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[–] piggy@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago (4 children)

I agree about static linking but...... 100mb of code is absolutely massive, do Rust binaries actually get that large?? Idk how you do that even, must be wild amounts of automatically generated object oriented shit lol

My brother in Christ if you have to put every lib in the stack into a GUI executable you're gonna have 100mb of libs regardless of what system you're using.

Also Plan 9 did without dynamic linking in the 90s. They actually found their approach was smaller in a lot of cases over having dynamic libraries around: https://groups.google.com/g/comp.os.plan9/c/0H3pPRIgw58/m/J3NhLtgRRsYJ

Plan 9 was a centrally managed system without the speed of development of a modern OS. Yes they did it better because it was less complex to manage. Plan 9 doesn't have to cope with the fact that the FlatPak for your app needs lib features that don't come with your distro.

Also wdym by this? Ppl have been writing portable programs for Unix since before we even had POSIX

It was literally not practical to have every app be portable because of space constraints.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (6 children)

Because portability has only been practical for the majority of applications since 2005ish.

You're not having a system where every executable has 100mb of OS libs statically linked to them in the 90's be fuckin for real.

You complain a lot about static linking in rust and it's the only way to actually achieve portability.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 20 points 5 months ago

Same problem exists in the self driving space.

Level 2 partial automation is ADAS or Advanced Driver Assistance Systems. Some Level 2 features actually harm driver attention like:

  • Adaptive cruise control
  • Collision avoidance systems
  • Lane centering
  • Lane change assistance

https://newsroom.aaa.com/2019/12/long-term-use-of-advanced-driver-assistance-technologies-can-result-in-disengaged-drivers/

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Did you make that board? If so I like what you did with it.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 30 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Hooray the "Master/Slave" "black list/white list" style technical writing drama has finally hit the toy sector.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 7 points 5 months ago

Brace the Hypocrite Belden. Oh you can go play with the the-doohickey in Rojava and be like smuglord I'm the only one that's actually killed pedophiles. But if I want to ecoterrorist you're all like "unsubscribe from my podcast".

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago

Also very funny you accuse me of being a debate pervert when you are exhibiting that exact behavior and that is the reason I commented.

I respectfully started a conversation and stated my opinion in no way did I try to fight FunkyStuff or merthyr1831 and in fact I apologized to merthyr1831 if it came off that way based on me replying to what was clearly a joke.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 14 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I actually work with....

Yeah after dealing with my annoying corporate job I also don't want to deal with computers, but it's not a reason to complain that people have found durable elegant solutions to running their own services on their free time.

This just smacks of jealousy. Someone has to write the yaml, if it's not you it's gonna be the people you're paying $X/mo to also steal your data/call the cops on you after they find IP finger prints/etc.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 4 points 5 months ago

I wasn't trying to dress you down, and I'm sorry if it came off that way.

I was merely using the memery to explain how the OP tweet is completely wrong, because even within the context of Marxism there are Marxists who read the scantest of theory and are like 'WHAT DO YOU MEAN GLOBALLY I'M THE BAD GUY?'. This usually comes out when Conservatives point to the fact that the American poor are economically way richer than global poor. Which is correct and is merely a rephrasing of imperial capitalism. So upon seeing these arguments they usually dismiss them in an illogical way because the only thing they learned from Socialism in one country vs International Socialism is 'Trotsky bad'.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 1 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (2 children)

exonym

China

Don't you mean Zhongguo Renmin Gongheguo.

Why don't you just come out and accuse me of whatever it is instead of trying to beat around the bush?

Is my communication style bad? Sorry I'm literally autistic.

Am I not fitting in? See above.

Am I an evil lib seeking to spread anti-China sentiment?

What is it?

It's complete debate pervert behavior to engage with a theory effort post by fixating on a technical label.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (7 children)

I'm using a common term not the technical term because if I use technical terms people don't understand what the fuck I'm saying. They might as well be called the FJKOSJAFAIFO if everyone calls them that. This isn't an academic paper. Also it's practically an exonym vs endonym issue. You should also berate me for calling it China and not Zhongguo or it's full endonymic name of Zhongguo Renmin Gongheguo.

[–] piggy@hexbear.net 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (9 children)

it will have to be imposed on them from the outside.

I think historically this has been proven out to be the opposite after all the USSR fell.

The only real hope that this is a way is that the CCP:

  1. CCP economically (and at one point militarily) is able to defend itself against global imperial capital
  2. CCP brings about real communism, moving more towards MLM roots in terms of social and economic arrangements
  3. CCP brings in the tanks.

I have doubts about the practicality and reality of each of these steps. Even if you believe that steps 1 and 2 are going to happen. Step 3 is the most tenuous of all. China is very much a mind your own business country. They CCP does not and will not care that the people of the imperial core are suffering. It's not their problem.

I think the real problem for Marxists is they get too stuck on the "scientific" parts, and assume that means "determinism". This leads them to advocate ripping off previous playbooks (What Is To Be Done posting) wholesale rather than understand what from each previous playbook would work for their specific situation. You cannot build even a nascent state capitalist state that is attempting to build socialism let alone communism through a set of replicable steps. When in reality Marx describes the interaction purely through base and superstructure. There is no "if this then that" of building communism, you have to move these structures into alignment and continually reinforce base and superstructure in the direction of communist development. What works in one society may not work in a different one, (See Sino Soviet Split) what works in one society in the past may never work again in the same society in the future.

It's a similar reason why typically our capitalist societies cannot make good software. Not only is there simply not a "single way", but most people have their own experiences from the negative problems they have suffered building software for previous companies. These experiences may reinforce practices that seem to be helpful, but were only helpful in the context of the previous company.

Meanwhile China has done great things for its people, but it has put itself into the same position as those in the imperial core. There are contradictions in the Chinese economy. In order for China to make good on socialism by 2050, it essentially needs to kill its guided capitalist prosperity engine. This is going to make a lot of people uneasy and upset and many of them are also people who are in the CCP. Chinese development has also made it become a treatler country in many respects, I think American Communists don't recognize that. I think in practice we're all just doing a prisoners dilemma with each other and ultimately ourselves.

A huge example of the difference between China and the USSR right now is food. The USSR had always been a seasonal agriculture country, because having Western style supermarkets that are both price stable and more-or-less unaffected by seasonal availability is based on a network of global trade that requires extraction by its very nature. If you cannot produce food half the year, and the people that can produce food the other half of the year are equals, you can maintain price stability of food through trade. But the reality is that the Global South where this stability is based in, are not equals. So the way price stability is maintained is through deprivation, extraction and manipulation of global markets. In a socialist global system we're back at third worldism, you have to convince people who have it good to sacrifice for those that don't in a place they've never been, for reasons that are extremely difficult to articulate. China is a rich country now and in this way has created this problem for itself and historically benevolent internationalism hasn't really been a cultural tendency. Culturally and politically to China trade is trade, no more no less.

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