frezik @ frezik @midwest.social

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Chess is a game that dumb people think all smart people are good at. That's why they keep bringing up these chess metaphors.

Helps when you're a kid, and not the one paying $2/picture for the flash.

Source. Take the cost based on a 12-pack of Magicubes, divide in 4 because there's 4 shots per cube, and adjust for inflation.

Glad we ask his opinion first.

Does RMS even have any code in the Linux kernel?

The Milwaukee Zoo Interchange cost $1.7B.

Wisconsin currently has $4.5B sitting right there in the bank. This happened because Republicans don't want to give the Democratic governor a win by doing, say, a big infrastructure project, paying for school lunches, or just giving it back to citizens as a tax credit. The good news is that the Supreme Court win means nobody is going to try to push through ultra gerrymandered maps again, and Democrats have a chance to take control of the legislature next election.

I'll copy something I wrote up in another thread.

This is one of those things that needs some context. Lots of nations have ID requirements similar to this, and people from outside the United States are often confused as to why it’s a problem. The issue is that it’s a backdoor to voter disenfranchisement.

Not everyone drives, and therefore, doesn’t need a state-issued ID. But now you need one to vote. So you have to go to the DMV to get an ID that’s not a drivers license but functions the same way for ID purposes. Except the DMV is only open during working hours, has long lines, and the nearest one may not have public transportation going to it.

It’s often minorities who don’t have drivers licenses to begin with, and they tend to vote for Democrats.

In practice, there was never significant voter fraud at all. Not enough to change the outcome of any race. Even on the surface, it’s solving a non-problem.

Here's the thing about that email server: it was standard operating procedure for the White House at the time.

Email starts to be used for official communication under Bill's administration, but everyone is still trying to figure out this Internet thing back then. It was standard for the Secretary of State to run their own email server all through the Bush II administration. Hillary was simply following what was already established. It was only when John Kerry took the office that this was changed to bring their email server under White House IT staff control.

Which is what should have happened within a few years of Bush II's first term. As someone who has managed their own email server before, it's hard to setup an email server that works correctly. It's even harder to set it up in a way that doesn't immediately become a spam gateway and security hazard. As soon as the government was getting a handle on this Internet thing, all staff email servers should have been run by government IT directly.

That isn't on Hillary alone. It's a decision that crossed three different Presidential administrations and both major parties.

FOIA was followed, though. The DOJ got plenty of Hillary's emails by way of FOIA.

So glad Nintendo is catching up with PC features from 20 years ago.

Open world Mario Kart is one of the last new things you could do with the series. Otherwise, it's just updated graphics and tracks.

Why would you need to go to the Department of Motor Vehicles for an ID though?

Well, now you're seeing the issue. You go to the DMV because that's the only place allowed to give out state IDs. This is not an accident.

If (nearly) everyone has an ID, it cannot be used as means for voter disenfranchisment.

You're forgetting that the entire point is to be disenfranchising. Yes, this is 100% fixable, and Republicans will fight to make sure it doesn't get fixed.

Surely, a leftist used to studying intricate theory and picking apart the layers of capitalist control to see the rot at its center would be able to see why voter ID laws are a problem. I have it under great authority that .ml is filled with such users. Can't think of any possible reason why they'd be for it. None at all.

It's been part of WI state law for a while. Putting it in the state constitution makes it harder to repeal.

This is one of those things that needs some context. Lots of nations have ID requirements similar to this, and people from outside the United States are often confused as to why it's a problem. The issue is that it's a backdoor to voter disenfranchisement.

Not everyone drives, and therefore, doesn't need a state-issued ID. But now you need one to vote. So you have to go to the DMV to get an ID that's not a drivers license but functions the same way for ID purposes. Except the DMV is only open during working hours, has long lines, and the nearest one may not have public transportation going to it.

It's often minorities who don't have drivers licenses to begin with, and they tend to vote for Democrats.

In practice, there was never significant voter fraud at all. Not enough to change the outcome of any race. Even on the surface, it's solving a non-problem.

Tech journalist outlets have been the best at reporting on Trump's shit. Wired figured this out better than the New York Times.

For Wisconsin itself, it's huge. It keeps breathing room available at the state level.

Another bad investment by the Muskrat.

Not really. When you frame it in a way where you don't sound like a right wing nutter, I find people tend to accept it.

I mostly use the Enbrighten Zigbee Dimmer. Its dimming function sucks--you have to hold the paddle down until it's around the setting you want--but otherwise it works pretty well.

And someone could throw a brick through my window and take all my stuff. There are some threats that we take care of by having a society where people don't break other peoples things just because they can.

"Improvement" is an open ended term. Would having longer or shorter toes be beneficial? Depends on the evolutionary environment.

ChatGPT does have a feedback loop. Every prompt you give it affects its internal state. That's why it won't give you the same response next time you give the same prompt. Will it be better or worse? Depends on what you want.

I've played with markov chains. They don't create serious results, ever. ChatGPT is right just often enough for people to think it's right all the time.

He only looks that way.