ComradeKhoumrag

ComradeKhoumrag , 1 month ago

The math looks perfectly fine. But when people phrase “half of a quarter” I think they have (1/2)*(1/4) in mind, instead of 0.25/0.5

ComradeKhoumrag , 1 month ago

I know, but to me this meme doesn’t make sense to me unless I assume the person reading the math Expression is interpreting its real world application.

25 / 5 = 5 and nobodies head exploded. That’s just evaluating a math Expression. .25 / .5 = .5 is the same. It’s not a “my brain can’t comprehend how to evaluate expressions” as the meme suggests.

However, if someone who doesnt do much algebra thought to themselves “I need half of a quarter”, then I could understand why their brain might “hurt” as the meme suggests, for a similar reason why adding 20 degree Celsius water to 20 degree Celsius water doesn’t make 40 degree Celsius wate

I’m probably reading into it too much, but the meme just doesn’t feel like a “mind fuck that keeps me up at night”. I’m looking for reasons to try and explain it, but it’s just a math expression at the end of the day

ComradeKhoumrag , 1 month ago

I want to see this post that got removed now

ComradeKhoumrag , 2 months ago

Had me in the first half ngl

ComradeKhoumrag , 2 months ago

I’ve been using Wayland on plasma 5 for a year or so now, and it looks like the recent Nvidia driver has merged, so it should be getting even better any minute now.

I’ve used it for streaming on Linux with pipewire, overall no complaints.

ComradeKhoumrag , 2 months ago

I block individuals. I think it can be good to expose myself to the eastern narrative a little since I’m only experiencing a western narrative. As well as eastern shitpost’s since I subscribe to 4chan

ComradeKhoumrag , 2 months ago

Thank you 🥹

ComradeKhoumrag , 2 months ago

It’s comparing apples to oranges, that said, the current version of Debian is much closer to the UX of Debian 6 than windows 11 is to windows 10

If the point of windows is you’re paying for an operating system and should then have better support than a free alternative, they should be able to push security updates, especially if they’re already committed to ensuring old windows app can still run inside new windows

ComradeKhoumrag , 2 months ago

No, it’s not apples to oranges because Mac and windows are both paid support.

If you want to compare apples to apples, then sure, Mac is better than windows. That’s a low bar to beat though. I was comparing apples to oranges, which was a comparison in paid vs free support.

But yes, macs desktop environment and user experience hasn’t taken half as much of a dump as windows. But they’re also based on Linux, and don’t have to make the same commitments windows does

ComradeKhoumrag , 2 months ago

Nixos has made me a better software engineer, I hope it takes off

ComradeKhoumrag , 1 month ago

Software engineering is usually distinct from programming in that it isn’t about the logic behind programming, but about the project management that all software projects typically have in common.

Besides agile methodology, a lot of software engineering involves creating reproducible environments. While NixOS doesn’t provide anything that much different from tools like Ansible,

NixOS follows a functional/declarative design paradigm, functional/declarative design paradigms communicate similar logic for solving the same problem. It’s a restrictive paradigm. Consider how javascript is not restrictive, as in, you can code with any design paradigm in javascript, and how it’s ugly for that.

I also think functional paradigms mirror the natural language closer than imperative paradigms. That’s subjective, but I would still argue Math is a logical language that is a subset of the natural language, and since functions in programming represent a process of doing something, functions make for natural verbs. Meaning, understanding the naming convention for the functions, is a natural naming convention for when I communicate with other software engineers, even when I’m not asking about making configurable/reproducible systems in NixOS

Or when I look at how to config things like firewall, ssh, vpn servers, user group permissions… it’s a minimalist description that I could communicate to other people configuring even on a debian server

So, it’s hard because it’s restrictive, but if you’re willing to put up with a learning curve, you get a language agnostic framework for describing computing environments, more or less. Then there’s more advanced stuff with nix flakes, which still doesn’t make sense to me functionally/linguistically, but I’m starting to see the value in parallel package management and the precision in reproducibility they provide by requiring sha256 git commits

ComradeKhoumrag , 2 months ago

A shitpost’s a shitpost damnit

ComradeKhoumrag , 2 months ago

Even our ads are unpaid and FOSS

ComradeKhoumrag , 3 months ago

Hmmm… Nice, nice, that’s nice,

Which university??

ComradeKhoumrag , 3 months ago

I can add, podman was ignored in previous years at my day job because there were some reliability issues either with GPU access or networking I forget, however these issues have been resolved and we’re reimplementing it pretty much effortlessly

ComradeKhoumrag , 3 months ago

And that’s why I say “bruh”

I’m probably the only person to not use that word like a frat douche, I just like calling my guy friends bro and I tried calling my female friends bro and they didn’t find that funny so now everyone gets bruh’d

ComradeKhoumrag , 3 months ago

So why not do the same with a bank ledger?

ComradeKhoumrag , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Web3 is more about smart contracts and alt coins, you didn’t address my point

Edit: you can downvote if you like but your post objectively shows you don’t know the difference between web3 and block chain, and choosing to debate web3 instead of making changes to bank ledgers in my original post is a logical fallacy

ComradeKhoumrag , 3 months ago

Well, it shouldn’t have been in your 2024 bingo card because it’s been a yearly ordeal for decades

ComradeKhoumrag , 3 months ago

I’m pretty one sided on this topic, and I’m sorry if my first comment was hyperbolic as well as one-sided. That said, Is what you’re saying:

If Israel starves Palestinians in a ghetto they can’t escape, that qualifies as Hitler shit

If so, then I have to ask if the process of Palestinians being forced into ghettos they can’t escape, in their own lands, qualifies as Hitler shit?

I truly think Israel has always been this cruel. The only thing that’s changed is it’s a lot harder to hide something from the Internet.

Also, not like 80 years of colonialism is that different from 100, but the colonies that eventually formed into the nation of Israel were called “British Palestine”. When Israel was formed in 1948, this was well after the UN had operated under the imperative that “[the recently discovered] Nukes are dangerous, but the new world order isn’t evil because we can use this power to preserve countries’ borders”

Also, I’m not saying anything nice about the Eastern block. I hold the opinion western intervention was okay in scenarios like Vietnam, because before capitalist imperialists and even communist imperialists, there were Japanese imperialists destabilizing that region

ComradeKhoumrag , 3 months ago

When Israelis couldn’t subjugate the city of Haifa, they completely destroyed it and built a new city with the same name on top.

Theyve been doing Hitler shit for decades, is it really the case that America’s longest, oldest war in the east is our most righteous?

ComradeKhoumrag , 3 months ago

Holy crap, now that you mention it, im pretty sure I’ve felt something similar from shrooms

ComradeKhoumrag , 3 months ago

Ruh roh, you just rattled the hive mind

ComradeKhoumrag , 3 months ago

I m S p a r t a c u s .

I was too nervous to finish a math test. Finished and went up to ask her if I could go. Did it right by her feet.

At the time, I was ashamed. Now, I’m a hero. Thank God most kids didn’t like that teacher.

ComradeKhoumrag , 3 months ago

Ruby was recommended to me by my comparative programming languages professor. I haven’t picked it up, but there were memes that this professor was so good at programming he was secretly built by the university in C++ to teach students how to write better code.

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

Bankers are useless and a waste of resources. Replace them with computers

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

I suspect it’s a similar story with AI

Before AI took off, it was necessary to make groundbreaking discoveries. Pretty much all the architectures and most if not all of the data for training were released open source

Now that AI is taking off, these companies don’t want to help their competition. So their data and algorithms are becoming more and more closed off

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

Probably got eaten by one of China’s 5G cell towers… Always a bigger fish

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

Some of those government websites only work on chromium too, which is irritating

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

I don’t mind using discord, but I think it’s best to consolidate all project management communications on a single platform

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

Gimme a wedge pillow to keep my ass above my head and I’m in

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

I hate Israel more than the next guy, but those nations likely wouldn’t be sympathetic to the west’s form of government anyways.

Israel is not a colony we created because we felt bad for Jewish people. Israel is a colony we created to be able to project power in the middle east.

So, it’s not about getting Arab nations to like us. It’s about having a place to park stealth bombers those countries don’t have the technology to shoot down. It’s about having a Mafia group willing to do our dirty work so we don’t look that bad doing it

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

Lol samharris.org

What kind of pretentious loser names an opinion blog site after himself, and bestows a “.org” at the end

The more I read this crap the more obvious it is this bullshit article relies on lengthy annoying paragraphs that no one wants to read and a “.org” at the end to sound more official

Myth #1: Israel is guilty of “genocide” in Gaza.

The term “genocide” has a clear meaning—it’s the destruction or attempted destruction of a whole people.

Yes , 95% of people starving in the world were in Gaza when Israel chose to withhold aid to them. That is the attempted destruction of a whole people

Myth #2: International Humanitarian Law Requires that Israel’s response to Palestinian aggression be “proportional.”

I’m as anti Israel as it gets, and I’ve never heard this argument that you’re legally bound to proportional, sounds like this author really likes the title of the blog counting up to 5.

That said, there are tons of MORAL arguments against disproportionately killing civilians, but the only legal one that comes to mind is when Israel evacuated Gazans to a region in the south, then bombed that region with white phosphorus cbsnews.com/…/israel-hamas-war-white-phosphorous-…

Myth #3: The Jews Are Colonizers and the Palestinians are Indigenous People.

Not the Jews, but, the Israelis are colonizers. Biblically they were a nomadic war faring tribe. They never were a country. The west created a colony to project power in the middle east because they had no other allies there. Israel is a country in a region called Palestine. Palestinians never formed a government that resembled something the west could do business with

In colonialism, the colony has superior technology. The middle east just industrialized, how the hell could Palestinians have been anything but natives the last few thousand years

Myth #4: The atrocities committed by Hamas (and over one thousand Palestinian civilians) on October 7th were a legitimate response to oppression.

Israel left Gaza in 2005—forcibly removing thousands of its own citizens—and billions of dollars in international aid have since been spent there. So the “oppression” of the Palestinians in Gaza—by Israel—is at least debatable.

This is so fucking stupid I’m just going to leave this here. “Oppression” lmao, why the air quotes? Being born in a ghetto doesn’t count as being oppressed?

Myth #5: The two sides in this conflict are equally civilized, equally entitled to respect, and equally worth protecting.

I actually agree with this. You can’t compare violence between two groups when one group (Israel) is occupying the other (Palestine). The violence from Palestinians against Israel is like violence from black people to the police. It’s not good, but it’s not the same. One group is oppressed and radicalized from that, the other group is systematically oppressing the other

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

Hot boomer take ya got yourself there. Ya know, causing friction over the Internet is a form of protesting too?

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

Trusting Humans is literally a security flaw. Any system with trust you can find examples with fraud and abuse from those who held power by holding that trust.

We trusted bankers to invest our money, and some short sold the housing market with that money

I could go on, but trust really is a security issue. Decentralization has its efficiency issues, but saying “Bitcoin uses as much power as the 90th largest nation” is peanuts when you consider the energy inequality that America spends and compare what Bitcoin delivers with that energy versus how much energy centralized banks need to deliver a system that’s easier to fraud

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

Capitalism rejects solutions to climate change as well

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

Sure, drugs and fraud surround Bitcoin, but drugs, fraud, and banking imperialism surround the petrodollar

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

Looking at our reaction to 9/11, id say 100%

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

I will say it is crazy how fast the parties have rotated policies

My dad used to listen to rush Limbaugh when I was a kid because for some reason he liked hating it so much. When Obama was president, the narrative was always anti Russia, pro defense like feds/CIA (“hard on crime”)

Then trump becomes president, and the party slowly shifts to pro Russian, and the liberal lefts that used to hate the feds/CIA are now more on the same page with those agencies

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

As a rule of thumb I’d agree

That said, few people I can immediately see are extremely compatible and uniquely similar would be fine marrying that young. I could see how having a kid even at 20 could be appealing. Imagine being 40, your kid is 20 and finally cool to hang around with while you’re still healthy

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

I can’t say much about this paper, but I like Sabine. She can be like judge Judy sometimes but I’d rather hear a hot take than a tepid one.

Friends of mine have complained how she’s strayed away from physics videos towards more general science. She can also be a little condescending towards string theorists’ research interests

Other people might get uncomfortable when it comes down to her videos on free will.

For this paper however, it seems Climate targets in recent years have been under estimating global warming and have to accelerate their models each year. She seems worried this opens up the possibility of 4-6C of warming.

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

It depends on the feminist, but feminism itself is actually pretty egalitarian

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

The same ones that are against traditional gender roles. I don’t think they’d argue for mandatory military service so much as no one should be forced to serve in a war

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

If it’s decentralized, you’re original point about companies being able to get hacked doesn’t apply anymore

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

The current ID system we have - social security numbers - are infinitely worse. Add 1 to it and it’s another valid SSN. Most of the numbers can be determined with regional info

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

No one’s paying me anything, and I’m well informed of the civil liberty issues surrounding government IDs in general, let alone digital or paper.

What I am referencing is decentralized digital ID. There is no ominous they or third party who could control you with a decentralized digital ID. We already have a pretty shitty ID system, but a better ID system with less centralized control can exist

ComradeKhoumrag , 4 months ago

Everything is hackable, even the current form of id we have which is SSN. Decentralized digital ID is orders of magnitude harder to hack, and has even less government control over the ID process. The expectation value to crack modern encryption is measured on eons even if you’re using all the power in the sun and physically perfect efficiency in energy to computation conversion