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[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 6 days ago

By this logic, you and everyone else agree to climate change. Everyone in Venezuela agrees to Maduro.

It has nothing to do with majority, it's a collective action and balance of power.

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago

Your plan can only help people on the lower end of the economic distribution. What we need is technology to let rich people live longer so that they can continue to enjoy the fruits of what can only be their completely deserved and meritorious wealth.

/s

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I did not know that - my point is that system76 is not at all sketchy about it. They actively encourage tinkering, make it clear that you won't void your warranty, and have extensive technical documentation to explain how to do upgrades etc

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 6 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Upgrading/tinkering doesn't void your warranty. Explicitly.

And their customer service is top notch. I thought I bricked my gazelle when I upgraded the memory, but their customer service walked me through how to fix it - didn't even bat an eye.

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

You are of course welcome to your opinion. Use whatever tools bring you joy. But I'm a huge fan of helix, and think zellij is great (though I prefer wezterm's mux server when I can use it).

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

I don't have any particular allegiance to rust, though once it's set up, being able to install through cargo rather than being to figure out whatever package manager or build system is nice, especially on various HPC environments where I don't have sudo.

Btop does look cool though

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago

What I mean is that many of them have basically the same functionality with the same arguments. I don't mean I have pristine memory for the differences, but things like alias ls="eza" is basically a drop in replacement with some added features. So when I'm on a server without it, everything is basically the same, just less fancy.

Helix and fd are an example of the other pattern - they are huge improvements over existing tools, to the point that when I'm forced to use the basic ones, I'm actively crippled. But as an argument not to use the better tool day-to-day, this doesn't make sense to me. Why would I force myself to suffer 95% of the time to save myself from suffering 5% of the time?

I mean, for helix/vi it's even clearer. Vanilla vi is basically unusable for me anyway, and I needed a huge number of plugins to be serviceable - on a basic cluster environment, I'm going to be crippled anyway, so...

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 3 points 10 months ago (2 children)

they either don't improve upon or add functionality that's not available, or simply add eye candy. Gaining pretty colors is nice, but not worth losing familiarity with ubiquitous tools.

The thing I like about a lot of these is that I don't lose familiarity with existing tools. When I end up on a cluster that doesn't have them, I'm a bit annoyed, but I can still operate just fine.

The principle exception to this is actually fd - I now find find (har!) almost unusable without having a man page open in a separate terminal. But that's because fd is so much more ergonomic and powerful, I would never give it up unless forced.

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 54 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (17 children)

Yes. The only things I use regularly that aren't aliased to or replaced by a rust-built tool are mkdir, ln, and rsync.

  • cd: zoxide
  • ls: eza
  • cat: bat
  • grep: ripgrep
  • find: fd
  • sed: sd
  • du: dust
  • top/htop: btm
  • vi: helix
  • tmux: zellij (or wezterm mux)
  • diff: delta
  • ps: procs

Probably some others I'm forgetting

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Wow, reading that left me quite confused until I realized that it's elder scrolls and not Buddhism https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalpa_(time)

Your point stands regardless 😅

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 1 points 11 months ago (1 children)

You agree that if you stop eating or eat less, you will lose weight. Great. We'll have to disagree on the definition of a solution

Cutting off someone's leg will also cause them to lose weight. This is pretty simple. Is it a solution to obesity?

A large nuke dropped on Gaza would end the fighting there. Also simple. Is it a solution?

No, no, I hear you saying, these actions would lead to other problems, don't solve the underlying complexities etc etc.

I'm having trouble believing that you can write in complete sentences but are too thick to understand how "just eat less" suffers from the same problems. So you must be trolling me - congrats! I'm ashamed it took me so long to recognize you're just playing dumb.

I've cited a bunch of scientific papers showing why just eating less isn't a solution. It may lead to temporary weight loss, but doesn't solve the issue long term, and causes other harms. If you want to provide any evidence for your claims or to dispute mine, go for it. Otherwise, cheers! The solution to your ignorance is you just need to learn more. Simple!

[–] kevin@mander.xyz 1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (3 children)

If you stop eating or eat less, you will lose weight.

Of course you will. This does not mean it's a solution to obesity.

Inarguably, eating less solves obesity and is simple to do.

Except it's not. It's not sustainable. Even with medical intervention, the vast majority of weight is regained.

It is within most people's personal power to control their appetite

Except it's not. The long term success rate of dieting (again, in the context ofa medical study) is 15%

Next, you just have to wrap your head around how simple eating less food is

Except it's not. And the repeated weight loss and regain experienced by most dieters is arguably worse for health than just being overweight.

You can keep simplistically stating that it's easy, despite all the evidence, and you will continue to sound as idiotic as a rich person floating on their inheritance and saying that poverty would be solved if people just weren't so lazy.

 

My friend from graduate school (first author here) pulled me in to do some machine learning in a really interesting dataset.

In brief, we found that there are (at least) 2 distinct causes of what are currently lumped together as "long covid".

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I'd love to have one for !microbiology@mander.xyz, and I have this sketch I made that I'd be happy to use, but it doesn't quite fit the style of other communities:

Is someone in particular making these, or are they coming from a particular place?

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