yogthos

yogthos , 21 days ago to memes in Who needs Skynet

Sure, technology is a product of the culture and it in turn influences how the culture develops, there’s a dialectical relationship there.

yogthos , 21 days ago to worldnews in NATO chief Stoltenberg sidesteps questions on Biden's health

The sheer panic at the top levels of EU and NATO must be incredible right now. Their whole political strategy hinged on Biden staying in power, and now it’s becoming increasingly clear that Biden is a walking corpse.

yogthos , 21 days ago to memes in Who needs Skynet

You entirely missed the point of what I said. Two different people can agree on an objective fact that a table is a table, but disagree on whether it’s a good looking table.

yogthos , 21 days ago to memes in Who needs Skynet

Observations may be objective, but the values are always subjective. Two different people can look at the same set of facts and come to entirely different conclusions of what constitutes desirable actions based on their world view.

yogthos , 22 days ago to programmerhumor in Regex flavors

Exactly, at the end of the day it’s about using the right tool for the job. Code that’s clear and declarative is easier to maintain, so it makes sense to default to it, but nothing stops you from using low level constructs if you really need to.

yogthos , 22 days ago to memes in Who needs Skynet

What you’re saying is that you’re not self aware enough to realize that you have an ideology. Everyone has a world view that they develop to understand how the world works, and every world view necessarily represents a simplification of reality. Forming abstractions is how our minds deal with complexity.

yogthos , 22 days ago to memes in Who needs Skynet

Nah, human ideology is much broader than a single economic system. The fact that people who live under capitalism can’t understand this just shows the power of indoctrination.

yogthos , 22 days ago to programmerhumor in Regex flavors

I really like this approach for doing non trivial regex github.com/VerbalExpressions

<span style="color:#323232;">const tester = VerEx()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .startOfLine()
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .then('http')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .maybe('s')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .then('://')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .maybe('www.')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .anythingBut(' ')
</span><span style="color:#323232;">    .endOfLine();
</span>

yogthos , 22 days ago to memes in Who needs Skynet

The root problem is capitalism though, if it wasn’t AI it would be some other idiotic scheme like cryptocurrency that would be wasting energy instead. The problem is with the system as opposed to technology.

yogthos , 23 days ago to worldnews in Commentary: Trying to kill Chinese tech only makes it stronger

As Lenin wrote, “When it comes time to hang the capitalists, they will vie with each other for the rope contract.”

yogthos OP , 23 days ago to memes in Mistakes

Right, what we call low level is really just an emulation layer that’s actually at odds with how the actual hardware works. Interestingly enough, it seems like functional style provides a programming model that can be optimized better because it doesn’t rely on global shared state.

yogthos , 23 days ago to science in Organic Material from Mars Reveals the Likely Origin of Life’s Building Blocks

This is very cool. If we actually find life on another planet in our own system that would strongly imply that life is common in the universe. To find definitive proof that life here is not unique would one of the biggest discoveries I think of.

yogthos OP , 23 days ago to memes in Mistakes

this is a great read on the subject queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479

yogthos OP , 23 days ago to worldnews in Russian oil and gas revenue soars 41% in first half, data shows

There are always ways to try and get money out of a country, but the west made it as difficult as possible to do so. And the result has been that money is indeed staying in Russia which resulted in a big increase in business activity as IMF now openly admits.

yogthos OP , 23 days ago to worldnews in Disappointed, Hong Kong migrants return from U.K.

It’s true that it is often more difficult for immigrants to find good opportunities, even when they have high qualification in their home country. And the reason for why people wouldn’t want to admit that they bet on the wrong horse is pretty obvious. Imagine selling out your home country and thinking that the westerners are superior, then finding out that none of it is true. It’s a pretty embarrassing thing to admit. Saving face is particularly important in Asian cultures en.wikipedia.org/…/Face_(sociological_concept)