Considering many peoples pseudo-spiritual usage of the word 'gender' to be something they inherently 'feel' about themselves it's pretty consistent of him to reject the concept.

It doesn't help that the very people who insist that gender is different from biological sex are insisting on surgery even though sex has nothing to do with gender supposedly.

Or that it's regressing on the whole idea of equality of the sexes, that ladies can like power tools and guys can like dolls but that doesn't make men women or women men, everyone can like what they like.

The concept of 'gender' was made from whole cloth by robert stoller, but popularized by john money. Considering it derives from genre and genus meaning type it's fairly ill suited considering modern usage.

The pushback would be less severe if it weren't being pushed so heavily. Spirituality pushers have been around for forever, what makes people dislike them is when they turn to "you must believe in my spirituality as being truth or you're evil (transphobe)"

People are entitled to believe they're a pink space unicorn deep in their soul. Other people will be polite and quietly think they're nuts to themselves, when the space unicorns demand being recognized as space unicorns, when they are in fact people. You have problems.

Funnily enough bigoted is being obstinately and blindly attached to some creed, opinion practice, or ritual; unreasonably devoted to a system or party, and illiberal toward the opinions of others.. Which is often the behaviour of those calling others that word.

People can tolerate others, even if they they're being odd/crazy. Not so much when they insist others must be part of it/accept it as truth.

That's when it directs fairness/safety of others. Most people can keep away from the wrath of the cult if they keep their mouth shut and just keep on treating people fairly as humans. When you see unfairness happen beyond a threshold, that's when people react/perk up.

Well you haven't given him much to work with.

Bloated relative to what? total package size is about 7mb on my system. There's a lot of non-core features there like gitweb and git gui, but really it's still quite minimal compared to most things.

Nothing stopping you writing your own minimum functionality required version. On disc format hasn't changed since 2.0.

Without a frame of reference we don't know the goal. It would be neat to see some of those demoscene folk make a full basic implementation in 96k though.

The way it has worked out in Australia is the grid charges you around 35c/kwh, but pays you 3c/kwh. Feeding back to the grid gives you almost nothing, the only real savings is in scheduling household appliances to run during the day consuming the solar before it goes to the grid.

There are enshittification problems with EV's in their current state, and to a lesser extent even modern ICE vehicles.

I hired a quite decent modern EV for a work trip, after having figured out where the compatible charging points were along highways. Great vehicle and fast charges.. when it could be charged...

Unlike gas stations, you can't pay cash, hell you couldn't even pay with your card. You had to have a registered account, and an app that wouldn't work with de-googled androids. For each and every provider.

Companies are using the transition to EV to establish a new "normal". One that involves perma surveillance and tracking. The car companies are involved too although some worse than others.

Even with infrastructure problems relatively 'solved' the real problems with EVs are corporate greed. Fighting that with an apathetic population can be pretty hard.

So long as you don't confuse "what situation a human can survive in" with "what situations humans will want to survive in"

The kowloon walled city should not be something we aspire to recreate.

People have often survived in situations that are terrible for their mental and physical health, they are entitled to want to escape those situations.

Density brings its own problems, its like having a few cats spaced around a yard vs shoved in a bag.

I'll take peace and low crime with everyone having their own space and freedom over how many sardines can we fit in the cities.

The thinkpad x201 era were the last of the good ones, proper keyboard, locking mechanisms, night light. Quality mouse nub. A lot of these things could be looked by, but the keyboard can't. Nobody makes quality portable laptops any more.

20 years ago yeah, now it's more aligned with blender.

The food quality in the US seems absolutely terrible. When I was playing tourist around the country greasy sugar filled food was everywhere, but a decent steak and veges type meal was hard to find.

The additives/changes that have been made to USA food compared to food in europe can be quite insane. Something as simple as bread can be far more unhealthy in the USA.

how about Price discrimination

Trying to maximize the amount that you pay, because they have enough information about you to know what you can afford and how badly you need a product within a specific timeframe.

Some dodgy gig type employers were looking at using the same information to determine how little they could offer to pay workers while still having them barely make rent, knowing their household expenses to keep them on the brink of eviction.

The only solution is to not collect the information, and for where the informatio nis necessary (i.e. credit card logs) ban it's sale/access aside from internal administrative functions to the card/banks.

Probably not the resources he means. The cheap easy to access energy of oil just popping out of the ground has already been used. As more resources are consumed the easier to get to and easier to process ones go away, and you need a certain minimum level of tech to get to/extract/use what remains.. If that goes away, you might not have the resources to build the tech to get more resources.

As someone who did an "around the USA" trip last year (I'm not american) of all the places we stopped/stayed (disney world, vegas, yosimite national park etc) LA was the worst.

It's not quite "escape from LA" movie level, but it was darn closer than I'd have liked it to be.

Yes, which wasn't what I was suggesting, I was suggesting keeping the IDF within israels borders (not leaving israel)

Just like how compressed air cylinders in hospitals had to be manually shot up/destroyed after capture by the israelis because hamas might use medical equipment? Anything of use by civilization can be repurposed tools and materials are tools and materials.

Since the 1967 war israel has had full control of their water resources, farms having water access removed has happened long before oct 7 ( as well as air dusting to destroy them also but that's later on).

The controlled demise had been around since after the 1967 war, the 2006 blockade was just another measure to tighten the noose (a very effective one).

This is all pre oct 7, strategically oct 7 only made sense as an attack because the response was predictable and could not be hidden. You can slowly starve off a population and make them fully dependent without people taking notice. Dropping more bombs by weight than the equivalent of the first nukes used on Japan is not so easy to hide from the world. Their mistake was thinking the world would care enough to stop them.

When one side has their military doing the rounds to destroy rainwater collection pots and bulldozing wells so that people must move on or die of thirst.. it's weird having that behaviour defended by people. This this not start on october 7.

The snowden cable leaks revealed Israels stated intent to the USA was to crush any form of normal economy and to make them "tighten their belts" without crossing into mass starvation territory. Keeping them hungry.

With those goals in mind they achieved them quite well. Full dependence on Israel's mercy, without the resources to further their lot in life, slowly starving and being killed off.

Not that anyone would have the will to do so, but if the same style blockade were done to Israel (no military leaving the country, no iron/steel/construction materials, no control over water/resources, food imports limited based on population, farmlands destroyed by air) do you think they'd be fine with that? (not original responder)

That would be because CUDA relies on fixed function units in hardware. Which is great for compute speed and power efficiency.. until your fixed function needs changing.

AMD went all programmable with the 6000 line, but uptake of compatible/scalable api's that aren't cuda is abysmal, and even newer 7000+ units added some fixed function to their stuff too.

Yep, some vulkan-compute compatible frameworks exist, like ncnn. Supporting multiple acceleration api's so that even mobile phones can be used. Unfortunately the uptake of such things is pretty limited, and a lot of the work on supporting cross platform is so players that don't want to be held hostage to nvidia like china can get around restrictions.