tesseract

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[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 21 points 3 months ago

I don't know why everyone's surprised. What were you expecting from Elon? Ethics and morality?

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 24 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Honestly, I would like the world to keep Vivian out of this. (I wanted to say 'his daughter'. But Vivian is right. He's just too obnoxious to be related to.) Elon has done enough damage to her by throwing her to his band of online trolls, because she chose her own life instead of following his wishes.

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 11 points 3 months ago

A couple of million? You're talking about pocket change for them. You should look at the grants and subsidies he avails from the government to keep them afloat. That should also give you an idea about a major source of his funds - your taxes.

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 6 points 3 months ago

It says 'one of the most shameful'. There are plenty of others - especially the ones perpetrated by the devil Henry Kissinger. This shameful episode is right on character for the USA.

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

What's the second problem after topo naming that's getting fixed?

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago (4 children)

FreeCAD has already merged the solution for the infamous 'topological naming problem'. The 1.0 release may happen soon!

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Early signs of Project 2025?

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago

I'm an adult and am not responsible for anything you described. They were all there even before I was born. In fact, the same may apply to my parents or even grandparents. I'd rather blame a sociopolitical class than any single generation for all those ills.

But to answer your question, yes, I'd blame that entire class for the harm caused by young people using murder tools they introduced. They did it with the full knowledge of its consequences. They valued momentary material gains above the wellbeing of entire generations. They absolutely should be punished for all the mass shootings in schools, because they knew it could happen. Yet they chose the blood money. Similarly, if an entire city is under a drugs epidemic (like the current opioid crisis), wouldn't you want to hunt down the producers and suppliers, instead of the users?

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

It's extremely nuanced. 'Light years ahead' is correct since you are thinking about a race where one competitor is a long distance ahead of others. On the other hand, 'light years away' doesn't make sense, since we think of achievements in terms of time needed, rather than distance.

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 5 points 3 months ago (1 children)

You are right, except for one detail. Package managers almost always validate the packages using digital signatures, to avoid man-in-the-middle attacks. You don't need to trust the network anymore. Shell scripts piped to a shell don't have that protection. You still have to trust the developers and maintainers, though.

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 1 points 3 months ago

Wasn't that the point behind hanging, drawing and quartering?

[–] tesseract@beehaw.org 2 points 4 months ago (2 children)

No. Just leave their corpses in the jail for multiple lifetimes.

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