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  • I do that, but the more complicated the meal, the less down time there is, and the more stuff there is you can’t clean up until the end.

    Also, if you use serving dishes, rather than just serve out of the pot / pan, that’s another thing to clean. It’s true that cleaning a pot or pan is normally a bit harder than a serving dish. But, IMO the extra bit to clean means it’s not worth it.

    It is a bit of a triumph when the only thing to clean after dinner is a single pot or pan though. And, pro-tip, you can make the pans easier to clean after dinner if you dump a bit of water in them as you’re sitting down to eat. Even 30 minutes is enough to turn the remains of a delicious sauce into sludge at the bottom of the pan. But, soaking while you eat makes it super quick to scrape it out afterwards.


  • On a related note:

    United States Department of Damage Control is a fictional construction company appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The company specializes in repairing the property damage caused by conflicts between superheroes and supervillains.[1] Three Damage Control limited series have been published.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damage_Control_(comics)

    Also note that the initials of “Damage Control” are “D.C.

    This goes part of the way to explain why people are willing to continue to live in NYC despite it being regularly attacked by supervillains, aliens, demons, etc. Though, I still think Philadelphia, Newark, Allentown and New Haven would probably be experiencing a lot of growth, seeing as they appear to be close to NYC and yet safe from the NYC chaos and danger.








  • No, I don’t think so. It’s true that many of the earliest programmers were female, but there were very few of them, and that was a long time ago.

    In a way, Ada Lovelace was the first programmer, but she never even touched a computer. The first programmers who did anything similar to today’s programming were from Grace Hopper’s era in the 1950s.

    In the late 1960s there were a lot of women working in computer programming relative to the size of the field, but the field was still tiny, only tens of thousands globally. By the 1970s it was already a majority male profession so the number of women was already down to only about 22.5%.

    That means that for 50 years, a time when the number of programmers increased by orders of magnitude, the programmers were mostly male.


  • merc@sh.itjust.workstoLuigi Mangione@lemmy.worldIt's a pin job
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    I would say it is normal to kill someone who is responsable for thousands of deaths

    If it was normal, it wouldn’t be newsworthy.

    It is only a collective cowardace, one that I have to admit also have.

    You have it because you’re normal. He didn’t, meaning he wasn’t normal (he being whoever shot the CEO).

    Once agian i want to point out how truly insane it is that more of us do not do this regularly

    Insanity is an abnormal mental or behavioral state. By definition, if it’s how everyone acts, then it’s not insane. It’s normal.

    You can say that we ought to act differently, but that’s not how people are wired. Normal people don’t act that way.

    this is seen as a rare and shoking event

    In other words, it’s abnormal. That’s why we’re paying attention.


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    I’m sorry it reads that way. What I’m trying to say is that you have to look at the whole picture.

    “Let’s say I kill a high profile individual on the street you know, hypothetically.”

    If you say that, you have to take into account what kind of person might do that. It’s a person who is not thinking normally. It’s something that people thinking normally might be tempted to do, but they wouldn’t actually do it.

    “Do you seriously believe that I’d be casually hanging out in public at a McDonalds with a manifesto and loaded gun in my bag?”

    This is something that someone who’s thinking normally wouldn’t do. But, we’ve already established that someone who kills someone else on the street isn’t thinking normally. You can’t start from an assumption of normal thinking for someone who you’ve already hypothesized is a cold-blooded killer who killed a stranger on the street.





  • Saying we can solve the fidelity problem is like Jules Verne in 1867 saying we could get to the moon with a cannon because of “what progress artillery science has made during the last few years”.

    Do rockets count as artillery science? The first rockets basically served the same purpose as artillery, and were operated by the same army groups. The innovation was to attach the propellant to the explosive charge and have it explode gradually rather than suddenly. Even the shape of a rocket is a refinement of the shape of an artillery shell.

    Verne wasn’t able to imagine artillery without the cannon barrel, but I’d argue he was right. It was basically “artillery science” that got humankind to the moon. The first “rocket artillery” were the V1 and V2 bombs. You could probably argue that the V1 wasn’t really artillery, and that’s fair, but also it wasn’t what the moon missions were based on. The moon missions were a refinement of the V2, which was a warhead delivered by launching something on a ballistic path.

    As for generative AI, it doesn’t have zero fidelity, it just has relatively low fidelity. What makes that worse is that it’s trained to sound extremely confident, so people trust it when they shouldn’t.

    Personally, I think it will take a very long time, if ever, before we get to the stage where “vibe coding” actually works well. OTOH, a more reasonable goal is a GenAI tool that you basically treat as an intern. You don’t trust it, you expect it to do bone-headed things frequently, but sometimes it can do grunt work for you. As long as you carefully check over its work, it might save you some time/effort. But, I’m not sure if that can be done at a price that makes sense. So far the GenAI companies are setting fire to money in the hope that there will eventually be a workable business model.


  • If you use it basically like you’d use an intern or junior dev, it could be useful.

    You wouldn’t allow them to check anything in themselves. You wouldn’t trust anything they did without carefully reading it over. You’d have to expect that they’d occasionally completely misunderstand the request. You’d treat them as someone completely lacking in common sense.

    If, with all those caveats, you can get this assistance for free or nearly free, it might be worth it. But, right now, all the AI companies are basically setting money on fire to try to drive demand. If people had to pay enough that the AI companies were able to break even, it might be so expensive it was no longer worth it.


  • Also, AFAIK, they’re allowed to do a basic search to ensure that someone doesn’t have a weapon on them or nearby. It wouldn’t make sense to require a warrant for that. Imagine a cop had to apply for a search warrant to ensure that the person they were arresting didn’t have a knife or gun in their pocket.

    In that case, it might make sense to search his backpack if it was right next to him. OTOH, if they took his backpack away from him, then they were no longer in danger from anything in the backpack so they had no justification to search it.

    You just know that the police are going to lie about these things. They’ll claim he was never separated from his backpack so they were justified in searching it for something dangerous. Or they’ll claim that they had reason to believe there was a bomb so even though he didn’t have it on him, they still had a reason to search it because it still posed an immediate danger.

    The only way anybody can get a fair trial is to have an expensive team of lawyers who can chase down all these various lies, finding out what was said on body cams, when the body cams were mysteriously turned off, what the exact timeline of everything was, etc.


  • I also hope he’s acquitted. I don’t know if a random healthcare CEO getting killed will make the world a better place. But, I do think that a guy getting away with killing a random healthcare CEO is more likely to result in change.

    In the first case, it can be dismissed by the CEOs, oligarchs and friends as a crazy lone gunman. But, if a jury votes to acquit after massive donations to his legal case, that becomes a clear sign that it’s not just a lone gunman, that a lot of people support this kind of thing. It also makes it more likely to happen again, because the next gunman might think they can get away with it too. If CEOs start quitting because they don’t want a target on their backs, or they start reforming their companies to avoid being so hated, that’s great.


  • That’s the problem though. Everyone’s playing “If I were him”.

    The thing is, we don’t know what was going on his mind. Say he actually was the one who did it. Maybe he wanted to get caught. Maybe he assumed he was going to get caught within minutes, and didn’t bother throwing away the evidence because he didn’t think there was any point. Maybe he kept changing his mind about what he was going to do, and in the end that indecision caught up with him.

    Assuming he’s actually the one who shot the CEO, I already have trouble understanding his thinking. He shot a guy in cold blood who may have been scummy, but hadn’t actually hurt Mangione or anybody he cared about, AFAIK. He didn’t do it as part of a community. I know he’s not a mass shooter, but shooting a stranger for ideological reasons is most similar to mass shooters or bombers. Most of the times people do that, they’re egged on by a community. He apparently just did it on his own.

    So yeah, I don’t get it, but the fact I don’t get it doesn’t convince me it can’t be true.