bionicjoey
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- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 22 minutes ago:
Apparently they aren’t respecting licenses. It’s possible to have source code publicly available on GH but have it not be truly FOSS. But that’s generally not a great idea since you’re effectively relying on the honour system for people not to take your code.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 2 hours ago:
It’s funny how much effort you’re going to debating my word choice instead of the meaning and content of my rebuttal to your stupid comment. Do you have an actual point here? Are you claiming that what you were doing above wasn’t whataboutism? That it’s somehow a valid counterpoint to my joke about CCP censorship to say that the US also does bad things?
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 3 hours ago:
Lmao it’s literally the name of a logical fallacy. How is the term itself fallacious?
Also I harbour no racism or ill will toward the Chinese people. My girlfriend is Chinese and I care about her a lot and love learning about her culture. I just don’t abide the human rights atrocities committed by any government.
- Comment on This smiling robot face made of living skin is absolute nightmare fuel 3 hours ago:
Life imitates art
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 3 hours ago:
I’m not American. I don’t even like America.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 hours ago:
Yeah I figured as much. It was mostly a joke. At the end of the day, if stuff is on GH, people can take it. It’s barely even stealing. Unless the license disagrees of course but then you were putting a lot of trust in society by making it public in the first place.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 hours ago:
Tankie whataboutism strikes again.
Two things can be bad at the same time. Wild, I know.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 5 hours ago:
Solution: create a GitHub repo with Markdown articles outlining human rights abuses by the CCP and have a large number of GitHub users star and fork the repo.
- Comment on How can I improve my handwriting? 1 day ago:
That is unfortunately still very common at many schools. Luckily, the profs are usually pretty forgiving, and will give you lots of space to write. They are mostly aware it’s a dumb task and may require an entire sheet of paper for like 10-15 lines of code. I wouldn’t sweat it too much. If you can hand print a message on a post-it note for someone, you probably have legible enough writing for those questions. They aren’t normally big essay questions.
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 1 day ago:
you have to have a local account set up to sign into those network accounts.
I’m pretty sure that’s false. You can create an account right from OS install that is backed by something like LDAP (assuming you don’t count the root user as an “Account”)
- Comment on Microsoft really wants Local accounts gone after it erases its guide on how to create them 2 days ago:
Linux supports network accounts of all kinds.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 days ago:
Yeah I’ve heard that one too. It seems plausible. But we’ll never know.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 days ago:
That was a sea cucumber
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 days ago:
I feel like there’s some room for Occam’s Razor here. Is it more likely that dozens of people got together and agreed to start a cult centred around a fictional person that they were all going to agree existed? Or that the guy actually did exist? Like why would all the people who say they followed him around lie about that but also be on the same page about so many details of him?
Like, we know the posse existed, so why is it a stretch that the guy they all went on to turn into a religion was really there in the middle of it all?
To be clear (and I can’t believe I have to say this, but there are some idiots in this thread) I’m not claiming magical miracles are real, just that there was a real dude in the middle of that posse that those followers went on to turn into a religion.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 days ago:
Yeah I’m not arguing with that. You’re just nitpicking semantics because you have lost this argument. Literally the very next sentence after the one you quoted I qualified that by saying it’s debatable.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 days ago:
A bunch of the books in the new testament are letters written by Jesus’s followers. We can’t prove whether they really are that, but they all agree that a dude named Jesus existed. If a bunch of people all wrote about a guy they knew, and most of the details match, that guy probably was real.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 days ago:
The difference is that nobody claims that Socrates was a fantastical god being who defied death,
To use a more modern example, pretty much everyone agrees that Grigori Rasputin was a real person who played a crucial role in the court of the last Czar of Russia.
But there are some positively wild and unexplainable stories that have a decent amount of corroborating evidence that they happened. The story about him healing the prince via a phone call sounds like actual magic. However we all know magic isn’t real, there is definitely some kind of logical explanation. But that explanation is lost to time.
So where do historians land on Rasputin? Well, there was definitely a guy called Rasputin. Some of the stories about him are true. Some are probably false or exaggerated. There isn’t even a consensus on what colour the dude’s eyes were. But that doesn’t mean we dispute his existence.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 days ago:
Yeah there are plenty of historians who have done good work studying this and the academia is mostly settled. Not to say there’s no controversy, but there’s definitely an orthodox opinion.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 days ago:
There’s a Jesus that got crucified, but no mention about him being able to perform miracles
Obviously miracles aren’t real. I wasn’t claiming otherwise. We’re talking about whether or not the person Jesus existed, not if magic is real.
It sounds like we agree
I don’t think any of it was written till decades after he supposedly died tho…
Okay but it was written by people who claim they were there and met him personally.
To borrow your asinine LOTR analogy, it is more like you are claiming Thorinn Oakenshield never existed simply because Bilbo only wrote “There and Back Again” after he got home from memory.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 days ago:
Evidence isn’t the standard for things existing?
What exactly is the standard in your mind for whether a historical figure existed?
Hard evidence has never been the standard for proof that a historical figure existed. Corroborating records are. It’s great if you can find some hard evidence, but if that was the standard then most people in history wouldn’t have any historical proof of their existence. And even when there is a corpse, we still rely on burial records to be certain that the corpse is who we think it is.
Like a third of the bible as well as several contemporary documents all point to the existence of a guy named something like Joshua (which we now translate as Jesus) who traveled around Palestine preaching and was crucified in around 33AD. There are plenty of historical figures who we mostly agree existed despite having approximately the same amount of proof as for Jesus.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 days ago:
The Egyptians also mummified their dead, preserving the corpses into the modern era. “Older” ≠ “more evidence”
We have loads more records from the Romans than from the Norse for example, even though the Norse came later, because the Norse didn’t keep as many records as the Romans.
- Comment on Is there any real physical proof that Jesus christ ever existed? 2 days ago:
That’s because there weren’t multiple people around to write down what they saw. You’re confusing paleontology and history. They have very different standards for proof.
There are tons of historical figures for whom we have no physical evidence. But we have tons of written evidence from people who all experienced those people.
- Comment on World’s 1st high-temperature superconducting tokamak built in China 3 days ago:
Gotta make anything into a giant mechanical spider!
- Comment on All the Data on Earth Can Fit in a Cup Full of DNA. This Is MIT’s Jurassic Park-Inspired Project 3 days ago:
The scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could, that they never stopped to ask if they should finish watching the movie
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 4 days ago:
What’s funny is that movie released during the pandemic, so it seemed like that was the thing it was commenting on, but actually it was filmed before the pandemic and was originally meant as a commentary on climate change. What it shows is that humanity’s modern tribalism is remarkably predictable. No matter what the problem, we will turn it into an us versus them situation where getting anything meaningful done becomes an uphill battle.
- Comment on Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win 4 days ago:
IA definitely has too much to lose to afford picking fights. They got off lucky only having to remove the books. If they had been fined for many counts of copyright infringement, we could have had another library of Alexandria burning situation.
- Comment on Five Men Convicted of Operating Massive, Illegal Streaming Service That Allegedly Had More Content Than Netflix, Hulu, Vudu and Prime Video Combined 4 days ago:
Proving Netflix could be
replacedoutdone by five hard working people. - Comment on How Nvidia became an AI giant 5 days ago:
The market can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 5 days ago:
Yeah I’m not out here saying socialism is bad. I consider myself quite left of center. But it’s like… they have literal magic. The words we use to describe different ways of allocating resources do not apply to them. They don’t have an economy. An economy is a system of logistics and trade for moving scarce things to the people who want those things. Everyone and their dog has a transporter and a replicator. Logistics and resource allocation are irrelevant. Why would anyone trade anything for anything else if they have infinite everything?
- Comment on Was it a good thing that SNW explicitly said the Federation is socialist? 5 days ago:
Socialism isn’t a binary thing. It is an ideology that can be worked toward with various different degrees and measures. But also I clarify further down that my intent is not to give a definition of socialism, but rather to say that no definition of socialism makes sense in the context of ST’s federation and the magical impossible technology they possess.