Christianity doesn't strike me as especially white. Not in the way that other religions strike me as being not-white. I can name some excellent musicians who are white muslims, but it's still very unusual. In contrast, Christianity is very popular among very many races. Like, if you're from south america, mexico, central or southern africa, china, russia, the philippines, and many other places too, you're very likely christian. I suppose I don't encounter many indian or arabic christians, but they aren't terribly rare either.
One reason I think there might be no "white culture" per se is that things that white people invent tend to spread to other people, and become part of their cultures. Like, most people I know in real life who play classical (i.e. classical western) music on piano are asian, for instance. I've never once seen a white person say, "you can't play that, because you're not white. That's offensive." In contrast, I could imagine a white person playing an erhu might be told off.
If white people were defensive of their culture, that might change. Perhaps if the great replacement theory or whatever it's called gets taken seriously, it'd be different. (Edit: by this I mean, if those white nationalist conspiracy theorists actually think that white people are going to be erased by other cultures then they'd act in such a way. But since they don't seem to be, it seems like it's clear they're not only racist but also full of shit.)
I'm not technically white, and I'm Canadian which is only technically "American," but -- close enough. IMO, it's mostly people who are not white americans that define to me what white american culture. Like, if you were to ask me "is this part of your culture?" for various things, I would say "yes" to many things and "no" to many things.
But many of the things that I would say "yes" to, other people might inform me, "no, that's not part of your culture." Jazz, Super Mario bros., rap music, anime, chickpea stew, spaghetti -- I identify these as elements of my culture, or at least my "idioculture" as it were, but people have told me these are not part of my culture.
I think maybe let's stop gatekeeping culture so much and let people live how they like to live. If somebody likes wearing a yukata as a houserobe and they're not japanese, is there really a problem? It's not like they're pretending to be japanese.
I get the difference -- but the trouble is, if I'm asking an earnest question, and somebody tells me I'm "just asking questions," it's rather difficult to argue against that.
I guess it's just down to wording then. I can work on being less confrontational -- I didn't realize I was being confrontational, so I guess that's part of the problem.
Fundamentally, I reject the idea that "just asking questions" is a bad thing -- if there is harm done by people who are just asking questions, there must be something else, like the way they are asking the question, that is troublesome.
Well, there is no ethical consumption under capitalism, as they say. Literally anything you buy, there could be a shareholder who is evil. But y'gotta vote with your wallet, and so it makes a bigger impact to boycott companies that are directly involved, rather than ambiguous or strenuous connections.
That is absolutely not how LLMs work. "Literally no concept of a joke in their algorithms" is debatably true, but it's a rather useless remark, because you could equally well say that there is no concept of code in their algorithms, and yet they are able to code. (inb4 somebody comes in and says "not that well!" to which I say: well enough for some uses.)
I see, but I am not right wing. I asked about an apparent contradiction I saw, and got a clear answer.
I've noticed that when I ask questions I tend to get downvotes, but when I make statements I tend to get upvotes. Is there an assumption not only that right wing people are ignorant, but that ignorant people are right wing? I don't know how to become less ignorant without asking.
Yes, because cache optimization is still important. Also useful to keep the size of packets down, to reduce the size of file formats, and anywhere that you use hundreds of thousands of instances of the struct.
Only because 6502 has no BIT immediate -- only BIT zero page and BIT absolute. But the contemporary z80 and gameboy cpu too have dedicated bit instructions, e.g. BIT c,6 (set z flag to bit 6 of register c).
Christianity doesn't strike me as especially white. Not in the way that other religions strike me as being not-white. I can name some excellent musicians who are white muslims, but it's still very unusual. In contrast, Christianity is very popular among very many races. Like, if you're from south america, mexico, central or southern africa, china, russia, the philippines, and many other places too, you're very likely christian. I suppose I don't encounter many indian or arabic christians, but they aren't terribly rare either.