beeforpork

> beeforpork says >"That is not the best case. I never burned myself on a stove."< > So you really have no idea! Sad!

Is this like "you're not a strong man unless you've been this stupid at least once"?

Strong vs. weak does not seem like a desirable way to structure society. It's no fun. Yes, I also find football competitions really boring.

OK, burning is happening right now, so mission accomplished, I guess? Are you sure people will learn from it? And who is the responsible person nearby in this reality?

> Children get told 100's of times they will burn their hand if they touch the stove. In the best case scenario they touch it once anyway, ...

That is not the best case. I never burned myself on a stove.

Also, this is not an individual Darwin problem like the stove example -- this has consequences for many bystanders who did know better, and many more bystanders who had no say in this.

It is not a waste.

(1) It is still an interesting topic, because in this case, it has world-wide consequences.

(2) Many of the problems of the world can only be solved if people are convinced that those are important problems. You need to fix people's closest problems first, like their bread and perceived security. Each individual has just one life, I wouldn't say it's selfish to want an OKish life, and only then think about what's best for the human race.

(3) Most of the right voters were convinced (and might still be) that they were doing what is good for them. But it isn't. They voted wrong, they were tricked against their actual will.

(4) This is not a singular event. The same may happen somewhere near or around you maybe sooner than later, so analysig how it happened, which groups exactly voted against their own advantage, and how to make the consequences clear and understandable beforehand, and how to prevent it in general -- all this is important.

Not wasted resources at all. The opposite. We need to remember that this is not a boring news topic.

So: was anyone hurt? What about the women: what will happen now? Will they be deported? Or were they really students who just wanted a bit of pocket money? Nothing in the article.

OT1H, sex is super good and 90% of movies are about how to get laid (strong men!), and it is essential for human survival, but OTOH, once you pay, it is super bad (weak men!). Morality even manages to override capitalism here. Weird.

And it is really nasty to conflate consensual sexwork with human traficking and not even mentioning what this was. OK, there is: 'allowed women to ... decline to perform services' -- whether it's force or consensual should be the primary information to distinguish 'OK' from 'crime'. But this is under the label of 'the madan was even a bit nice to the women'.

So, more stigma. Money spent on this police work was probably a lot -- it would be interesting to know the balance. The public money could have been spent on support for women instead, like regular free STI checkups, maybe support for office supplies (condoms), maybe medical insurance, legal advice and support.

https://www.who.int/teams/global-hiv-hepatitis-and-stis-prog... https://www.amnesty.org/en/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/POL304...

Basically: moving electric charge = magnetic field. It's equivalent, that's why it's called electromagnetism: it's one and the same force.

The Earth rotates, liquid iron (inside Earth) flows => a current flows in the iron => there is a magnetic field.

Hmm, I read the title as 'nobody should be doing porn' (with which I disagree -- everybody should do whatever they want).

Because I thought 'content creator' was synonymous with 'onlyfans model'. I was then genuinely surprised by the content of the article and by calling 'content creator' a generic term.

I'm not sure -- is it an ambiguous title, or is my context way off?

Will Amazon deliver stuff? Seriously, I have no idea about postal situation in remote locations.

While I am amazed at the technology, at the same time I hate it. First, 90% of people misintepret it and cite output as facts. Second, it needs too much energy. Third, energy consumption is rarely mentioned in nerdy discussions about LLMs.

'But you're such a killjoy.'

Yes, it is an evil technology in its current shape. So we should focus on fixing it, instead of making it worse.

:-)

Existence, universe, galactic processes and time scales are very fascinating. I do loose sleep over it, but because it is impossible to grasp, so marvellous and unlikely. And it is treated like shit by too many of my fellow earthlings. My worries are much closer and much more concrete than a galaxy collision, and I think much more urgent.

> How do you know?

Hmm, yes, I don't. I just honestly don't get why that galaxy collision is concerning. What's the concern? For whom? Four billion years is very, very long compared to humankind's evolutional history. Homo may be 2 My old, that's 1% of the time it takes the sun to rotate a single time around the center of the galaxy. Sol completed already ~20 rotations since it exists. Homo's whole history is 1/2000th the time ntil Andromeda will arrive. So, what's the concern? Humankind will not exist for many, many hundreds of millions of years.

> It's not far fetched to think that, they will continue to find ways to shape the world according to their needs.

Humans fixing Earth's and Humanity's problems is totally out of character. I did not even consider it.

Earth's death is certain. Sun's death is certain. Galaxy collision might even go unnoticed for quite a while -- it's not like millions of stars would crash into each other -- very unlikely. It's more like a reshaping, but what's concerning about that? More supernovas around us? Yeah, maybe.

But why is it more concerning that any other demise? It is an interesting question, I think, about perceived danger.

Why would you be concerned? Earth and everything living on it will be long dead by then, and probably gone and swallowed by the sun. And maybe the Sun dies before that, too. So what would be particularly concerning about merging of our galaxy with another one?

The brown ones are the most delicious. It's always the same with these novel foods -- they taste terrible, but no-one seems to care.

Sorry, this was redundant?

What it is interesting that the original title is not a question?

It is convincing reasoning. phind.com already cites Grok. And it suggests that 'useful fool' might be a better description than 'asset'.

I fail to find this info: how much energy did they get out? How much did they pump in? How long does it have to burn until there's energy in-out equilibrium?

TOS S03E15

Humankind will win the ultimate Darwin Award.

It is either an ad hominem attack, and the attackers probably did not even care that the grant is about maths. Or a simplistic filter in Excel was used to determine 'woke', and there is 'homo' in the title of the project.

> At a bare minimum, he has created several incredibly successful businesses in his lifetime, so he must be doing something right.

No, this is a common fallacy.

The main reason to get crazy rich and successful is statistics: be lucky. I.e., accidentally do the successful things. And usually starting rich helps, so you have the opportunities.

Crazy success is not a measure for capability. There is no correlation. Yes, it is sad, so despite this, the fallacy is a great motivation for many.

It would be nice to take care to allow the use of GNU gettext() or any other convenient translation tool.

Recap: _("foo %s") macroexpands to gettext("foo %s"), then "foo %s" is extracted to a lexicon of strings by an external tool, which can be translated and compiled into .po files, which are loaded at runtime so gettext() can use a translated string based on $LC_MESSAGES. (And there is also _N(..) for correct plural handling.)

To do this with f-strings, _(f"foo {name()}") (which is a bit ugly...) needs to translate to make_formatted_string(_("foo {}"), name()) -- note that the _(...) needs to be called before calling make_formatted_string, to be able to return a translated string.

I would wish for a proposal for f-strings to consider translating strings, because we live in a world with many languages. And maybe cite gettext as a convenient method, and think about what could be done. Or point to a better tool. Or state: 'in that case, f-strings cannot be used'.

It is counter-contradictor measures. It is against nay-sayer people who research and find out stuff. Being smart will cost you, because it's not the goal. Less research, and lower levels of education equals more people to fall for simplistic solutions and promisses. The definition of truth is being redefined, and open-minded research and education is in the way of that.

And it is always the same pattern.

When I was in Bristol, the smell of burned weed was frequent. More frequent than other cities, I think.

People are curious and adventurous. And greedy, power-hungry, and short-sighted. It doesn't even work today to warn people of something dangerous.

As has been said many times, any warning sign, particularly pompous ones, may always be interpreted as a sign of worship instead. So just pile a few hundred thousand skelettons on top -- a literal sign of death. We probably cannot do better. If anyone in the future does not understand this when digging it up, then a few people will need to die until they do. I don't think there's a solution.

Except maybe not to produce dangerous material that lasts longer than human memory. But that's, well, you can read the first paragraph again.

Great as usual!

But I do prefer metric units.

Thank you! I was waiting for it so I could click on it again. :-)

Ads make people desire stuff that they don't need. The goal is to make you unhappy. It is the opposite of help, the opposite of happiness.

Ads are also a great enforcer of gender and sexual identification by stereotyping and categorizing in order to target audiences. Hairstyle, toys, tools, colour, food, behaviour, everything. I blame ads for identification crises of countless souls, and for toxic human environments and for hate as people internalize stereotypes and categories. We need less enforcement to identify. We need more 'it does not matter'.

Yes, the correct amount of ads is zero.

Why not use thread_local instead of passing a param everywhere? What's the drawback there?

And for several reasons.

  * is it (*s)++ or *(s++)?
  * it is not *++s nor ++*s

And I have seen

  *(*s)++

in some places!

It is concise syntax but very confusing.

Like Java, but nicer. Used for Android app devel. Me, I would not call it multi-paradigm, because it really feels primarily like Java (though with many niceties), i.e., it is single dispatch ('this'), objects and classes everywhere. It is completely compatible with Java, and you can mix the languages freely (this is done in Android). It does have standalone functions.

Yes, it is flux (solid rosin). He vaporizes some with the iron and the smoke resolidifies on the contacts, so there is a very thin layer of flux to help with the soldering.