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sethrin··on The force that shapes everything around us: Parking
Well no, Trump was elected by a majority of the Electoral College. The majority of the public vote went to the other candidate. Which is sort of the point, that the US is not actually democratic in some important ways which influence policy decisions.
sethrin··on The World Bakes Under Extreme Heat
Reducing it, ideally to pre-industrial norms. Stopping extreme weather is obviously impossible, and so obviously so that it's bizarre you're even trying to prop it up as a strawman.
sethrin··on Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity
Your post is content-free, and it says much about the value of your thoughts. This is not a problem of emotions, except in that it's a useful tool for others to manipulate your emotions. The only effective solution would be to subsidize these relationships via taxes, ideally to the point where one partner can devote themselves to childcare. In this society, you want something, you pay for it. You should probably contemplate why this isn't being proposed by the people who are supposedly concerned about this problem, but I suspect you'll find an answer that lets you keep thinking that you're thinking, rather than being played like a fiddle.
sethrin··on The World Bakes Under Extreme Heat
It's also not going to stop meteor strikes, but fortunately no one has ever suggested that was the purpose of decarbonization.
sethrin··on The World Bakes Under Extreme Heat
It's just your average climate liar https://tribune.com.pk/story/2370179/climate-change-deniers-...
sethrin··on 2500 Job apps, 46 interviews, 1 offer
What you say is impossible, and it's not worth my time to discover whether you're a liar or merely deluded.
sethrin··on 2500 Job apps, 46 interviews, 1 offer
Is this sarcasm or epic hubris? No-one writes bug-free code, and thinking otherwise sounds like an enormous red flag.
sethrin··on As a therapist, I know what’s breaking couples up
Congratulations on successfully distinguishing rainbow capitalism from social justice. I don't think you're making the point you think you're making.
sethrin··on As a therapist, I know what’s breaking couples up
Social justice is also economic justice. I'm not sure why you're talking about these as separate concepts.
sethrin··on Why Kakoune – The quest for a better code editor (2016)
I've been using the vim vscode plugin in vscode-nightly with Copilot Chat for a few weeks. I'm far from a vim expert, but I think you don't understand the point of vim, which is perhaps best understood as a language for text manipulation. Also, I have not found the chat feature of Copilot to be particularly useful.
sethrin··on The Staggering Frontiers of CSS
The issue with IE 5 wasn't that the features were useless, it was that they were proprietary.
sethrin··on Rich Kilmer on the Power of Ruby (2007)
There are very few situations where you'd need or want ActiveRecord to step out of the way, and in general Rails does a lot more for you.
sethrin··on Scientists warned about climate change in 1965
History is not being re-written, you just don't know the difference between opinion articles and actual scientific papers, and you additionally have no understanding of the relevant science. It's not that AGW hasn't been controversial, it's that you have no idea what that controversy was or when it happened. The theory was flat-out disproved in the first half of the 20th Century, and it only slowly regained credibility[0]. By the late 60s the consensus had broadly shifted in favor of CO2-mediated climate change, which is recognized by one of the documents linked in the "economonitor" article[1].

What you believe is untrue. It also seems to be motivated reasoning, so I will limit my engagement, but it's worth clarifying to others that your perspective is meritless.

[0] https://history.aip.org/climate/co2.htm#Sk [1] https://geosci.uchicago.edu/~archer/warming_papers/charney.1...

sethrin··on Scientists warned about climate change in 1965
It's intended to seem like a serious critique of AGW, while not actually having any factual value. It's more effective the less familiar you are with science; if your understanding of the subject ends with the authorities claimed by the persons involved then it may be as strong an argument as you need. You may also note that the articles the author lists in support of the "diversity of opinion" on this matter are not academic sources, and puzzlingly, one of the few serious works explicitly endorses the "consensus ... that increasing carbon dioxide will lead to a warmer earth with a different distribution of climatic regimes."

The source and person who posted it are unserious and should be disregarded.

sethrin··on Setris – Tetris with Sand Physics
Complete History Of The Soviet Union, Arranged To The Melody Of Tetris

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWTFG3J1CP8

sethrin··on Ask HN: I Want to have a small Linux laptop. What are my options?
I loved my eee but I can't imagine going back to that platform these days; it's workable for programming but it struggles with almost every task. You're going to want to run xfce or something rather than gnome or kde, among other things. I'd prefer a system76 laptop these days.
sethrin··on How to quit cars
Perhaps: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/15-minute_city
sethrin··on U.S. Depression Rates Reach New Highs
As a trans person, I have to disagree in the strongest terms.
sethrin··on Texas professor fails entire class from graduating- claiming they used ChatGTP
At some point it will be trained on data that describes itself, which will make it self-aware in a way that will probably prompt much argument about what precisely we mean by the concept of self-awareness.
sethrin··on A look at Crystal, a programming language for humans
Not sure what you mean by that last bit. That seems like something handled by asdf or some other package management tool.
sethrin··on Russia’s Economy Is Starting to Come Undone
Do you think it has anything to do with a global pandemic and an ongoing large-scale war?
sethrin··on [dead]
You're meant to be scared and upset. That's the point of these stories.
sethrin··on Copyright Registration Guidance: Works containing material generated by AI
To the degree that I've been able to verify, Warhol borrowed that one from Marshall McLuhan.
sethrin··on America and China are preparing for a war over Taiwan
US troops are already involved simply by being in the same theater. If you're planning a strike on Taiwan, you would be foolish to assume that the US carrier groups are just going to sit around while you do that. Therefore any plan for attacking Taiwan is necessarily a plan to eliminate that threat. From the US perspective, we are absolutely not posturing: we currently have lives on the line defending Taiwan, just like we had lives on the line defending Berlin. Hopefully these tensions will be resolved by other means, but if not...
sethrin··on Why Poverty Persists in America
Money stress does terrible things to even the best relationships. It doesn't even have to be abject poverty. Most of the people in the US would have a hard time dealing with an unexpected $500-1000 expense[0]. Which of course is a fantastically plausible outcome from almost any kind of medical issue -- nearly 2/3rds of bankruptcies are because of medical debt[1]. What choices do you make when your partner's difficulties make it so that you can't afford to eat? How long do you keep your kids in a situation where Famine stalks them, hollow-cheeked?

[0] https://www.bankrate.com/banking/savings/emergency-savings-r... [1] https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-93430900525-7/fulltext

sethrin··on RJIT, a new JIT for Ruby
One potential option would be to rewrite those bits in Crystal-lang. The languages are often code-compatible, and it doesn't sound like that task has a lot of external dependencies.
sethrin··on Researchers develop blood test for anxiety
I think I have more of an acute issue with anxiety, at the moment mostly driven by financial insecurity combined with unexpected medical expenses. Like what I really need right now is a few thousand dollars in travel expenses and for this precertification to go through, but failing that I just need to make it from one day to the next.
sethrin··on Researchers develop blood test for anxiety
Alcohol has maybe given me a hangover once. I also don't typically have more than two drinks in a day, and if I am having a bad enough day to want to use alcohol then that's going to be closer to 2pm than bedtime. Cannabis use is pretty continual these days, being locally legal, but I don't find it very effective for anxiety. But actually one of the main things I'm using for mood regulation these days is programming. It's hard to think about code simultaneously with anything else, and learning coding was among other things a process of learning emotional regulation with regards to coding, because it's not like the computer cares if you find a bug challenging.
sethrin··on Researchers develop blood test for anxiety
So far: alcohol, sympathetic friends. Gonna give zoloft a shot whenever they get around to filling the script.
sethrin··on Costa Rica’s enigmatic addresses (2021)
People tell you what you want to hear, because it's rude otherwise. You get all kinds of wrong directions too, because people want to be seen as helpful even if they don't know. When people tell you something will be done on $day, it is sure as sunrise that it absolutely will not be done that day, and probably not that week, and maybe not that month. People make do, and don't stress too much -- pura vida!
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