causalscience

If they're actually self-driving they should be able to drive around the obstacles just as well or better than human.

> Why not Postgres?

Because I don't want another server/service.

Is this a good enough justification in your opinion, or did you just want to say the meme?

That's because those people are all brainwashed.

They were told: buy guns because freedom, and they repeat "we buy guns because freedom".

Then they were told: never mind freedom, lets shoot this unarmed person, and they repeat "never mind freedom, shoot the person".

"we need our guns to protect our freedom against the government" idea could have some merit, but the reason right wingers say it is different. They say it because that meme has infected them, and uses them to replicate. A meme in the original sense

> A meme is a term referring to a unit of cultural information transferable from one mind to another.

The distinction between promotion and spam is solely that the promotion side can be entertaining enough that the users will willingly chase it.

So what? Whether this matters depends on your threat model, but you present this as a universal concern. Yes, we know, and we use it appropriately.

Ok, I wouldn't do that because I don't know what random apps are doing.

But if you're happy with your workflow, don't mind me.

It's not a sock puppet in the usual sense. Every time I log in I create a new account, and it lasts until I get logged out for whatever reason. But I'm not having conversations between multiple accounts that I control, if that's what you mean.

The fact that you leave unsaved work overnight is the actual crazy part.

I dislike people like you more than I dislike regular dumb people, because I'm sure you're convinced that was a really smart reply.

To be explicit: The person you're responding to didn't say it but they have as a premise that when it comes to political systems, lack of empathy is the defining characteristic of fascism (I'm not saying I agree with the premise, I'm saying they had this premise). If you accept this, then their argument is not logically wrong. In contrast, your example is logically wrong. In the "two feet" example you're point at one attribute of something, not a defining characteristic. The correct example would be "All bipeds have two feet (by definition). Bob has two feet, therefore Bob is a biped". The gibberish you produced is logically wrong, while that of the person you're talking to is not, but you're too stupid to understand that.

"You have to use it correctly" is true for everything. Stop parroting garbage you read and exercise some critical thinking.

I'd be curious as well, though I completely understand if they don't want to talk. Someone should write a book just listing the usual mistakes.

> it'd be extremely non trivial

Extremely non trivial. What I'm hearing is "security by obfuscation".

Sorry, I don't pay attention to anyone who disses PGP. I don't care if it's easy to misuse. I focus on using it well instead of bitching about misusing it.

If there's one thing we learned from Snowden is that the NSA can't break PGP, so these people who live in the world of theory have no credibility with me.

Is that good? According to the wikipedia page it seems last stable release was 9 years ago. Is anyone using that? Last time I had a look at XMPP everybody was using OMEMO.

Your point is correct but irrelevant to this conversation.

The question here is NOT "if Signal didn't leak your phone number could you still get screwed?" Of course you could, no one is disputing that.

The question is "if you did everything else perfect, but use Signal could the phone number be used to screw you?" The answer is ALSO of course, but the reason why we're talking about it is that this point was made to the creator of Signal many many times over the years, and he dismissed it and his fanboys ridiculed it.

I have no idea if that was true 20 years ago, but it's not true now. XMPP doesn't have this problem; your host instance knows your IP but you can connect via Tor.

Worse, I often wondered how some people collaborated. Now I know that many people would rather have a chunk of the population rounded up and killed than lose their job.

This throwaway account wasn't created specifically for posting trolling comments, this is just my personality :-(

I've been hearing for years people say "Signal requires phone number therefore I don't use it", and I've been hearing them mocked for years.

Turns out they were right.

Why am I a fanatic exactly? Do you not see people everywhere going around like zombies on their phones? I think that someone who sees that but still wants to do nothing because of a vague principle that someone talked him into, is the fanatic.

Ignore the other idiot. If you want to have a rational conversation I'm open.

Happy to see mastodon.xyz score 100%.

Mastodon is pretty cool and proof that we can make federation work.

> What does Israel have to do with this article?

In terms of interests, this article benefits Israel, that's what they have to do with this article.

Israeli propaganda trying to get the US to do their fighting for them, while at the same time killing way more in Gaza.

Now tell me this is antisemitism.

> Then, going through their code, they make excuses about their code not meeting the same standards they demand.

Yes!! Exactly. When it comes to my PRs, he once made this snarky comment about him having high expectations in terms of code quality. When it comes to his PRs, he does the things he tells me not to do. In fact, I once sent him a "dis u?" with a link to his own code, as a response to something he told me I shouldn't do. To his credit he didn't make excuses, he responded "I could've done better there, agreed".

In general he's not bad, but his nitpicking is bad. I don't really understand what's going on in his mind that drives this behavior, it's weird.

I mean.. Tor isn't gonna help you if there's no computers. We already got smartphones banned from schools. Work in progress.

Ok, so an airport is a private business and it chose to put "hot water" labels on the taps, and therefore does not and could not by definition support calling the country in which it occured a "nanny state".

Exactly. That's why you see so many people say it works great. And the rest of us are like "am I the crazy one?" No, you just don't build CRUD apps.

Yeah or worse like my boss. We don't have a style guide. But he always wants style changes in every PR, and those style changes are some times contradictory across different PRs.

Eventually I've told him "if your comment does not affect performance or business logic, I'm ignoring it". He finally got the message. The fact that he accepted this tells me that deep down he knew his comments were just bike shedding.

He probably did the calculation that 707 - 200 = 507 and 200/507 = 0.39 which is different from 0.46.

You're not crazy, I'm also always disappointed.

My theory is that the people who are impressed are trying to build CRUD apps or something like that.