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cholantesh··on We need to talk about Saudi Arabia
>the Shah was liberalizing and modernizing his nation

Quaint revisionism; in fact Mossadegh was already actually liberalizing and modernizing the nation while Pahlavi was turning it into a US/UK client state.

cholantesh··on Why don't Americans trust experts? Just ask a paranormal investigator
Who is the 'cry wolf' here? A scientist that made an incorrect assertion that was rightly excoriated in the court of peer review? An underqualified writer publishing sensationalism in a tabloid? Lobbyists and politicians literally paid to amplify bullshit?

Hint: it's the latter.

cholantesh··on U.S. bombs Iranian nuclear sites
How many of them are in favour of having their cities leveled by a rogue state?
cholantesh··on Israel said Iran racing toward a nuclear weapon. US Intel says it was years away
Or they see the use of 'terrorism' in this context as the dogwhistle it is.
cholantesh··on The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly (2018)
Maybe the Democrats should have presented a cohesive and attractive proposition to them? It's not like they didn't just have four years to build and enact one and then campaign on it instead of chasing the donor class for the nth time!
cholantesh··on GitDroid: A third party Android app manager for apps uploaded to GitHub releases
I'm a Fedora guy through and through but...did Ubuntu Touch die on the vine? It seemed like it was approaching some approximation of this.
cholantesh··on The un-celebrity president: Jimmy Carter shuns riches, lives modestly (2018)
What a solipsistic tantrum.
cholantesh··on Git Commands That Cover 90% of a Developer's Daily Workflow
That sounds better but I like the granularity I get from scrutinizing specific files or the patch takes too long to review.
cholantesh··on Finland Bans Smartphones in Schools
But how do you even judge that? You have a dataset of n=1 with no control. Besides, wouldn't you expect to learn 'more effectively' with a young adult's brain than a pre-adolescent one, particularly if you were getting the right level of attention from a teacher and the pace of study was being accelerated as you moved through primary and secondary school?
cholantesh··on Satya Nadella says as much as 30% of Microsoft code is written by software
>Ouch, this makes the headline not sinply inaccurate. It makes the headline false.

To be fair, Hanlon's razor suggests it was most likely written by someone who _would_ conflate software with AI. Though knowing the reward structures in '''journalism''', it could still be deliberate.

cholantesh··on Where J.D. Vance Gets His Weird, Terrifying Techno-Authoritarian Ideas (2024)
Yeah it's so wild how multiple people can see reactionary bullshit for what it is.
cholantesh··on Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs
>You don't even see how nice it is to just not have to carry the car key because its been just so ingrained into your life, that you accept it as something normal and expected.

Possibly, but alternatively, you've rationalized that a litany of features that proffer negligible improvements to the experience of driving a car and entrench car dependency are in fact worth having what you regard as cartoonishly oversized keys* that can give malicious actors faster access to a $50000 vehicle.

* I've very recently had about 5 different ones in my pockets on extended test drives and only the CX-5 I think fits this rubric, but meh

cholantesh··on Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs
And people don't lose phones?
cholantesh··on Cars and Key Fobs: Attacks on Car Remotes
>With a cut key, I walk up to the car. I need to fish around in my bag to grab the key. I then need to stick the key in the door and turn it, using care to not scratch the paint. I get in the car, need to insert the key, turn it and hold it long enough for it to start. When I'm done driving, I take the key out, grab my bag, and get out of the car. I then need to once again insert my key into the door once again being careful to not scratch anything, turn it to lock. Then I need to put the key away again.

I'll be honest, this reads like a drastic overcomplication of a very simple transaction. Why can't you just put them in your pocket? Are you walking around like a frontier town sheriff with cylinder lock keys on an antique keyring?

cholantesh··on Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs (2021)
Because it's a wild rube goldberg solution to a minor inconvenience.
cholantesh··on Assignment 5: Cars and Key Fobs
Do they really, though? I don't know anyone who raves about how much more convenient button start is, they either dislike/distrust it or don't really care either way.
cholantesh··on Chrono Trigger Still Blows Me Away 30 Years Later
I dunno that the dialogue is any more shallow than what's present in the vast majority of JRPGs today, quite frankly, but it's quite likely that this is because it isn't voice (over)acted.
cholantesh··on Doge Is Trying to Gift Itself a $500M Building
>Going through DOGE reports [with maximum credulity], it's scary how much money is wasted, squandered and laundered.

Fixed.

cholantesh··on Chrono Trigger Still Blows Me Away 30 Years Later
I dunno; I haven't played a JRPG in years that has the same sense of immediacy and emotional connection. I feel like there is a lot invested into overbearing systems of inventory management and skill progression that doesn't, for me at least, have the same draw.
cholantesh··on Chrono Trigger Still Blows Me Away 30 Years Later
Better part of my high school evenings were spent struggling through Seiken Densetsu 3 multiple times over with the class-changing guides on GameFAQs.
cholantesh··on Show HN: Cocommit – A copilot for git commit
This doesn't answer the crucial question of why the change you're committing is necessary.
cholantesh··on Krazam: Microservices [video]
Polyrepos are not a requirement for deploying microservices, and if we're goging to discuss failures from an economic perspective, the ROI of LLM use qualifies. As it stands, claims of 'higher productivity' all seem to trace their origins to anecdotes, press releases, and self-reports on surveys.
cholantesh··on Tech terms I was pronouncing wrong
Because vite means fast in French, which is ironic because French is a well-documented waste of time.
cholantesh··on OpenAI Audio Models
As the sibling comment suggests, the impulse is probably more on the part of an Ubisoft or an EA project director to avoid hiring a voice actor.
cholantesh··on Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use after user backlash
lmao
cholantesh··on Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use after user backlash
>The worst that would happen is that the forks don't stay updated.

Which is hardly trivial, there are hundreds of open issues on Bugzilla for XUL alone. Some of the gaps include accessibility issues, which is down more to Cr better supporting APIs provided by vendors like NVDA. This is first of all, not something that is 'easy to evade' for the affected demographic, and secondly something Mozilla was an industry leader in for a long time. Obviously, Google didn't invest in this out of any sense of altruism, but it speaks to the sustainability of browser development, and what approaches thereof actually work.

cholantesh··on Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use after user backlash
Pretty much all of those forks are small volunteer projects that rely on upstream work by Mozilla, who are already struggling to keep up with MS, Google, and Apple. We were already at a point where Mozilla was laying off technical staff a few years ago. We're now seeing sites just outright block Firefox because it's not worth the effort when most users are reaching for something built atop Cr. How would any of these forks survive?
cholantesh··on Mozilla rewrites Firefox's Terms of Use after user backlash
Where does this come into play?

>they demand the right to redirect funds you give them towards discriminating against people they don't like.

It sounds _incredibly_ suspect, frankly.

cholantesh··on Tianjin robot incident raises alarm over public safety and robotics
Liquidate sounds a tad aggressive, maybe 'retire'?
cholantesh··on [dead]
By Anne "It's actually good to kill Palestinian journalists" Applebaum
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