Amikke @Amikke@qoto.org

@Jens_Rasmussen @LukeAlmighty you don't fix the mistakes humans make by saying they're bad. That's real life for ya. People always had irresponsible conceptions, even when they believed they will go to literal hell for eternity for premarital sex, what makes you think you shunning them is going to accomplish?

The popular "just don't have sex" argument is a non-solution and everyone that's been a teen and can add 2 and 2 together can tell you that.

@Jens_Rasmussen @LukeAlmighty oh, I whole-heartedly disagree. I've gotten to know many "unwanted children", some of which went through an orphanage and some simply had to grow up with parents that don't love them and blame them for ruining their lives simply by being accidentally conceived. Most were mad they had to be born to such situation, some committed or at least attempted suicide before even reaching adult age. Nearly all support the right to (early) abortion, reasoning it can prevent such situations by literally aborting the fetus before it can start to feel or think.

Abortion is most definitely morally preferable over forcing a child to be born unwanted. And that's only considering the child's perspective, if we add the parents and the effects of such situations on the society around them, the case for abortion becomes crystal clear.

@LukeAlmighty yeah, that's what a right-wing person sees because they refuse to consider the matter further than "monkey brain see little monkey, monkey brain mad little monkey dead". It's perfectly understandable, it's our basic instinct after all, but with our understanding of nervous system and fetus development it's not a reasonable stance for enforcing the "protection" of such not-yet-developed fetuses and sacrificing the wellbeing of perfectly good adult humans in the process. It's not really a matter of discussion, it's a matter of education and fucking off other people's reproductive decisions.

@LukeAlmighty modern Americans are too stupid to make up but too pussy to make war, it will probably be a couple of decades of the shit you have now until anything changes. By the way, calling fetuses with no developed nervous systems "babies" is about as retarded as calling acorns "oak trees" lol

#meme

@shibao this is the kind of stuff that woke functional programmers insist is easier to read than for loops

@johnweeks because it's not their information lol
If they had to make a movie to share it, TPB would be empty

@Moon i'm about to go to sleep and check back tomorrow so no hurry lol

@Moon too buggy? Damn, and also how?
I'm interested in both your code and that someone else's too

@Moon do you plan to continue working on the ipfs thing? Also, do you have it in a public repo somewhere?

@enigmatico @Natanox nah, all of that can be emulated. "Neural networks" already work on emulated analogue signals, being literal software analogues to our brains, and feelings and emotions are basically a bundle of interactions between the nervous and endocrine systems that too can be emulated.

The things we are missing are the ability to emulate a nn as gigantic as a mammalian brain, and either an exact map of our brains or a way to simulate billions of years of evolution to create an independent one.

AGI is not an "if" question, it's a "when" one.

@AmpBenzScientist my main problem with Gentoo is that its needs and ambitions outgrew the capabilities of Portage, and the way packages are hacked together using plain Bourne-shell-compatible shell scripts and variables and everything is managed using the same makes everything awkward. Exherbo with its Paludis package manager is imo basically a direct upgrade over Gentoo with Portage (except the issue of having a smaller community), and it addresses some of the problems, but it's still not enough and eventually crashes against the same wall as Gentoo - there's only so much you can accomplish using flags and slots working on the same global configuration, and the awkwardness of writing packages for it means there are only a couple of greybeards doing it and there are many missing.

NixOS fixes a bunch of those problems. It sandboxes packages so that conflicting ones can live peacefully side by side without the need for slot shenanigans, and it uses the amazing Nix language for writing packages and configuring the system. This also means that instead of having to manually merge config changes you can just write your configuration once and let the nix module translate it into the updated configuration files on every update. It's an amazing quality of life improvement without sacrificing hackability.

@khird I was worried about that, but no, I haven't yet encountered a single missing package. I assume it's a combination of a package system that's nice to work with and a dedicated community.

@ic3l9 @Moon javascript, of course, the clown college itself. Try looking at JS performance comparisons between for, for-of, forEach and map, wild shit.

@Moon motherfucking webapp