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I think that depends on the scale.

If it is possible to get enough to leave such that the underlying community collapses, then it can work.

But if the effected population is 10%? 1%? If those individuals aren't in positions integral to the existence of the community?

If the 1% that left say the US were the "top 1%", then that would certainly cause waves, though I'm not sure it would completely dissolve the US. If on the otherhand the 1% that left were...hold on what's a 1% demographic..."everyone with rheumatoid arthritis", "those suffering from celiac disease", "people with natural red hair", "american indians", "chinese americans", etc then the US that remains is probably not a whole lot different from the US that was.

Brief research points to networks surviving random departure at rates as high as 50% (a random half of town folk leaving for different reasons) and loss of core individuals (healtchare/teachers/admin) at between 10-25%.

It seems there is indeed a threshold where collapse can be triggered by sufficient flight, and of course we've seen this in digital communities like digg.

I guess I'm just looking at like, if you're say a thousand racial minorities in an on average racist city of 100,000, and you all leave, the ratio of racists to non-racists will increase assuming the minorities aren't racist themselves. There is now less reason for the non-racists to campaign on behalf of the minorities because now there are fewer instances of injustice, and less reason for the racists to change their minds because they are less likely to engage in any racially driven encounters that give them the opportunity to change their mind.

I can see the appeal of leaving. You do the math, figure it's never going to change or won't change soon enough, the impact on your life is too great, leaving doesn't cost as much as staying does, and so you leave.

But suppose you've got lots of friends/family in the area. Elders you take care of. A neighbor whose pie is almost literally "to die for". The racism sucks, but your boss isn't racist and there's really only the one guy at work, so it's really just the subway that's a problem. Now staying is less expensive than leaving so you stay and make the most of it - vote to get someone like you on the city council, organize or participate in a support group, see something say something.

There is no one answer to fight or flight. It will always depend on the exact relation between the oppressed and their oppressor(s).

It is not necessarily obvious to all. Some choose to stay out of a belief that there is a chance that order can be restored or perhaps created for the first time and that it is worth staying to participate in the work toward the prefered order.

This happens in all sorts of queer communities. Some do leave for the greener pastures, but some choose to stay and fight to build a supporting community where they already live. Some believe that they should not have to flee to the gayborhood in order to live their lives.

If every pro-choice individual left a pro-life community, the pro-life community will suddenly have zero votes against pro-life candidates/policies.

If all of the immigrants (or at least the ones with skin colors that trigger people, because no one seems to mind a white Swiss immigrant), knowing that many in the US are openly hostile toward them, simply left or chose to never enter in the first place, the US would never have a chance to develop a tolerance for these peoples.

Many Jewish people, given the chance to flee, chose to stay in Hitler's Germany in order to help others flee/hide, or support others in the area doing things like getting groceries to families that were at greater risk of harm.

Taken to an extreme, everyone at risk in a community leaving would only distill the hostility in to a pure un-hindered hatred that will take far more effort to address in the long run.

It is a personal decision that any who find themselves in hostile territory must make. Fight, flight, or freeze?

We don't have enough information to know whether or not OP is making assumptions, and therefore would be wrong to assume so.

OP could have been friends with or a friend of a friend or could have hardly met the coworker. We don't know.

have you really not been online long enough to be able to parse communication without unnecessary markup

Not sure which reporting was submitted to HN, but it was recently posted that they'd confirmed Herodotus' report: https://www.reuters.com/science/siberian-burial-site-reveals...

"Chemical analysis of braids of hair from the bodies of several people found in the central burial chamber identified chemical signatures consistent with THC"

Can you not? 9+(9(1/3)) [adding nine to itself a third of a time] is nine plus one third of nine {or nine divided by three} which is one of the three in three times three that equals nine which is three therefore 9+(9(1/3))=11 because 9+3=11

The feared eye-rolls, scathing side-eyes, and deadly scoffs.

You can see the shadow that the frame is casting in to the miniature, if that helps you see it.

To my eye the grain on the desk also looks far too large compared to the way it would look with such a grain on a regular sized desk photgraphed from the implied distance.

>The Part That Didn’t Go Away

gadgetreview using AI to report on anti-AI sentiment. Brilliant.

>If you value the freedom to pursue your own research direction and share your work freely, then choose academia

Perhaps it is more free, but my understanding has always been that professional academia still restricts freedom of research. You have to apply for funding, convince the board that your direction will be fruitul.

An archaeologist can't just dig wherever. They compete with their peers for a limitted funding pool. If the school's board is more interested in the bronze age than the paleolithic, you're probably not going to get your dino dig approved.

The same is true for CS, I assume. You can't just "i would like spend university resources developing brainfuck 2.0" because the other teams are more likely to get their funding over you getting yours.

Both corporations and university's have finite budgets, both with bottom lines and margins. The uni wants their research done in a popular field that will attract students because students generate income that funds research that attracts students that generate income that funds research that...

I was floored to discover that my i3-1215U with integrated graphics can easily run PS2 games at 60ish FPS. These are triple A games, just a little older.

If I started today and played 10 games I can emulate every single day for the rest of my life restricting myself to purely emulation, I wouldn't run out of new games for...five and a half years. (assuming my rough calculation of ~20k available games).

Drop it to a game a day and I will likely never run out of games given my life expectancy.

Consider that I will find some games I like to play for more than a day and there are easily well more than enough games in emulation alone to entertain me for the rest of my life on existing entry level hardware.

Will I ever play MODERN SHOOTER {CURRENT YEAR} on this device? Certainly not, but I can't see a reason to bemoan lack of access to such a small portion of the available industry.

Like, suppose you're a reader. You might be right that you might enjoy your favorites in their original languages, but you'd be silly to be worried about your future ability to enjoy books just because you'll likely never get to experience reading 三体 as a chinese citizen fluent in the language.

What's better? Only works for some or works for anyone?

I'll grant that the standard shipped themes for most window managers are kind of lifeless, but that's just a function of popularity. Any such project that wants to have mainstream adoption has to...be mainstream, ya know?

Like, gnome/kde/etc can't ship some solarpunk slippy slidy tiling config for the same reason that Word can't save-and-exit with :wq

But the customization is alive and strong!

Compiz-style effects live on in gnome, cinnamon, hyprland...

hyprland in general lets you config just about anything.

WaylandCraft is a thing [0]

I personally use sway as I can just run all my windows without the chrome as windows are meant to be.

[0] https://github.com/EVV1E/waylandcraft

oh, and reddit link below the fold, but look at this thing and tell me customization is dead: https://www.reddit.com/r/hyprland/comments/1tw5x6e/final_ric...

>But in real life compilers can still detect infinite loops in your code unless you try really hard to fool them.

Having never written compiled code, this intriques me. I often write one offs that I actually want to loop infinitely until I tell them to stop.

How does the compiler know whether it's just really long or infinite? Like, if I write a progressive approximation of pi or prime search algorithm, both are never going to halt because we're certain there are infinite digits of pi and prime numbers. The program could technically halt, but not as a function of the program but rather the hardware.

Or, being silly, if I write a "flip bits in target directory until all bits are flipped" and target /dev/null as a user of the software, it wouldn't halt, so the compiler would detect that?

Is there some --don't-mind-the-recursion flag for developing a program like ycruncher? I get the feeling that there's a list of "this typically causes infinities" that it checks against and if your use isn't on there well then... So it's just the mouse/mouse trap thing but in a compiler?

Or is there some unique CS going on that the compiler employs to determine certain classes of loops?

Look back to the "too big to fail" banks in '08.

From biggest to smallest, the top three:

AIG controlled $1.05T and market cap crashed from $180B to $3.8B

Wachovia controlled $782B and market cap crashed from $110B to $1.8B

Lehman Brothers controlled $639B and market cap crashed from $60B to $200M.

Massive companies accounting for lots of money in people's retirment accounts. The companies made mistakes leading to what would have resulted or did result in defaulting on their debts. Suddenly billions of dollars vanished from retirement accounts.

We could very easily see a similar cascade of corrections if we get a few more "Alphabet missed earnings" news calls.

Wikipedia has them at ~a fifth to ~a half depending on metric:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkshire_Hathaway https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tencent

Looks a little bit like my misunderstanding as there is some suggestion that the new kitten __benchmark__ (25.4MB in the 0.48 install, 30.1MB in the 0.50 install) includes more data to more thoroughly benchmark but I can't find any citation for that and they're binaries so that's beyond my scope to inspect.

edit: Does kitten __benchmark__ rely on benchmark.py? if so comparing them on github does reveal lots of changes but I don't know where in ~300 lines changed that it indicates any of the benchmarks should be taking ~5x to complete.

Genuinely confused here...release notes say improved performance, so kitten _benchmark__, right?

kitty 0.48.2 provided by fedora:

Only ASCII chars : 1.25s @ 159.8 MB/s

  Unicode chars                        : 1.05s      @ 172.8   MB/s

  Unique multi-codepoint Unicode cells : 5.17s      @ 33.9    MB/s

  CSI codes with few chars             : 1.39s      @ 71.9    MB/s

  Long escape codes                    : 1.42s      @ 551.3   MB/s

  Images                               : 1.02s      @ 524.4   MB/s

kitty 0.50 provided by install.sh:

  Only ASCII chars                     : 4.72s      @ 211.8   MB/s

  Unicode chars                        : 4.32s      @ 208.1   MB/s

  Unique multi-codepoint Unicode cells : 24.9s      @ 35.1    MB/s

  CSI codes with few chars             : 5.08s      @ 98.4    MB/s

  Long escape codes                    : 7s         @ 560.1   MB/s

  Images                               : 4.88s      @ 546.0   MB/s

I've run each multiple times and the results are similar...the new version seems to have higher throughput and yet takes longer to finish the tasks? Like, a lot longer?

It's really surprising to me that we have these language fragments that exist without any samples referencing the language itself.

I suppose for very young languages there wasn't a lot of need to specify that something was written in one vs the other given that any reader could just plainly see it with their eyes and perhaps didn't have a lot of cause to have "well, in Russian they X whereas in Japanese they Y" conversations.

But like...imagine a remote future in which we have only SMS fragments that read "you dtf" and "sup" and this weird purple thing with a green tip we're certain was a vegetable next to what we're absolutely convinced is a rendering of a butt and that's the entire corpus of the ancient XIZZY103.4 langauge.

>but you could easily say those things in a masculine way

That's the entire point. That you could say those things in a masculine way.

Anyone can train themselves to speak in ways that make them sound either closer to the gender the present as or the gender they'd like to present as.

Consider the tone, cadence, and word choice of a "hard cowboy" compared to a "dweeb streamer". They sound different, no?

Consider the vocal fry of the valley girl or the bouyancy of the "gay voice".

Hearing the following spoken over the phone, can you really not see that one might sound more like a women, and one more like a man?

"Hiya! Oh.Em.Gee! Okay! So! You're never ever going to guess what IIIiiiIII Saw! Today!" in a dynamic high pitch?

VS

"yo. wazzup. bro, I saw some shit today"

>I don't think there is any situation where a ESL speaker is going to be told that they are speaking like the wrong gender.

You might need to get out more. Or thank your fate that you're blessed to have never experienced it yourself, but even then I'd be surprised you've never had a friend experience it.

LGBT people grow up being told they're talking wrong all of the time. Women who prefer declaritve sentences are told they are being to manly all of the time.

for posterity (because I had to figure out how to figure out the app_id): I wanted to have cathode pop up in a sticky floating window in sway just like mpv does (so I can watch stuff in a nice floating window that sticks between workspaces like I have MPV doing)

So that's (in ~/.config/sway/swayconfig or your swayconfig):

for_window [app_id="io.github.andunieee.Cathode"] floating enable for_window [app_id="io.github.andunieee.Cathode"] sticky enable

>but thanks to Einstein ... we can be confident we're not going to find resolution ... circumlocuting entirely rhetorical political

I'd think we'd have Plato and Aristotle to thank for public illustrations demonstrating the limitations of utility in sophistry. And even they were probably not the first to realize that the hot air wooing the counselors was nothing more than theater.

Yeah, you'd think by 2026 there'd be literally any other way to conduct research via the web.

Maybe even like some kind of aggregator that allows you to combine several other search engines' results.

That'd be really cool if that exi...oh, wait...

How is this at all related to the mafia and anywhere near blackmailling schools?

It would only be blackmail if the service they are gating access to is of significant enough benefit that it causes enough harm to the schools to encourage them to also allow the gemini access, but that's counter to your claim that "nobody needs that company anyway"

Google is a private entity that is allowed to decide how anyone uses their products.

The schools, being entities themselves, are in turn allowed to handle this however they want. Perhaps rolling their own search to encourage learners to rely on better sources. Perhaps blocking AI generated responses. Perhaps blocking search results that advertise products to children.

Or they can just use any of a dozen other search providers.

Simlarly, imagine a block of artistically driven homes.

There is a reason that there is so much difference in interior design and art: It is easily changed and preferences vary wildly.

In a block of cookie cutter houses, one need only pick say a color of shutter.

In a block of artistic architecture, there may be one house that many enjoy while most are seen as ugly to most.

If the original builders all really enjoyed say neo-victorian, brutalist homeowners must either find another neighborhood or rebuild. And they likely can't rebuild to their own taste because what neo-victorian owner wants to stair out their windows at a bunch of cubes? What brutalist owner wants to look out upon whimsical scroll work?

It's the same in tshirts, underwear, socks, pants, bicycles...More people are okay with accepting some perceptual average than are willing to buy men's thongs and unicycles.

I'd argue that flutes are characteristically masculine what with their phallus-in-hand-demeanor. Though that is perhaps why Manly Men aren't meant to play them.

But perceptions are certainly different.

Several studies [0][1][2] have found significant differences in gendered participation in various instruments, and the perception by others of people playing instruments typically played by other genders.

Further, at least one study [4], has found that this variance vanishes or flips in queer ensembles.

Anyway, I wanted to check because Paradise Lost was a long time ago. Men were the first to wear high heels, after all. I figured there'd likely be a drift from times where flutists were male because ensemblists were male to now where anyone can be seen as gay for just about any reason.

[0] https://www.researchgate.net/publication/264200609_Musicians...

[1] https://digitalcommons.lib.uconn.edu/vrme/vol5/iss1/3/

[2] https://theath.ca/arts-culture/instrument-gender-bias/ (mentions a different study)

I mean, barring some large event, it'd be hard to change one's relationship to one's work/life/activities overnight, and even then the large event only accelerates the process.

I'm just using injury and aging as examples for events that help us to see that changing what we find joy in is possible.

Another example could be the first time you play a game in a genre you don't typically play and find it so completely compelling that you don't understand why you ever avoided the genre. Same with genres of writing, a single auto-bio/history/fantasy/sci-fi could open your eyes to the entire genre. But that's just more evidence for finding joy in things you previously did not find joy in.

So, the idea is that if it is possible to change what we find joy in, if there are things we must do that we typically view as burdens, it is possible that we could come to enjoy those things in the same way that we've come to enjoy all the things we've ever come to enjoy and will ever come to enjoy.

There are people who genuinely enjoy things that you or I don't find appealing at all.

We can use evidence for the ability to change what we find enjoyment in in the progression from soccer player to soccer manager to soccer fan. The individual who used to love playing the game is injured, ages, or isn't competitive enough to compete and so must turn to either management or being a fan if they are still to find joy in soccer. They are physically unable to enjoy it the way they used to and so adapt.

But, if one can adapt to being a manager after an injury, one can adapt to being a manager before an injury.

Outside of sport, we see the same in labor. Someone working a physically demanding job may find that they cannot compete in the market as their body ages. They must either adapt to become a manager or find some other job that is not as physically demanding. This too is a physically forced transition, but it shows that it is possible and could have been done before the aging.

In both, we find evidence that it is possible to find enjoyment in things that we do not already enjoy. The buddhists say "before enlightenment chop wood carry water after enlightenment chop wood carry water" because you change who you are/what you enjoy rather than what you do. The recognition being that there are things that must always be done: hygiene, food, water, shelter maintainence etc and that it is silly to waste our time hating or finding no joy in these things if it is possible for us to enjoy them.

We know we've got to pump water to drink and chop wood to keep the house warm, why be upset about it?

"The team calculated that for a shearwater flying 1,000 kilometers east in a day, about the maximum the scientists observed, the average error would be roughly 7 degrees. If the bird keeps checking where it is, that adds only 5 kilometers to the trip."

An error of around half a percent? That's super impressive.

I really doubt that a human (relatively familiar with reading maps) could get to their target destination without backtracks/detours adding to more than 5k. Perhaps a trained survivalist/ranger, but any average person who only knows how to read a paper map? No way.

I don't think it's that bypassing enjoyment is trivial.

It's that enjoyment is a secondary function to contentment and the user is allowed to pursue this secondary function according to their own desires. It is just that we often aren't taught the value of or the techniques involved in finding enjoyment.

Consider a professional athlete, a recreational league player, someone who watches their favorite team, and a team manager.

They are all engaged in their activities, originally, because of some enjoyment derived from the game.

But how often does each of them enjoy playing the game?

The recreational player probably gets more fun out of playing the game than the ones who choose to watch, even if they played in highschool.

When was the last time the player enjoyed the ritual of watching a game they aren't involved in?

The one who goes to every game probably gets more enjoyment from watching the game than a player on the sideline.

How often does a player enjoy arm-chair calling another game as opposed to a manager?

But, what happens as we age or in the face of injury? We learn to adapt to enjoying other aspects of our favorite activities. We do so because we are forced to without realizing that we could have been enjoying watching the game just as much as we do now post-injury.

We see this in streaming and video games: People who watch endless hours of games they'll never play, and streamers who never watch others play.

We see this in labor. As the buddhists say, "Before enlightenment; carry water, chop wood. After enlightenment; carry water, chop wood." Do what you love and you'll never work a day in your life, in other words.

The difference between a miserable manager and a jovial janitor is their ability to find enjoyment.