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Btw, I'm going to become a super-soldier mech pilot for the Britannian empire to brutally put down resistance groups fighting against the multiple ongoing genocides in the numbered zones.

MOTHERFUCKER, GAZA IS AN OPEN AIR PRISON WITH A POPULATION DENSITY SIGNIFICANTLY LARGER THAN NEW YORK CITY. THEY ARE SURROUNDED BY A LITERAL WALL WATCHED BY ISRAELI SNIPERS. LITERALLY WHERE ELSE CAN YOU POSSIBLY EXPECT THEM TO CONGREGATE

FUCK AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

wtf, this is just Kaiji

Why did no one tell me this sooner? It's not just as if Kaiji got a live action reboot series, it's as if Kaiji got a live action reboot series that was actually good!

The next season looks like it's right around the corner, so I'm glad I've managed to avoid waiting a couple years in anticipation. Just hope the next games don't in any way involve a fucking pachlnko machine

MOTHERFUCKER, THERE WERE ACTUAL FREED SLAVES STILL ALIVE WHEN YOU WERE BORN AND WELL INTO YOUR LATE TEENS

HOW IS YOUR SENSE OF TIME AND PERSPECTIVE SO FUCKED

The biggest argument I hear from American libs in favor of the concept is that the court system does not have enough resources to handle every case going to trial. I am absolutely dumbfounded liberals somehow aren't be able to see what a massive self-own that is. Maybe don't fucking arrest so many people that you literally have the largest prison population on Earth?

A guilty plea is supposed to be an admission of guilt, the purpose of which being to save the court time if the defendant wishes to come clean and accept the consequences. So how does it make even the smallest modicum of sense to take someone who does not wish to plead guilty and threaten them with a much harsher sentence if they don't?

Absent a trial, the prosecution doesn't even know yet with confidence whether or not the defendant committed the crime. It's plausible, extremely likely even, that the person they are threatening is actually innocent. Now the guilty plea is no longer an actual admission of guilt, but a means of self preservation if the defendant isn't hopeful about the odds of clearing their name.

Like shit, how the fuck is it the right of members of the jury to vote however they want when they aren't even allowed to be told of this right?

"If the evidence fits, you must convict!" What a fucking bullshit lie. That's literally not true. If the court can lie to you about your fucking right to not send people to prison for bullshit evil drug laws then you should be allowed to lie to them about not knowing what jury nullification is without perjuring yourself.

Regardless, if we found a way to make sure everyone knew about the right to jury nullification, then maybe we could somewhat mitigate some of the damage caused by the evil US correctional system. America delenda est.

At first I thought I'd follow along the MIT OCW 6.0001 course, but it's like eight years old and on a far outdated version of Python and Anaconda. When I tried to install the software as per the syllabus's instructions, I found the download links were dead. I had to spend a few hours going through archives to get the required Anaconda 4.1.1 and Python 3.5 only for it to not even work upon installing. When I tried opening the Anaconda navigator, the logo would pop up, it would say initializing, and then it would just crash before it could launch. Referring back to the syllabus was of no help because the instructions there were literally as brief as "Install Anaconda and Python 3.5 via the installer".

I wasn't able to troubleshoot any of this because all the google results for this question were full of jargon I sure as shit won't be able to understand until I finish the course in the first place. I have no idea what an IDE is, what a pip is, what a spyder is, what a path variable is, or why one would want to use the command prompt.

I was actually able to successfully install the newest versions, but I can't use these for the course because I'm an absolute beginner who has no frame of reference for what differences are actually going to be important.

Now I'm in the process of looking elsewhere. Problem is, I can't find anything like the MIT OCW course. I really loved the videos of actual lectures and the fact that I didn't have to enroll or sign in to anything. There exist a lot of Python tutorials on the internet, but I was hoping to also get an introduction to computer science in general because I need to learn the fundamentals of the subject. I'd like to have a deeper understanding than one would get by just learning a computer language without any of the theory behind it.

Does anyone have any recommendations for a more recent curriculum? Ideally I'd love it to have lecture videos, but I'll be content with just problem sets and a good textbook if it's up to date and has a robust step by step guide for setting up.

I've been here since the post r/CTH ban discord lifeboat days, and I'm still amazed at how dense the history of this community is. There's so much apocrypha that will be lost to time if we don't perpetuate it by putting to writing what each of us remembers personally.

Up until recently, there was this whole-ass over a year long period wherein posts and comments disappeared from search and user histories if they were more than a couple months old. The extensively forked lemmy code Hexbear used just couldn't handle such a large database, we had to return to the main lemmy branch to regain that stuff. I feel this saga disconnected us from our history on this site. Many of the funniest struggle sessions and incidents have all but disappeared from the site's cultural memory as a result.

The images we have nowadays are of course significantly clearer, but there's something about this low quality photo that is far more awe inspiring given the context.

It's a brief impression of something that no creature on Earth was ever meant to see. Nearly every Earthling has seen the near side of the moon, but the far side was supposed to be forever just out of reach. A sort of forbidden knowledge that we nevertheless barely obtained by the skin of our teeth through monumental scientific and engineering progress that would have been unthinkable for the vast majority of human history.

I can't imagine what went through the minds of the very first people to view this image after compiling the raw data from Luna 3's instruments.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Luna_3

I'm not much of a tech person and I have no idea if my observations are worth anything, but from where I'm sitting it seems computer technology isn't advancing anywhere near as quickly as it was from the 80s to the early 2010s.

The original Moore's law is dead and has been for a very long time, but the less specific trend of rapidly increasing computational power doesn't seem to hold much water anymore either. The laptop I have now doesn't feel like much of an improvement on the laptop I had four years ago at a similar price point. And the laptop I had six years ago is really only marginally worse.

So for those in the know on the relevant industry, how are things looking in general? What is the expected roadmap for the next 10 to 20 years? Will we ever get to the point where a cheap notebook is capable of running today's most demanding games at the highest settings, 144fps, and 4k resolution? Sort of like how today's notebooks can run the most intensive games of the 90s/early 2000s.

Bonus question: How many names would one need to right down?

Real bad luck some chud hog like Light Yagami found the Death Note before anyone else did. By killing only criminals reported on in the news, he effectively made himself into a weapon of execution that could be freely wielded by the cops at almost entirely their own discretion. I wish the anime would have explored that idea a bit more, but I'll settle for the very pathetic way Light Yagami got caught by a 12 year old, threw a tantrum, and then died. That was unironically a great ending.

So say a communist found it instead. How much damage could this baby do to the global capitalist nightmare we live under?

Seriously, what the fuck? I thought it was some kind of user interface glitch so I looked it up. Nope, they're A/B testing this shit.

Found this brilliant statement by Youtube on the matter:

Now note that we are deprecating one sorting option and that is by oldest video at the channel level. But don’t panic, you can still view the oldest video of a channel, by scrolling through it’s content’

Oh, yeah, just scroll to the bottom. Silly me, I guess I'm just a stupid idiot for not realizing the option was redundant since I can simply take the time to scroll through potentially thousands of videos.

Why are silicon valley tech people such freaks?