Louis Ingenthron @LouisIngenthron@social.cleverlibre.org
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
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High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
@freemo @alecui (A) Superdelegates only apply to *presidential* primaries, not the rest. The realignments happened first in the legislative branch.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superdelegate
(B) Primaries as a method of picking nominees only really took over in 1972. Prior to that, the nominees were picked by state party conventions. When Hubert Humphrey won the Dem nomination in '68 without entering any of the primaries, both parties decided they needed to change the rules. Funny how the rules changed right about the same time as the realignment...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_election
@freemo @alecui That's not true. Party membership is chosen by the individual. Anyone, even elected legislators, can switch their party affiliation any time they want, and they don't get kicked out of office for it. Justin Amash and Charlie Crist both did it recently.
These shifts have happened multiple times in our country's history, which is why we're currently considered to be in the 6th iteration of our nation's party system: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sixth_Party_System
And as for people on the right refusing to grapple with historical racism... well, that's so common that it's become something of a stereotype at this point, hasn't it? They're even passing laws to block schools from teaching that history.
@freemo @alecui Woah, dude, that's a little bit off the deep end. The party realignment is recognized by pretty much every credible American historian, and denying it has been a talking point of the far-right for some time now. Many legislators even switched parties during that time to be with the fellow racists/non-racists.
Dems aren't perfect, but they're an order of magnitude better than the GOP on the issue of race, in pretty much any metric, since the Civil Rights era. Trying to act like they're remotely similar is nuts.
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Coming to Mastodon from Twitter feels like busting in the door loudly brandishing a half drunk bottle of tequila and finding everyone sitting in horrified silence holding cups of tea and academic papers
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@mentallyalex It's surreal that the part of his job he was best at was convincing you how unnecessary his job is.
When people complain about AI taking over jobs, I look at situations like this and think "Would that seem so terrible? The humans don't even seem to mind."
Seems like classic "correlation, not causation" to me.
Nearly all humans have empathy for those close to them, but to gain empathy for strangers typically requires being exposed to a lot of different people you don't know... AKA everyday living in high-density locations.
Likewise, bikes don't work anywhere near as well in spread out areas, but they work great in dense urban areas where everything you'd ever need is only a couple blocks away. And, let's not forget that such locations often have better and cheaper delivery coverage, filling in the gaps for bikes, making them more viable.
To draw a connection between the two, other than "they both work well in population-dense areas" seems silly and fallacious.
@mekkaokereke@hachyderm.io
🤔 Do bicycles create empathy? Or do people that care about other people, tend to care about bikes? Why is there such a big overlap between "bike in...
This is great news.
Next, let's get the local police departments to safely destroy *their* chemical weapons.
"I am proud to announce that the United States has safely destroyed the final munition" in its #chemicalweapons stockpile. -- President Biden in a ...
@trinsec ...compared to what?
So, Magic Leap's hardware was... not impressive. Unfortunately, it won't work for my many intended use cases for AR.
That said, though, their customer service is top notch. Despite the enormous cost, they were kind enough to allow me to refund the hardware after I explained how it wouldn't work for my use case.
@bruce First thing I do whenever I get a new phone is uninstall/disable all the bloatware from the carrier. Saves me a lot of trouble down the line.
@bruce Uninstall "Verizon App Manager".
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I love how so much of the AI debate is on things like:
* Will AI take people's jobs?
* Will AI destroy creativity?
* Will AI take over the world?
* Will AI be used to make people poorer?
And not:
* Will corporations that use AI get rid of people's jobs?
* Will corporations that use AI destroy creativity?
* Will corporations that use AI try to take over the world?
* Will corporations that use AI make people poorer?
Because these LLMs and machine learning systems and so forth aren't just wandering around randomly out there - they're owned by corporations. The corporations are the ones putting them to use. The executives that run those corporations are the ones making the decisions to pay people less, to increase their profits, to make creative people act as subeditors for LLMs.
It's the corporations, and the ethics-free systems that govern them, that cause these things. They're the ones pushing to have more AI.
The rest of us would be happy just having a bit more humanity in the world.
@BabaIsYou Hope you guys used 32-bit ints for their IDs! Congrats!
@jaffathecake Having started coding in the early 2000s, I use self-closing syntax like dogma.
But I hadn't realized just how pointless and unsupported it had gotten... Do browsers even use it as a hint to behaviour with HTML5 or do they just discard it entirely as meaningless?
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it's genuinely wild how we heard nothing but long winded platitudes on how innovative silicon valley was for like 20 straight years and it's all culminated in a bunch of the dullest, most petulant billionaires imaginable all just copying each other's version of a very basic chat app
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It took a bit but I have a post about SCOTUS's 303 Creative decision last week.
If the length seems daunting, just read up to the bold headings. Or even the 1st paragraph, which sums up the bottom line.
As does the title: "In 303 Creative, By Happily Helping One Bigot, SCOTUS (Perhaps Inadvertently) Helped The Larger Fight Against Bigotry"
(Otherwise it's written in sections explaining how aspects of the decision serve the greater good, so you can pace yourselves.)
@cathygellis Glad to hear I wasn't the only one thinking this.... This conclusion appears to be very unwelcome on Mastodon, though.
Step 1: Fire all your best employees to cut costs.
Step 2: Your competitors hire those employees, and become more competitive as a result.
Step 3: Throw good money after bad and pay lawyers to sue your competitors for seizing the opportunity you yourself created for them.
Twitter threatens to sue Meta over Threads, alleging Meta has "engaged in systematic, willful, and unlawful misappropriation of Twitter's trade sec...
Software engineering contractor/consultant in Florida specializing in .NET C# #WebDev, plus #Indie #GameDev in #MonoGame, #Stride, and #Godot.
I like complex simulations and enjoy writing procedural generation algorithms for fun.
#Pilot in training. Burgeoning fan of #Aviation in general.
Fan of #1A jurisprudence and the kind of #FreeSpeech that applies to everyone equally.
Pro-Democracy. Pro-Rights. Pro-Freedom. In that order.
He/Him 🏳🌈
High risk of rants, especially with the lack of character limit.
Joined Nov 2022
