[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 1 points 1 day ago

I am, no worries.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world -4 points 2 days ago

Dissent is not creativity.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Using reverse proxies is common enough now that quite a few apps can deal with subpaths, and for the ones that can't you can generally get nginx to rewrite the paths for you to make things work.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 3 points 2 days ago

What genius decided to denote the difference by using three shades of the exact same colour?

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Because 1 bar is almost atmospheric pressure. Oddly enough I've never seen anyone use kPa, weather forecasts often use hPa (instead of mbar) to report atmospheric pressure.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Is signal not a viable option? Or can you still not use it without leaking your phone-number?

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

Put simply you just give every candidate points out of 10 and then elect the one with the highest average.

Approval voting (not acceptance, my mistake), simplifies things a bit by only allowing none or all points. Which is the best if you want to vote tactically anyway.

This method sidesteps a couple of the issues that Arrow's impossibility theorem raises, and is easy enough to understand. Ranked choice is better than first past the post but still has the issue that adding an additional candidate can affect the end result in complex ways.

With approval voting most aspects are easy to understand. Adding or removing candidates trivially has no effect on the rest of the result. And while you can still vote tactically the only real tactic is where you put your cutoff, you should still vote for the option(s) you like best.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

No that's all of Paris, that part is fixed.

The president promised to swim in it though, and a bad election result might just give him an excuse to 'step back'.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 19 points 3 days ago

In a way AI refusing to recommend using so much computing power on LLMs could well be the first sign of actual intelligence.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 24 points 3 days ago

Not sure about the self-driving, but he had a video challenging the idea that electrons in wires that carry electricity. Basically arguing that it was the electric fields themselves that carried the power, which is largely outside of the actual wires.

Not sure if that's the same one where he asked what would happen if you used a light switch connected to a lamp by two wires. Apart from some truly egregious mistaken units (1s/c as unit of time), I vaguely recall thinking it was basically a huge clusterfuck of misunderstandings about what an electrical circuit diagram even is (stuff like real vs idealized components, parasitic capacitance / inductance etc.)

They're the kind of 'Well actually' half true factoids that you never hope to encounter in the wild if you actually understand the stuff. For someone claiming to be enthusiastic about science communication he did one heck of a job poisoning concepts with subtly wrong/misleading explanations that make it a lot harder to explain stuff to anyone with the misfortune to encounter his version first.

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 5 points 3 days ago

Why not acceptance/range voting?

[-] Contravariant@lemmy.world 4 points 3 days ago

Setting Milei aside for a minute, should you wish to revise government you nigh always need to do so from a position of power. This also applies if you actually wish to reduce the power government has.

Technically giving yourself absolute power makes sense even for someone acting in good faith wanting to reduce or improve government. Wouldn't be the first time someone fucked up the succession though.

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