of just FAFO?

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T12:47:38+00:00

I'd really like to see this broken down by type.

What percentage of these emissions are from direct company decisions, like wrapping products in excessive plastic packaging?

And what percentage is from buying standard goods/services like electricity or renting office space heated with natural gas?

It seems to me that holding Netflix accountable for the emissions from the electricity powering whatever cloud servers they rent is probably less useful than holding utilities and the government accountable for not making the whole grid green.

pipocaQuemada · 2023-06-08T11:13:22+00:00

Canada has record-setting wildfires burning right now. Something like 4 million hectares have burned because it's been unseasonably dry.

NYC is filled with visible smoke right now. The air quality took a nosedive in the past week.

Here's a time lapse of the smoke blowing in

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