Buddy, I’ve got some bad news for you: if you want to move everyone you don’t like to an island so that you don’t have “shit all over your streets,” you are actually siding with fascism.
the entirety of your post assumes that homelessness is a moral failing of individuals when the entirety of what we know about community development and psychology shows that that is not the case; you can believe in this plan, but you are supported by money and ego, not by actual fact friend
Minimum wage in the US is $5.15/hour iirc. At 40 hours per week (which many jobs won’t reliably get), that’s ~$824/month BEFORE taxes, food, and so on. Even in the rural south where I used to live, where the cost of living is very low, many one person apartments would be $400–$500/month. That leaves maybe $400 for everything else BEFORE taxes on a GOOD month. Combine this with the fact that employers aren’t required to, and pretty much never do, provide medical benefits to this sort of employee.
Maybe you can squeak by if you’re lucky… but you have to be consistently lucky. One bad month and the whole thing can fall apart. It’s basically impossible to build wealth or savings in this situation (not to mention care for your own fucking health).
> I have tested multiple Windows games on M1 MacBook Air through Crossover
So you had x64 binaries calling a DX API that called a Vulkan API that called a Metal API all on top of a JIT translation layer to ARM on two month old hardware and it worked well?
I think it’s interesting that not many people here bring up Discord. It’s by far the most challenging competitor for the average user, IMO. Full of features and very easy to use.
Yes, it is also police brutality, that is correct. The people fighting the police (many of whom are police themselves, and whom some police are collaborating with) also just attempted a violent coup. So they all suck. And surprisingly, Donald Trump managed to support all of the ones doing the systematic violence AND the ones attempting violent coups.
So really, yes, it all around sucks, and we need to fix a lot. But some people are clearly hurting more than helping! Maybe when they’re gone, we can finally focus on fixing these longstanding systemic problems rather than arguing about a man-child.
Given that there were literally millions of protestors on the streets over the summer, 20 is a pretty tiny number. Multiple people have already died from the DC attacks, just in two days in one city, with a much smaller number of people.
That’s just comparing the number of deaths, and putting aside that one was a massive distributed protest of government brutality and the other was an attempted coup.
I don’t think wanting a regulatory framework is bad at all (though I think in the last few decades, we have naïvely tried to regulate companies into doing things that are simply counter to their nature rather than solving problems directly, eg minimum wage vs UBI).
I think this is an instance of the biggest, most disastrous fallacy of the last half century: that a company is a social utility.
It’s not. It’a a bunch of rich people in California. If you want a public utility for communication and socializing, go help build one. Contribute to Mastodon or the rest of the fediverse. Write to representatives (or become one yourself) and propose legislation to fund a public tool that is actually owned by the people. It could even be part of the fediverse!
But asking Twitter to do any random thing someone wants because they are a big company is insane and is going to cause us nothing but pain.
In defense, I would argue that many modern language design advancements DO relate to multithreading in some way. Rust’s borrow checker and linear/affine types can help with thread safety; OCaml is using algebraic effects to implement multi core behavior; GPU-related experiments (such as Formality [1]) are all about enabling more scalable and reliable parallelism.
That said, I don’t think that multithreading is the only interesting or worthwhile part of programming language theory these days. However, I think it is extremely fertile for innovation while also being somewhat isomorphic with other interesting correctness/performance/ergonomics problems.
I’m not so sure; I think a _lot_ of people would be interested in advanced in non-ML image analysis tech. While ML has been effective for a recent period in industry, it has a number of issues such as intensive training costs, extreme difficulty in fully understanding the behavior of a model (since we can only do experimental verification, and only on behaviors we know to be interesting already), and ethical issues such as unintended gender/racial bias. Just off the top of my head.
I think what you are pointing is really the most toxic part of tech: marketers and investors have found that tech is a good way to aggregate money, and so they have a thrown a lot of funding at tech that can aggregate for them. However, we haven’t actually proven that that tech is the best solution or a sustainable solution. We don’t understand most of what we do with computers very well, we just approximate until it works well enough (for the marketers and investors, of course).
ML and deep learning are very valuable, of course, but their recent market dominance doesn’t indicate that they are the final or most correct solution to the problems they are being used for. It indicates that people want to spend money on it right now.
Have you played with NixOS or Guix at all? They attempt to solve this problem from the ground up for the entire OS. It obviously has trade offs, but IMO it is the best solution around today (other than Kubernetes, but that is an abstraction level higher).