Slotos

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[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 3 points 1 year ago

“European maritime empires”

You’re welcome.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 56 points 1 year ago (2 children)

The original book finds itself in a science fiction genre only because anything with spaceships and technology is placed there. For all practical purposes though, it’s a space fantasy.

In other words, complaining about science of Dune is like complaining about poetic meter of a tax report - something you do only with the closest of friends.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

Not just Ukrainians. Uyghurs, Syrians, Kurds, Georgians, Quirimli, Chechens… the list goes fucking on.

The most vile shit they introduced into discourse around Gaza is the notion that genocide is a competition. “More people dead in n days in Gaza than in n months in Ukraine” is a statement that achieves only two goals: devalue human suffering and reveal the messenger to be a morally bankrupt psychopath.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Tell that to those raped and mutilated by those fucking victims of yours.

Oh wait, you outright dismissed their existence in order to… … not be racist.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 0 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Individual rights get eroded if people don’t keep the good fight. The hope for a system that can prevent the amassing of power in the hands of a few through no effort by the many is entitled childishness personified.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago

https://github.com/rose-pine/neovim/wiki/Recipes#borderless-telescopenvim

Specifics will differ based on your colorscheme, but the end goal is always the same - set telescope border colors to blend with the rest of the telescope ui.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

If you’re a software engineer, you’re applying an engineering process to the field of software development. Adding a shopping cart to a blog can be a perfectly sound solution to the problem at hand.

Engineering becomes more important at scale, but scale itself doesn’t define engineering.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Their labor creates expensive value in an expensive market. Share accordingly.

“It’s a great pay where they are” argument is bullshit.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 1 points 2 years ago

That’s not how evolution works. Traits don’t evolve “to be useful”. Anyone who claims a goal to evolution has failed to grasp evolution.

Evolution converges on local maxima by selecting for traits that are good enough to continuously propagate through the filter of individuals death. For sexual reproduction, if a trait is not bad enough to continuously reduce carriers’ presence in a mating pool, it can and will remain.

It’s survival of not inadequate enough.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

Thorium reactors have a cleverly dumb failsafe. If reactor control fails, there’s a plug that melts and drains the contents into a container that’s not fit for runoff neutron generation.

That’s an example of a failsafe that fits its purpose. It’s still possible to fuck it up, but it would take a lot of effort to do so.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 8 points 2 years ago (10 children)

And if there’s a bug in that code, you’re fucked.

Safety features should work if everything else fails. Their failure mode can’t be “fuck it, it didn’t work”. Which is directly opposite to the failure mode of a subscription based service.

[–] Slotos@feddit.nl 2 points 2 years ago

Eh, there’s plenty of socialism in practice. But English speaking discourse is dominated by fans of dictators that actively hunted socialists in twentieth century.

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