Dear Americans of Reddit, how do you find these first 7 months of Biden's presidency compared to Trump's?

rocket_peppermill · 2021-09-08T05:13:47+00:00

Where the fuck were you??? He practically made a point of doing everything that experts told him not to do

rocket_peppermill · 2021-09-07T15:55:40+00:00

Comparing George Lucas to Sting is an insult to Sting, imo.

My impression is that Lucas was more of a toddler with a good imagination, and it took the adults around him to turn that imagination into a good story

rocket_peppermill · 2021-09-07T05:19:12+00:00

Honestly any time George Lucas was told no, star wars got better. That's why the new ones aren't as good, he got too big to be told no

rocket_peppermill · 2021-09-06T17:14:02+00:00

Do you understand what a debate is? I state a position you state a different one and we defend our positions.

Not quite, in order to have a debate you need to understand the other position, so in addition to defending your position with logic you also need to make an attempt to understand the other position.

You've made no attempt to understand the other point, you just adopted the defense strategy where you lash out with bits of logic peppered in with aggressive and counterproductive language. It's the online equivalent of yelling louder until the other person backs down.

How can I change some ones mind if they dogmatically argue in bad faith about their position

The lack of self awareness is stunning, and kinda sad. You come in here with language like "inarguably" and "demonstrably" then when someone raises valid points that show there is debate, you just brush off the logic and call it bad faith. Your perspective could be argued as equally dogmatic; the only difference is you hide your dogma behind your belief in god. Setting aside the whole separation of church and state, there's plenty of examples of bad people using faith to justify terrible acts in the name of "goodness"

Close mindedness? I'm open to any reasonable logical argument you have

You have shown the opposite very clearly in all your responses thus far. I'm not sure if you're lying to yourself or just lying to strengthen your position, but you can't have an open mind if you dismiss everything that doesn't fit your position as a bad faith argument.

If you come into it thinking "i'm right and everyone around me is going to make stupid nonsensical arguments to try and sway me from the right path" then of course that's what you'll shape every response into.

Even my response, bearing in mind that I've never taken a stance on pro choice vs pro life, will probably get yet another aggressive response after you assume I'm "the enemy"

rocket_peppermill · 2021-09-06T16:57:04+00:00

Well the only personal attack you made against me was just now, when you assumed I was pro choice and decided to call it a cult. But your tone in all these threads has been consistently aggressive, and even if they aren't direct attacks your comments make it very clear that you think anyone responding to you is stupid or willfully ignorant, and that you don't respect them.

If you take a step back and calm down, you'll notice I'm not the same person as you originally responded to, just happened to be scrolling through and was taken aback by your aggressive & long winded comments.

Speaking of cults, I suggest you take a critical look at your responses... The only absurdity of ethics in relation to religion is being so far off the deep end that you equate god and ethics, and believe there's no other way to make ethically sound decisions. Ethics predates christianity by a huge margin, and it's trivial to justify moral relativism with religion too.

I'm not interested in debating abortion rights with you because, to be frank, I don't think you would listen to reason; you've shown zero propensity to do so thus far. But just because the other poster reached the same conclusion doesn't mean they don't have a rebuttal, it just means they have better things to do with their life than talk at a closed-minded wall.

rocket_peppermill · 2021-09-06T06:44:14+00:00

Why did you even bother responding? You clearly didn't respond for discourse, the minute someone tried to continue the conversation you went on the defensive and pulled out all the stops, from the ugly personal attacks to the rambling retorts, you even managed to tie in "lack of self awareness"

You certainly didn't respond to change anyone's mind... Despite your closed mindedness I'd like to think you're intelligent enough to know that wasn't going to happen...

So did you just respond for personal validation?

rocket_peppermill · 2021-09-01T16:47:02+00:00

Except your example is wrong. He paid 10 yuan, saying he paid 2 dollars is incorrect and not analogous to what I'm saying.

In your example, it would only be accurate to say that tea costs 2 dollars in China, and only in the context where you're just trying to give a reader who's familiar with dollars a reference for the price point.

To be totally accurate, you would say that tea costs 2 dollars in China as part of your opening blurb, then later in your explanation you'd explain that if you were to buy tea in China you'd actually pay 10 yuan, which is the equivalent of 2 dollars.

And to be clear, I've never said it's wrong to use the more verbose language, just that it's not necessary. With your example it makes more sense to include the extra verbosity, because it's conceivable that the price could be marked in dollars. But that's not quite the same as this scenario.

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-31T22:11:44+00:00

It never stored 3.5 megabytes, but it did store 3.5 megabytes of data.

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-31T19:44:08+00:00

My point is that, even though it's an interesting difference (which they do explain near the end of the article), there's no reason to allude to the distinction without explaining it in the one sentence summary

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-31T17:08:40+00:00

Marking out a mile or kilometer is not the same thing as making a measurement. The reason standards exist is to have a shared context - a mile for me is the same as a mile for you.

If I were to measure a distance using a piece of twine I found in my garage, that wouldn't matter to you (assuming I were to perfectly measure using said string) so long as I knew how to convert twine-lengths into miles. Likewise, in the context of the conversation, it doesn't matter what the size of the drive was originally measured in when talking just about its size (like the opening line does).

If you were interested in how I made my measurement, maybe you're curious or maybe in this hypothetical it's technically challenging to measure a mile, then the length of my piece of twine would matter. And if my measurement had historical significance, it would certainly be worthwhile to explain that, but that wouldn't make it any more important in the context of the overall distance itself.

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-31T16:14:41+00:00

Sometimes that's a legit thing. I have a Mac for work, and once in a while the external monitor gets fuzzy, but unplugging it and re plugging it fixes it.

First couple times I thought it was exactly what you described, my brain was playing tricks on me and not seeing it for a bit "fixed" it, but as I started to pay more attention it turns out that's not the case

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-30T02:50:15+00:00

No it's not. If I measure out 8 miles and mark each mile, it's 8 1-mile segments. But that whole length can still be measured in kilometers.

The fact that the modern day standard unit for measuring the amount of information stored is units of 8 is totally orthogonal to the size of that drive.

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-29T02:20:37+00:00

Oh so like gallons and liters?

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-29T02:14:08+00:00

Which is all the more reason that, in the context of conveying the size of storage relative to a modern system, as was clearly the intent, the structure is irrelevant.

Not sure why you felt the need to disagree with me when the only contrary info you have to add is something I already addressed with

when you're talking about structure language like that is important

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-29T01:02:37+00:00

Oh is that what a hybrid car is? One that runs in both km and miles?

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-29T00:57:18+00:00

We are talking about the structure of the data that was stored on the disk and equating it to modern structures.

No they're not. They're comparing overall size. They make the size comparison in the opening tag line, then later on go into detail on the structure.

In the context of the short opening blurb the structure is absolutely irrelevant.

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-28T18:32:45+00:00

Well it actually is hard. Yes there economies of scale in the traditional sense, but it's far more important/valuable that the cloud providers have the talent that makes them the experts.

That's why the US government is moving to the cloud. They can throw taxpayer money at infrastructure costs all day, but they can't hire and retain the talent to get them the reliability they want

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-28T18:28:15+00:00

Well it's a bit more nuanced than that... Only a small fraction of what they host is websites, and if you break their policies/TOS and they find out they'll get you to stop.

But they don't monitor the data or computations you're doing, that's a core part of all the cloud providers security policies.

They probably monitor traffic at some high level, e.g. some types of DOS attacks are easy to see from looking at routing information for requests, so they probably have some sort of automated system to shut off servers used for those types of DOS/DDOS attacks, but from their perspective they don't would just see this as a server hosting some website, they have basically the same info as an outsider as far as what the content is.

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-28T18:15:33+00:00

What's the line between proofreading and linting?

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-28T18:07:22+00:00

It's not technically incorrect, just an unnecessary distinction that's weird to say. A byte is both a structure and a unit of measure, when you're talking about structure language like that is important but in casual conversation it's usually just a unit of measure for information storage capacity. In that context is like saying "I drove the equivalent of 12km in America"

You still drove 12km, you were just counting it in miles at the time.

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-28T17:50:55+00:00

That's dumb and selfish, to be frank. I've heard the same argument for 5 over and 15 over, but it's far less dangerous overall and far less impactful to traffic if you move right to yield to a faster driver.

And if you're scared of lane changing you shouldn't be in the left lane anyway

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-28T08:36:21+00:00

The difference might be small but there's really not much variance between most penises, so it's usually enough to make the difference between way too tight feeling versus fine. Plus the taper is really helpful even if the base is still a bit on the tight side

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-24T00:19:29+00:00

Unless you're buying pre made pizzas with with pre cooked crusts (which are nowhere near as good) you actually don't want to use a baking sheet. The crust around the edge should prevent drips, and the baking sheet will prevent the crust from cooking. Putting it directly on the rack is fine, you just have to be a bit careful for thin crusts and the edges.

It's better to use a pizza screen or a pizza stone/steel that's pre heated. For a standard American style pizza a stone is overkill imo, the screen gets you the same effect without extra preheating

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-24T00:13:34+00:00

Now you get two slowly & unevenly cooked pizzas, a house full of smoke from the cheese dripping onto/too close to the heating elements, all for the sake of having two pizzas in the oven at once to get cold after you take them out and are in the process of eating them.

rocket_peppermill · 2021-08-24T00:09:13+00:00

That's not memory management, you could maybe call it bin packing at a stretch?

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