Yeah, that’s absolutely fair, and it’s a bit snobby of me to get all up in arms about forgetting a formula - although it is high school level where I live. But to be handed the formula, informed that there’s an issue and still not fix it is the really hard part to wrap my head around, given it’s such a basic formula.

I guess I’m also remembering someone I knew who got a programming job off the back of someone else’s portfolio, who absolutely couldn’t program to save their life and revealed that to me in a glaring way when I was trying to help them out. It just makes me think of that study that was done that suggested that there might be a “programmer brain” that you either have or you don’t. They ended up costing that company a lot to my knowledge.

I’m really unsure if why or how is my bigger question.

Downvotes being visible is possible throughout lemmy because the voting is federated and therefore public. Whether downvotes show depends on whatever frontend you’re using, so your mobile app or your instance’s web view. There has recently been an update that changed how votes are displayed, so it’s possible your instance has updated to that.

Yup, in another thread about the planes there’s nothing but assholes griping about stonehenge.

Almost like defacing art is actually the more effective type of protest.

And electronics hobbyists!

They’re also saying they support activism so little that they needed chatgpt to come up with an answer for them. Almost like they don’t support any progressive movements, they don’t care about the effectiveness of the methods and they’re just here to attack climate protestors.

Wait wait wait so… this person forgot the pythagorean theorem?

Like that is the most basic task. It’s d = sqrt((x1 - x2)^2 + (y1 - y2)^2), right?

That was off the top of my head, this person didn’t understand that? Do I get a job now?

I have seen a lot of programmers talk about how much time it saves them. It’s entirely possible it makes them very fast at making garbage code. One thing I’ve known for a long time us that understanding code is much harder than writing it, and so asking an LLM to generate your code sounds like it’s just creating harder work for you, unless you don’t care about getting it right.

I just love that the “law enforcement decreased” line didn’t change.

It’s just always applicable.

Isildur, push up the icecream!

No.

ISILDUUUUUURRR

I mean if I really need onions on a mcchicken I can still order at the front but then I have to deal with trying to get my specialty order across, which is even more hassle. Mainly I want no salt on my fries and no sauce on my burger.

Trust me, you don’t need that shit. Melted cheese is good sauce and the residual salt in the fries tray is plenty, and you’ll get fresh fries every time.

The point of the state is to maintain one class’s supremacy over others, violence is just the means to achieving that. It’s not a good thing.

And not all armed resistance takes the form of open warfare.

Under a strong state one viable way of resisting the state is community defense. For instance the Black Panthers began open carried to observe police doing traffic stops, because black men kept getting killed.

The state’s response was weapons bans. That ban targetted the Black Panthers and was selectively enforced against them. This is where California got its reputation for banning guns. It was the state maintaining its ability to oppress people along class and racial lines.

So like… your answer is no.

Unironically yes.

Now are you going to answer what I’m saying or are you just bowing out of all the points you tried to raise and which I answered?

So sorry for assuming you were talking about the US when you talked about school shootings.

I come from a country like that too, but if you think police brutality doesn’t happen in your country then again: political bubble.

Go ahead, tell me what country you’re from and I’ll burst it for you.

I used to say the same thing about my country, Australia, where they’ve recently been imprisoning whistleblowers who expose clear government abuse.

There is no such thing as a state that can be trusted with violence. They always use it to oppress.

“Spreading”? It’s already spread.

Plus it’s kind of impossible to understand how you see police brutality and the way they responded to the George Floyd protests and think, “Yeah, these guys should be trusted with the only guns in existence.”

Like have you already forgotten about Uvalde? If the cops hadn’t been there to cower behind their cars and stop people rescuing their kids then less kids would’ve died.

So you completely accept the state’s monopoly on violence, and you also don’t think farmers should be allowed to shoot pests?

This is a statement made by someone who lives in a political and ecological bubble.

Uuuuh what happened there? I respect Karl a lot, did something happen between them?

Ah dang, I got excited for a sec. There is a Blackberry Pi project but it’s just a Raspberry Pi in the form factor of a Blackberry.

The kinds of places that get touchscreen kiosks often have teenagers taking your order who are not paid or trained enough to give any shits about any of it. The touchscreen saves both of you from doing the worst part of the whole process.

I really like this idea, and like you point out elsewhere it might be possible to achieve this without prohibitive “river-like” worldgen problems.

I’ve long thought that a big problem with villages & villagers is that Minecraft’s design philosophy has always prized player-supremacy. That is, the player can change any blocks and very few other things can alter them. (creepers are fine; endermen acne can fuck right off)

So the villagers are stuck with the village they were given and cannot help themselves.

If villagers were given the power to dig and build to create the paths they need, repair their buildings and to fight off monsters, they’d be so much more interesting, and players wouldn’t be able to silo them off in little stalls to act as simple vending machines. The player would be forced to respect their autonomy.

I know the villagers already create big lag, but that’s because they’re constantly recalculating their pathfinding. If they made a path, and only recalculated when they bumped into one another or a block on their path was updated, then they wouldn’t need to do that, and they could have more complex behaviours.

It would be a lot easier if the villages spawned on reasonable terrain as well.