𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚒𝚛𝚖𝚊𝚗 𝙼𝚎𝚘𝚠 @ ChairmanMeow @programming.dev

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He tweeted out criticism of JD Vance before. I doubt he'll fold easily tbh.

He lived half his life in Peru as well, so I don't think he's easily influenced by the US government.

The problem with using nuclear as baseload is that people have the wrong idea of what is required from a baseload power source.

A baseload power source's most important quality isn't constant output, it's rapidly adaptable output.

When it comes to cost, nothing beats solar. It's cheap, it's individually owned and especially with a battery the self-sufficiency basically means not paying for power anymore. So, people will adopt solar at greater numbers as the cost of solar panels is still dropping.

Solar and wind at peak times in several countries already exceed the demand. Nuclear, which is more expensive to run, now has a problem, because nobody wants to buy that energy. They'd rather get the cheaper abundant renewable power.

So, the nuclear reactor has to turn off or at least scale to a minimal power output during peak renewable hours. This historically is something nuclear reactors are just not good at. But even worse, it's a terrible economic prospect: nuclear is barely profitable as-is, having to turn it off for half the day kills the economic viability completely. Ergo, government subsidies are required to keep it operational.

Flexibility is king in the power network of the future. That means batteries or natural gas plants at the moment. Nuclear can be useful for nations without those and with a lagging renewable adoption, but it will be more expensive in the long run. It will also become more important to do heavy industrial tasks during peak renewable hours, so that the demand better matches the output.

Yup, they shipped a debug build. Here's a video that shows the build side-by-side with one that was compiled with compiler optimizations: https://youtu.be/9_gdOKSTaxM

It was quite laggy in certain areas, particularly the submarine sank the framerate quite considerably.

Meh, those are just the programmers that are remembered.

They did lots of dumb shit too. Mario 64 was a super-innovative game at the time with its free 3D platforming. There's also tons of weird code in there, and the developers also fucked up by shipping a debug build of the game, costing a not insignificant amount of performance.

? I've seen plenty of talk about the situation in Ukraine, Sudan and Kenia. Maybe your instance doesn't federate with the instances where those discussions happen?

Palestine is a notable one because it's perpetrated by our "ally" and it's also very high in civilian casualties. And I really don't say that to minimise any of the other atrocities going on.

Accelerationism has historically never ended well.

I don't quite understand your argument here, all of those crimes fall under the umbrella term of genocide as well.

They break after a year? I've had mine for a decade now...

Those alarm clock widgets look like hard-to-read shit.

I'm sure Palpatine knows fluent German from his time in Heidelberg.

The whole exploitation bit they'll get, but they don't associate that with the academic concept of capitalism, but rather with all kinds of power structures that have existed far longer than capitalism.

I really think you're too optimistic in the average person's ability to define these terms correctly.

I think you'd be surprised how poor the general state of education is... I think it's also in part why left-wing politicians lately are failing to get traction with the lower-educated. They speak in a way that doesn't resonate, and that's in part because they're working with different assumptions and definitions.

It's what people like Trump do understand very well, he speaks like they speak to each other. As a result, even if they don't fully follow along, it makes more sense to them.

I don't survey people on the street, but they likely would be closer to the definition accepted in academia than the mere buying and selling of goods.

I think that's optimistic. The average persons understanding of these concepts is very limited. They'd most likely call ancient Rome "capitalist", because "they're not communist".

That's the average persons understanding. There's capitalism and there's communism, and communism is when you own nothing and everyone is poor and capitalism is everything not-communism. It's deeply disappointing but that's what you're up against.

So when an intellectual person says "capitalism is human nature", it means something completely different from when an average person says it. To both the 400-years argument won't make sense.

An intellectual will argue that it naturally came about, so it must be human nature for it to arise so prominently. An average person will laugh in your face "because Rome wasn't communist". Neither is correct in their own way, but they're also not going to be convinced by the 400 years argument. One doesn't believe you, the other doesn't care.

Historical examples of proto-socialism or communal living would be a stronger counterpoint imo. Not because it's more correct in a theoretical sense, but because it more directly challenges the core of the opposing sides argument.

You'd be surprised...

1. Perhaps true, the value of LLM prompting instructions are probably limited.
2. I disagree with the premise that requiring instructions on how to prompt Copilot for something eliminates the reason for Copilot to exist. Copilot is a tool and just like any other tool it may require some instructions for someone who is new to it. You and I might find it intuitive, but Joe Shmo might not.

But that's not what the section does, it highlights how to use what is being documented with Copilot, in case you're not sure how to prompt it correctly.

Copilot isn't perfect. And sometimes you don't know that you can make Copilot do something if you don't know it exists.

Not tennis balls, no. Quite frankly I can't remember what it was. Just the colour stuck 😅

Whether a specific colour was green or yellow. We eventually looked up the RGB value to settle it, and as it turns out it is the exact shade that's halfway to yellow and halfway to green.

We were both equally correct in the end.

But the cursor 'dropping' wouldn't move it to where the shadow is? The light source is not directly above the cursor so the shadow is offset.