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> but I'm trans, and I don't see this going well for me, or for my community

A crackdown on trans people would be disastrous for the Rust community.

I'm confused; are you encouraging violence against intolerant leftists, especially Communist?

A spearphishing email telling them they had to update their 2FA was the vector.

The 2FA/TOTP security theater was partly to blame for this.

> because I was in a rush

That's how they get you.

I went to the homepage, saw a few political/econ essays from "literal whos" that failed to pique my interest, and then when I clicked on "start reading" to see what else they had, I was met with a paywall/authwall.

Not surprised it's closing down. Is there some value proposition for Thinkspot that I'm missing that differentiates it from Substack or Medium?

The Taiping Rebellion

The more countries with nuclear weapons, and the more unstable or extremist they are, the greater the likelihood of an eventual detonation, even if accidental. 40 years ago, everyone understood this and agreed nuclear proliferation was bad, the US and USSR committed to reducing their stockpiles, and Reagan himself expressed a desire for complete nuclear disarmament, in part because of the near-catastrophe of the Abel Archer incident--a catastrophe only narrowly avoided despite the US and USSR both being stable superpowers led by rational actors. Anyone encouraging nuclear proliferation for every tin-pot dictatorship or gay-lynching theocracy to make the world safer is insane.

> effectively uninvadable

Yet Israel was invaded during the Yom Kippur War when it had nuclear weapons, the UK was invaded by Argentina during the Falklands War, Russia was invaded briefly by Ukraine (Kursk). And Israel arguably just demonstrated that developing a survivable nuclear deterrent probably isn't as easy as many thought. (Ukraine, to a lesser extent, also with Spiderweb.)

> Supporting Israel in preventing Iran from getting nuclear capabilities is destablizing, not the opposite.

On the contrary, it sends a strong "fuck around and find out" message to any country pursuing nuclear weapons. And if Israel is capable of this kind of decapitating strike against a country's nuclear program, imagine what the US (or China) could pull off.

Hopefully they took out some of the infrastructure Iran uses to support Russia's drone warfare against Ukraine: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HESA_Shahed_136

> I think their primary reason for pursuing nuclear weapons is as a deterrent against conventional invasion

Israel just showed how effective that deterrent is.

> Imagine a world where the USA and Israel had no nukes.

The US and Russia were committed to working towards that world, at least back in the 80s.

It's even funnier when you realize a good chunk of them are still doing low-carb diets like keto or carnivore, gorging on saturated fat, cholesterol, and sodium.

This is about sugar alcohols, not simple sugars, and total sugar consumption in the US has been declining since a peak around the turn of the millennium, reverting back to levels on par with the 1970s, yet overweight/obesity rates just kept right on climbing until the recent advent of GLP-1 drugs.

Given the fake news that came out of India after Sindoor, with the government insisting no fighters were lost even after third-party confirmation from France and the US, I'm hesitant to believe a purported "sole survivor" silver lining narrative when the only evidence is a few still photos and some brief video clips, especially in the age of AI.

> If only speed running communities existed, where they made different categories like any%, any% No major glitches/skips, all with varying prestige and competitiveness, as well as agreed upon which skips are so soul crushingly shit to do that they're excluded from every category aside from any% :(

Arbitrarily delineating good vs. bad glitches is dumb, and even glitch-free speedruns are more about persistence, just trying over and over again until you get the exact right sequence of inputs (or "RNG") to claim the record, rather than repeatable skill. This isn't like some high-level CS:GO player who can consistently headshot fast-moving targets or a high-level SF player who's mastered techniques like hit confirms.

> You might consider therapy, if playing games fast makes you angry.

I'm not the one downvoting comments, and unlike speedrunners, I don't throw tantrums over games.

The shell (COMMAND.COM) had a number of built-ins that were case-insensitive as well, like CD.

> the trick involves a use-after-free in the world collision cache (fun fact: a lot of speedrun techniques are security flaws!

In other words:

> Hey, you know those super difficult parts from games of your childhood that you're probably curious to see how we, the supposed speediest of gamers, swiftly navigate? Well, guess what? We just skip them altogether by glitching! Any% new record!

That's why no one cares about this. These people will play the same game or level thousands of times to trigger 1/1,000,000 glitches to skip huge swaths of games, then claim some made-up "record."

This is not skill. Even the non-glitch speedruns are more down to persistence (if not mental illness) than skill--which is a result of deliberate practice--like one sees in competitive shooters or fighting games. And these people throw tantrums constantly, like children, and curse the "RNG" (an admission this isn't about skill) the way a primitive tribesman might damn the gods for a prolonged drought.

Case insensitivity, one of the more obvious differences, isn't listed.

> It’s very difficult to take this stuff seriously. It’s like the initial hype around self driving cars wound up by 1000x. Because we got from 1 to 100 of course we’ll get from 100 to 200 in the same amount of time. Or less! Why would you even question it?

It turned out automating creative output, like art or writing, at least to be competitive enough with entry-level humans, was much easier, and the consequences for getting bad output are much less serious, and far short of death, seriously injury, and major financial liability as with self-driving. Fields like concept art and copy editing are already being devastated by generative AI. Voice overs too.

And looking at Google's Veo, I can easily see this tech being used to generate short ads, especially for YouTube, where before you would have had to hire human actors, cameramen, sound/lighting people, and an editor.

> Python, Ruby

It's 2025, Node.js has been around since 2009, yet these languages' still use C-based interpreters by default, and their non-standard JIT alternatives are still much worse than V8.

> That seems odd, they seem easy enough to map to each other?

Not unless you treat every method-level modification as a separate commit.

I didn't vote for Trump in 2016 or 2024, but I did do so in 2020 specifically because of the BLM riots, which the media incited (through selective reporting of police violence), excused ("fiery, mostly peaceful protests"), and then went so far as to doxx and harass anyone who resisted the mob, or even just those who found themselves in the wrong place at the wrong time, like the fuel truck driver who hadn't been informed that BLM had commandeered an interstate (and didn't want to get Reginald Denny'd): https://www.the-independent.com/news/world/americas/crime/tr...

Glad to see Trump learned his lesson from the first time.

> But Git hadn't been invented yet.

Git isn't the first or oldest DVCS. Smalltalk actually had multiple DVCSs, including ENVY (VA/Cincom), which dates back to the mid 90s, and Monticello (Squeak/Pharo), which dates to the early 2000s--both of which predating git.

Pharo and Squeak had a DVCS called Monticello that integrated with the system much better than git, but they abandoned it in favor of git, primarily so they could use github, expecting it would raise their profile amongst developers (also the VM was already developed there). The end result was the method-level modification history, including timestamps and authorship info, was lost, since it didn't fit into git's model of treating everything as text files or blobs.

Git is also much more confusing than Monticello.

> Pedophiles were showing up on FSE.

That seems to be a problem with the Fediverse in general. And admittedly, Discord.

Fat is the most calorie-dense macro at 9 per gram (protein and carb are both 4), so your accuracy is going to be heavily skewed by how accurately you can identify the fat content of the meal. The problem is that it's often in forms like oils that don't seem well-suited to AI image recognition.

Your response may strike some as flippant, but it's not exactly uncharacteristic of how Jews, even the Orthodox, navigate adherence to their mitzvot (commandments). For example, the Shabbos Goy and the Sabbath elevator, or the eruv (the wire described in the article) itself.

That's what makes me so optimistic about the current revival of interest in UFOs/UAPs, up to the point that you have congressional hearings, news coverage by CNN, and "whistleblowers" being treated as credible--the US military industrial complex must be cooking up some pretty impressive stuff to need this kind of cover.

Which is actually quite unfortunate, given that China, our closest rival, has an avowed "no first use" policy. Sanctity of human life and fundamental reciprocity would behoove us to at least, with respect to them, adopt an equivalent posture.

IIRC, it was a nonce-not-used-only-once vulnerability, wasn't it? Wouldn't that be tricky to detect, even in Rust?

Regardless, it's quite unfortunate to see Colin's nits picked in this manner, dredging up some mistake from almost 15 years ago (which he handled as responsibly as could be expected), given all of the work he's done on FreeBSD and for giving the world scrypt.