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Gustephan

@ Gustephan @lemmy.world

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  • spectrum rule

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  • A spectrum does imply a total order, but I'd argue that the meme stating there is exactly 1 who is the gayest, OOP is referring to a strict total order. I'd also argue that the gayness spectrum allows degenerate states (heh) and as such is a non-strict total order, rather than the strict total order implied by OOP

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  • Kilroy was here

  • TIL antimatter is the most expensive substance on Earth, costing $60 trillion per gram

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  • Fun fact; the standard model actually allows for spontaneous particle-antiparticle pair generation, so long as the pair mutually annihilate within some hbar defined time limit and conservation laws aren't broken at a macro scale. This is the mechanism behind hawking radiation too; some of the energy given off by black holes is caused by spontaneous pair generation that happens such that one of the pair is created beyond the event horizon and the other member is created before the event horizon, causing one to be trapped and the other to be jettisoned into space.

    I know that doesn't really relate to your comment about containing antimatter but I counter with the following: I'm profoundly autistic and the standard model has been a special interest of mine before. I couldn't resist the chance to infodump a bit

  • Who needs cops anyway?

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  • I'm not complaining about spotty enforcement of the law against American police, I'm complaining about things like qualified immunity or the thin blue line shit used to protect cops from consequences when they explicitly and clearly break the law. A regulation with less than perfect enforcement is still a regulation. A regulation with legal doctrine (QI) explicitly stating that it can be broken with no consequence however absolutely stops being a regulation.

    I generally agree with the content of your second two paragraphs, but i do not see how they are relevant to discussion about whether the police can accurately be called an unregulated militia. Yes, law is subjective and generally defined by the mores of the society that follows it. "Cops don't have to follow the law and should be allowed to murder people with no consequences" is absolutely not part of the zeitgeist

  • Who needs cops anyway?

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  • The fact that they commit less brazen violence than unregulated militias of the past doesn't change the fact that they are unregulated militias. How many times have you read about the bastards being punished for "excessive force" (read, cold blooded murder in broad daylight), then found that their "punishment" was a few months of admin leave and a new job in another precinct? Regulations don't exist unless they're enforced, and we have a wildly long public record of cops breaking the law followed by the legal system choosing not to enforce the law in those cases.

  • Who needs cops anyway?

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  • We already have that. Cops with qualified immunity are almost definitionally an unregulated militia

  • Testosterone vs. IQ

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  • I wouldn't even give it that. Imo "intellectual capacity" is entirely a confidence thing. If you have the confidence to give an answer that may be incorrect, you have intellectual capacity. If you give an answer and it's wrong, you're learning. If doing that and being wrong over and over again a million times doesn't discourage you, somebody is probably about to hand you a degree. "Intellectual capacity" is a fairy tale for the privileged to ensure they aren't discouraged from pursuing an education, and a source of learned helplessness for most others.

  • Testosterone vs. IQ

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  • My personal take is that iq is effectively meaningless. Measuring intelligence is a problem that is extremely hard, maybe even impossible given that what constitutes "intelligence" can be subjective. Some people ascribe value to it iq because it's an extreme oversimplification of a problem they don't want to think to hard about, and as a bonus it creates another hierarchy in which they can baselessly feel superior to others.

    https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient#Validity_as_a_measure_of_intelligence

    has a pretty good summary of scholarly debate on that question.

    TLDR: iq has an extremely narrow take on what "intelligence" means, and ignores the vast wealth of what people consider to be human intelligence. For that reason most scholars think it's nonsense.

  • Recursion

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  • Knock knock!

    Race Condition!

    Who's there?

  • Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?

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  • Oh no! Did I hurt your feelings by clapping back when you insulted me on a shitpost comment chain? Your lack of self awareness is astounding

  • Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?

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  • You're right, that is incredibly dumb. Just not for the reasons you think it is. Imagine using iostream rather than stdio and unironically trying to clown on \n

  • Does this exist anywhere outside of C++?

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  • Fuck endl, all my homies hate endl

  • Societal rules

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  • As somebody who has published cybersecurity research AND a good number of youtube videos about niche video games, I can promise you making a YouTube series on an obscure video game does not get in the way of doing scientific research. With the magic of unrestrained autism, both are possible.

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  • Trump Just Pardoned ... a Corporation?

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  • Not the person you're responding to, but it's hard as an American to see our country as decadent. The majority of us poors are barely making it paycheck to paycheck and don't experience anything you might call decadent. For the record I agree with you that on the world stage decadence is a valid adjective for the state of the US, but I don't know that I'd have that perspective if I never lived outside of the US and never got to see it from the outside looking in

  • As Europe pours money into defence, reliance on US remains a sticking point

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  • Not sure if Rutte is a dipshit or if he thinks he's speaking to dipshits. Claiming that defense and economics are separate is wildly inaccurate to the point of abject stupidity. The entire problem American fascists claim to have with Nato is that they're not putting enough of their economy into defense

  • cart

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  • Americans walked from door to door and failed to find a family Vance's wife could visit before cancelled visit in Nuuk, according to Danish TV2

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  • I'd bet at least some were a lot more graphic than what was reported. I'd really love to like, run into a Greenlander in this thread whose door was knocked on and hear what they actually said. There had to be at least a few "go fuck yourself with a rusty crowbar" type responses

  • 'Enough is enough': Greenland flatly rejects Trump's calls for annexation

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  • You're supposed to wager something with value, I don't think any other country would accept florida