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Re:Sinead O’Connor has died on Thursday July 27, 2023 @10:28AM (#36894114)

Since Christianity is topical here, let’s see what we can find in Christian lore to help us understand the way of the superior human being when confronting corruption in religion, clergy, and institutions.

There is a well known incident as related to us in the Hadith of Jesus son of Mary. One day “the morality police” of the Pharisee apparently thought they were being clever in shooting two birds with one stone (pun intended). They went to the quarter where prostitutes worked and dragged a woman caught in the act and brought her before that lovely one. This was to discredit him before the Israelites as his progressive and luminous teachings were indeed a threat to their station of power and prestige and control over the people. Jesus did not tear them a new one using words (even though certainly capable of it) nor did he pick up the stone and throw it at them (even though they certainly deserved it).

No. What he did was silently allude to the poor grasp of the people of the actual Law, and then with a simple statement he not only confronted the Pharisees with their own corruption and sinful nature, but also saved a soul from certain death. To their credit, the Pharisees in question were ‘self-reflective’ enough to get the message and leave in peace.

This is how he was inviting people to a superior understanding without alienating them (!) and at the same time clearly establishing the guilt of the standing church and its priests. In fact, this way was so effective that the Sanhedrin decided that they had to get rid of him, intent on murdering him.

Re:Sinead O’Connor has died on Thursday July 27, 2023 @09:18AM (#36893004)

“Feels” is accurate. That is merely your personal non-rational response to a position you disagree with. You have no insight into my personal condition whatsoever (and you are entirely off the mark in your feelings).

Sinead (RIP), for example, could have simply recited a line from Jesus regarding what awaits those who harm children (it’s in the Gospels) and held up the picture of the du jour Pope and then list the grievances against that institutions in that regard. Now that would have been a powerful, positive, and progressive, without causing division, and far more effective in causing reflection amongst the faithful of that institutions to do the necessary house cleaning.

The issue here, since it was not clear to you, is the way new understanding, new insights, are to be communicated. The goal remains a Humanity that dwells in harmony and peace after all. Correct?

Re:Sinead O’Connor has died on Thursday July 27, 2023 @08:40AM (#36892555)

There is nothing “progressive” about apostates raving against the belief system they left behind. It demonstrates a lack of maturity, imo. True progressive thought is constructive and positive. Burning scripture, dipping religious symbols in piss, making porn with performers in religious garb, these are all destructive and negative and never a manifestation of progress, enlightenment, or spiritual progress. There is also nothing courageous for someone performing in front of an SNL audience dumping on the Catholic Church and it’s Papa.

I hope Sinead rests in Salaam. And I’d rather remember her for her God given graces, her beauty, her voice and her support for justice for oppressed, than what was clearly an error (certainly according to Islam, even in its “Sufi” modality) on her part.

Re:Remote Work to Wipe Out $800B from Office Values, McKinsey Says on Sunday July 23, 2023 @04:24PM (#36839454)

Was discussing the same with dad when walking through a nearly abandoned mall in MD a while ago. Think a sort of gated community - anchor stores can become things like WholeFoods. Reclaiming a ribbon of parking around the mall allows for creating a green zone around the mall and possibly even ‘backyard’ gardens. And as noted by others, it is far more trivial to add the necessary infrastructure to support housing. Natural light is another issue which can be addressed with minor alteration to the external facing walls of stores. Basically you can easily stamp out big studios, merge stores for n-bedrooms, and depending on the structure of the mall possibly even punch through floors for duplexes, etc. These will be luxury units. And the ‘food court’ etc. can form the core of the ‘village’.

Re:A man who won the lottery 14 times on Sunday July 23, 2023 @11:10AM (#36836071)

I’ve come to believe that this is a universal principle: disbelief regarding feasibility prevents actualization of vision; once one sees that it is done it is as if a mental barrier has been removed.

Re:Remote Work to Wipe Out $800B from Office Values, McKinsey Says on Sunday July 23, 2023 @10:48AM (#36835833)

Luxury conversions - 2 apts max per floor? — could address the single shared utility risers/core of the typical office building. Schematically: [ a | util | b ].

Malls are also on the table for conversions these days. That is a much simpler transformation.

Re:A 17th-century font in a 21st-century thesis on Friday July 21, 2023 @10:15AM (#36814039)

https://api.repository.cam.ac.uk/server/api/core/bitstreams/...

Thesis does read very nicely and the quotes (see example in references) are converted to expected double quote pair.

Re:Waterwave Could Quench AIs' Thirst for GPU Memory on Friday July 07, 2023 @09:00AM (#36631057)

The problem to solve is GPU utilization rate. Training a “huge model” on n GPUs will have a cyclical pattern of idle GPUs and GPUs are expensive. This approach is likely scheduling GPU access across t training jobs to insure GPU is always in use. Maximizing GPU utility is a key requirement for training as a service.

The biggest issue is that the failure mode of this approach (one fault hoses the entire pipeline of T jobs) is exactly opposing the goals of its most likely users: Training SaaS providers.