It's also a matter of whether it would be worthwhile to reveal the existence of such a capability in a given case. If I were a government and had just spent a pretty penny on implementing the necessary infrastructure to…
Hah, I wrote an interpreter for this in C years back after hearing that it was a good first project for people who have an interest in virtual machines and emulation. I think I actually used some of the diagnosis/test…
I've really soured on votes in recent years. They promised a sort of crowdsourced moderation and I appreciated the cleverness of the idea back around the time reddit first came out. But now I think that downvotes have…
For a time I thought steam on Linux had begun to add .desktop files for games. Nah, just Factorio. Wube really is the GOAT.
Exhalation is really excellent. It's not really sci-fi but I also really enjoyed The Merchant And The Alchemist's Gate, and the one about the tower of babel, I forget the name at the moment.
It's been getting pretty bad around here lately. I had someone reply to a post I made in that Idiocracy thread a few days ago advocating for eugenics. Really really gross all around. People here think that they're much…
My mind goes to the science fiction novel Footfall by Larry Nivel and Jerry Pournell, in which Earth is attacked by aliens and, at one point, a journalist figures out about a secret project to carry out a…
This is one of those threads that's making me feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Like, I don't think enjoying Idiocracy makes someone a bad person or anything like that, but it's pretty clearly making a eugenics argument…
I disagree. I can't imagine any sort of cultural influence that can make grown adults incapable of performing basic tasks that a child could do. https://youtu.be/jbmq9P-8FiM
I think that the movie makes it really, really obvious that the intellectual degradation goes beyond just culture. The people are presented as being borderline mentally disabled. https://youtu.be/jbmq9P-8FiM
It does explicitly reference IQ and, at one point, shows an adult taking an intelligence test and trying to put a square peg into a round hole. There is nothing in the movie that suggests that the decline in average…
I mean yes but the point at the end of the day was that the people who were breeding in Idiocracy had genetically inferior intelligence.
Intelligence is watching Idiocracy and identifying with it profoundly when you're younger. Wisdom is looking back at how much you liked Idiocracy and cringing at the fact that you gleefully and uncritically swallowed a…
Feels like we're headed back towards governments attempting to control the sharing and usage of cryptographic algorithms again.
It's super weird to me because none of the jobs I've had as a programmer have been super demanding of my time or effort? I have to work, sure, but generally not as hard as I had to work at college. I rarely get called…
Would zero knowledge proofs work here? I'm not enough of a cryptography nerd so I don't know if it would be a practical use-case.
I'm in a similar boat. I still dual boot "just in case" for a lot of things, gaming among them, but I'm really looking forward to the day that I can just cut it and go purely Linux.
TBH, without going into overmuch detail, I wouldn't generalize from my educational experience to the American educational system as a whole. I think it was better in a lot of ways, and worse in a few ways, than what…
Correct, it was around the time I learned how big Islam was in certain parts of Southeast Asia in general. It's just massively under-represented in news and popular culture and my historical/geographic education never…
Mostly just that it's easy for an American (or at least, myself circa several years ago) to assume that the overwhelmingly vast majority of Muslims live in middle eastern countries, and when I first learned that…
I also did a double take when I learned that they were Muslim-majority too. It flies in the face of a lot of assumptions.
This feels like an incredibly normal thing though? Kids oftentimes want to do things that are highly stimulating and "fun" in substitute for things that are more rewarding, often to the point of obstinance. And I don't…
I've been an awesomewm user for quite some time as well and have no plans to change. It's the lua scripting that really pushes it to the next level for me. I think I fell in love when I set up randomized times wallpaper…
Huh, y'know I shouldn't be surprised that this is possible given what I know about ssh and git. Yet I am.
> We might get some gym and sports for the mind too to give it some fake activity. The Factorio devs are ahead of the curve on that front I guess.
It's also a matter of whether it would be worthwhile to reveal the existence of such a capability in a given case. If I were a government and had just spent a pretty penny on implementing the necessary infrastructure to…
Hah, I wrote an interpreter for this in C years back after hearing that it was a good first project for people who have an interest in virtual machines and emulation. I think I actually used some of the diagnosis/test…
I've really soured on votes in recent years. They promised a sort of crowdsourced moderation and I appreciated the cleverness of the idea back around the time reddit first came out. But now I think that downvotes have…
For a time I thought steam on Linux had begun to add .desktop files for games. Nah, just Factorio. Wube really is the GOAT.
Exhalation is really excellent. It's not really sci-fi but I also really enjoyed The Merchant And The Alchemist's Gate, and the one about the tower of babel, I forget the name at the moment.
It's been getting pretty bad around here lately. I had someone reply to a post I made in that Idiocracy thread a few days ago advocating for eugenics. Really really gross all around. People here think that they're much…
My mind goes to the science fiction novel Footfall by Larry Nivel and Jerry Pournell, in which Earth is attacked by aliens and, at one point, a journalist figures out about a secret project to carry out a…
This is one of those threads that's making me feel like I'm taking crazy pills. Like, I don't think enjoying Idiocracy makes someone a bad person or anything like that, but it's pretty clearly making a eugenics argument…
I disagree. I can't imagine any sort of cultural influence that can make grown adults incapable of performing basic tasks that a child could do. https://youtu.be/jbmq9P-8FiM
I think that the movie makes it really, really obvious that the intellectual degradation goes beyond just culture. The people are presented as being borderline mentally disabled. https://youtu.be/jbmq9P-8FiM
It does explicitly reference IQ and, at one point, shows an adult taking an intelligence test and trying to put a square peg into a round hole. There is nothing in the movie that suggests that the decline in average…
I mean yes but the point at the end of the day was that the people who were breeding in Idiocracy had genetically inferior intelligence.
Intelligence is watching Idiocracy and identifying with it profoundly when you're younger. Wisdom is looking back at how much you liked Idiocracy and cringing at the fact that you gleefully and uncritically swallowed a…
Feels like we're headed back towards governments attempting to control the sharing and usage of cryptographic algorithms again.
It's super weird to me because none of the jobs I've had as a programmer have been super demanding of my time or effort? I have to work, sure, but generally not as hard as I had to work at college. I rarely get called…
Would zero knowledge proofs work here? I'm not enough of a cryptography nerd so I don't know if it would be a practical use-case.
I'm in a similar boat. I still dual boot "just in case" for a lot of things, gaming among them, but I'm really looking forward to the day that I can just cut it and go purely Linux.
TBH, without going into overmuch detail, I wouldn't generalize from my educational experience to the American educational system as a whole. I think it was better in a lot of ways, and worse in a few ways, than what…
Correct, it was around the time I learned how big Islam was in certain parts of Southeast Asia in general. It's just massively under-represented in news and popular culture and my historical/geographic education never…
Mostly just that it's easy for an American (or at least, myself circa several years ago) to assume that the overwhelmingly vast majority of Muslims live in middle eastern countries, and when I first learned that…
I also did a double take when I learned that they were Muslim-majority too. It flies in the face of a lot of assumptions.
This feels like an incredibly normal thing though? Kids oftentimes want to do things that are highly stimulating and "fun" in substitute for things that are more rewarding, often to the point of obstinance. And I don't…
I've been an awesomewm user for quite some time as well and have no plans to change. It's the lua scripting that really pushes it to the next level for me. I think I fell in love when I set up randomized times wallpaper…
Huh, y'know I shouldn't be surprised that this is possible given what I know about ssh and git. Yet I am.
> We might get some gym and sports for the mind too to give it some fake activity. The Factorio devs are ahead of the curve on that front I guess.