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Bullfight2Condon An Alien Mind

Very wise comment. It's such an western-centric perspective to say "alignment" as if it's an objective and unbiased set of standards, especially in the context of the ongoing wars across the world. I had the same reaction about the shocking naivete and unfounded optimism for the government and corporate entities to self-regulate to slow down this arms race.

Bullfight2Condon An Alien Mind

Hyper-capitalist AND hyper-authoritarian. As you rightly point out the state has the ultimate power. Looking at the US govt, they've stepped in to coordinate much of the tech industry before, so they'll just do it again for "national security" or whichever hostile scheme is popular with the current administration.

Bullfight2Condon AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It

china outlawed it

Bullfight2Condon Slow Liquid

smooth

Bullfight2Condon Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

What's your counter evidence?

Bullfight2Condon Europe is locking itself in to US LNG

That's a very self-limiting viewpoint when a significant portion of warfare is deception, so by definition you're not going to get "all we know".

For example, Seymour Hersh (renowned wartime investigative journalist), published a brief on US involvement: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...

Bullfight2Condon Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices

RT was heavily censored in the USA and is banned in several European countries. Press censorship is pretty much the norm in 'western democracies' similar to everywhere else.

Bullfight2Condon Twilio CEO: Layoffs were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens

Translation: 'We fired the white men who we were paying more than the others.' Woke capitalism at its finest.

Bullfight2Condon How to create a Python package in 2022

Poetry uses non-standard dependency specification formats. PDM is like Poetry but faster/more standards compliant.

https://pdm.fming.dev/

Bullfight2Condon Learning Go as a Python Developer: The Good and the Bad

one more that supports the latest standards: https://pdm.fming.dev/

Bullfight2Condon Freezing Requirements with Pip-Tools

pip-tools is alright but it doesn't support cross-platform (or python version) lockfiles.

poetry is alright but it doesn't support the latest PEP standards, and its slow.

PDM is where it's at; it's fast, has a really responsive maintainer, supports all the latest PEP standards, and has really good cross-platform support.

pdm.fming.dev/

Bullfight2Condon Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)

5560 is one of my least favorite laptops ever.

The trackpad is unnecessarily big that my hand routinely clicks it when typing. Also, it has driver issues:

- on windows if you move the trackpad quickly and then click, it resets your cursor position -- I've lost work because of this bug: https://imgur.com/a/ibNObJ8

- on linux (tried in fedora) there's an unresolved issue with the kernel driver where randomly the acceleration of the cursor will drop and the cursor movement will have a large amount of lag: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/61...

Physically, out of the box it looks nice but over the course of 2-3 months becomes quite disgusting: it attracts smudges, the speaker grill fill up with dust. It's also heavy.

The plastic housing on the edge of the display is so sharp that when I went to wipe dust off the screen I sliced my finger and started bleeding.

Performance wise, it's okay, but I only get 5 hours in windows (VSCode, Slack, Firefox).

The keyboard is okay, but I prefer the thinkpad keyboards because the delete key isn't offset from a touch power button like the dell.

3/10 would not buy again