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Re:Crawl Order and Disorder on Thursday March 27, 2025 @11:13AM (#43494519)
based on what you said, and my assumption that Elixir (thanks to Erlang’s VM) is pretty good at concurrency, then yes Elixir would be good for crawling
most obviously… better bombs

maybe that’ll teach the bad evil russia—china-palestinian-globalsoutherners why they must do as Trump GOD of being a bad neighbor aka Isreal (or is-rael, andor a brahmin) demands lest they experience the premiere function of the new and improved same old “biggest baddest bomb” (step aside, nuclear physics, chemistry has a new idea for worse (err I mean better) bombs)

to be explicit rather than implicit, this comment is some kind of cynical angry snark because it’s a chaos

Money is the only free thing in America

so an American citizen’s freedom is directly correlated with their net worth in USA dollars

Re:Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order on Wednesday March 05, 2025 @05:04PM (#43273285)
smells like PR/marketing
culture works backwards from how you think it works

the mystery to me is how people like yourself do not realize the scarcity your intentions lead towards

we are quick owning less and less things

all that remains is we become happy. where’s my soma?

Re:When imperfect systems are good: Bluesky's lossy timelines on Wednesday February 19, 2025 @01:15PM (#43105343)
what else? profit by means of doing work that benefits first and foremost the private proprietors of the closed source

if they gave it away (which used to be unfeasible until the digital era) they feel they’re loosing their valuable effort which they’re wont on concentrating, not diluting.

but 69 is lame because it merely is 3*13

I don’t care about sex jokes. 42 (or 72) OTOH are cool because both are surrounded by twin primes!!! how cool is that? (semiprime coolness is significantly smaller than twin prime coolness)

this just gets my conspiracy nutjob of a mind flying.

how about the NORTH versus SOUTH team contests? ugh

Re:Anonymous defaces Russian website to avenge hack on Taiwan on Saturday February 08, 2025 @11:58AM (#42984269)
no longer anonymous. clearly part of them Western five? eyes
Re:The evolution of nepotism in academia, 1088-1800 on Friday November 08, 2024 @09:01AM (#42086903)
nepotism is a natural mammalian instinct, it propels us to take care of our children

but it has a negative implicit meaning because institutional power should somehow transcend lowly animal instincts (or something like that)

set them free!

and hope they freely decide freedom is best for them and us

British Petroleum would beg to differ

but it is getting silly, all these two-letter acronyms to indicate before or after the non-existing Julian or Gregorian year zero

Re:Don't build your castle in other people's kingdoms (2021) on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @09:38PM (#41716382)
which by this point, is nowhere at all.

we cannot even go die and just drop dead in a ditch like the animals we are oh no.

now we need a certificate, and we need to essentially buy, a lot of land for our rotting remains to rot in, lest a single lot of land go unclaimed…

Re:Software Possession for Personal Use on Saturday August 24, 2024 @03:00PM (#41340560)
we are right now in the stupidest era of software

reality must surprise me for this to get worse than I fear

however in my view, the underlying problem is not exclusive to software but extends all all kinds of digital assets. in short, digital property has brought out the worst of capitalism; marx had no idea.

assuming it does get a lot worse; human life will abandon city life. I like to imagine this is why Einstein allegedly said that in a fight between humans and technology, humans were going to win. then again, maybe in the future the city will be rid of humans same as we are (were?) trying to destroy all insects

my take is that astrology works because as kids growing up under the current offset between regular year and school years have a statistically similar experience given the time of the year they were born

so I’m blaming the homogenity of school experience as a way to explain away the personality similarities between people sharing a “zodiac sign” i.e. born around the same time of the year

but I do hope I got shadowbanned already

Re:Turkey bans Roblox for 'child exploitation' on Sunday August 11, 2024 @05:23PM (#41219410)
does this mean they know about roblox utilizing children as training data for their own LLMs?
You’d be surprised how little not-the-USA supports them
> At what point does the world say enough and deal with this threat to humanity

immediately after ‘they’ stop Israel

Re:Musical Notation for Modular Synthesizers on Monday July 15, 2024 @10:40AM (#40968285)
I have an easier “solution”

just pretend PCM is notation and that’s that. problem solved

the new problem introduced, however, is that now a “musician” (interpreter) is just a wav player

and a musician creator (singer songwriter, or composer, or producer of some sort) must choose zero or one way too many times in order to “write” one track.

we should just embrace digital copying galore instead of trying to digitalize the physical constraints of regular assets

we should just ignore physical constraints of assets which do not have them, like any and all digital data

which do you prefer? everybody can access all digital data of everybody (read only mode), or what we have now which is trending towards having so many microtransactions that every keystroke gets reflected in my bank account