I recently had to work without an IDE on some code made by a *thunder crack* Java Senior. There was 4 redirections in 3 different files for something that, hopefully, got inlined at compile time. I swear it gets worse with age.

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

I can see why someone would say that basing your ethics and politics on local tradition rather than, for exemple, utilitarism, is pointless and shouldn’t even be considered.

In practice nobody truly follows their theorical ethical stance. Conservative* politicians usually take a vague inspiration from conservatism, and base most of their decisions on whatever will get them in power. That usually means opposition when they’re not up there, and holding the most popular opinions regardless of whether they match their ideology.

The ethics-practice gap is especially large for politicians, that sometimes don’t even believe the opinions that they are supporting. But as a general statement, humans are so bad at having coherent opinions that they can not be dismissed for having an incorrect ethical basis. Or fully trusted for having a correct one

*Also applies to other ideologies

Things being worst somewhere else doesn’t make the local situation better. This is like the whole “eat your broccoli there’s starving children somewhere”, people keep trying it but it won’t ever convince a kid

It was a response to

All I’m saying that this anti-ai mentality is fucking stupid and anyone who engages with it in such a binary way is fucking stupid too.

This isn’t just about anti-ai mentality, it’s the “I deleted the authorship so you can’t fork it out or prove that it’s causing issues”. This kind of insanity has been happening repeatedly on that project, it’s time to let it go and find new solutions.

I had a donation to Lutris, and was already skeptical of the dev’s ability to maintain their huge (and very buggy) python/gtk3 codebase. Now I know that giving money to the dev would likely makes things bigger and buggier. This is useful information, and it’s better to talk about it somewhere where the dev will respond and relatively few bystanders will hear the discussion.

It will be unlabeled and reduced in quantity, as LLM users will feel unwelcome and there is not much point in contributing to a project that doesn’t want you. You don’t always need your policy to be perfect, you just need it to make things better than before

I’ve heard French people telling me they couldn’t wait to go to the US so they can “finally” eat great food, citing novelty mcdonalds and ice cream

It’s dust yeah, but it’s a bit different than sand or sawdust. It has a slight taste to it, I wouldn’t call it outright nothing.

You guys just don’t grind your teeth fine enough.

It is an article

Soit Duolinguo “te ment” (au présent), soit il “t’as menti” (au passé). Mais “me(présent) menti(passé)” c’est pas possible

Noter que l’équivalent première personne pour “t’as” est “m’a”, in order to seed confusion among enemy troops

Based on french, I would also support the “no to war in general” hypothesis. I don’t have a grammatical reason for this, it’s just that this phrasing is most often used for general concepts than specific instances. If they were talking about this war specifically, it would look like “no a esta guerra” or something.

Who knows maybe someone who actually has a clue how spanish works will one day read this thread x)

This sounds like there is a total of 3 people involved, and 3 of them are ok with the situation. I don’t see how this could be bad, unless you worry about Jesus’ consent

Of course things can always go bad, but I would really doubt that breaking up with any of them preemptively will make things better when bs inevitably happens