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New comment by Bullfight2Cond in "An Alien Mind"

Bullfight2Cond — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:47:49 +0000

Very wise comment. It's such an western-centric perspective to say "alignment" as if it's an objective and unbiased set of standards, especially in the context of the ongoing wars across the world. I had the same reaction about the shocking naivete and unfounded optimism for the government and corporate entities to self-regulate to slow down this arms race.

New comment by Bullfight2Cond in "An Alien Mind"

Bullfight2Cond — Sun, 06 Sep 2026 21:45:29 +0000

Hyper-capitalist AND hyper-authoritarian. As you rightly point out the state has the ultimate power. Looking at the US govt, they've stepped in to coordinate much of the tech industry before, so they'll just do it again for "national security" or whichever hostile scheme is popular with the current administration.

New comment by Bullfight2Cond in "AI Doesn't Reduce Work–It Intensifies It"

Bullfight2Cond — Mon, 09 Feb 2026 15:55:42 +0000

china outlawed it

New comment by Bullfight2Cond in "Slow Liquid"

Bullfight2Cond — Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:51:31 +0000

smooth

New comment by Bullfight2Cond in "Europe is locking itself in to US LNG"

Bullfight2Cond — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:34:01 +0000

What's your counter evidence?

New comment by Bullfight2Cond in "Europe is locking itself in to US LNG"

Bullfight2Cond — Tue, 16 Sep 2025 14:22:59 +0000

That's a very self-limiting viewpoint when a significant portion of warfare is deception, so by definition you're not going to get "all we know".

For example, Seymour Hersh (renowned wartime investigative journalist), published a brief on US involvement: https://seymourhersh.substack.com/p/how-america-took-out-the...

New comment by Bullfight2Cond in "Israel shuts down local Al Jazeera offices"

Bullfight2Cond — Sun, 05 May 2024 20:23:15 +0000

RT was heavily censored in the USA and is banned in several European countries. Press censorship is pretty much the norm in 'western democracies' similar to everywhere else.

New comment by Bullfight2Cond in "Twilio CEO: Layoffs were carried out through an Anti-Racist/Anti-Oppression lens"

Bullfight2Cond — Thu, 15 Sep 2022 18:30:41 +0000

Translation: 'We fired the white men who we were paying more than the others.' Woke capitalism at its finest.

New comment by Bullfight2Cond in "How to create a Python package in 2022"

Bullfight2Cond — Thu, 28 Jul 2022 13:42:04 +0000

Poetry uses non-standard dependency specification formats. PDM is like Poetry but faster/more standards compliant.

https://pdm.fming.dev/

New comment by Bullfight2Cond in "Learning Go as a Python Developer: The Good and the Bad"

Bullfight2Cond — Mon, 18 Jul 2022 20:42:19 +0000

one more that supports the latest standards: https://pdm.fming.dev/

New comment by Bullfight2Cond in "Freezing Requirements with Pip-Tools"

Bullfight2Cond — Fri, 15 Jul 2022 15:06:22 +0000

pip-tools is alright but it doesn't support cross-platform (or python version) lockfiles.

poetry is alright but it doesn't support the latest PEP standards, and its slow.

PDM is where it's at; it's fast, has a really responsive maintainer, supports all the latest PEP standards, and has really good cross-platform support.

pdm.fming.dev/

New comment by Bullfight2Cond in "Linux Developer Laptops: Dell's Precision 5500 series reigns supreme (2019)"

Bullfight2Cond — Fri, 11 Mar 2022 18:47:22 +0000

5560 is one of my least favorite laptops ever.

The trackpad is unnecessarily big that my hand routinely clicks it when typing. Also, it has driver issues:

- on windows if you move the trackpad quickly and then click, it resets your cursor position -- I've lost work because of this bug: https://imgur.com/a/ibNObJ8

- on linux (tried in fedora) there's an unresolved issue with the kernel driver where randomly the acceleration of the cursor will drop and the cursor movement will have a large amount of lag: https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/libinput/libinput/-/issues/61...

Physically, out of the box it looks nice but over the course of 2-3 months becomes quite disgusting: it attracts smudges, the speaker grill fill up with dust. It's also heavy.

The plastic housing on the edge of the display is so sharp that when I went to wipe dust off the screen I sliced my finger and started bleeding.

Performance wise, it's okay, but I only get 5 hours in windows (VSCode, Slack, Firefox).

The keyboard is okay, but I prefer the thinkpad keyboards because the delete key isn't offset from a touch power button like the dell.

3/10 would not buy again