ChickenOverlord
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ChickenOverlord
20hr ago
My first GPU was a PNY Verto (something older than the 6600 in that gallery, though I don't recall the exact model number). That really brought back some nostalgia haha
ChickenOverlord
20hr ago
My favorite midwit meme:
https://i.redd.it/dkvg2uxbalq91.jpg
Or as I've seen it put elsewhere, knowledge is knowing that Frankenstein is not the monster, wisdom is knowing that Frankenstein is the monster.
As I heard someone on a forum put it many years ago, if I'm forced to choose between fascism and communism (I'd prefer neither) then I choose fascism. Because the secret police will come for me at some point either way, but when the fascist secret police arrest me I'll have a full stomach.
ChickenOverlord
21hr ago
Random question just because I don't know the answer, but are you Irish or Northern Irish?
ChickenOverlord
21hr ago
Specifically, a lot of the GPUs designed for AI workloads don't even have video outputs, so they wouldn't work in your own personal gaming rig.
I think part of the definition of art is that it's not done for money or status, but rather it's genuine self-expression.
There have been so many atrocious offenses against good taste widely considered to be "art" that I can't take any attempts to define what is or isn't art as anything more than fart-sniffing snobbery. Or at least any definitions more exclusive than something like "human creative expression" or something along those lines (inb4 some pedant asks nonsense like "well then can animal creative expression be art?" or whatever).
What does it even matter if something is (or isn't) art? Outside of potential financial interests like government grants for your art that might be affected if the government suddenly decided that your art isn't actually art, what single effect does something technically being defined as "art" or "not art" have on anything? I suppose it affects how nice your fellow snobs think your farts smell if your definitions of art are in disagreement.
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Once again, that depends greatly on which subset of Christianity you're referring to.
The pope himself did weigh in on the Terri Schaivo case, and practicing Catholics generally seem to feel that removing the feeding tube etc., though I don't know if this would be formally accepted doctrine of the RCC.
The opinions of other Christian denominations were much more varied: https://www.clinician.com/articles/87240-religious-views-of-schiavo-case-vary
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Eh, I'm probably not the best at representing our faith on here but I try
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
Paul admits he tried to destroy the Church and he likely wasn't the only one.
Jews in the Bar Kochba Rebellion killed many Christians that refused to join them in the revolt against the Romans.
ChickenOverlord
3d ago
I don't support abortion in either case, and there are plenty of other people (mostly other Christians) who don't either. If the baby has actually already died in the womb (as opposed to a doctor saying they're unlikely to survive), I'm not aware of any groups that oppose removal of the baby.
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
I'm Mormon, and we believe that Adam's fall caused all his descendants to be of a fallen nature, but that we are not morally culpable for his sin.
The Methodists have a similar belief, as do many other Protestant denominations:
"Original sin standeth not in the following of Adam (as the Pelagians do vainly talk), but it is the corruption of the nature of every man, that naturally is engendered of the offspring of Adam, whereby man is very far gone from original righteousness, and of his own nature inclined to evil, and that continually." - Article VII in the Book of Discipline of the United Methodist Church
You'll find similar wording used by the Anglicans and other denominations.
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
You seem to have a very strange, non-standard definition of murder here.
When your next relative is terminal in the hospital, I want you to spend every single dime you can beg, borrow or steal in a fruitless attempt to extend their life until you have zero possessions left.
Choosing not to actively prolong someone else's life is different than choosing to intentionally end a life. Your hypothetical situation here would not be murder.
Your buddy falls while climbing and you have to cut the rope so you both don't die.
Wait, did he already fall, or am I cutting it to cause him to fall? Your scenario here is very confusing. The specifics of the scenario drastically change whether or not it would be murder.
Your buddy sustains third-degree burns over 90% of his body and will surely die in extreme agony within days. Best let him scream, you wouldn't want to murder an innocent!
I fully support letting doctors give him the best morphine available to numb the pain until his death. But still no murder required.
Your grandfather is trying to starve himself to death because he's taking way too long to die, so you hold him down and force-feed his withered form so you can be a heckin decent human bean.
Not choosing to force someone to continue living != murder. This really isn't all that complicated. Your definitions of murder are, frankly put, real fuckin' weird.
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
How can you argue from Christianity and also argue the fetus is innocent? It has as much expected original sin as you do.
Original Sin isn't a universal Christian belief.
I see no circumstances under which the principle "Don't murder innocents" must be compromised in order to live. Unless you're trying to make some weird point about how supporting some policy or other will cause X deaths or destroy Y QALYs or something like that, I really have no idea what you're trying to say here.
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
The covid shot didn't reduce your chances of getting it at all, it simply reduced the severity of symptoms (if Pfizer et al are to be believed).
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
ChickenOverlord
4d ago
You're assuming that our democracy is still working
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Both good companies most of the time, but neither has enough marketshare to have any real pull with game publishers.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Or at a minimum compiled binaries for the servers.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
In fairness, I had a boss once who ate vegetarian at home together with his wife, and then ate plenty of meat when we would go out to lunch.
ChickenOverlord
9d ago
Sort of, they actually brought CS:GO back for some reason (though it's not listed normally on Steam).
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
For now, media pushback and patches seem to be working for the most egregious cases.
Not really, one of the most egregious cases gets surprisingly little attention: Overwatch 1. I never played it myself because I prefer to get headshotted by the sweats in CounterStrike, but Overwatch 1 had a massive playerbase that was forced onto (the in many ways inferior) Overwatch 2. And that's a game from a massive company that absolutely has the resources to keep Overwatch 1 playable (or to release some sort of offline patch or a private server binary).
ChickenOverlord
10d ago
Terrence Tao literally talks about this in his Lex Fridman interview:
ChickenOverlord
11d ago
Or seen the number of people who think $2 bills are fake?
Anecdote from a previous job that you just gave me a PTSD flashback to, back when I worked on the help desk and sysadmin side of things instead of development:
The company I was working at got acquired by another company (most Americans here would probably know the acquiring company but I won't get any more specific than that). Our accounting department was mostly laid off and we now had to send our invoices to accounting in the acquiring company to get them paid.
My boss starts sending them our invoices for the phone company (and internet, and a bunch of other important things) up to corporate accounting every single day because accounting isn't responding to him and isn't paying our bills. He's also calling them multiple times a week, but no one is answering. Also our long distance phone service is separate from our main phone service (this will be important) for complicated reasons I never bothered to learn because I was a help desk grunt at the time.
This goes on for months, and the phone company is getting pissy and threatening to cut off our phone service. My manager is forwarding the service cut off threats to accounting too. Finally long distance service actually gets cut off (but local phone service still works), and me and the other help desk grunt got flooded with about 200 calls from pissed off users that day.
This causes enough of a stink that corporate catches wind of it and ask my manager why he wasn't paying the phone bill. After all, they showed him how to send invoices to accounting, etc., how could he be so irresponsible? My manager whips out 60+ emails and his phone call logs and corporate immediately apologizes and presumably goes to bite off someone's head in accounting.
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