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x3qt commented on An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education openletter.earth/an-open-... · Posted by u/mathgenius

em-bee · a month ago

i don't have this feeling at all. on what experience do you base that on?

x3qt · a month ago

I’ve seen multiple instances of robberies where the attacker was a head shorter and could have been easily stunned, or worse, with a single hit, yet people gave away their valuables because even the thought of using violence is taboo. Of course, the police always say, “Just file a complaint,” which never results in anything. It’s not a joke: even if violence is used purely to stop a criminal, the police will prosecute you, lol. I’m not American, but I like the idea that one could defend themselves and their property using all means necessary.

x3qt commented on An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education openletter.earth/an-open-... · Posted by u/mathgenius

em-bee · a month ago

I consider German upbringing to be that of a defeated people

i don't know what you are trying to imply here. how should the feeling of defeat affect the upbringing? (i mean,i am sure there would be an effect, but how would that look like?)

what i can tell you is that the sentiment i experienced was not defeat. after all this is neither our, nor our parents, (and for the current generation also not their grandparents) experience. the feeling we were taught was that of embarrassment, of how could we let that happen and consequently the need to understand how we can avoid that from ever happening again. except for a minority or right wing sympathizers that we keep a close eye on.

x3qt · a month ago

I think that the Allied victors laid the foundation of the current German education system on initial denazification and subsequent extreme pacification, to such a degree of impotence that people refuse to defend themselves even when they are fully capable of neutralizing a criminal, preferring to become victims rather than use force.

x3qt commented on An open letter from educators who refuse the call to adopt GenAI in education openletter.earth/an-open-... · Posted by u/mathgenius

em-bee · a month ago

the education i received in germany did have this goal. the teachers had this goal, and i have the impression that the teachers and schools my kids go to have this goal as well. i can't say how universal that is, but it the opposite is not universal either.

the problem is that the goals are not effectively implemented. maybe it's more a dream than a goal, because the teachers and schools don't know how to actually reach that goal.

meaningful participation in society is often reduced to the ability to get a job by those outside of school, so you are right about employers. at least the large ones. unfortunately that works against them, because the current generation of juniors doesn't even want to learn anything. they are drones that just want to get paid, but are not motivated to learn what they need to do their job better.

x3qt · a month ago

Just yesterday, I talked to a neighbor who has two kids attending a local school in Mitte. He told me that the children are constantly indoctrinated into group conformity, obedience to authority, and fear of "wrong-think," with a good splash of wokie-talkie on top of it. To me, that sounds like a complete erasure of agency. Schools must provide knowledge, not override the nurture given by parents.

I have personally observed how locals are bullied by overseas guests and choose a delusional escape into virtue signaling rather than defending themselves. I consider German upbringing to be that of a defeated people.

x3qt commented on Turkey bans Grok over Erdoğan insults politico.eu/article/turke... · Posted by u/geox

stodor89 · a month ago

To me, it felt like nothing could stop Turkey from becoming the most powerful and influential European country by the end of 21st century. But then Erdogan happened. Oh well.

x3qt · a month ago

West Asia is not Europe geographically. People there are not ethnically European, do not speak Indo-European (PIE-derived) languages and are mostly Muslims. The final bit of disrespect was conversion of Saint Sofia cathedral into a mosque. It stopped being European the moment Greeks lost it.

x3qt commented on Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27 elixir-lang.org/blog/2024... · Posted by u/clessg

x3qt · a year ago

Recently live development capabilities were added to Ruby as well, thanks to latest patches to inf-ruby, now it's possible to eval code around the breakpoint and in the global context as well, everything available right under cursor.

x3qt · a year ago

A little demo https://youtu.be/WnBaMcH5AoY?si=ywFzQuCPp41l3MBF

x3qt commented on Elixir 1.17 released: set-theoretic types in patterns, durations, OTP 27 elixir-lang.org/blog/2024... · Posted by u/clessg

julienmarie · a year ago

The last few years the Elixir ecosystem has started to become the simplest solution to so many use cases:

- Web development with Phoenix and Liveview is immensely enjoyable and fast

- AI with NX, Axon, Bumblebee

- Audio and Video streaming and manipulation with Membrane

- CQRS and Event Sourcing with Commanded

- Embedded with Nerves to make your own devices

- Mobile apps with Liveview Native ( in development )

- Queues, pipelines and batch processing, etc... natively or with GenStage, Broadway or Oban depending on your use case

but for me, the killer feature is IEX, Elixir's REPL. Being able to interact directly with my running code easily ( in dev or in production ), introspect it, debugging it, is just life changing.

Adding types is indeed the last piece to the puzzle to bring even more confidence in the code we ship.

x3qt · a year ago

Recently live development capabilities were added to Ruby as well, thanks to latest patches to inf-ruby, now it's possible to eval code around the breakpoint and in the global context as well, everything available right under cursor.

x3qt commented on Refusing to teach kids math will not improve equity noahpinion.blog/p/refusin... · Posted by u/bankershill

xgl5k · 2 years ago

is that actually most of Europe or just Germany?

x3qt · 2 years ago

Eastern Europe in my case, Belarus specifically