Sekoia @ Sekoia @lemmy.blahaj.zone

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Why the fuck are legal databases locked behind paywalls

Here's an archived version of that medium link that doesn't cut off: https://archive.is/FNqUx (and that loads super fast)

Yeah that's fair. I don't quite know why I read that the way I did, but I read the "choosing" as "lives there and isn't actively attempting to move".

.... do you just expect everybody who lives there to pack up and leave? Even though their entire lives might be there and moving costs a ton?

But there's no "biological" reason for that. In the same way, skirts/dresses being for women and suits/ties being for men, leg hair, haircuts, voice, mannerisms, emotional availability, all get tied one gender or another.

We, in our society, have associated some properties to one of two genders. Some of these properties tend to be associated to one sex (sex being a more "biological" thing (but still not binary or unchangeable!)), but many of them are just expectations we put upon people. This is what "gender is a social construct" means; that the general understanding and intuition about gender is constructed by the society in which we live. Different societies may have more than 2 genders or completely different sets of associations.

Unfortunately these categorizations are bad for a significant portion of the population, including trans people, gender non-confirming people, but even cishet people; how many times have you heard of some act making you "not a real man" (eg crying for a movie)?

Wow, I didn't know that! That's absolutely wild

.... The root of the thread you're replying's main body is stuff JSO has actually achieved.

I'm assuming this is referring to JSO.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Stop_Oil

Beginning on 1 April, they carried out England-wide blockades of ten critical oil facilities, intending to cut off the supply of petrol to South East England.[33][34][35]

On 26 August, the group blocked seven petrol stations in Central London and vandalised fuel pumps. Forty-three people around London were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.

On 20 June, the protestors spray painted private jets at a private airfield at Stansted Airport. The group had been targeting a jet belonging to singer Taylor Swift, but could not locate it.[140]

Yes, a lot of their protests are "awareness" stuff (basically none of which do actual damage. Unlike oil, actually!). No, it's not just that. The UK isn't an active warzone so bombing stuff is slightly more difficult to justify.

No, but since Canada can regulate/limit the oil and gas it exports, this is still a useful number.

Imports also need to be counted.

Unfortunately climate change is every country's responsibility to fix, since every bit helps.

... sorry, I don't get it

Ahh, that makes sense. Powers of two are real convenient. Your math is a little wrong though: X != (X & 0xFF) + (X >> 8), but X = (X & 0xFF) + (X >> 8) << 8 The right half can be removed entirely if you're doing modulo 16, since the first 4 bits will always be 0. So it simply becomes X & 15! Much cleaner for sure.

Would you happen to remember what the optimization was, mathematically?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20036698/subdivide-a-modulo-function-16-bit-but-can-only-do-8-bits-at-a-time#20036828 seems to say that it's "impossible afaik", and I can't seem to optimize it myself (though this kind of math isn't my forte)

This is a masterpiece

I'm not an OS dev, I have no idea how stuff this low-level works.

Downvotes are disabled here actually, so that's why it says 0 downvotes

I'd suggest some kind of "press this key to view debug information" text (or make it documented but not visible, to avoid people just pressing whatever button is written on the screen)

Last one is the only one I actually got (and MHA actually). It's animal crossing. Edit: Oh! Second to last is Artemis Fowl

Hosted on poast, though, which is defederated from literally everyone decent for a good reason

I relatively often have an inner dialogue, but it's just me twice

I don't mind it tho, it's fine enough

I'll stick with AP for now but I'll keep an eye on it, then.