Thwompthwomp

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[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 10 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Can’t it be both? Can’t it be that there is higher life quality and also the regime can be bad? I mean I feel like there’s room to criticize both. And then reflect back on one’s own country.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I do think shortening things up a bit would have really benefited it. We had a group discussion of this and some folks were a bit surprised that it didn’t get into the beaurocracy that tends to be a part of the Chinese underworld. I’m not up to speed on Chinese lore, so can’t say much myself.

I enjoyed it mostly. It was not my favorite, but it was a fun twist on grad school life.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 10 points 2 weeks ago

That is an amazing cover in general, and especially today. I've never heard this one before. Thanks for posting it!

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

d'oh! That's what I get for trying to type quickly.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 19 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

This is awesome, and I really no no idea about this!

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

So: your point is the usage of AI in common vernacular should not have changed from its meaning 50 years ago, and using it in its modern sense as shorthand for LLMs and generative models is bad.

And your point is also that the modern usage of a Luddite is correct and you should ignore the original group and the conditions that led this group to smash the textiles because the usage of that word changing is fine and we should not look at original usage?

Got it. Words change. Sometimes. And other times no.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 13 points 1 month ago

Any ideas on how to rectify this?

Sounds like the LEDs are doing a great job of that already

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

I remember going through this and realizing that the "adults" in charge, were in fact just like me and still not knowing what was going on.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago

Now that is the gift that keeps on giving! I also like the implication that one can "learn" emacs.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Latex is worth knowing, its most commonly used for academic papers, but it opens up a whole world of scripting automated documents. But, to make it really interesting, throw in tikz and/or pgfplots for some interesting power tools. Tikz does A LOT, and is really powerful. But can definitely be overwhelming.

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 20 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Just within the last week or so old.reddit.com was effectively disabled and stopped working. (I think it might work if you log in, but i quit doing that 3 years ago). It was a nice resource and it’s said that it’s such a shell of what it was. Right when the internet is really needing human voices too

[–] Thwompthwomp@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I know what you’re saying, but also macOS is actually a certified Unix. So not really a “middle” ground towards Unix.

https://www.opengroup.org/openbrand/register/

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