Dark_Arc

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

There is the tire problem, but 🤷‍♂️ That’s more of a “Americans want to buy giant things” problem, and the battery designs that are seemingly just around the corner are lighter

news.yahoo.com/nasa-incredible-solid-state-batter…

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

And some people will always want a headphone jack… oh wait…

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

slamming the open-door in people walking outside the door is another.

That might be true in a small shop, but in a lot of places the bathrooms are recessed into a hallway where nobody who isn’t trying to get into or leave the bathroom should be standing.

You can defend against someone forcing their way in, by using your body weight against door, something you can not do if it swings outward.

Is that really a concern…? The amount of conditions that have to be true for this to become a thing seems really long… boarding on the “your insurance policy covers you if an elephant falls through the roof on the first day of February” cartoon levels of specificity.

Not to mention if you assume a truck stop instead of a restaurant. It might be harder to use your body weight to keep a door closed, but with a proper door frame, deadbolt, and security hinges, it would be basically impossible for some hypothetical attacker to break down the door.

Odor control is another issue, door swing outward will release the smell into next room, rather than contain it with the swing inward.

Um, no it won’t? This is actually backwards the pivot of a door that swings back into a room, will force air out of a room with it swings out. If it swings out, when it closes it’s going to push air back towards the room.

In either case, I’d expect basically no observable impact on the amount of perceivable smell.

accessibility demand the door swing inward for people in a wheelchair so they can operate it.

They still have to get out…? It’s not our handicapped folks are getting stuck in bathrooms are they? And if they are, wouldn’t that be a reason to change this?

this is a building code bylaw,

I’m struggling with the rational

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

I have actually seen these foot handles in a restaurant in Columbus, Ohio… pretty nice!

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

I actually think this or just a double hinged *kitchen style" door is the best answer

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

I can see this for a stall (think someone falling over and blocking the door, or one of those really tight bathroom stalls where you really have to shimmy to get yourself into the stall), a bathroom door itself not as much.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Probably believes both of these are political attempts but Biden to look … someway … and he … doesn’t … so now he’s trying again?

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Oh look another caricature of capitalism on social media… and you tied Hitler into it…

Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor.

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capitalism

“Capitalism” is not pro slavery, shitty people that can’t recognize a human is a human are pro slavery… Because of course if you can have work done without paying somebody for it or doing it yourself, well that’s just really convenient for you. It’s why we all like robots. That has nothing to do with your economic philosophy.

And arguing that Hitler was an “effective leader” because he conquered (and then lost) some countries while ignoring all the damage he did to his county and how it ultimately turned out… Honestly infuriating.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

(I just deleted my comment, let me try again).

I find it frustrating that you associate that with capitalism and presumably “not that” with socialism. These terms are so broad you can’t possibly say that outcome will or won’t ever happen with either system.

Blaming capitalism for all the world’s woes is a major oversimplification.

If you look at the theory side of both… Capitalist would tell you a highly competitive free market should provide ample opportunities for better employment and wages. Socialist would tell you that such a thing would never happen because society wouldn’t do that to itself.

In practice, the real world is messier than that and the existing examples are the US (capitalist), the Soviet Union (socialist), and mixed models (Scandinavian). Granted, they’re all “mixed”, no country is “purely” one or the other to my knowledge.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

This isn’t a slippery slope fallacy. Nobody’s saying “if we let the gays marry the next thing that will happen is people will want to marry animals!”

What people are saying is, okay if this is being done in the interest of fairness, who else needs considered, and is it practical to consider them? Are we ever actually going to be able to achieve something close to fair?

In the US a great example in this discussion is native Americans. Do they get more or less for having their entire society destroyed, land confiscated, being driven on death marches to far away land, repeated treaty violations, decimated by smallpox, and many of the other tournaments?

I have native American, German, and Scottish ancestors that never owned a slave. I don’t have “African”, Irish, or “Asian” ancestors.

Do I get a check, do I get excluded, or do I pay for the sins of someone else’s forefathers? And then because… despite all the struggles my ancestors endured themselves, I lived in a country that’s trying to reconcile past sins of slavery they had nothing to do with directly (and hopefully were opposed to)?

Fact of the matter is, native americans suffered horribly, they just don’t exist in any kind of numbers to make a stink about it, and many of them bred into the white population.

We’re never going to get to “even” and we seriously need to consider if more unfair government wealth distribution is the solution to previous unfair government wealth distribution.

Hell I’m a full on Democrat and I strongly believe this will only make race relations worse. Like by a factor of 100 if they did that here. Two wrongs don’t make a right, and there’s no way sufficient time money and resources will be spent to actually make anything resembling fair happen here or in the US; you can’t do that when you’re trying to score political points.

Governments should be trying to help people from where they are now, not trying to reverse history and retroactively remedy history spread across hundreds of years.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Yeah I don’t get this either, it’s been like this for at least a few years.

Ha, come to think of it, I remember a teacher complaining about it on tests back in 2007. “Slow down and answer the entire question”

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Yeah nuance is an endangered concept… It’s tragic.

Part of that probably is the education system; “Here’s a multiple choice answer where several are relevant, choose ‘the best’ answer”

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Hey don’t bring George Bush into this!

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

I’ve been running into this so much with paid customer support agents; it’s been driving me mad.

And the amount of times no matter what you say they just respond “have you tried uninstalling and reinstalling?” 🤬

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Unmarked sarcasm via text is just always a bad idea. People don’t realize how much body language, tone, and to an extent history with the person, goes into recognizing sarcasm IRL.

When you remove all of that context… it’s often just an extremely dumb statement, and I for one am just going to take you at your word, because too many people really do mean whatever it is you just said.

It’s also terrible because you get a comment like “I guess the earth really is flat” which maybe 99% of people take as sarcasm, and then the one flat earther or borderline flat earther comes along and goes “wow, lots of people are getting behind this movement!”

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Yeah, lemmy seems like a great alternative to discourse.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

AFAIK English’s they or them is supposed to be plural only, but we butchered that a long time ago.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Ya have two school clubs, people in those clubs talk. If those clubs “defederate”, you can still talk to people in your club, but you can’t talk to people in the other club.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Very cool!

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

It’s not even that; those services were subsidized by investors money on this idea that once you get a user base, you can then capitalize on the user base.

Those promises were made at a loss which later had to become a profit. It’s like Discord, there’s no way hosting literal hundreds of thousands of servers for free and killing all the competition can and will continue indefinitely. I wouldn’t be surprised if their monetization gets even more aggressive because transmitting all of that audio and video is not cheap.

That’s not even a “capitalism” thing, that’s just a “someone’s got to do the work thing” and the majority of gamers went “yup that somebody can not be free!” And what always happens does, the existing solutions lost tons of revenue and became increasingly stagnant because they can’t compete with “free”.

That’s why I’ve started paying for stuff (even when there’s a “free” option or paying more for domestically produced goods – even when there’s a “cheaper” option). Cheap isn’t cheap when it comes to manufactured goods (i.e., cheap imported junk), and free isn’t free when it comes to online services. Ultimately, somebody’s gotta make “free” happen (even if it’s a government, and then that really means the tax payer).

The race to the bottom only exists because that’s what people vote for with their wallets. If it wasn’t rewarded with sales, it wouldn’t happen.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

I agree on all points. Hopefully this government collapses so a Chinese democracy can rise, or at the very least, we don’t repeat the 20th century mistake of exporting all manufacturing to a fascist country for cheap labor.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Not an Elon fan, but he’s not removing the mute feature… Which makes a bad headline but is accurate.

There was this whole debate with Mastodon because at least it didn’t originally have a block button either and a bunch of the Twitter converted were outraged.

The thing is, blocking is pretty meaningless when you have a public profile. In a sense it’s a false sense of security, because if someone is really trying to stalk you, all they have to do is open another browser, open your profile, and not login to the site or just create another account…

Edit: The one thing of value I forgot about is that blocking does stop someone from commenting on your posts, which in theory lets you cater your community/content a bit better. Though, part of why I always forget this use case is that it never really seemed to work. The small people don’t have trolls and the big people (understandably) aren’t taking the time to block all the trolls.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Yeah, when I remembered that sort of stuff I added the edit… I guess personally, I think that’s better handled at the site wide moderation lvl vs leaving accounts to deal with that and just “block” people… but it’s Musk so I don’t see that kind of moderation happening anytime soon.

The whole “one person vs all the trolls” issue is part of why the reddit/community style format (where at least a team of volunteers can handle the issues) won me over vs the twitter/microblogging format for social media.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

… what are you on about…?

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

“The best way to predict the future is to invent it.” Alan Kay

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Username checks out

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Weird example…

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago (edited 11 months ago)

Only the former should be legally enforceable.

If the law says you can’t kill people by driving into them, and then someone slides into them (intentionally), is that illegal?

Humans are a (I’ll give you flawed) part of the system for good reason, and it isn’t so the exact letter of the law can be enforced. The point should always be to understand what the law is trying to accomplish, and enforce that in the most consistent and unsurprising way possible.

This is necessary even when the exact letter of the law is spelled out because times change, and it’s unreasonable to expect every law to be updated for every edge case. Airplanes aren’t driven into anybody, but they’re piloted. “Your honor, I did not drive into my ex-wife, I flew into my ex-wife, which the law says nothing about!”

Beyond that, judges exist and are given sentencing discretion (or at least should be) because there are mitigating circumstances… in other words shit happens. Should a person who stole a car to chase after a burglar be punished the same as someone who stole a car to rob a bank? Should a person who broke the speed limit trying to get their pregnant wife to the hospital while she was bleeding out be subject to the same punishment as a person who broke the speed limit joy riding?

Moreover, the spirit of the law is not about what someone feels the law should mean, it’s about what the law is intended mean in the eyes of a reasonable person after consideration of arguments, and a thorough review of the history behind the law. All “letters of the law” are up for interpretation as all language is merely the expression and then interpretation of another’s intent. If this wasn’t the case, there wouldn’t be a word for a “miscommunication.”

EDIT: I’d like to add the need to read a law inclusively vs exclusively and how that applies to its interpretation. For example…

A well regulated Militia being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.

A strict letter of the law interpretation read inclusively of the second amendment would imply that everyone has the right to their own private arsenal of nukes. A strict letter of the law interpretation read exclusively of the same text would imply that everyone’s right to bear arms only extends to muskets and other weaponry that existed at the time when it was written. The point being, context matters, a lot.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Yup, no fan of Meta, but this law was a bad idea

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

I’m not sure this is applause worthy. Why do we need this in the first place (other than FUD about “large scale” indoctrination)?

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Cool, so list it so your customers can complain they’re getting charged for some weird tax.

This isn’t pertinent, it’s just some anecdotal whataboutism about a tax you (presumably) disagree with.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Fair enough, perhaps I’ve misinterpreted the intent of your comment. I don’t see how it adds to a constructive conversation one way or the other on the issue at hand; maybe you just intended to highlight the absurdity of an ISP’s fee structure.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Okay, I understand better now; thank you for clarifying :)

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

This has potentially interesting implications for AI generated source code and “copilots”

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

think less House of Mouse and more like “screws, but different”

What are you talking about with “screws, but different”? Are you confusing patent law. with copyright law…?

Patents protect the design and/or mechanism of physical inventions vs copyright which protects written works (books, articles, papers, source code, etc) and similar media assets (music, movies, tv shows, etc) from unauthorized reproduction?

WRT patents, I agree they suck, and they need rethought (or at least, there needs to be a much higher bar to getting a patent).

Copyright law as currently implemented limits expression and prevents expansion of ideas

Copyright does very little to limit expression and actually encourages people to come up with original work vs simply reproducing or altering in the smallest way possible an existing work. Through fair use, copyright even permits sufficiently derived works like parodies and satire.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

What if I told you patent and copyright law were too similar? Would that make my metaphor make sense?

No, and you’d be wrong. A patent applies broadly to any and all inventions using a similar mechanism, copyright applies to specific instances.

e.g., if a patent on a “fictional hero with extraordinary powers” was allowed to exist, there would not be DC vs Marvel discussions (or if there were, one company would be shelling out money to the other for using their patented comic book formula). Meanwhile, we can have Captain Marvel and Superman (and numerous other permutations of the formula) under copyright law. We can also create software which functions very similarly to another (Lemmy and Reddit) but are implemented via independent means; meanwhile patent law would almost certainly forbid this as it would be based on the underlying central ideas (e.g., communities holding posts which can be commented on and up voted/down voted – each of these things could compose patents or the whole could compose a patent if trying to use one system in place of another).

People often communicate with what is known as figurative language

… okay?

newmediarights.org/…/what_are_major_criticisms_co…

The criticism on fair use being enforced in the court is fair, but steps into a more general problem of frivolous lawsuits and suppression of competition via the court system; i.e., it’s a not a problem unique to copyright law.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Sure; nothing is ever set in stone, the future is always the future, and none of us can know what’s in it.

Still, in the context of the current political climate, I think the “fuck capitalism” crowd leaves something to be desired. For instance, I’m all for nationalizing medical insurance as other capitalist countries have done.

However, the “no more private business ownership” crowd I think is asking for serious trouble. The preface is that if you get rid of capitalist influences democracy will not be as malleable and will always serve public interest without powerful capitalists to corrupt it… I think the case made by history is the opposite, without capitalistic forces the concentration of power in government leads to the destruction of consumer choice and inevitable corruption. In either system, the sticking point is an actively engaged and educated (and even more so, well informed – degrees are not the goal, it’s the information) public keeping an eye on the system, and I think that’s where the 20th century United States failed itself leading to 21st century problems.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

In Canada (as well as UK) it is more common for the rate to only be locked in for 5 years.

I think it’s pretty clear I was talking about the folks you’re referring to… not you specifically if you’re not in that group… but fair enough.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Here’s the problem I have with that argument… Anyone arguing for this can go make such a company, but nobody has (or maybe few people have and it worked or didn’t and I missed the memo). It’s not a problem of large corporations or government suppression either. There are new successful small companies all the time, but they’re not “51% owned by their workers.”

So like… If you want any buy in outside of the bubble that already supports the idea, go actually do it. AFAIK, it’s not illegal, there’s nothing stopping such a company from existing other than A) nobody has sufficiently tried or B) it doesn’t actually work.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

telegram.org/apps

core.telegram.org/mtproto

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

While that’s a fair point, element.io is the defacto matrix implementation and effectively the group that started matrix.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Which military? Increasingly militaries seem to be using matrix (Element)

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

It’s either something about your phone number or your username. I’ve never had a problem on there

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Seriously?

Telegram is just actually superior in terms of features I don’t get it.

vs

… Lol. Gotta read the room better buddy.

We’re not even in the same ballpark in terms of tone.

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Qobuz is a really great platform.

It also has an old school music store with high quality, DRM free FLAC audio files (which are great for preserving/protecting your investment in audio/reconverting indefinitely to the “best” format for your devices for years to come) as well (and you get discounts in the music store for having the subscription).

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

Or take responsibility for creating the situation with a nonsensical link tax.

I don’t like Facebook, but this idea that Facebook or Google is stealing from a news organization by linking to it is about as asinine as game companies going after Twitch streamers for promoting their game.

I haven’t followed this super closely, but I think some Canadian news organizations must have gotten greedy and decided to play chicken and double dip on an already mutually beneficial relationship, not realizing the other party would just say “okay, you don’t want to be on our site, fine.”

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

That’s true in general, but Intel Atom is quite promising IIRC, and efficiency cores + improvements to their fabs should only continue to improve the situation.

I’m not saying the old logic of “ARM is efficient, x86 is fast” isn’t still true, but it’s becoming less true, and they’re kind of converging to be similar chips but with different starting points (i.e., the needs are becoming more similar, and the differences are becoming lesser).

Dark_Arc , 11 months ago

If we truly were so strong and proud we would’ve plugged the holes in airplane security quick and easy, sent in some special ops to capture Bin Laden, and most importantly, simply rebuild the towers exactly as they were before but updated and better, as a big fuck you to the terrorists. But instead…well, you know the rest.

To be fair, we did most of that, but we also added all this extra stuff that is totally unnecessary and made air travel a nightmare. Like honestly, is an airplane really that much bigger of a terrorist threat than hijacking a bus full of people, or a train and causing a head on derailment or something ala East Palestine?

I think we need to rethink a lot of post-9-11 changes, and I hope as more people in my generation get older they’ll draw similar conclusions.