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voxl commented on A Cosmic Miracle: A Remarkably Luminous Galaxy at z=14.44 Confirmed with JWST   astro.theoj.org/article/1... · Posted by u/yread
metalliqaz · 3 days ago
what do the other 99% of researchers do?
voxl · 3 days ago
Most research is boring incremental stuff, and very often you will find a dejected or disappointed individual that realizes this. The invention of relativity only made one scientist a household name. I guess everyone else that came before and after were doing nothing at all.
voxl commented on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month   theverge.com/tech/875309/... · Posted by u/x01
voxl · 5 days ago
Yes, American Hitler is in fact Hitler perhaps you're cool with:

1. Extrajudicious execution of US citizens 2. Construction of concentration camps 3. Openly saying that you'll interfere with state elections 4. Openly saying you'll take away guns and dimish gun rights

Let's just be honest with ourselves. No one. And I mean no one, can support Donald Trump and be a principled decent human being, conservative or otherwise.

voxl commented on U.S. jobs disappear at fastest January pace since great recession   forbes.com/sites/mikestun... · Posted by u/alephnerd
swagasaurus-rex · 7 days ago
can we also blame the DNC for not holding an election for who would run against trump?

Or the DNC for throwing Bernie under the bus in 2016 (he would have beaten trump)?

Maybe the two party system has grown rotten to the core

voxl · 7 days ago
I voted for Bernie in the primary, for Hilary; Biden; and Harris in the general elections. At no point did I think to myself "Now is the time to be an idealist about the DNC, right when we're combating fascism"

The DNC is an embarrassment, the two party system is a democratic disaster, but accelerationists? They're evil.

voxl commented on Todd C. Miller – Sudo maintainer for over 30 years   millert.dev/... · Posted by u/wodniok
whatis991 · 12 days ago
It has a more lax license AFAIK. Also, many Rust projects and libraries have been abandoned, or are in so-so shapes.

Edit:

To specify, new projects like sudo-rs may seem promising, but going by observation and experience with similar projects, there is no guarantee that sudo-rs and similar projects will be successful, good and continued to be maintained. The problems with old projects can end up applying to new projects as well. And projects in Rust are no exception, going by experience with existing, older Rust projects.

Aside, a pet peeve I have is that for instance Ruffle has not turned out as successful as I had hoped for, even after several years and many sponsors. The proprietary Flash runtimes written in C still outperform Ruffle greatly in some cases, causing problems for some users that want to use Ruffle instead of other runtimes.

voxl · 12 days ago
How is this a counter argument for anything? A more permissive license is not inherently a bad thing. Many C and C++ projects are also abandon or in so-so condition, why you uniquely call out Rust makes little sense. Either sudo-rs fills the void or it doesn't, but it is a counter point to this idea that open source projects have no path of evolution. Just because that path doesn't look like how you want it to doesn't mean it doesn't exist.
voxl commented on Internet voting is insecure and should not be used in public elections   blog.citp.princeton.edu/2... · Posted by u/WaitWaitWha
gpt5 · 23 days ago
The most important feature of public elections is trust. Efficiency is one of the least important feature.

When we moved away from paper voting with public oversight of counting to electronic voting we significantly deteriorated trust, we made it significantly easier for a hostile government to fake votes, all for marginal improvements in efficiency which don't actually matter.

Moving to internet voting will further deteriorate the election process, and could move us to a place where we completely lose control and trust of the election process.

We should move back to paper voting.

voxl · 23 days ago
yeah, trust is real important. Wait, what's that. Stop the count? Don't count all the votes because it's taking too long? Where have I heard that before... What political, totally not fascist, group of people have supported a politician saying that before...
voxl commented on AI isn't "just predicting the next word" anymore   stevenadler.substack.com/... · Posted by u/gmays
AuthAuth · a month ago
I always hear this "AI solved a crazy math problem that no math teams could solve" and think why can it never solve the math problems that I need it to solve when they should be easily doable by any high school student.
voxl · a month ago
Because what it really means is "we directed the AI, it translated our ideas into Lean, the Lean tool then acted as an oracle determining if anything as incorrect, doing literally all the hard work of of correctness, and this process looped until the prompter gave up or Lean sent back an all clear"
voxl commented on Eat Real Food   realfood.gov... · Posted by u/atestu
schmuckonwheels · a month ago
Speaking from personal experience, this is consistent with multiple doctors over the years recommending high-protein, low carb diets. (Clarification: low does not mean no carb.)

I don't understand people freaking out over this - outside of a purely political reflex - hell hath no fury like taking away nerds' Mountain Dew and Flamin' Hot Cheetos.

Nor do I understand the negative reactions to new restrictions on SNAP - candy and sugary drinks are no longer eligible.

voxl · a month ago
The mythical "doctors" recommending high protein.. Yeah okay bud.
voxl commented on Why users cannot create Issues directly   github.com/ghostty-org/gh... · Posted by u/xpe
eviks · a month ago
> This pattern makes it easier for maintainers or contributors to find issues to work on since every issue is ready to be worked on.

How is this not trivially solved via a "ready-to-be-worked-on" tag?

voxl · a month ago
How is it not trivially solved by a discussion section? Why is your solution better for someone else's work flow? Why do you feel like you get to impose your way of doing work on an open source project?
voxl commented on Software engineers should be a little bit cynical   seangoedecke.com/a-little... · Posted by u/zdw
hahahacorn · 2 months ago
Framing an agreement between companies to not poach each others top talent as a means to “crush their employees” is very discrediting.

I’m glad for the antitrust litigation. It’s very obvious that this was a collusion effort that was self serving to each party involved, as a means of overcoming a negative (for them) prisoners dilemma type situation.

The fact that it depressed wage growth was a welcomed side effect. But framing that as the intended outcome as a way of discrediting original author is telling. I don’t know if you’ve understood corporations to be rather simple profit seeking entities, whose behavior can be modeled and regulated to ideal societal outcomes accordingly.

What military action is GitHub involved with.

voxl · 2 months ago
Perceiving corpos as "simple profit seeking entities" is some of the most naive Milton Friedman crap. Corporations operate as an amalgamation of the desires of a group of powerful enough influencers, of which your rank and file investor is NOT making a meaningful contribution. Milton Friedman has done more harm to capitalism than Marx has done to socialism.
voxl commented on Dafny: Verification-Aware Programming Language   dafny.org/... · Posted by u/handfuloflight
fooker · 2 months ago
This might be a stupid question, but why a separate programming language rather than aiming to verify/synthesize invariants in languages people use?
voxl · 2 months ago
Dafny has been around for a while and people do in fact use it. People also apply contract languages to C and all matter of other things, so really question boils down to "Why arent you doing what I expect of you?"

u/voxl

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