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Cake day: July 2nd, 2023

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  • The line is arbitrary but “have things that sound like explosions for 2 weeks that might happen at any point for 24 hours a day that causes massive stress to animals and some people” should be crossing that line. Same for the animal industry and supporting AI when the data centers are causing huge issues.

    I think almost anyone would agree if there was a set firework show, that lasted 30 minutes to an hour, and no other explosive fireworks outside the show (sparklers etc are totally fine), you would have 1/100th the people complaining. I am not personally massively affected by fireworks but I don’t think that’s an unfair compromise at all.



  • This is called the nirvana fallacy. Yes you can go forever and you should reduce your consumption as much as possible. That doesn’t mean I have to buy the specifically really loud animal-terrifying cabinet shaking wake people up who have work tomorrow variety of fireworks, and that doesn’t give my neighbor carte-blanche to do whatever they want no matter how much it bothers me. It’s possible to do better without doing perfect.





  • It’s only really good if you are totally confident in what is and is not a mistake though, as it’ll do things like replace a struct with an int and be like “use a vec of indices and access the actual array with that since it’s smaller to copy and pass around!” when you have no need to copy and pass it around, and it basically created a layer of indirection for no reason.

    It’ll then make up some reason as to why you DO need to pass it around and copy it, so you have to be REALLY sure about what the code should be doing.








  • Youre right I don’t think it’s correct at all to call it a genocide. I think they’re just hypersensitive to the minimizing language tankies use a lot, where a lot of historians said “the uyghur genocide” and tankies say “uhm technically there was no mention of genocide from this international rights body so that’s an overreaction.” The implication being that sure it’s not good what’s happening to them, but it’s not THAT bad.

    Tankies do a similar thing with Ukraine where they say “they’re just taking back some of the land they rightfully control,” or some other minimization.