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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

I wonder if the sleep-change fucks up our brains and that's why more people aren't upset about it.

Until this comment, I'd completely forgotten about how the most recent time-change messed up me and the puppy I've been training, because of course she needs to pee as soon as she wakes up at 6am every day...

[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 days ago (3 children)

But note that that's about nudity and sex being the same, and the sex is pornographic (that is, the intent in showing it is to arouse the viewer). The OP is about non-sexual nudity. In fact, OP doesn't mention sex at all, but I feel like it's reasonable to extend the argument to non-pornographic depictions of sex.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 3 days ago (1 children)

The subtext of "anti-DEI", though, is that it is not possible to have two competent candidates where one is a woman/minority because conservative Christian English-speaking white men from wealthy families are inherently superior.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 3 days ago (5 children)

It's a funny post, but a serious point. The Europe of my childhood was different countries all very different from the US. But over time American media and algorithmic dominance are eroding things toward being America with accents. And what will you get for throwing away that cultural identity? Americans will still sneer at Europe.

I think a trickier question is: if Europe ought to retain its own identity, then shouldn't each European country retain its own identity instead of banding together as "Europe".

[–] [email protected] 64 points 3 days ago (10 children)

As a programmer, DST creates tons of bugs for anything using time and is annoying. But whatever, I guess I get paid either way.

As a parent, DST is miserable. It's miserable as an adult, also, but multiplied misery when you have to get up early to ruin your kid's sleep. And then that night they're not ready to suddenly go to sleep an hour early so you lose an extra hour...

I hope Poland succeeds.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 days ago

Wow! That is a big bean!

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SMBC - "Bean" (programming.dev)
 

"I found an entirely new way to get out of 'what do you want to get for dinner?'"

[–] [email protected] 28 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Torture isn't useful as an intelligence-gathering tool, but that's not what it's being used for here. Torture works quite well for manufacturing confessions to use as propaganda to justify further killing/torture/other crimes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 6 days ago

I don't know. I might say "Matrix" and run a private server? But that's a bunch of IT work. It's attractive to use a SaaS because you don't have to do any long-term planning or hiring; just pay Slack a crazy amount of money and it all works.

Corps also like a commercial paid service because they get a contract with an SLA (even if it's rare to actually get anything from these SLAs).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago

enough that voted Trump

Fuck those assholes. The ones that break my heart are the ones who didn't vote at all because "the Democrats are terrible too". Yeah, they are. But voting for the least-bad politician is the minimum-effort thing and everyone I know who skipped voting is not spending their time community-organizing or engaged in violent revolution.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 6 days ago (2 children)

You haven't missed anything; there isn't any such place. There's a bunch of suggestions on how you could patch such a thing together StackOverflow: Is there a way to list pip dependencies/requirements?. Basically either running pip or querying the PyPI API to discover transitive dependencies. Sounds like a fun little programming project! 😀

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 days ago

Not an answer to your question, but I thought this was a nice article for getting some basic grounding on the new AI stuff: https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/07/a-jargon-free-explanation-of-how-ai-large-language-models-work/

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Interpassivity (en.wikipedia.org)
 

As opposed to "interactivity". I saw this in a post from [email protected]: https://programming.dev/post/26779367/15573661

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