I’m on PieFed, it combines posts cross posted to multiple communities into one, I’m not a member of that comm but I am for c/actualsocialism which the author cross posted this to.

I do believe that all people deserve the right to self determination, and while actions should be taken to try and to redress colonial wrongdoings; blood and soil nationalism is bad even when its coming from/in favour of a marginalised group.

To be clear, you think that some people born in a place should have no say in how that place is governed based on what ethnicity they are?

And those people who think LLMs will replace software engineers any time in the near future are wrong. But it can still be the case that LLMs are democratizing coding ability to those who otherwise wouldnt have it while at the same software engineering as a discipline isnt going anywhere.

Its not just basic scripting either, often when people start coding in earnest their programs are just a huge pile of statements connected together with if statements and mutating global variables. and LLM can help show best practices like encapsulating logic into functions and isolating side effects.

I think you are vastly overestimating the level that statement is pitched at. The overwhelming majority of people dont even know how a for loop works. However they can ask an LLM to write a script to change this list of files with inconsistent numbering conventions and put them in a consistent order. That’s the level of spreading out the ability to program that we are dealing with.

It should be pointed out that NHS England is a management layer and is in the process of being dismantled so that NHS services in England are managed directly by the NHS and not a third layer between hospitals/doctors and the Department of health.

Outsourcing your critical thinking to someone maintaining a list of personae non gratae sounds like a terrible idea.

Maybe this is just me, but I think decreasing the amount of government money being paid to landlords going down by more than 10% in a single budget is a good thing.

Timor-Leste ranks significantly above Isreal in “international peace and security” where Israel ranks 149 out of 174 mostly above places which are in active wars (and also the USA two places below it), and 139 out of 174 on “world order”.

But the ranking also looks at contributions to science, culture and health where Israel does well. That’s not saying they are morally good because if those contributions, but the contributions also do not stop existing because Israel is doing terrible things.

Mercator is not garbage, it just has a specific use: straight lines on the map correspond to the direction you travel if you maintain a constant bearing. Its still used for naval and avation charts for that exact reason, but it not a good general purpose map.

The wealth of the USA compared to other devoloped countries has shot away over the past 10-15 years, it’s not entirely clear why.

For anyone who doesn’t know, she legitimately said that jewish space lasers were the cause of wildfires in California. She is an out-and-out “The jews are secretly running the entire world from the shadows” antisemite.

Users of consumer Windows are not Microsoft’s customers in any real sense. Microsoft’s customers are huge enterprises who want this stuff and smaller companies who are trapped into using the MS ecosystem by needing to have interoperability with other people/businesses who use MS products.

Its eco-friendly because the waste heat is being used to heat the home methane isnt being burnt to provide that heat. Data centres are needed unless you want to scrap the internet entirely.

I’m not an expert on licences by any means, but my understanding was that LGPL explicitly allows you to link it to other binaries without needing to licence them with the same licence. Does rust really only support static linking and not dynamic?

Per the Gnu wiki:

Does the LGPL have different requirements for statically vs dynamically linked modules with a covered work? (#LGPLStaticVsDynamic)

For the purpose of complying with the LGPL (any extant version: v2, v2.1 or v3):

   (1) If you statically link against an LGPLed library, you must also provide your application in an object (not necessarily source) format, so that a user has the opportunity to modify the library and relink the application.  

   (2) If you dynamically link against an LGPLed library already present on the user's computer, you need not convey the library's source. On the other hand, if you yourself convey the executable LGPLed library along with your application, whether linked with statically or dynamically, you must also convey the library's sources, in one of the ways for which the LGPL provides.  

So as long as you also provide your application with an LGPL library shaped hole you can release a static-linked binary with LGPL components.

Even then, LGPL exists, I wish more libraries would use it rather than going for MIT/BSD licences.

I wouldnt be too sure on the UK and France yet, the far right parties in both are leading in the polls right now. The UK has a lot of local elections next spring and Frances’s parliament seems like it will probably collapse and require new elections soon, maybe by this time next year if the far right havent gained significant power we can talk about turning a corner.

Not only that, but if they do engage in “DEI activities” (definition not included) then they reserve the right to take back the entire grant and and previous money the python foundation had recieved from them in the past. Its a total poison pill, and if this sort of language is widespread in government grants its going to completly gut research in the USA.

The world is not zero-sum but thats not really what he is arguing

Zero-sum socialism

The defining attribute of a zero-sum game is that it is redistributive: a ‘pie-slicing’ competition for a pie that will not grow. If we accept that, in the short to medium term, economic growth will likely be sluggish, then the task becomes to redefine the terms of the redistribution game – shifting it forcefully from identity to class.

What this should mean is, for starters, every MP, and every group or faction within the Labour family, sticking rigidly to universalist language and the rhetoric of nation, class, community and family

The British economy is not growing in per-capita terms, so in order to improve the lives of those at the bottom (as every social democrat and socialist should want) means redistributing from one group to another. If you do that along identitarian lines you are going to lose the white working class to reform, do it by class and you can benefit those same marginalised groups anyway, at least the majority of them who are working class.

Alternatively, shutting down the entire internet (which is what removing datacentres is) for the sake of growing 0.1% more almonds in California is not a good trade off IMO.

You should probably look up where “Tankie” originates if you think Stalin wasnt a communist and calling people defending actions of non-communists tankies is wrong.