khalid_salad

joined 5 months ago

mine showed up in spam 🤣

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 8 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

As I'm reading the article, linked by David Gerard in the community created by David Gerard and moderated by David Gerard:

Oh shit David wrote this?

Seriously though great piece. Loved the closing paragraph.

But in the end, gravity still works, and a balloon can be inflated only so much. The bitcoin bubble is an artifact of market manipulation and has no more economic substance than the Hawk Tuah coin does. The U.S. government may be ripe for plunder, but other nations need to take steps to shield themselves from the impact of rug-pulling on a global scale.

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 9 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

I think you would need to deliberately choose a mathematical problem to solve, otherwise the most difficult thing you'll come across will be binary representations of numbers and why floats are FUCKING BULLSHIT (seriously though they can be tricky if you think they are just "numbers in a calculator").

If you want to really understand programming language theory, or computer science more generally, you will definitely need mathematics. But if the goal is "I want to tell this chip what to do," you don't need to learn a lot of math, in my opinion.

Edit: also, if you need help with any math, feel free to DM me. I am a former math teacher and sometimes teach algorithms (basically screaming "what is your induction variable") at the undergraduate level.

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 7 points 2 days ago (1 children)

But even if we assume that this is the case, and even if there are a lot of people that simply don’t try [to learn new technology]…should companies really take advantage of them?

DISGUSTING POLITICAL IDEOLOGY

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 8 points 2 days ago (1 children)

this is the best idea on the internet, actually

someone who thinks "the buck stops here => nothing is true; all is permitted" probably won't get much out of "here are all the places ive found shit where neurons should be" so idk

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 4 points 2 days ago (3 children)

why does that spelling make my skin crawl

it's because he has shit for brains

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 9 points 2 days ago (7 children)

This kind of bullshit would classify you as Harry Potter if you drew a lightning bolt on your face.

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 10 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

I run GrapheneOS on my Pixel and I am pretty happy with it. Also, check out OpenBubbles (fork of an app called BlueBubbles) if you have a Mac that you can extract the hardware ID from. I use it to get my iPhone friends to stop complaining (it's an American thing I think) and it's good enough the vast majority of the time.

Reactions still come through as

shitheel reacted 🖕 to 'hi everyone'

though

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 17 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I've tried screaming "stop overfilling my hboxes" when compiling my TeX document, but it isn't working! Am I prompting it wrong?

[–] khalid_salad@awful.systems 12 points 6 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (3 children)

It's built upon such a nonsensical ontology. The sentiment expressed in a piece of language is at least partially a social function, which is why I can add the following

I AM BEYOND FUCKING LIVID AT EVERYONE IN THIS FUCKING INSTANCE

to this response and no one will actually assume I'm really angry (I am though, send memes).

Edit: not one meme. Not. One.

Edit2: thank you for the memes, @skillissuer@discuss.tchncs.de. This one is my favorite. It feels Dark Souls-y.

Image description

Live crawfish with arms spread in front of bowl of cooked crawfish with caption "Stand amongst the ashes of a trillion dead souls and ask the ghosts if honor matters".

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