missfrizzle

what the fuck is with Windows App? it takes gigs and it's literally just an RDP wrapper.

Jesus would have hated movie theater concession stands.

theoretically, Muslims and Jews should be closer. both believe in one god, rather than a trinity. both reject icons. both follow the dietary laws. both Jews and Arabs descend from Abraham.

maybe the closer you are the more you have to fight about 🤷‍♀️

I'm not sure Jesus said anything about whether his followers need to keep kosher or observe the Torah. "I have come not to replace the Law, but to fulfill it" or something, right? I don't think he weighed in on circumcision or pork. wasn't that largely the early Christians deciding after his death?

whoa, I didn't know there were Churches that don't follow Paul. he's one of my biggest issues with Christianity.

I felt like Christianity suffered a lot from so many gentiles streaming in early on without becoming Jews, and by the time it became the religion of Rome it blended with Sol Invictus, Greek Platonism and other Roman mythology, and became incomprehensible. Jesus was Jewish, the Disciples were all Jews, all the context of his teachings only make sense in a context the fresh converts lacked.

I kinda wonder about an alternate universe where a sect of Jews accept Jesus as Moshiach but not as literally God. there'd be no trinity, the parables would go into the Talmud, he'd be seen as a rebbe like Hillel I guess.

exactly everything I need and nothing more. doesn't need X. reasonably lightweight. no fiddly configuration needed. nice support for tiling alongside floating.

also, very buggy (at least as of alpha.7), somewhat fickle (at least on my hardware), and I can't remap keyboard shortcuts.

the SG teams embody American ideals, while the NID embodies American history. specifically, the NID acts like '60s CIA.

it pleases me that the actress who played Carter cared about science like the character.

Have you been conscious and actually aware of your surroundings over the last eight months?

yes. I've personally read most of the Supreme Court decisions from 2025 in their entirety. I've consumed a truly unhealthy amount of news.

Violation of due process rights

Yes, the Administration has pulled shady shit, especially their shell game with original jurisdiction and habeas petitions. The worst has been CECOT. Trump v. JGG and Trump v. AARP did smack down some of this, though DHS v. DVD was unconscionable in shirking the requirements for CAT hearings.

blatant kidnapping of naturalized citizens or permanent residents

I'm aware of a few cases of naturalized citizens being stripped of citizenship, ostensibly due to mistakes or omissions in their applications. This has always been a thing, legally, but courts have held that it mistakes must have material significance. I'm not aware that they've deported anyone for typos.

Many more permanent residents have been detained, usually due to some prior conviction on their record. Again, this is legal, though terribly wrong. All permanent residents should be getting naturalized asap because the protections are much stronger.

military occupations of entire cities

Legal for DC, due to its special status as a Federal city. Forbidden in States without invitation by their Governors, except in cases of Rebellion, per the Posse Comitatus Act. Troops can be deployed to protect Federal buildings or workers, which was the excuse Trump used in LA. As a result, the Marines mostly stood around doing nothing, since they weren't allowed to police. A judge found this unlawful and enjoined the order, and the troops were removed.

As for Memphis, the Governor of Tennessee invited Trump to deploy the National Guard, so it was legal.

As for Chicago, despite Trump's cringe Apocalypse Now meme, he backed down because Pritzker opposed, so he would have violated Posse Comitatus.

deporting full American citizens

A few children who were US citizens left the Country with their undocumented parents, when they were deported. Legally, they can't deport the kids, but they can offer the parents a horrible choice: bring them with you, or put them in the foster system. If they weren't offered a choice, this is an easy suit to win, but my understanding is that the parents decided to bring their kids with them.

open corruption

ha, yep. Trump and his cronies are laughably corrupt. don't get me started on the memecoin..

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so yes, the Constitution is in trouble. a couple months ago the Administration was skirting being held in contempt, in particular with deportations. but the judicial system is holding up surprisingly decently, with the exception of the absolutely disgraceful shadow docket orders SCOTUS has handed down.

but it's not at a point yet where Trump can write EO that says "grr Antifa bad" and round up people who've committed no crimes.

no, that's the thing. a group could literally call itself Antifa, apply for a permit to hold a demonstration and burn American flags holding "DOWN WITH FASCISM" signs, and there's nothing the Administration could do. it's all protected speech. they can't jail someone for being Antifa. not even the EO claims this.

HOG and Hough transforms bring me back. honestly glad that I don't have to mess with them anymore though.

I always found SVMs a little shady because you had to pick a kernel. we spent time talking about the different kernels you could pick but they were all pretty small and/or contrived. I guess with NNs you pick the architecture/activation functions but there didn't seem to be an analogue in SVM land for "stack more layers and fatten the embeddings." though I was only an undergrad.

do you really think NNs won purely because of large datasets and GPU acceleration? I feel like those could have applied to SVMs too. I thought the real win was solving vanishing gradients with ReLU and expanding the number of layers, rather than throwing everything into a 3 or 5-layer MLP, preventing overfitting, making the gradient landscape less prone to local maxima and enabling hierarchical feature extraction to be learned organically.

pff, you call using an operating system bare metal? I run my apps as unikernels on a grid of Elbrus chips I bought off a dockworker in Kamchatka.

and even that's overkill. I prefer synthesizing my web apps into VHDL and running them directly on FPGAs.

until my ASIC shuttle arrives from Taipei, naturally, then I bond them directly onto Ethernet sockets.

/uj not really but that'd be sick as hell.