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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: March 15, 2024, 06:31:48 PM »
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this isn't wrong, but electron apps are also legitimately bloated. it feels like we've taken the improvements in CPU speed and memory cost for granted, even if it was for a good reason. those hardware improvements arent necessarily going to continue forever - at some point we will run up against physical limits, so programmers should be more responsible about performance. the need to ship fast is often in conflict with writing performant software

the only exception to my point is TVs, why the forget do all of them have such stuffty god damn processors. I have never bought a ""smart"" TV that functions without significant input lag or crashing. In this case, I think running an entire OS on the thing is overengineering and it should only display what the inputs are giving it. I want my TVs dumb as a brick
nah but I do like having a netflix/amazon prime/emby/etc app right on the TV.
i have to imagine they develop the OS on dev machines that perform much better than the TVs themselves
they might also be writing OSes that are used by many different TV models with different hardware

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Off Topic / Re: IDF VS HAMAS
« on: March 09, 2024, 09:36:43 PM »
Palestinians have every reason to fight against this bullstuff, but I don't think they'll shy away from avenging the decades of bloodshed if they get the upper hand. What do you think a peaceful solution could look like?
they didnt do "decades of bloodshed" against the white afrikaners in south africa after apartheid. but many of them left voluntarily.

im not sure if you mean a peaceful solution to the war in gaza, or a solution to palestinian statehood. in either case, the US has massive leverage, we could threaten to pull military and political support and bring them to heel very quickly. they're very dependent on american military and political support.

ideally there should be a single secular state there with equal rights there for everybody i think. if we somehow got to that point i think a lot of zionists would leave the country

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Off Topic / Re: Happy international women's day everyone
« on: March 08, 2024, 04:18:56 PM »
wamen hold up half the sky  :iceCream:

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Off Topic / Re: IDF VS HAMAS
« on: March 07, 2024, 02:23:35 PM »
an underrated aspect of this is that netanyahu and his cabinet will probably be brought up on corruption charges once this conflict ends, so he has every incentive to extend and expand this conflict. if he expels the palestinians in rafah into the sinai, especially during ramadan, itll expand the conflict to include lebanon, yemen, possibly syria, possibly iran, which will force the US to get more involved. we are basically in a murder Self Delete pact with a highly unstable ethnostate. oh and israel has secret nukes that aren't subject to UN inspection requirements so that's fun.

it's really hard to understand the political calculus biden is doing, i think at this point he probably thinks "even if we stop this now, the pro-palestine part of my base is not gonna vote for me anyway". and that is probably correct. that's a very craven evil way to think about ending a genocide though.

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Off Topic / Re: IDF VS HAMAS
« on: March 07, 2024, 02:14:45 AM »
I don't know why you guys are willing to make such strong claims well not seeming to knowing your history very well. Anti-Semites have been killing Jews for hundreds of years. Seems weird it's only a problem once the Jewish can stand up for themselves after building a home by... buying land and defending it.
i know the history well. they only bought land at first but in 1947 the UN granted them 56% of the land between the river and the sea despite them being only 1/3 of the population there. this was done with almost no consideration towards the desire or land claims of the palestinian population. the arabs that the UNSCOP surveyed didn't want there to be a partition at all but they did it anyway.
this sparked the israeli "war of independence", in which 700k palestinians (80% of the population) were violently expelled from their homes forever. this is not disputed by mainstream israeli historians (source)

Not claiming all the land was bought but as far as I know most land acquisition by Israel has been after they've been attacked and they retaliate.
in 1947 the UN just gives them 56% of the land when they only legally owned 7% of it at that point. after the 1949 armistice they have even more land than the UN would have given them. naked theft
in 1967 they attacked syria, iraq, egypt, jordan, and lebanon, to steal the west bank, the golan heights, gaza, and the sinai desert which they gave back in 78. they claim this was a "pre-emptive strike" because egypt was warned of the attack and amassed troops in the sinai beforehand.

There's absolutely plenty of Anti-Semitic conflicts targeting Jews prior to 1948. E.g. Why aren't we talking about the Balfour Declaration of 1917? It feels like talking about 1880-1920 would be far more productive than starting in the middle of the conflict.
what is there to say about the balfour declaration? the british did not keep their promise that palestinian rights would be respected, they completely mismanaged mandatory palestine and both sides hated them. why should we be talking about that


...there are more than enough resources for everybody to live happily in the area between the river and the sea. israel produces 95% of its own food requirements

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Off Topic / Re: IDF VS HAMAS
« on: March 06, 2024, 12:27:09 PM »
This entire conflict has been like a car crash in slow motion, we could've stopped it before but now it feels like we're a bit powerless to stop it. We can stop it in theory, but that stuff ain't happening no matter how many people say #freepalestine on Twitter or TikTok. These people hate each other's guts, and they're both so entrenched in their lands that both of their only win conditions are "kill everyone from the other side" and have been for the last few decades. This sort of generational hate cannot be calmed by fancy words.

There will be no peace until either side is wiped out, or they're both occupied by yet another nation as a "policing action" to try and stop the violence through even more violence.

All that being said, zionists and sharia-adherent muslims both suck. I hope the fighting leaves one dead and the other near death.

this logic comes from israeli projection (not accusing you specifically of projection). one side has actually been oppressing, displacing, evicting, starving, imprisoning children, for 75 years at this point. and the rationale they give is that "if we do not do this, they will do it to us". the oppression they imagine will happen to them if they lift their boot is completely hypothetical. zionists throw histrionic fits about how palestinians want to do pogroms, to justify actually doing pogroms and ethnic cleansing.
jews, christians and muslims lived together in palestine in relative peace up until the 20th century, when zionists began making aliyah to israel and set up a proto-state. their intent from the beginning was to set up a colonial state and they didn't hide that fact well, though they tried, which is how the conflict started

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We can stop it in theory, but that stuff ain't happening no matter how many people say #freepalestine on Twitter or TikTok. These people hate each other's guts, and they're both so entrenched in their lands that both of their only win conditions are "kill everyone from the other side" and have been for the last few decades. This sort of generational hate cannot be calmed by fancy words.
twitter and tiktok have been pretty important actually. obviously just posting really doesnt help anyone, but seeing the death and destruction in HD on social media is why there's been so much mobilization and popular support. the free palestine movement has never been this big in the US.
this sort of argument was made about south africa yet the apartheid regime there ultimately did not last, i think apartheid states like this are more fragile and tenuous than you think.

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Off Topic / Re: IDF VS HAMAS
« on: March 04, 2024, 12:49:07 PM »
I think I might have learned enough to argue! LETS GOOOO
AKA "i read wikipedia for an hour and became an expert"

Care to define genocide? Or am I supposed to just feel bad because it's the word "genocide" and I should take it at face value? I'd argue the fact Gaza isn't glass is a sign that Israel might not actually be committing "genocide". They sure do seem to take quite a few actions to avoid civilian casualties. Unlike Hamas who targets civilians, kills civilians kidnaps civilians and stores munitions under their own civilians.

The UN definition:
"In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such:

    Killing members of the group;
    Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group;
    Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part;
    Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group;
    Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.
"
every aspect of this definition besides forcible transfer of children (though maybe jailing hundreds of children through military courts with a 99.9% conviction rate counts) applies to Israel.
notably, "glassing" Gaza is not a prerequisite to calling it a genocide. a definition of genocide that only applies after there's nobody left to be saved would be completely useless.

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Off Topic / Re: Software engineering trends that annoy you
« on: March 01, 2024, 04:22:33 PM »
when programmers take the speed/capacity of modern hardware for granted. why is there like 5 seconds of latency half the time when I'm menuing around my TV. Why does your stuffty little mod manager have Chromium embedded into it.

also shoving the flavor-of-the-week hyped thing (AI, NFTs) into your product for no actual reason other than to appease investors

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Off Topic / Re: new year's resolutions?
« on: January 22, 2024, 03:42:25 PM »
think im gonna try to walk like miles and miles per week doing photography + field recordings. once it gets warmer. hopefully i will lose some weight and collect lots of cool photos and samples

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this sucks wow

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Off Topic / Re: Whamageddon 2023 (it begins)
« on: December 07, 2023, 03:01:58 PM »
it literally says it in rule 3 in the op
Youre gay and fail however

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Off Topic / Re: Whamageddon 2023 (it begins)
« on: December 07, 2023, 01:54:32 PM »
i heard a remix idk if that counts  :panda:

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Off Topic / Re: Israel VS Hamas
« on: November 11, 2023, 04:18:17 PM »
i dont understand why you handicaps manage to bring your senile presidents up in every single topic imaginable?
israel would literally disintegrate without america's apparently unconditional financial, military, and logistical support. the president has immense leverage over israel even without support from congress. it's completely relevant here

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Off Topic / Re: how have the last 5 years been for you?
« on: November 03, 2023, 01:05:12 PM »
i feel like i lucked out immensely. only the last two or three months of my undergrad were affected by covid, and i graduated with a full time offer as a software engineer in 2020 right before the job market went to stuff, helped my parents buy a house with a super low mortgage rate (2.9%) and the waves of layoffs havent affected my team so far. graduating even one semester later would have forgeted up my life so bad. the year before that was awful im not gonna go into it but my family had lots of financial difficulties and now we're doing a lot better cause i can help pay their bills

the covid lockdown was a blur i just oscillated between zen solitude and boredom/depression, i did lots of working out and rotting in front of the computer and after lockdown ended i was super sick of being online all the time

after covid i felt a lot of uncertainty/ennui about what i want to do next, i have the job that ive wanted since high school and i have a lot of time and money but i had no goals or direction after that. in the last year ive been playing a lot more music w/ other people and it's been really rewarding and fun. im gonna focus on that for a while and hopefully start recording and releasing stuff soon

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Off Topic / Re: i f ucking died
« on: September 07, 2023, 11:11:32 AM »
Real

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