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keutoi··on I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
This forum needs a code of conduct. We need to be civil and productive. But I think a blog post should have more freedom. If the author made an ignorant choice of phrase, then a comment about it would be appropriate. But choice of dark/crass humor should not be reprimanded. I don't want to be posh and well mannered in my own home. No masks; let me be as disgusting and pathetic as I can be.
keutoi··on I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
This is a blog post, not a journal. I don't think he should be policing his language in his own work.
keutoi··on I made my VM think it has a CPU fan
"Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends." - Gandalf.

You have made up some arbitrary rules, and adjudicated humanity to extinction.

You certainly can do better.

keutoi··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
>The subjugation of "infidels" under expansionist oppressive religious groups with the intent to bring "peace" is an imperialism all of its own, but much worse. Peace... at the cost of freedom, autonomy, expression, equality.

Are you arguing for or against Israel?

keutoi··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
Yes, I am complicit in the crimes of my government. I am helpless do much, but the crime must be acknowledged. We are a part of the system, no sense in burying our head in the sand.

Only when a crime is acknowledge, we can talk about punishments. Will Israeli people not profit from this war? Protests will have some teeth if steps be taken so this will not repeat itself. I don't see this happening.

Look at USA, war after war. Presidents are blamed but not punished and the population enjoys the economical hegemony that is the fruit of war.

keutoi··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
More than 50 years of oppression and countless atrocities. If you are slowly killing a man by choking him and he stabs your eye in defense, is that provocation?

If Hitler bombed a some Germans and blamed it on the Jewish people, should rest of the world be okay with the Holocaust?

keutoi··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
It might be true that I am in a bubble and I am only hearing voices supporting these atrocities.

Democracy need not represent the majority, but if it works against the majority without any repercussions then who is to blame? Will the leadership be held accountable?

This war was started because the government knew they can get away with it. Every citizen is complicit in every crime committed by their government. Don't the citizens enjoy the fruits of crime even after claiming to oppose the actions of their government?

keutoi··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
Oct 7th is not when anything started. If this is just a response a terror attack, then should Israel be profiting from it? Will the Palestinians be allowed to go back and rebuild?

Without a sense of proportionate response, if Hitler did some false flag attacks, do you expect the whole world to be okay with the Holocaust?

keutoi··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
No one will shoot back now. But it is a signal to other countries that using nukes might not be that bad. Even other banned chemical and biological weapons. So either there is complete chaos or the whole world will have to make sure Israel can not profit from this action.
keutoi··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
If it the right thing to do, why isn't Israel embracing and announcing the said genocide?

Is the only wrong thing Hitler did is to not make a few false flag attacks on the Germans before announcing the 'Final solution'?

keutoi··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
Israel is supposed to be a democratic state. If the average Israeli disagrees with this they can speak up. The only voices we are hearing now are those who support it's current activities. Those who oppose are fewer and quieter.
keutoi··on IDF officers ordered to fire at unarmed crowds near Gaza food distribution sites
There is some denial about the crimes committed by Imperial Japan.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nanjing_Massacre_denial https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/1gb94m1/why_...

keutoi··on Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
Why would any country be proactive in combating this? Do you think US will be fair in return? US protects it's people even from International war crimes.

Mercenaries: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_involvement_in_r...

keutoi··on Foreign Scammers Use U.S. Banks to Fleece Americans
_Allowing scam call centers to flourish_.

How much control does an average citizen have over these criminal enterprises? Does an average US citizen know/care/take-action when mercenaries from their country topple governments of other countries? As long as the crime is not visible, they just enjoy fruits of their crimes.

keutoi··on Europe needs digital sovereignty – and Microsoft has just proven why
An ongoing illegal occupation for 50 years is reduced down to 33 lives...
keutoi··on My AI skeptic friends are all nuts
I think the same argument could be made about search engines. Most people are not too worried about them.
keutoi··on How did geometry create modern physics?
May be something like this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abc_conjecture#Claimed_proofs
keutoi··on Forgetting My First Language
You could compare it to India.

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

keutoi··on Noted study in psychology fails to replicate, crumbles with evidence of fraud
How do you advance scientific knowledge without using a Scientific Method?
keutoi··on Ask HN: Is it worth learning Elixir, from a jobs perspective?
Erlang has a bit of Prolog heritage. You can see it in the Variable-constant and predicate/n syntax, pattern matching, multiple clauses, immutability etc... Do not know eilxir so can not say how much it affects that.
keutoi··on Xi Jinping’s Capitalist Smackdown Sparks a $1T Reckoning
Education as a way up in society has been in China for a long time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imperial_examination .
keutoi··on Try APL
Emacs has a good quail-completion system for `GNU-APL`.
keutoi··on Letter to Freenode – Post Mortem of May 25, 2021
This reads like an example for 'too little, too late'.
keutoi··on Word usage guidance and alternative terms
Removing words will not change much. As you say languages are dynamic and they will evolve to fit the speakers requirements[1].

[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Euphemism#Euphemism_treadmill

keutoi··on To find great remote employees, prioritize candidates with strong writing skills
It is likely that hiring practices are not updated for a remote job. With remote jobs increasing I think that writing skills will be taken into consideration.
keutoi··on Indian developer jailed for making unauthorized train ticket booking app
This a probably a symptom of a much deeper problem. In theory tickets are non-transferable, but it is not enforced at all. A passenger train carries more than 500 people and if someone gets caught they just bribe out of the problem. Since the ground level problems are hard to solve, a solution at the top gave IRCTC some power to control and lower the available black market tickets. When the problem with identity and transferable tickets is solved then I think technical problems will be resolved.

Keep in mind Identity is hard to check and for rural passengers. There were very few such documents before AADHAAR etc.

keutoi··on Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
It is a stereotype, but the statement itself is not an exaggeration. An average user has most of the software he needs even in linux. It is not foreign to the user if it is the first one (if it is default) he/she encounters.
keutoi··on Bypassing Firewalls in macOS Big Sur
Given the history such paranoia might be reasonable(healthy too), but I can't assert such incompetence with a straight face.
keutoi··on Technical debt as a lack of understanding
That would split the profession into maintainers and initial writers pretty quickly. Maintainers will become scarce and hence quite valuable.
keutoi··on Teach Yourself Computer Science
Not computer science but I learned a lot by going through Teach Yourself Logic[1]. I did not know where to start and how one subject relates to other and this guide helped me a lot. I have followed the guide for two years now and wish for some thing like this for every topic.

[1]: https://www.logicmatters.net/tyl/