coffeecat

Around the time when the marketing industry exploded in the 20th century, it became a hygienic necessity to strip the oils out of your hair and replace them with a synthetic alternative (conditioner). I haven't used shampoo for about 10 years now. For some reason many people are shocked by the notion of not using shampoo, but my hair looks good and I see no benefit to removing its natural oils.

> Sure there are some cases in which we can draw a fine line between black and white zones (like rape).

This is the quintessence of gray area. Sure, we have violent rape versus mutually consensual, mutually enjoyable sex as black and white examples of rape and not-rape. What about mutually consensual sex where there's some kind of power imbalance? She reluctantly says yes, and doesn't seem to be enjoying it? She initially says yes, then she says stop a few minutes into it and he doesn't stop until the fourth time she says it? The gray area here is virtually endless.

> It's not something small like a basic income, which has become popular for certain VCs and people in Silicon Valley to promote, but real massive and transformational programs that would actually cost those people something. Frankly I think UBI is a cynical ploy to give people some nominal amount to avert something more substantial like Medicare For All (or some other universal healthcare system).

I hear this sentiment a lot from people on the left, and I don't understand it. A fairly modest UBI of $1,000 per month (the basis of Yang's campaign) for adult citizens would cost $3 trillion, which is about 14% of the US' GDP. That's a bit less than healthcare as a fraction of the nation's GDP, but it's also a historically unprecedented amount of wealth being directly redistributed. How can one seriously argue that this is not a "massive and transformational" program?

I have a non-rigorous pet theory that the combined effects of lead plumbing and leaded gasoline produced generations of Americans, from the late 19th century to the late 20th century, whose population-wide intelligence levels were adversely affected by lead exposure.

If you're only brewing for yourself, and you like your coffee strong, I'd suggest trying a moka pot. They have no plastic except on the exterior, and have been shown to extract the highest levels of antioxidants compared to other common brewing methods.

I don't think the difference between those two groups is particularly significant. Both groups unapologetically ignore an area of well-established science. Both groups are philosophically equivalent (humans can keep burning fossil fuels with no adverse effects), both are influenced by the same (or functionally equivalent) propaganda, and both will oppose policy solutions. One group ignores a bit more science than the other, and arguably, might make worse real estate purchasing decisions.

> and so it makes it bloody difficult to, say, leverage my finances in order to buy an electric car (when my reasonably-efficient gas car is working fine and has decades of useful life left)

This is tangential to your point, but given the carbon footprint of manufacturing a car, this would almost certainly be counter-productive.

I'm curious if you considered or attempted to use pdfplumber's table extraction methods to separate tabular from non-tabular text. That would be my starting point on a problem like this, as picking the relevant rows of a table is far easier than picking from the set of all tokens. By the way, when you say tokens, you're referring to non-whitespace characters separated by whitespace? How reliable have you found pdfplumber to be in picking out words/tokens?

Any particular works that you would recommend starting with?

  > So yes, you can run sway with the nvidia module loaded, just please unload it and test again before you report bugs.

If that were the language used in the issue tracker, then fine. It's sensible to request that users reproduce the bug with the proprietary driver blacklisted before reporting. But the attitude they're projecting is hostile and unconstructive. The bug tracker says:

  > If you are using the nvidia proprietary driver for any reason, you have two choices:
  >
  > 1. Uninstall it and use nouveau instead
  > 2. Use X11+i3 and close your browser tab
  >
  > If `lsmod | grep nvidia | wc -l` shows anything other than zero, your bug report is not welcome here.

Furthermore, sway's behavior is to check whether the proprietary driver is loaded and, if so, exit unless sway is started with the flag --my-next-gpu-wont-be-nvidia. It's hostile, childish, and very off-putting to a potential user and contributor.

It's one thing to tell users to get lost, if they are making unreasonable demands (or any demands at all, for that matter). It's another thing to make vitriolic, divisive comments about all (not some) nvidia users, or to ban all users of proprietary drivers from an issue tracker.

I do use the Intel GPU for all things graphical. But as I stated, I require the proprietary nvidia driver as well. Your issue policy is "If the nvidia module is loaded on your system, you are not permitted to file bugs of any sort" (https://github.com/swaywm/sway/issues/3039). From this, I can only infer that your attitude is to childishly exclude a large segment of users (owners of optimus laptops) on whose hardware free drivers are loaded, but who also have some use (which is none of sway/wlroot's concern) for their second nvidia GPU.

I do GPGPU work and I require the proprietary nvidia driver, which I use only for CUDA computations. I'm also excited about wayland, would like to start using sway as my daily driver, and have even considered contributing. However, your attitude, and the comments you make about nvidia users, makes me feel completely unwelcome in the sway/wlroots/wayland community (despite using an Intel GPU for graphics!). Am I correct in this perception, and do you believe your attitude positively affects the health of your projects?