PhilipTheBucket

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[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago (4 children)

The headline isn't clear. The article goes into quite a lot of detail (the situation is much more complex, and the headline is probably a pretty misleading summary) and is perfectly clear.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Plus I felt python was too new and would skip a lot of core programming skills id just like to know. Im not super interested in doing it the new way with all the helpers, or I wont feel like I learned anything.

Okay, you definitely want to learn C then. C# and C++ both add a ton of helpers. C# has a massive runtime environment that's opaque and a little bit weird, and C++ has a massive compile-time environment that's opaque and very weird. It's sort of pick your poison. If you learn C and get skilled with it, you'll be well set up for understanding what is actually going on and having strong fundamentals that will set you up well for whatever higher-level language you want to learn in the future.

Put another way: C# will hide just as many of the fundamentals and hardcore details from you as python will, it'll just do it in a weird and counterintuitive fashion that will make it more confusing and with more weird C#-specific details.

I'd eventually like to learn unity as well so i decided on c#

I would actually just cut out the middleman and start with the Unity editor then. It actually might be a really good introduction to the nature of programming in general without throwing a bunch of extra nonsense at you, and in a really motivating format.

I do have the .net sdk and it seems to try to compile a simple program, it just throws errors even on an example program that shouldn't have any. Im sure its something dumb.

What's the program and what's the error? I'm happy to help if something jumps out at me. I'm voicing my opinion otherwise on what might be better ways to attack this all in general, but I'm sure me or people here can help sort out the issues if you really want to take this approach and you're just getting stuck on something simple.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 3 points 3 days ago (10 children)

You can do strict typing in python if you want it, it's very highly recommended if you're doing a big project.

I get what you're saying, people have been arrested after using Tor when that's not true of Mullvad. My point is that the domains are just not the same. It's like saying "body armor isn't as good as just wearing a baseball hat" because a higher percentage of people get shot wearing body armor than while wearing a baseball hat.

Yeah. I am hopeful that he'll run into resistance from the rank and file he is trying to depend on to get this stuff done. The California National Guard is already pissed about LA, and now he's asking for support and cooperation from the same force that watched his supporters beat the fuck out of the Capitol Police like a medieval siege not that long ago and then him give them hearty congratulations for it.

I'm not saying it won't work as he keeps trying (and as ICE gets staffed up and better funded), but I'm glad he's a moron, that's all I'm saying.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Compare the amount of arrest of Mullvad users versus Tor users

Okay. There are half a million total account numbers on Mullvad over the entire lifetime of the service. Tor has about 1.8 million daily users. That's part of why I trust Tor a lot more, is that it's been actively used for flagrantly illegal activities for long enough and by enough people to have developed an understanding of what the risks are (and it becomes news if someone gets busted.) Ring me up the next time a major drug ring is keeping its whole operation secure behind Mullvad, and the cops are helpless because they raided it and found no logs and so they had to pursue some other kind of operation to take down the ring.

Yeah. It feels like the issue is that really solving it is hard work (you can feel, with the proliferation of Linux/Windows runtimes that get downloaded behind the scenes for Steam, how much effort they're continuously putting into releasing new runtimes that make slight adjustments for particular issues), and organizations like Ubuntu are always tempted into these kind of "we'll just set up a simple system that means we don't have to work on it because it'll be solved" approaches.

Honestly I think Linus is being a little over simplistic about how easy it would be to create ABI compatibility in userland. In the kernel it's realistic, but in userland it would be hopeless. But he's not wrong that the current situation, however it arrived, is pretty crappy from a POV of wanting to ship something to people outside of the distro's package management, and IMO none of the solutions that have come along since then are effective at solving the problem.

When did he discuss OnePackage or any other packaging project?

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 1 points 3 days ago (1 children)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_states_with_nuclear_weapons

Look at the chart. You literally pulled "probably in the top 5" completely out of nowhere, and you've now admitted that while saying this stuff you had no real idea in mind how many nuclear-armed states there are in the world.

I have no interest in continuing a back-and-forth with you or opening up new lines of argument to bicker about. You've stated your case, congratulations. Read more. Study.

[–] PhilipTheBucket@piefed.social 2 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

States tend to get the leaders that they deserve. Plenty of Israelis hate Netanyahu and what he's doing, but also, plenty more of them (a majority) do not.

See also Trump. 😢

 

Okay, so through some process, I got signed up to get emails from Chris Hedges and some other unsavory sources. They periodically come into my inbox to tell me that Ukraine is all NATO's fault or something, and I more or less ignore them as I do most of the gibberish tide that comes into my inbox, but this one drew my attention.

What do they want me to believe about Ghislaine Maxwell, I wonder?

She has given few interviews, few statements, made few attempts to interfere with the prevailing narrative that she is a monster and a predator who deserves everything she got. When you leave a lot of empty space, others fill it, project onto it their own assessments, conclusions, and theories.

Yeah, others like a jury of her peers. They projected a whole bunch of evidence into some assessments and conclusions, and that's why she's in the clink. I guess I was a little bit surprised that even they have started up with this tactic. Anyway I thought it was interesting that at least some of the propaganda brigade has taken up the mantle of "You know we shouldn't automatically assume that active predatory pedophiles are bad..."

 

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