[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 21 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Non-sarcastic reply:

Horseshoe theory isn't so much about "the far-left is the same as the far-right" as it is about "all authoritarians derive power from the same human instincts" and the further left or right you go, the more authoritarian you have to be in order to achieve the social narrative you're aiming for.

Edit: misplaced word

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 17 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

It sucks when you're led to believe you can trust people whom you definitely should not trust. Universities, like all other organizations with people in them, are full of broken people who don't know how to respect those with whom they disagree. My former supervisor (and underlings) cost me a lot more than thousands of dollars of therapy. But I know I have to forgive them, or else I'll just perpetuate the cycle in creative ways I can't imagine.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 20 points 3 months ago

...in Chicago ... pre-heating the car is a must 3 months of the year.

I don't believe you've lived anywhere cold for very long. Cold places existed long before remote start. The car warms up while you finish shoveling and brushing off the car. You're warm from shoveling, and the car is ready to go. If it's just cold and you're late to whatever, you sit your shivering ass down behind the wheel and drive away anyways...

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 16 points 3 months ago

I hate headlines like these. It feels like they're intentionally ambiguous.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 27 points 4 months ago

Didn't they give out refunds? That seems like the right thing to do when a massively multiplayer game is dead on arrival.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 15 points 4 months ago

We are!

Organisers of the Army of Drones campaign say they have built or purchased an extra 3,300 drones. Some 400 people have even sent their own hobby drones in the mail.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65389215

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 32 points 5 months ago

This seems like misinformation... The House is in recess until September.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 34 points 6 months ago

Yes, because he actually cares about what the Constitution stands for, not just some adversarial power game. Claim the paradox of tolerance all you want, but fighting fire with fire here is just participating in the same race to the bottom that's destroying our democracy here in the USA.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 14 points 9 months ago

Both kinds of trees have blossoms. Granted, people do call ornamental cherry trees "cherry blossom trees" ... but, technically speaking, a "blossom" is literally the flower of any stonefruit tree.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 27 points 9 months ago

cherry trees and cherry blossoms are two different trees

Do you mean "ornamental" cherry trees and "fruiting" cherry trees? A "cherry blossom" (or "sakura") refers to the flower of a cherry tree, usually of the "ornamental" variety. The article seemed fine to me.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 26 points 1 year ago

This reads a lot like the Indiana Pi Bill. Granted, that one never passed, but it's a pretty old story: politicians think they know better than experts.

[-] ExFed@lemm.ee 36 points 1 year ago

There are only two hard problems in distributed systems: 2. Exactly-once delivery 1. Guaranteed order of messages 2. Exactly-once delivery.

Martin Fowler has a pretty good collection of these.

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