skells @skells@qoto.org
Joined Feb 2021
and so they dug a tremendous hole, 6 cubits broad and 14 cubits deep, and the Lord did smile upon them, for it was a good hole
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BREAKING: "Banned, banned, banned, none of you are free from sin", one mastodon admin reveals their radical approach towards moderation.
one of those "cia documentary in bed" days
> boots
@kcrca on a lighter note - I have a question regarding the research on defect density:
https://www.leshatton.org/IEEE_Soft_97b.html
I enjoyed Les' approach (stumbled across the paper in the art of unix) but haven't found anything that followed on this theme; are there any "modern" papers that take a similar, empirical approach to component size and defect density, particularly w.r.t. subroutines/functions?
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I used to have this recurring dream that I was scheduled to run a foot race against a horse, and it's in this huge stadium, and all the interviews leading up to the race I try to point out that there's no way it's fair for me to race a horse. The dream always ended right before the actual race part, but the time I vanquished that dream I just made myself win the race and I haven't had that dream since
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oatmilk is weird af
you can make a case that russia blew the pipes, but only upon the basis that they knew that they're going to win in ukraine
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+bonifartius 𒂼𒄄
people have to resort to ad hominem when it comes to musk.
you make me _like_ musk, just out of principle.
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Regardless of intent, Musk is doing us a favor by shattering a major source of narratives (Twitter). This is for the best.
the political system will always adapt to preserve itself as far as possible to the prevailing conditions - but these changes can only come from outside that system, either grassroots or new challengers
at this time things are in upheaval, there's more chaos and "events" for the WEF et al. to capitalise upon, but that sword cuts both ways - a total reform of the polical system is impossible, for that you need a revolution which is even more dangerous and unpredictable
but I wouldn't misunderestimate how much of a win it would be, for example, to get a DeSantis/Gabbard ticket through 2024, even if they are to some extent compromised. That system by definition will have to be more responsive to the forces that put it in place; you don't change the political system, you repeatedly infect it with your ideas in a way that it is forced to respond to in an adaptive rather than combative way.
elites are here to stay and we need to entrain aristocrats over oligarchs, of whom we demand attentive service to their locality over centralised control over their spreadsheets.
so maybe the leap of the MSM to crow the "end of trump" and DeSantis being touted as the 2024 candidate (along with McConnell getting kicked to the curb and talk of the end of the GOP as we know it) are this process in action.
this is not necessarily a bad thing, the question is if Trump has bulldozed enough for it to have a meaningful long term change - or if the trajectory of American politics has changed enough for the fresh blood to reinvigorate the system. too soon to tell.
representative democracies, and most forms of governance, will always have an elite of some form.
when you have people like Trump and events like Brexit, whose stated aim is to reform the system, there will be those within the system who will seek to co-opt and harness that groundswell.
without serious structural reforms, this will always happen; the oligarchic system is an organic entity and will adapt to change of circumstances.
Joined Feb 2021
