Mark Tomczak @mtomczak@qoto.org

@FinalOverdrive @holyramenempire @SocialistStan@kolektiva.social @mcnado "But Your Honor, the perpetrator of the murder was in fact the abuser. My sibling told me this on many occasions."

It evolves to he said she said, and if we already don't expect the judicial system to protect the abused, I don't think we expected to protect their right to premeditated killing of an abuser.

So unfortunately, it still all comes back to "If the system is broken, you're taking more risks by killing them than not killing them."

@FinalOverdrive @holyramenempire @SocialistStan@kolektiva.social @mcnado

How does one address the Hatfield and McCoy problem? Someone executes a premeditated killing of their abuser, then someone who loved that person kills the person who killed them, and so on until the next thing you know you got two entire families trying to take each other apart.

I don't have a good solution for this. The bad solution is to vest that kind of violence in the state and the process of determination of facts of a legal case. There's a lot of room for improvement to that solution, but it must be done carefully last we introduce a cure worse than the problem.

@FinalOverdrive @holyramenempire @SocialistStan@kolektiva.social @mcnado It's a statement of fact. https://www.starsdorset.org/blog/locked-up-for-killing-your-abuser

Whether this is the way it should be is a separate question; this is the way things are right now. It's a fact I'd want my loved ones to know if they are choosing the path of getting even.

@FinalOverdrive @holyramenempire @SocialistStan@kolektiva.social @mcnado Actually, one of the things we give up when we live in a society of laws is the individual right to "get even," if you mean what I think you mean.

Killing an abuser who is not an imminent threat, especially if it is premeditated, lands a lot of jail time.

@baldur It is entirely possible that the EU concept of privacy will constrain the types of useful technologies that can be deployed there.

This is fine. If the technologies are actually useful, Europe can always alter the laws later. No need for Europe to be the guinea pigs here.

@Ductos @arstechnica IIUC, ironically that's why he might be facing 20. Reckless endangerment is generally a state-level crime with a maximum penalty of around 2 to 7.5 years. But hiding the evidence and lying to the federal government? That's big-people crimes with big-people times and big-people prisons to discourage potential Al Capones.

@MTRNord Gotta manage those balise. The last thing you want is to get your balise all out of whack; it's just pure chaos.

(... I love seeing the protocol for something I didn't know existed and learning new vocabulary. :) ).

@lauren I don't know why people are so down on this choice. Personally, I wish Tiamat every success in her new role as Overmistress of Malebolge and trust she will mete out the undending punishments in an orderly and efficient manner on behalf of Lord Satan.

@bhollis Oh yeah, this is much preferable to what I generally see.

I really need to make up an excuse to write something in D. Or Nim. I'm trying to remember: I think Lua supports something similar as well, though it's been awhile.

@eamonfitzpatrick@mastodon.ie Spoilers for the new *Horizon Forbidden West* sequel. ;)

"But Mark, why does it matter that some methods are methods and some 'methods' are functions that take an object as the first argument?"

Theoretically? It doesn't; the two are isomorphic modulo a little bit of bookkeeping convenience on an OOP system knowing the method is always associated with the object.

Aesthetically? Because I'd rather fix *this shit* in an implementation by writing a new function that is every bit the peer of the existing behavior, not "living off in a cupboard somewhere else because I didn't get there first."

More than anything else, my career being "fixing this without being able to modify the object" is the main reason OOP has lost its luster for me.

@desertfrogger When you implement the method precisely to spec and you don't get why people are upset with the result.

@lauren "Would you rather stay in your silo?"

I mean... *Yes*, Coop, if the alternative is watching your company platform Mussolini I'd rather stay in my silo. He's never going to say anything new; he's been beating the same drum for fifteen years and we already know what it sounds like.

@brandon You magnificent monster.

@glloyd *sigh* I swear I'm trying. It can be hard to find anything satisfying in this language.

It's the only language I'm forced to use professionally that doesn't have any real equivalent to a modern module system. I got a linker error tonight in a Bazel project. What's supposed to implement that function? Who knows? Could be literally anything in our entire thousands-of-files codebase, technically. The fact that there was a header declaration for the missing function means absolutely *nothing.*

@catvalente It's rude to peruse someone else's Google history. If Bashir caught you he'd be hopping mad.

@mattblaze Clearly, we should put up our social security numbers.

Only way to be sure. ;)

@lindsay I understand that feeling and I'm sorry you are having to wrestle it.

@dmoser In context, this is a very good post.

Out of context, this also a very good post. "The **arrogance** of space. How **dare** it."