was not a medical condition and just a word

It is just a word. It means to delay or the opposite of “advance” and is still used like that in industries like aviation and terms like fire removedant.

But when you use it to call someone stupid, that’s when you’re using it in the context of ablism and as a slur.

Similar to the term for a female dog, which is still used in veterinary medicine and research to mean an actual dog that is female. Though like the R word, the context as a slur is gradually discouraging its use even as its original meaning because people don’t want to risk having it misunderstood.

Piece of shit. Simple and to the point. Shit’s pretty gross and it’s universal human instinct to avoid it. Maybe even shithead if you want a single word.

Asshole. Gender neutral and not tied to ethnicity since we all have one. Maybe even going further and calling someone an asshole related condition like prolapsed rectum or hemorrhoid, things that can happen to anyone, are pretty painful and definitely to be avoided, but AFAIK were never conditions that were heavily marginalized or shamed.

Clown or fool. Clowns/fools are types of characters people played historically (and still do?), IMO it doesn’t imply anything about a person’s actual intelligence or mental state, only their actions. You’re not born a clown or fool, but you can definitely act like one. Also lends itself to a snarky 🤡 emoji I’ve seen some people here use instead of typing out an insult.

Though there could be additional context or history to any of these terms I’m not aware of that push them into one of the -ist categories, IDK I’m not a linguist.

Super interesting. Thanks as always!

Is Erlang special in its architecture or is it more that it’s functional?

One day I’ll learn how to do purely functional, maybe even purely declarative. But I have to train my brain to think of computer programs like that.

Is there a functional and/or declarative language that has memory management features similar to Rust as opposed to a garbage collector?

but literally beating the flagship desktop chips in single-core performance

See, this is what I despise about x86. AFAIK it’s literally RISC on the bare metal but there are hundreds of “instructions” running microcode which is basically just a translation layer. You’re not allowed to write code for the actual RISC implementation because that’s a trade secret or something. So obviously single core performance would be shit because you’re basically running an emulator all the time.

RISC-V can’t come fast enough. Maybe someone will even make a chip that’s RISC-V but with the same instruction/microcode support as x86. So you can run RISC-V code directly or do the microcode thing and pretend you’re on x86. Though that would probably get the shit sued out of them by Intel because god forbid there’s actual innovation that the original creator can’t cash in on.

Doesn’t the Mac have hardware x86 emulation? Or did they remove that because they want everyone to move to ARM?

IIRC it refers to how rural farmers’ necks are often sunburned and red.

You can also put Asahi Linux on them

How well does this work? Is it like Linux on Chromebooks where something could break at the drop of a hat and you have to fight the computer to get it installed?

With Arch BTW

Or Nix

Are RISCV microcontrollers out yet? Might be a good idea to rally around making a fully open IDE ecosystem and breakout board standard for it (maybe even make it pin compatible with the old school Arduino, surely they can’t sue for that right?)

I don’t use any but I’m sure there are functional languages where () is a valid function.

Just a reminder, you can’t prove they’re not still conscious somewhere in their mind. Brain “dead” is a misnomer because having dead, rotting tissue in your skull will kill you pretty quickly anyway. You would at the very least have to remove the brain and IDK if you can still keep the body alive then.

Keeping them alive normally honestly sounds like torture if there’s anything resembling a consciousness still in there, this is just slavery.

Same with Google allowing literal malware to advertise themselves posing as legitimate apps that show above the actual app’s website.

They even let ads spoof the display domain name to match the official website (and do no checks for whether they actually own the display domain despite literally having the infrastructure to do that in their SEO tools) while redirecting to a different domain when you click the ad.

John Hammond video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlnuk8W2A0Y (also a good video to send to anyone who still thinks Macs “can’t” get malware)

Even if this is genuine incompetence and not malice, they’re so disgustingly incompetent that they don’t deserve to exist just the same as if it was malice.

Yeah the malware is called Windows 11

Karl Marx. And never. Marx is immortal.

Run it in a VM? Maybe even one of those fancy ones that make it appear as a normal window in your Linux DE. Doesn’t solve the problem of the spyware existing but at least it’s contained and can’t touch your Linux apps.

“Hey Gemini write me a React app”

Academic tradition requires you to cite works…

Yeah looks to me like scaling artifacts from shrinking the image. AFAIK AI isn’t that consistent especially with high contrast shapes.

Just make sure you choose rich parents when getting conceived smh

OK, face of Karl Marx then. The German guy who never even set foot in the USSR.

Oh wait you think that’s bad too.

What about Mao-no.

What about Che Guev-no.

Ho Chi-no.

Venez-no.

What about the Paris commune? No? Still bad in your mind?

Marxist Austria? Nah I’m sure the army that put an end to that is preferable according to you. They called themselves socialist with none of the Soviet imagery after all!

Even if we completely rebranded socialism you’d make it your mission to add the Soviet imagery back in and remind everyone of it. Like y’all do for decidedly capitalist bandaids like student loan forgiveness or food stamps that don’t even have anything to do with socialism.