enragedcacti

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Tell it to the hundreds of thousands of dead people that doge had zero power. It didn't seem to matter that their aid was congressionally allocated, so sorry if I'm skeptical that doge was ineffective because of an abundance of restraint and respect for separation of powers.

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> - stopping fraud / - addressing wasteful and ineffective programs

Good to know that this will be an evergreen argument despite an extremely well-supported project to do just that taking place in the last two years with nothing to show for itself other than hundreds of thousands of deaths.

enragedcacti

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I'm pretty sure e-ink has a much higher ceiling for reflectance than TLCDs/RLCDs, so you'll be able to use it comfortably without a frontlight in a lot more situations which could more than make up for increased power usage. I think they are also naturally better in terms of glare compared to any type of LCD.

enragedcacti

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Good to know that I'm getting to my destination faster and more safely all because of woke!

https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/roundabouts#traffic-flow...

Btw your 'classic pattern' of highly unbalanced traffic flows is specifically called out as a non-ideal candidate for a roundabout, maybe the urban planners get cow milk in their lattes after all.

enragedcacti

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I don't think requiring prospective hires to write a DEI statement is equally as political as illegally cancelling already funded and approved research into e.g. racial disparities in maternal mortality, or health equity gaps for rural Americans (yes, it's DEI even if it's for predominantly white people).

enragedcacti

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Well, the If Books Could Kill episode about The 4 Hour Workweek came out September 2023... https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-4-hour-workweek/id...

enragedcacti

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Seriously, when our tax dollars pay for idiots to play around with lizard spit[1] all day, why should we trust anything they want to fund?

[1] https://biomedical-sciences.uq.edu.au/article/2024/04/rise-o...

enragedcacti

25 วันที่ผ่านมาdiscuss

Call me crazy, but I think climate scientists can enumerate major carbon sources and sinks. Unfortunately your comment is so vague that I can't tell if you're referring to a specific thing some person said or if you're just imagining a guy to be mad at.

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https://vorpus.github.io/performativeUI/

so far I'm seeing: GradientText, Animated button, EyebrowPill, Aurora background, MockIDE, LogoRow, SlippyWords, StatCounter, CommunityBadge

also: "No DSL, no YAML — just Python functions and decorators."

'It's not X, its Y' but with an added em dash is crazy work.

enragedcacti

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Ambiguity is inevitable in something as complicated as nutrition. I'm casting doubt on this specific categorization for being a poor proxy for healthiness and for completely ignoring salient factors that drive nutrition choices. Many single parents would love the opportunity to buy and cook raw ingredients for their kids every night, but cost and time makes that not an option for many. A good categorization system would accommodate this by e.g. distinguishing between whole grain bread with preservatives and wonder bread. UPF is an all or nothing categorization that is only helpful if you already have a conception of whats healthy and filter your choices through that while calling it UPF.

> I think this is misleading and dishonest, which is why I am being direct.

Good save, everyone reading this totally thinks that's what you were doing and not just showing your whole ass while making my point for me.

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I'm glad we are finally getting some good, solid guidance around UPFs. Hey everyone, just buy "good stuff"!

while it is quite funny how you turned around my "just spend way more money" advice as an actual suggestion, it really isn't particularly helpful because UPFs are a much, much broader category than "flavor-blasted" type products. A huge number of low/no-prep options are UPF, you just don't think so because they don't scan as unhealthy. It gets us back to the main problem that it's all basically just vibes, which is why you don't see the issue that your honest-to-god advice was to just buy good stuff instead of buying bad stuff. Why not just cut to the chase and have an Ultra-Bad Foods categorization?

enragedcacti

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If the goal is to regulate unhealthy foods then it does kind of have to be perfect (very low false-positives). UPFs as they are defined include baby formula, many frozen meals regardless of macros, soy/almond milk, instant oatmeal, pasta sauce, flavored yogurt, etc.

Invariably when someone says something like "UPF is a pretty reliable heuristic" its because they are massively underestimating what counts as UPF and using a "I know it when I see it" approach, which, yeah of course it seems reliable if you start with the precondition that UPFs are unhealthy.

If it's just guidance and not for regulation, well, you have similar problems in the opposite direction. prepackaged whole grain bread is UPF the same as Wonder Bread w/ 2.5g added sugar per slice. It's easy to say "just buy fresh bread" but when that collides with the reality of a busy schedule then UPF designations become next to useless. The undeniable value that preservatives have for healthy and unhealthy products alike mean that anyone using actual UPF as their heuristic will be completely rudderless.

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You'd love my new food category. It's called Ultra-Priced Foods, and it argues that the more expensive something is, the better it is for you. Sure, there might be some exceptions, but overall price is a quite effective proxy for high quality ingredients.

Oh, you don't have unlimited money? Some people don't have unlimited time or capability to prepare home-cooked meals constantly. It would behoove anti-UPF advocates to design a system that more accurately describes nutritional value of "UPFs" so people can make informed decisions within the constraints of their life.

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Immediately backing off to "I know it when I see it" really doesn't help your case that UPF is the right way to categorize unhealthy foods

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It's Pride Month and the organization is doing Pride things, its not that complicated.

> This will undoubtedly create tensions and will lead to fewer donations, thus having a negative impact on KDE.

"undoubtedly" is absurd here. Does KDE really have a stable of consistent transphobes donating? Do they outweigh additional donations from supporting the LGBTQ community?

Regardless, if the only point of KDE were to make money it wouldn't be a non-profit. Extremely passionate people are often passionate about a lot of things beyond just what you want from them. KDE is a community project and that community loves and accepts non-binary people.

enragedcacti

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Falcon Heavy has a much smaller max payload diameter (~4.6m) compared the New Glenn (7m), I doubt the landers (MK2 especially) can be retooled to fit without essentially starting from scratch.

enragedcacti

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It almost definitely cannot. It already has a far lower thrust-to-weight ratio than real launch escape systems (1.x at best versus 6-10+)[1][2], and it would only be able to light its three sea-level engines since the vacuum-optimized engines would be unstable and likely rip themselves apart at 1 ATM.*

*correction: Vac raptors can run at sea level in a test stand. Still doubtful that its safe/reliable and in either case it would still be far too slow.

[1] Note that the first G of acceleration is combating gravity, so Starship at e.g. 1.25Gs would accelerate away from the explosion at 1/20th the rate of Dragon v2.

[2]https://space.stackexchange.com/questions/9067/how-do-the-g-...

enragedcacti

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I agree in isolation, and I have used nest-asyncio a couple of times where it really was a lot easier than the alternative, but from an ecosystem perspective I'm glad it isn't the default. Most of the time someone wants to do this it's a junior trying to work around a non-issue (e.g copy-pasting from a guide that includes asyncio.run()), and the trade-off is a massively increased surface for performance footguns throughout your code base and all the libraries you use. Linters could save you from the first case but it would be a lot more work to profile, track down, and fix spots in all your dependencies that cause your event loop to get fragmented.

enragedcacti

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> Like, why can't my sync function await something asynchronous?

The answer, at least for Python, is that it is an intentional limitation because the alternatives introduce some quite bad trade-offs.

Option 1: your awaited promise goes into the main async event loop. This is bad because it means that your single-threaded sync function now needs to be thread-safe, and so does any sync code that calls your sync function despite it not even knowing that you're doing anything async. This is essentially unworkable without throwing away the option of writing non-thread-safe code.

Option 2: Your awaited promise goes into its own new event loop that only contains sibling and child promises. There's nothing technically stopping someone from doing this[1], but now you've lost a ton of the value of async because you will inevitably end up with a ton of siloed event loops that leave the process idle despite other async tasks existing that could run. Effective async code needs to share an event loop at as high of a level as possible, which means tainting as many methods with async as possible. At that point, you might as well enforce it at the language level and avoid the inevitable pain and fragmentation that comes from other devs across the ecosystem mixing sync and async code.

[1] https://pypi.org/project/nest-asyncio/

As explained by Guido: https://github.com/python/cpython/issues/66435#issuecomment-...

enragedcacti

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> When you get a ticket, you get points against your license, and end up paying more in insurance, often for up to seven years.

AFAICT this not the case in the vast majority of states that allow automated enforcement. Of the three I saw in that list that do: California replaced theirs with purely civil penalties earlier this year, and Arizona and Oregon require law enforcement officers to manually review and sign off on the ticket and offer legal avenues for you to respond.

https://www.iihs.org/research-areas/red-light-running/safety...

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