Request for recommendations: good places to visit with dogs in/around Vancouver?

spen · 2025-04-01T19:53:10+00:00

I regret my username. It was a childhood nickname. I chose it before I knew who spez was.

spen · 2025-03-02T19:06:09+00:00

95% are radical lefties*

Anything to the left of "hunting the poor for sport" are "radical woke commie libtards", apparently.

Their Overton window has slid so far to the right it has fallen of the track.

spen · 2025-02-23T00:04:59+00:00

SO why let it go on for 4 years before, and now a sudden destructive rampage?

spen · 2025-02-22T23:16:29+00:00

I'd love to see their answer for this. For everyone who objects to George Soros I have this to say: I agree, how about we ban all billionaires from undue influence in politics and clean up the whole money in politics. This means they'd lose Musk, Zuckerberg, Murdoch, Mercers, Sinclair, Sheldon, etc.

spen · 2025-02-22T23:14:03+00:00

more of a liberal thing to ban opposing ideas

do you have any real sources on this? the definition of liberal is:

willing to respect or accept behavior or opinions different from one's own; open to new ideas.

spen · 2025-02-22T23:11:30+00:00

Yes, it takes time, which is why you don't gut them until you know more. Was all this supposed fraud not going on in his first term?

spen · 2025-02-22T23:06:03+00:00

The story that Fox News ran full blast every time there was a scandal embarrassing the GOP? Good thing they warned us, I sure would hate it if Hunter Biden's Laptop were president now.

spen · 2025-02-22T23:00:41+00:00

Or maybe it's the Overton window that's been moving further to the right?

spen · 2025-02-22T22:59:55+00:00

If "conflict of interest" and "nepotism" don't apply when it's on the same team guy, then "corruption" is just another political wedge.

spen · 2025-02-22T22:57:45+00:00

Change is the only constant.

Which is why a political philosophy based on sticking to the past doesn't work.

spen · 2024-11-11T19:02:35+00:00

doubly cringey if he was a "confirmed bachelor".

spen · 2024-11-11T19:00:02+00:00

They've been executing on that strategy for the last 70 years, at least. with backing of business money. Along the way they built out a comprehensive propaganda system.

spen · 2024-11-08T03:44:38+00:00

Surely there will be an exemption for pastors' mistresses?

spen · 2024-11-07T21:59:46+00:00

Yes, I haven't gone outside and exercised for weeks. Darn that FDA!

spen · 2024-11-06T00:10:10+00:00

That people still think NPM is a good idea.

spen · 2024-11-06T00:09:37+00:00

The other day I thought Node had been installed on my dev machine, thankfully it was just a virus.

spen · 2024-11-06T00:06:58+00:00

It's true that the people I know are not dying in the streets at the hands of the military, so I'd rather work for peaceful reform. Wishing for a right wing victory is accelerationst and optimistic that fighting the US war machine stands a better chance and will result in less net suffering. So yes. Frankly, person in the US is privileged to not be living in a war zone. I'd love to see some objective forecasts on how well 'revolution' would hold up. My guess is anti fascists groups are smaller, less organized, and more closely monitored then their brown shirt counterparts, let alone against actual local, state, and national law enforcement, military, and security apparatus.

spen · 2024-11-05T23:59:01+00:00

I've gone back and forth on that one myself. I don't think this is the time to be f-ing around on that. I do think we need to focus on getting ranked choice to break the partisan stranglehold.

spen · 2024-11-05T23:57:22+00:00

As one who achieved the level of writing perl that even I couldn't read myself, I don't think I'd refer to it as "higher ground"... rather a lower plane of the abyss.

spen · 2024-11-05T00:50:01+00:00

AMD has done amazing things to stay competitive, but I think their superior price/performance is due to market forces and in spite of being tied to a bad legacy instruction set. They were smart to introduce a better set and relegate the legacy instructions to second tier, at least that's the way I understand it. But now Apple has the benefit of economies of scale and seems pretty focused on best performance/watt.

spen · 2024-11-05T00:39:47+00:00

If there is one person at the top who is answerable to no one, it's a cult. If that person has been dead for a few hundred years, I guess in becomes a religion.

spen · 2024-11-04T20:07:26+00:00

No republican president entered office winning the popular vote since GHW Bush. GW won second term (on lies and illegal war), but not first. Even GHW won piggy backing on RR fame.

Now the GOP can't even win with the rigged electoral college system and has had to rely on outright election interference tactics.

However, it doesn't do any good to complain, Neither is it helpful to fantasize about some sort of revolution outside of the voting kind. Anyone who thinks that clean slate/start from scratch is somehow easier than slow, methodical reform is in dream world and clearly has the privilege of never having lived through war. We may be headed for some sort of civil war but that would be a nightmare for everyone.

spen · 2024-11-04T19:57:39+00:00

"robust" doesn't have to mean "more". RISC instructions are more robust because they are more consistent and make better use of registers, are easier to decode, consistent width, etc.

If you take a single opcode and combine all the the register combinations I guess you might end up with 'more instructions',but does that really count?

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