[-] pragmaOnce@sopuli.xyz 3 points 8 months ago

It's weird, but not as exciting as you might think. It's been a while since I looked into it, but the gist is: This sign is from a taco bell in a high-crime area where robberies are common. People wait for the door to open then force their way in and rob the place at night. If you google the words on the sign you can find out where exactly.

[-] pragmaOnce@sopuli.xyz 15 points 11 months ago

Literally same. Changed my daily driver from windows a year or so ago and its been night and day. Having to be intentional about acquiring games and getting them running with proton/lutris (not too much work these days thanks to Valve and GloriousEggroll) made me less of a collector and much more focused on what I want to play. Which means I play a lot more. Also this year has had some phenominal titles for indie and AAA.

[-] pragmaOnce@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

I'd retire.

[-] pragmaOnce@sopuli.xyz 23 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
  1. GPUs predate 1995
  2. They solve a set of problems different from those handled by cpu's
  3. The existence of GPUs wouldnt 'curb the growth' of the other processors
  4. The government would be best positioned to benefit from that rapid growth, since it is a state level actor that can regulate the use and acquisition of technologies
  5. GPUs have also developed very quickly since their advent.

So like the previous comment mentions - No.

[-] pragmaOnce@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah thats a pretty good summary of what I was trying to convey. If this didn't levitate, no one would've blinked twice. But since it did, its being investigated more thoroughly to check if its one of those other things that levitate (or actually a superconductor)

[-] pragmaOnce@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

What I've gathered from many of the discussions around this topic is that the levitation is a notable feature of superconductors due to th Meissner(?) Effect. So if it couldnt levitate, there would be no reason to suspect that it is a superconductor. Because it does levitate, superconductivity is one of a few possibilities.

There have been indicators it may be a semiconductor instead, but apparently the conditions to accurately produce the material are vague/not fully understood - so attempts at reproduction have failed to rule it in or out 100%

[-] pragmaOnce@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

When this happened to me, I would select to hide read post and mark scrolled post as read - but eventually I just started using a different app.

For what its worth I had this issue on Fennec as well, so I dont know if its an API issue or an issue on the application side of things.

Hope it gets fixed soon!

[-] pragmaOnce@sopuli.xyz 5 points 1 year ago

Is this catppuccin themed? Looks great :)

[-] pragmaOnce@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Regarding your first paragraph, I think that's exactly what's happening here. Companies don't make decisions for the benefit of the populations that consume their product - public companies make decisions to benefit their share holders. Dictators don't make decisions for the benefit of their oppressed citizens - they make decisions to benefit the small number of people that keep them in power and aid in their reign. So a dictatorship making large value deals with a company seems reaaallyy unlikely to lead to any net positive for any of the relevant populations.

Additionally, your phrasing here sounds like you're writing for an AP exam - Saudi Arabia hasn't 'faced challenges' with upholding human rights and more than the Unabomber 'faced challenges' with not killing people with explosives. The nation has consistently and repeatedly (and continues to) flagrantly violate the most basic tenants of human rights and has yet to be held accountable owing entirely to their vast wealth and geopolitical control of the world's primary energy source.

One can not reasonably argue in good faith that making a nation with a long history of intentional human rights violations, slavery, political and apolitical assassinations, etc - will suddenly (or gradually) improve by acquiring more of the same wealth that has historically enabled them to commit these acts.

There are no nuances or complexities that justify these actions and no tangible benefits associated with 'a thoughtful dialogue and critique'. Any further communication here just gives you more of a platform to shill for your employers.

So yep, 'fuck them' and probably you.

[-] pragmaOnce@sopuli.xyz 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

See, the issue here is that you keep mentioning these investment as a means for KSA to modernize its 'economy' - but the lemming you replied to (and most people here tbh) couldnt give a shit less about the economy being modernized, the social and cultural values (rampant human rights abuses, et al.) are the issues at hand. Unless those values change, they'll just go from pretty evil and rich to pretty evil and mooore rich. Which isnt exactly a good thing.

Additionally, you mentioned the individuals and communities that would benefit from this, but that sounds like trickle-down economics to me.

The people who benefit from these massive deals are almost entirely mega-wealthy (like the people who hired you to comment here) and the marginalized communities that face the most difficulties in KSA wont see a dime of this. I mean, KSA is still a slave state for all practical purposes. Doubt google and Msft are going to change that by giving them more data on unwanted elements of their population.

So, like the post above yours says - Fuck them and anyone that does business with them.

[-] pragmaOnce@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Solid answer here. Worth pointing out that MX Linux has other DEs than xfce. I originally left Ubuntu for pop!_os but wanted to use KDE. After realizing that swiching to Kde removed most of what makes pop special, I started looking around again and landed on the ahs/kde version of MX. Its been great! Still a debain distro so its very familiar, but I dpnt have to worry about Canonical making poor decisions upstream.

[-] pragmaOnce@sopuli.xyz 3 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I genuinely love Snow Crash as an exaggeration of the genre (I still lmfao at Hiro Protagonists) and Neuromancer as a founding member so to speak - two of my favorite books of all time, but underage .. shenanigans in Snow Crash and the general writing style of Neuromancer make them both hard to recommend to newcomers.

My brother watched the cyberpunk anime and got really curious about the genre, then started reading neuromancer and was like.. wtf bro this is boring. :(

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