You murder a mind, not a body, so no mind no murder. Under that abortion isn’t murder at all. Taking a brain dead person off life support is also not murder. You certainly wouldn’t say cutting down a tree is murder.
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There’s the thing though. Our bodies don’t really know what’s good for them with perfect accuracy. They evolved to survive in an environment of extreme and unpredictable scarcity, so your body telling you to eat the sour gummy worms is the correct choice in that context. Historically the job of the brain was to figure out how to get a steady supply without dieing. Now we have to manage our bodies like idiot babies because if we just listened to every impulse we’d end up with a host of health problems ultimately leading to reduced fertility and access to sexual partners. I mean that has always been true really, it’s just never been more true than now.
I’ve been thinking about this a lot lately. We aren’t really our bodies, we’re a biological product made by our bodies to function as high level control systems.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Days since last timezone issueEnglish
91·1 month agoThis is why, in any competent software dealing with physics in any way, it is always metric under the hood. Someone wants to see a quantity in some stupid freedom units? Fine sure convert it for them, but internally everything should be metric. Physics is hard enough, there’s no reason to make it worse with an inconsistent unit system with built in footguns somehow.
You either leave for a better offer, or stay long enough to see yourself become laid off.
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science@lemmy.world•Mathematicians just found a hidden ‘reset button’ that can undo any rotationEnglish
8·2 months agoThis article is… difficult to critique. There’s too many things to refute so I’ll just undermine the title. We’ve known about an operation that can undo any rotation for a lot (hundreds?) of years. 3D rotations represented as quaternions or rotation matrices are trivially invertible, and their inverse literally undoes the rotation. For a rotation matrix the inverse is simply the transpose of the matrix, and for a quaternion it’s the complex conjugate (3 of the 4 numbers have their sign flipped). These operations have been used in computer algorithms likely for as long as we have had computers. Honestly this whole thing feels like a big fat nothing so I’m gonna stop letting it steal my time.
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Technology@lemmy.world•'Windmill': China tests world’s first megawatt-level airship to capture high windsEnglish
3·2 months agoUsing hot air instead of helium would not work. The density of hot air is much higher than helium, so you would need a significantly larger airship to lift the same mass of payload (the useful bits). That and keeping the air hot would require constant energy input reducing the efficiency of the system dramatically. I’m pretty sure that system would be literally impossible to construct.
I never understood softcore porn. They go to all the trouble of setting up emotional amd sexual tension just to waste it on a hammy holywood makeout scene where all you see is boobs and bush.
Guess I’m learning how to draw. I’ll make my own big dick futa waifu fuck my ideal big dick futa self.
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Not The Onion@lemmy.world•Exhausted man defeats AI model in world coding championshipEnglish
63·5 months agoHow do you win at coding?
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•I would still download a car if I could. 🚗English
81·5 months agoMight I suggest the problem is capitalism. Without the everpresent threat of homelessness and starvation forced on us by the landlords, rampant price gouging of necessary goods like food, and the anti-lottery we all play every single fucking day with our own health, artists wouldn’t need nearly so much compensation for their work. Piracy wouldn’t matter, or even be required as a concept. I dream of living in a world without capitalism, but we don’t. Don’t hate the player, hate the game.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but for software developmentEnglish
31·6 months agoIt baffles me that medical device manufacturers use windows for fucking anything. You’d think just the licensing cost would push them away, but it being hot garbage for embedded software should have been enough. It’s amazing any medical device certification process would allow them to use it at all, with the notorious unreliability and not giving a shit what you think about updates. People could die because of a fucking windows update at the wrong time.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•Ramsay's kitchen nightmares, but for software developmentEnglish
5·6 months agoStartup nightmares would either be cathartic or give me ptsd flashbacks.
Try and stop me. I don’t even have windows installed anymore.
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Linux@programming.dev•Why Microsoft open sourced PowerShell and ported it to LinuxEnglish
4·6 months agoI mean. For me it was the constant forced updates, the adversarial secret config options that may or may not be misdirecting lies that do nothing, constantly forcing edge install, every (forced) update causing worse performance and making the ui shittier, trying to shove one drive down your throat so they can harvest that sweet personal data, forced online accounts, etc.
Is a man not entitled to the sweat of his brow? No, says the man on Wall Street; it belongs to the shareholders.
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Programmer Humor@programming.dev•AI will replace programmersEnglish
7·7 months agoA lot. The answer is it could fuck things up a lot worse than what we have.
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Fuck Cars@lemmy.world•Oxford Professor: Cycling is 10 times more important than electric cars for reaching net-zero citiesEnglish
4·8 months agoThis is the same argument that results in the majority of software created being slow stupid trash. “We don’t have time to fix those major architectural problems that are going to grind improvement to a halt later, we need to release this new stupid feature yesterday because line must go up.”
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Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Finally fixed my torrent ratioEnglish
9·9 months agoThose are rookie numbers. You need to pump those numbers up.

This kind of reads like a catholic who brought their kids to mass their whole childhood and disbelieves that catholic priests are child molestors because they never molested your child. They don’t prey on children with present caring parents who don’t leave their children unsupervised. They prey on solitary, neglected, vulnerable children, or for catholics those who are willing to trust a priest alone with them. In roblox it’s the same but without the implicit trust of an authority figure. The pedos probably avoided you. You didn’t somehow dodge the shady shit, you inadvertently created a bubble of safety that prevented your kids from being preyed upon because there’s so much easier prey around.