Dark Arc @ Dark_Arc @social.packetloss.gg

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On the negativity point; you get what you pay for.

There IS definitely negative stuff punished by the NYTimes and The Atlantic (as examples) but there's also quite a bit of neutral and even positive news.

These are all from the last few days:

Gaza Cease-Fire Talks Resume, but Are Overshadowed by U.S. Election https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/world/middleeast/gaza-cease-fire-us-elections.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

The Rebellious Scientist Who Made Kamala Harris https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/science/shyamala-gopalan-kamala-harris-mother.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

If You Think You Can Hold a Grudge, Consider the Crow https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/science/crows-grudges-revenge.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

New Covid Tests Are Here. They Test for Flu, Too. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/well/covid-flu-combination-tests.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Ford Foundation Gives $10 Million to Studio Museum in Harlem https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/arts/studio-museum-in-harlem.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

https://www.nytimes.com/card/2024/10/28/arts/phil-lesh-fans?smid=url-share

Five Science Fiction Movies to Stream Now https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/25/movies/best-science-fiction-movies-streaming.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Watches That Look Similar in Everything but the Price Tag https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/27/style/patek-philippe-cubitus.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Just When You Thought Sneakers Couldn’t Get Any Weirder https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/26/style/erl-vamps-skate-shoe.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Obviously, there are more that are negative, but negative stories are often the most important so that we know what problems still need attention.

Having political takes isn't necessarily a bad thing but when your entire personality is "capitalism is bad" then you're an insufferable twat ruining the platform for everybody else.

Man that resonates...

Some Linux bad Windows good troll

There is a difference there in that these are digital copies (easy to make more copies) vs physical books (hard to make more copies).

That said, the only reason this is an issue is copyright lasts too long on relatively short lived games. If copyright on games was a more reasonable "15 years since their last major revision", this wouldn't be a problem.

The problem is you're effectively leaving "can I program and work through the kinds of tasks this job entails" and entering "how do you work through a complex theoretical research topic" land.

White board questions should be relative softballs related to the work you're actually doing to see how you think... Now that's often forgon for "welcome to a game of algorithm and data structure trivia!" but this is just a much more extreme version of that.

Also if you don't actually know the answer, how can you judge the direction? Even if you do know the answer for a problem that complicated, can you say the interviewee isn't solving the problem in a novel and possibly better way?

I presume he was looking for specific terms like DAWG (directed acyclic word graph) and things like that as well... Which I know because he would teach me the names of things as I slowly rediscovered them in conversation. Personally, I don't put much stock in grading someone on their knowledge of obscure data structures and algorithms either.

I think you should pick up a civics book and/or lookup what a monarch is.

I think the interview I least enjoyed was with an unnamed big tech company.

It was the first interview of the day and the guy came in with "so me and my buddy have been trying to solve this algorithm problem for years. I'd like you to try and solve it for me."

Like... Dude, that's not a reasonable interview question! You should not use algorithm questions that you don't know of any answer to in an interview. You're effectively asking someone to give you a solution to something way too complicated of a problem without even a few hours to think about the problem or sit down with it on their own.

I do not trust bitwarden to encrypt my data anymore than anyone trusts keypass to encrypt my data.

They're both open source and they both do the encryption locally; you're plainly mistaken.

If anyone who pays for the post or trusts its writing, isn't already voting Kamala and would've been swayed by their endorsement, I'll be shocked.

No, we're really not...

https://apnews.com/article/election-2024-misinformation-military-use-of-force-a553b95097556580dba3b16bcf84480b

tldr more bull shit from Kennedy trying to prop up Trump and presumably make Trump's threats against his opponents more "... well both sides" nonsense.

https://www.esd.whs.mil/portals/54/documents/dd/issuances/dodd/524001p.pdf

Didn't look but I'd bet the details are in their post or comment history.

Re: harder to change, your electoral logic is already self-defeatjng. What do you think you are changing when your electoral logic is, "fall in line vite blue no matter who" including fucking genocide. Who would ever take you seriously? You think they're going to do anything to "win your vote"? Genocide apologist, they know they already have it. You announced you were giving it to them free of charge, that you will tolerate anything they do and still vote for them, and are actually pressuring others to do the same on their behalf.

The correct time to express such thoughts is during a primary. We didn't have one because we had an incumbent; it happens.

The better place to have this fight is through congress anyways. They're the ones that actually approve the aid.

Better yet, go talk to the Israel people and get them to vote for someone that stops using our weapons in such an offensive manor. Israel knows that their position is critical to the US interest and their current leaders are happy to exploit that.

Literally, abstaining makes you part of the "party of not voting" and nobody does anything for them, because they don't vote.

We are literally in a battle for our ability to vote.

Abstaining from said battle is effectively saying "I don't care" and letting Trump do what he will. If he chooses to send nukes to Palestine to end the conflict immediately, that's on everyone that abstained. If he ends aid to Ukraine and those people die, that's on everyone that abstained.

If he ends voting, you "won some moral battle" but you've all but permanently lost the war against genocide as the most powerful military and weapons on the planet are now in the hands of an authoritarian, raciest, fascist, regime that previously imposed a "Muslim ban" and I'm sure would happily do so again.

There is no hypocrisy here, and it's disingenuous to imply there is.

If you want to protest genocide, then GO DO IT, don't throw away a vote because that's not a protest, it's a pathetic excuse.

You know, you can find something evil in just about any politician's policy depending on your personal perspective.

So let's just not vote, because we shouldn't choose. We should just morally abstain from having choices because making no choice is the only way to make a choice.

Do you realize how absurd that sounds?

If you want to protest genocide, then GO DO IT, don't throw away a vote because that's not a protest, it's a pathetic excuse.

Your vote is not your consent; that's some nonsense made up to get people to not vote.

In your metaphor, you vote for one your family dies, you vote for another your family and another family dies. You refuse to participate in the system and both families die.

You didn't consent to that, but you allowed it to happen via your vote of INDIFFERENCE which is what not voting means. It means you don't care which way things go, because that's all it can mean to not make a choice.

Maybe for traveling. However, how many people really are going to buy an expensive electronic device for a few hours on a plane?

That's a pretty "upper class" luxury at best. Then, there's nobody developing apps for it outside of a few streaming providers (maybe).

Also, I work with multiple monitors all day and play games on those monitors at night, but I still appreciate that I can look away from the content and just "get up and get a drink" or look out the window and watch the birds outside of my office at the feeder.

Also think about all this effort people put in to try and reduce their screen time... A VR headset is the antithesis of that objective.

I really don't think head sets will ever be absolutely insane products.

Lots of people just don't want to strap a display to their face.

If that's your takeaway, you're way off.