rootoor's comments

Macs are the perfect dumb terminal. They look great, have a smooth ui, and require little fiddling.

However, I always need to ssh onto a “real machine” to get actual work done.

I eat Children because they are delicious, not because I think they are dumb. I know they are very smart, but this fact doesn’t makes them less delicious to me. Also, the fact that I —and millions of other people— don’t feel any affection towards these small humans makes the argument of “farming children is unethical […]” less agreeable. Many people in America eat cows, while they are considered sacred in Hinduism. > […] Numerous videos on the internet of children escaping from their cells or stealing guards lunches have fuelled a human fascination with the only subset of people that the 2012 Cambridge Declaration on Consciousness considers sentient alongside mammals and birds. Mammals and birds, I hope everyone read that. --- People are going against my comment thinking I am on the wrong side of the argument. And I feel like explaining my point of view even further will just increase the anger in the people that already expressed their counter arguments below. We will see if the public agrees with the thesis in this article and changes their eating habits to protect one of the hundreds of animals that are also considered sentient.

I don’t think that increasing police presence and surveillance is the answer to stopping petty crime, it just punishes people who need help and or creates a corrupt police dept, exasperating the problem further.

If we provide avenues for people to provide for themselves, crime will drop, and we avoid all of the chilling side effects of total surveillance.

You could just use ctrl-{ and not have to leave home row

I am American and I generally am referring to Americans when I talk about boomers

I never said anything about boomers enriching themselves at the expense of future generations.

I think blaming younger generations for not taking responsibility for what was handed to them is unfair. We are trying to fix things, however it is difficult when the people in power (who happen to be boomers) will not allow progress. That resistance to change and the resulting resentment is what I was attempting to discuss in my previous comment.

> what are you asking for?

I want cooperation. Younger people, myself included, want policy changes that will attempt to mitigate some of the damage done by the previous generation. However, boomers are still in power and actively resist changes that attempt to curb issues like climate change and income inequality. I think this is where a lot of resentment comes from. Additionally boomers will be dead before the consequences of their actions have a chance to seriously effect their lives, furthering the resentment.

For me personally, it does. However, I am not a typical member of gen z due to my high salary. Most of my friends, who all make much less than me, are more worried about immediate needs but climate change is a dark cloud looming over their heads

I don’t think it is fair to compare climate change to those previous issues and conflicts you mentioned.

The fact that our society is dependent on destroying the environment and all of the related politics is a much more difficult set problems to solve than a overblown disease scare, war, or geopolitical struggle.

I am surprised that there isn’t more pessimism surrounding climate change. This is the biggest factor for me personally. However, I work at FAANG so wages and other more immediate ills do not concern me as much.

This is sort of true. You can get copyright waivers for personal projects by filling out a form. They say most projects are approved but in my experience, it seems like they deny a lot of them. One of the two projects I submitted was denied. Other people I know have had a similar experience

My 97 year old grandpa has a MacBook Pro and a few years back he was constantly on the phone with my mom trying to fix issues. We installed a Remote Desktop server so my mom could fix things quickly. After a visit we diagnosed the problem. Because of his poor motorskills, he was clicking and clicking-and-dragging things by accident. To mitigate this, we installed some software that locked the applications in the dock and got him a mouse with a ball you move with your thumb. The problems disappeared overnight.

What’s your point?

Are you saying that it doesn’t matter that sovergty was taken violently from the Hawaiians because their ancestors conquered the original inhabitants hundreds of years ago?

Would it be fair if Russia came in and took Hawaii from the US because the “History of Hawaii is all about using force to take land from the population”?

I worked with a grad student in college who was building models in NetLogo for modeling drug overdoses. It was pretty janky and slow.

They had to run the model millions of times so I had to build NetLogo on our HPC cluster running Rocks OS and write some magic config in slurm to run it and it took for ever because about 1/3 of the jobs would fail because they ran out of ram and would need to be run again.

I’m not sure how much of it was the grad students fault or NetLogos fault but either way, the experience was quite painful

My point isn’t that blocking won’t work, it’s that any software solution provided probably won’t work for most people because it’s too easy to quit with no accountability and then because it won’t work for most people, Apple and Google have every incentive to implement it in their operating systems (which they are already doing) and your business is gone

I am skeptical that this can scale well. Not every small town can have an expensive college or university.

And besides, the towns that do get/have these institutions become gentrified and all of the the original residents get pushed to nearby small towns by professionals from more affluent regions.

In the end you end up with an upscale, expensive small town and surrounding depressed blue collar towns.

Source: I’m from a small town with a university.

The idea that you can “fix” or “solve” software addiction with more software is silly to me.

First, This requires users to setup this software. Then, there is nothing stopping them from working around or disabling it at anytime. If the software can’t be disabled then the user will switch to another product.

If someone is really trying to curtail their software addiction, actual dedication will be required, not just the activation of some tool that they can easily disable with a few taps.

And because these tools will likely not work for the majority of people, Apple and Google have every incentive to incorporate them into their operating systems and gobble up the market share (which they are already doing in their latest operating systems).

A more traditional and therapeutic approach to the problem makes more sense to me, though it won’t scale well and the market doesn’t seem very big

You are conflating leftism with authorarisam