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- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 2 weeks ago:
Not all land is suitable for crop cultivation, which was the point I was making. In subsistence or low tech farming areas, animals forage on land unsuitable for crop production and eat food unsuitable for human consumption. They’re not eating feed, they’re eating wild weeds and grass we can’t. They’re eating insects, miscellaneous seeds, small plants and whatever they find.
Do you think that if you’re farming to have enough food to feed your family and maybe some leftovers to sell, that you’re going to choose to produce something markedly inefficient in comparison to other options?
Subsistence farmers today aren’t stupid. They’re not wasting 90% of their food because they want a hamburger. They raise goats and chickens because they feed themselves and you let your kid who’s too young to do heavy work follow them with a stick to keep them from wandering off. They raise cattle and donkeys because they can forage, and what they can’t forage is more than made up for by using them to work the land or as beasts of burden.There’s a reason we domesticated animals. We didn’t just immediately start giving them feed corn and locking them in cages.
It’s a privilege to be able to ignore a readily available source of food.
It’s a privilege to live in a society where we set aside land to grow huge amounts of food to feed our food.
It’s a privilege to not have to know specifically where your food is coming from.It’s kind of ignorant to think that people who don’t have those privileges must be foolish enough to choose what you think is an inefficient option, and to not consider why they would make that choice.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 2 weeks ago:
Well, that’s getting into the difference between veganism and vegetarianism.
That aside, although meat is expensive from a cost and input perspective, it is a very efficient and dense source of calories and protein.
Outside of a first world or industrial agricultural setting, they also have the advantage of being able to convert food sources humans cannot eat into one we can, while to a great degree being able to tend to themselves.
Goats, sheep and chickens can have large numbers managed by a few children with sticks, and also produce non-vegan animal byproducts which can be sold for cash.
This is also before hunting is considered.While vegetarianism and veganism can be practiced outside of a first world context, and indeed have been for thousands of years, they do come with sacrifices that are significantly easier to make with more money or in a post agricultural region.
Eschewing cheese, eggs and honey is not a difficult thing to do for me if I wanted, but there are places where that’s just leaving good food uneaten, or money unearned.That’s I believe what’s being referred to when it’s called a privilege.
- Comment on [Serious] Why do so many people seem to hate veganism? 2 weeks ago:
Because the Internet makes it easy to more forcefully express strong opinions, from both parties.
It’s very easy to run into vegans on the Internet who will call you an unethical monster for eating meat, which if you don’t think of yourself as an unethical monster, can be a bit offensive.
You also run into non-vegans who can’t get it through their heads that that’s not every vegan on earth, or even just the Internet or likely even that conversation.
It’s much harder to call someone an animal hating monster or a pretentious condescending asshole face to face.
- Comment on You can't see him!!!! 2 weeks ago:
I think you’re reading way to much into things.
Nine articles is not a “wave” or “trending”, and if you had read any of them they’re essentially non-sensational, explain that the image is notable because of its role in the development of digital imagery, why they’re moving away, and why that’s for the best.Jumping from a small number of neutral articles in either explicitly technical or technology adjacent sources to a “wave” of sensationalist agitation targeting older dissatisfied white men is, frankly, really fucking weird.
With your “I don’t work in this field, why do I need to hear about this” it really feels like your saying anything you don’t care about shouldn’t be reported on, and if it is reported on, it’s because someone must have an ulterior motive.
It’s been a near standard test image for decades. Deprecating it is a model case for a low stakes info piece if you’re a tech publication. News you’re not interested in isn’t automatically cultural warfare. - Comment on You can't see him!!!! 2 weeks ago:
I mean, I’d agree that it’s not really too interesting of a thing to report on, but… It just doesn’t seem weird to me that they didn’t talk about something, and then after something happened with it they did for a minute, and then they stopped again. Nine articles from a month ago, when they updated the policy, and none since doesn’t scream “a ton” or “culture war” to me.
And what is the act of class warfare being done here, in your view? What’s the narrative or agenda being pushed?
- Comment on You can't see him!!!! 2 weeks ago:
I mean, the IEEE didn’t really make that big of a deal about it. An email to members informing them of an update to …ieee.org/…/article-submission-requirements/ hardly feels like hype. I think it’s about the minimal fuss you can make while still allowing people to know about the change.
- Comment on You can't see him!!!! 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, those woke culture warriors at the … IEEE … distracting us from … Something… by asking academic researchers to … Refrain from using a specific cropped pornographic image that the model has asked people to stop using.
Those bastards.
- Comment on You can't see him!!!! 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know that she actually did. Most recent statement I can find from her is 2019, and she essentially says that she thinks it’s time to retire the image.
- Comment on Is this discoloration a problem? 2 weeks ago:
It looks in the image like there might be some fungus. To me that’s a sign that it’s worthwhile to get someone professional to at least give it a look in person.
- Comment on Oddly specific question 2 weeks ago:
“are children today too happy and well fed?”
- Comment on Calculus made easy 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, thinking about it a bit more, I could have asked it as:
Is it seeing how it’s used with plain, more spelled out names that helps, or is it seeing how it works “under the hood” that makes it more clear?
Your answer clarifies things for me though, and I agree that that would be a really nice book/program/learning thing. :)
- Comment on Calculus made easy 2 weeks ago:
That’s an interesting notion.
For you, is it when it’s presented like:sum = sum([1,2,3])
, or when it’s dropping in and explaining how the sum function is implemented?I think there’s definitely something there in either case, but teaching math through “how you would implement it in code” seems really interesting. You could start really basic, and then as you get to more complicated math, you keep using the tools you built before. When you get to those “big idea” moments, you could go back to your old functions and modify them to work in the new use case while still supporting the old. Like showing how
multiplication()
needs to change to support complex numbers without making anything else different. - Comment on Who tf 2 weeks ago:
Snape kills Ganondorf
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 3 weeks ago:
That’s a much better example.
Physical access to the device by a sophisticated attacker is well outside the realm of most people’s risk profile.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 3 weeks ago:
The point being that most people do not need to ever change their biometric data, because it isn’t used for remote authentication.
It’s about picking the right threat model, and for most people anything that gets them using the HSM is an improvement to their security.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 3 weeks ago:
That’s not retrieving the biometric data from the device, that’s retrieving the biometric data from surveillance or physical interaction.
It’s quite specifically the type of threat that most people do not need to worry about. - Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 3 weeks ago:
While I do respect that viewpoint, there’s a lot more independent scrutiny of the hardware modules than there are around the parts that would handle any other authentication mechanism you might use.
Pixel phone example iPhone example
Just because something isn’t perfect doesn’t mean we should keep using the less good thing that it replaces.
Use the PIN if that’s more your cup of tea, just so long as you move away from passwords, since it’s the HSM that’s the protection, not the biometrics. Those are just to make it easier than passwords.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 3 weeks ago:
So, it really depends on your personal threat model.
For background: the biometric data doesn’t leave the device, it uses an on-device recognition system to either unlock the device, or to gain access to a hardware security module that uses very strong cryptography for authentication.
Most people aren’t defending against an attacker who has access to them and their device at the same time, they’re defending against someone who has either the device or neither.
The hardware security module effectively eliminates the remote attacker when used with either biometric or PIN.
For the stolen or lost phone attack, biometric is slightly more secure, but it’s moot because of the pin existing for fallback.The biggest security advantage the biometrics have to offer is that they’re very hard to forget, and very easy to use.
Ease of use means more people are likely to adopt the security features using that hardware security module provides, and that’s what’s really dialing up the security.Passwords are most people’s biggest vulnerability.
- Comment on Guys will meet him and just say "hell yeah!" 5 weeks ago:
Both I believe. There are things that come up in your brain that get tossed before “you” are even aware of it.
Like, when you see a person all the different words you know of that could be associated with them get “activated” as your brain comprehends the details.
You see a man wearing jeans and you know he’s wearing jeans, but you don’t think to yourself “blue pants”. It’s not relevant. - Comment on Guys will meet him and just say "hell yeah!" 5 weeks ago:
I think it goes to something else. The (relatively uncommon) compulsion is caused by an issue with the part of your brain that inhabits those thoughts that you don’t normally even notice.
So it’s like the brain occasionally hits the gas pedal when aiming for the break.It’s part of what makes it so distressing for people who have it, since it tends towards the things they don’t want to say.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
I think git lfs is a pretty well accepted tool for managing big files in git.
- Comment on Ringleader of global monkey torture network, 'The Torture King', is charged 1 month ago:
What a terrible day to know how to read.
- Comment on FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules, reversing Trump 1 month ago:
Democrats were stymied for nearly three years because they did not take majority control of the five-member FCC until October.
Basically they didn’t because Republicans, and then when they could they immediately started the process, since the initial vote was in October and the upcoming vote is to confirm the finalized rules changes.
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
Well that’s pretty cool, thanks for sharing! :D To repeat to check my understanding, you’re looking at where structures are relative to other structures, their shape and orientation, and how that goes together in a big system to influence general structure survival in a wildfire situation.
Do you foresee the outcome being something where you could “tune” a neighborhood to be more survivable, or would it end up with too many combinations to be viable?
- Comment on degree in bamf 1 month ago:
When you refer to that diagram, is it a way of gauging fire spread risk? Like this grill could start a medium sized fire, and it’s close to a shed which could become big fire, and that could spread to house, etc, etc?
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Because it’s not actually a problem. Household debt is different from sovereign debt, and you can’t apply the same lines if reasoning to managing them.
- Comment on If Adams Apples are primarily male, why aren't they a common fetish? 2 months ago:
It’s probably because a huger number of prominent secondary sexual sex characteristics get fetishized.
A brief search seems to show that it’s an attractive quality like masculine forearms, and has a degree of fetish amongst the strangulation fetish community.
- Comment on Microsoft's draconian Windows 11 restrictions will send an estimated 240 million PCs to the landfill when Windows 10 hits end of life in 2025 2 months ago:
We still do optimize software today, it’s just that there’s a cap to how much computing you can really need for stuff like flying through space.
The most impressive optimized software things we do now tends towards the more abstract, or banal in modern views.
Calculating the most efficient route to launch a spacecraft to slingshot off a bunch of different planets takes more computation than actually flying or controlling the spacecraft.
We can also model every particle involved in a nuclear detonation to optimize blast yields, which is how we optimize lethality while reducing the number of warheads.
Video games are also typically pretty optimized at their core, it just tends to be overshadowed by being “boring” uses. - Comment on I hear phrases like "half-past", "quarter til", and "quarter after" way less often since digital clocks have became more commonplace. 2 months ago:
There was a solid decade where the pattern broke, and so e people didn’t get back into it.
Two thousand, two thousand one etc don’t really work as “twenty oh-one”, etc.
- Comment on This should be fun 2 months ago:
Who was the 56th US secretary of state?