Doc Avid Mornington @ docAvid @midwest.social

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Inevitable. AI is Artificial Intelligence. Nobody can define intelligence, so how can they define an artificial variety?

I agree with your logic, so far as it goes. However, there are, currently, just over eight billion humans in existence. If my quick, over-tired math is correct, that means only 34 people have to say no, until we run out of people to tie to the tracks. Assuming, at that point, the system collapses and nobody dies, I'd guess 34 people would refuse - might be the better choice.

C-/ for undo. C-/ for redo. All you need.

I always feel that graphical interfaces make easy things difficult, in most cases. A bunch of figity clicking around, instead of a few keystrokes I could press with my eyes closed. They are more discoverable, though.

If you use emacs, dired and wdired together are fantastic for managing files like that. You can even run dired over tramp, so you can manage files on a remote server that doesn't have emacs installed, using the emacs on your desktop. But there are also good cli options, you might want to look at the rename command, as one that's probably installed by default on any given distro. That's outside my expertise, though, as I just use emacs.

One log file, or all, I want grep or awk, maybe with find in front, possibly throw some jq on top if something is logging big json blobs.

I mean, you're right, yeah. In fact, I'd say Biden is significantly better than Carter. Carter is a very good man, but was not a good president.

But that only shows just how low the bar is. We haven't had many decent presidents in this country. Biden is probably the best president in my lifetime, and he's still terrible. My entire previous comment clearly states why.

I cannot speak to Russo's intents or beliefs. What does that have to do with what I said? Please note that the IBEW had already agreed to the terms that were imposed. They are not one of the unions that had their basic human rights taken away. Even if they were, Russo's personal opinions would neither justify, nor excuse, Biden's choice to trample those rights.

So, I think you're probably right, in this case. But you're just quoting the reporting on the poll, which is very misleading. It makes it sound like there is no statistical model involved at all. From the methodology on the linked full poll results: "The full sample is weighted for region, age, education, gender and race based on US Census information". Like I said, I think you're right - I doubt if they mean weighting for "region" to imply they did an electoral college analysis - but until you look at the actual poll and it's methodology, you can't just assume that an article reporting on the poll is giving an accurate impression. There are polls that do account for state breakdown, and the reporting in an article on such a poll would probably be just the same as here.

It seems the focus of this poll was to get some initial idea what kind of impact a third-party run with Manchin and some Republican running mate would have, and looking at weighted national numbers is probably "good enough" for that purpose, at this time. Definitely not a basis to conclude Biden has it in the bag, and the poll itself doesn't seem to be trying to claim that.

Sorry I'm going on, but yeah, big picture, you are correct, at least in this case.

I mean, pollsters actually do account for how elections work in their models. There are all sorts of actual reasons polls have failed to be reliable lately, but if you think it's because they just count total responses across the country, that isn't the case.

Because they are both terrible. I mean, don't get me wrong, if we have to choose between them, Biden is so much less harmful than Trump it's not even a choice, of course we need to vote for Biden in the general election if those are the only viable candidates. But Biden has actively opposed any climate measure sufficient to prevent the worst impacts of the crisis. Factually, Biden is actively trying to destroy civilization. He is a strong supporter of the antidemocratic and inhumane system of capitalism. He literally took away the basic human rights to organize and withhold labor from the rail workers.

Also, while this poll may give you the impression we need Biden to prevent Trump's return, it isn't true. Both the last presidental election, and this poll, are more referendums on Trump than anything. Manchin isn't an interesting spoiler to throw in - none of the dozens of voters who think Manchin is better than both Trump and Biden would care to risk letting Trump win by actually supporting Manchin. If the Democrats put forward a progressive candidate, they would do even better against Trump.

M-! pkill -9 vim

OK, so, a lot here.

First of all, Typescript isn't a standard, much less a universal standard - it's a fairly patchy implementation of strong typing over JavaScript, created by a private corporation. If you're going to write strongly typed JavaScript, it's probably the best option, though not the only option. If you want a strongly typed, functional language, and are not wedded to JavaScript, it's definitely not the best option.

Strong typing is an incredibly powerful tool,and will make your life easier, once you wrap your head around it, but it isn't the only way to go, for all projects. There are definitely some (typically small) projects that benefit from a more dynamic typing system.

I am not really sure what you are saying about unit tests. It sounds like you are saying you think you need unit tests to assure types on the JavaScript level, even when working in typescript. That's not the case. You can trust the compile-time type system, if you type your code. You still should have unit tests, of course, but you really don't need unit tests that check that the types are what your typescript typing says they are. In fact, the more skilled you get at building good types, the fewer tests you'll need. They're always a compliment, the goal isn't to eliminate tests at all, but you will get better safety with less testing.

Typescript probably shouldn't be doubling the amount of code. This sounds like you might be adding a lot of redundant type aliases, or specifying types that should be inferred. I'm not sure, I'd have to see the code.

You also might want to look at your toolchain. Are you doing a bunch of coding, then running tsc and looking at the results? Or do you have an editor set up that can show you typescript errors and suggested completion in real time? It makes a huge difference, having a toolchain that really supports rapid, iterative, strongly typed development.

Never been to PenguiCon, I guess.