> but as a Muslim, this is the best place to live. Muslims want the Sharia law and all the other Islamic stuffs including hijab, prayers and what not.
Very insightful, surprised to hear people like it there, I'm glad.
I think the problem with Sharia law and such is when people come from say Saudi Arabia or similar middle eastern countries and expect to bring their backwards ass laws with them to EU countries.
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Problem is same with western countries (EU/US). People emigrate from western countries to Asia and bring their backward ass laws with them to Asia and want Asian countries to conform to them.
TLDR: Bigotry is a two way street. Either appreciate the differences or STFU. You don’t have monopoly on deciding whose laws are backward.
That's a pretty stupid false equivalency. I can be annoyed by Singapore's laws against chewing gums, but that isn't in any way comparable to inhumane treatment of segments of the population for who they are (women, gay, etc.) or where they come from (Indian/Pakistani/etc. near slaves) in some places.
Treating people as shit, or executing them is objectively bad. Merely for their sexual identity/preferences is objectively even worse. You don't have to be from a specific place to be able to appreciate that.
I agree that treating people like shit or executing them is bad and most people would agree with you, but it is not objectively bad, since "bad" in the way you use it here is a subjective value judgement, by definition the polar opposite of objective. Just saying.
Technically maybe. Though I think it's a much stronger case for objectivity when one is murdering, imprisoning, and enslaving fellow humans to please imaginary friends or destructive traditions.
I think you will find that most dictionaries defines objectivity and subjectivity as binary opposites, and that there can be no such thing as a subjective opinion that can morph into objectivity, even if the phenomena are ghastly.
But I'm sure you find people who agree with you, all those who want to have their opinions elevated to objective truth, much like churches of old that claimed to have God on their side. To me such a stance is usually indications of prejudice and naïve realism [0], and perhaps worse; relieves one of the hard work of trying to see the other side, preventing one from building a solid case for ones own (subjective, but morally better) stance.
My point is not that objectivity is a spectrum. Rather that some cultural norms or traditions can be evaluated from a strictly utilitarian view, arguably approaching objectivity. For example killing or exploiting humans because they have a different skin color or refuse to wear certain clothing.
Should we dismiss all cultural critique because on some level everything is subjective, even experience and knowledge itself?
For all it's flaws and misuse, the scientific method provides the closest thing to an objective approach. Should it be discarded as well?
Now perhaps there are parts of Sharia law worth preserving. Can you steel-man that for me? Because my experience with theocracy based law has not been positive. What I've read of Sharia doesn't strike me as a good legal system.
Looks like we are discussing two different things. From what I can glean you need to find some "close to objective" (albeit still subjective) truth, for example based on utilitarianism in order to engage in cultural critique.
On my part I too base my ethics on something universal, but it is human universality (that we at most possibly can share with a few other animal species); it bends and shifts with history, geography and social conditions, but with a common denominator and ideal that is empathy. Something entirely subjective, something hard to accomplish and ultimately not completely attainable. And it allows me to keep things like "objective truth" out of ethical considerations.
In the case of Saudi Arabia it allows me to criticize the regime along the same lines as you, but it also requires that I try to understand how things became this bad, i.e. to have some empathy with the people that one otherwise easily could string up in the nearest lamppost if we had the chance.
The scientific method is not relevant for me here at all because it doesn't give us ethical guidance at all. It is relevant only as a tool to sift false assumptions from facts, where the facts are ultimately tentative, not absolute. It can help us for example to weed out illusions like the world being flat, but it doesn't answer everything about what the world is. The world still holds a lot of mystery, and will likely always do. Which is actually a sound position to take, scientifically.
I concur. The vast majority of people have the exact opposite problem and sleep too little, therefore the general advice would be to get at least 8h of quality sleep per night.
It threw me off the whole article as well, it's hard to take it seriously when it hits me with "don't sleep too much" in the beginning, especially since I've always been somewhat of an insomniac and I'm intimately familiar with the impact of sleep deprivation across all aspects of one's life.
They do mention that sleeping too little is also a problem. Sleep varies so much from person to person that it is often controversial. It might be better to think of that point as advising you to try to optimize the amount of sleep you get. That's more of an experimental process where you find out how much sleep you need and how to get it i.e. what do you need to change in your life in order to sleep better.
I wrote a simple-sounding script to record pulseaudio null sink on one device and send it to another. Tried a bunch of different ways:
parec | opusenc | nc
parec | ffmpeg | nc
Then discovered that ffmpeg can record directly from pulseaudio and serve it over rtsp. But after a few days of experimenting I realised I could still fuck up the command and be left scratching my head not understanding why it didn't work. Positional arguments in multiple places that affect different things depending on what precedes them. Trying to figure out which part of the command line affects input, cloned streams, output(s) etc. Ffmpeg is a great tool, but seriously hard to use. I ended up not only dropping it for recording and sending over the network, I threw it out completely and ended up with:
parec | flac | mbuffer
... Which provides the best quality, consistency and latency. But the best part is that the actual command line isn't much more complex than the pseudo code above.
I used to be obsessed with DRY. After having written tens of thousands of terraform lines in the last few years across a multitude of platforms and use cases, I say everything in moderation.
Going DRY is a decision you pay for in complexity, it's the typical programming problem of genericity. Sometimes it absolutely makes sense and you're a mad man if you skip it, but in isolated cases making things DRY just for the sake of it is just as nuts as not doing it when required.
It's a fine line to walk and it requires hands-on experience to know when to employ DRY and when to repeat yourself.
I don't think it is a question of moderation. It's a question of "does this chunk of code make sense as an abstraction?"
If I change the common code, do I want all users of it to realize those changes implicitly?
Terraform provides good enough tools to allow for deviations (even significant ones) between dev, staging, and prod.
IMO one of the most valuable things Terraform can do for you is stand up _the exact same stuff_ in multiple environments. If you're applying different code, your confidence in that shrinks significantly.
Unlike the SBCs that use BCM2711 or other larger chips, the Pico and Pico W are built on the RP2040, which has been in abundant supply for many months.
Right now there is stock on a number of reseller sites, and though they might sell through for the first few weeks as enthusiasts bundle up a bunch of orders, I would bet it will be easy to get them at MSRP (maybe with expensive shipping of course) in the next few months at the latest.
The Pico was sold out for a month or two initially, but there's a ton of stock right now—heck, you can buy the RP2040 by the thousands on reels from any distributor.
You can get RP2040 based boards now for a handful of dollars. I've been working with a RP2040-zero (third party board) on an epaper side-project for the last few weeks.
They're a lot more plentiful than the mainstream Pi boards.
I spent about $85 (AUD) on mine, it's a 5.83-inch tri-color (black/white/red), 648x480 display. For that much it came with the interface board so I could wire the display to my microcontroller easily enough.
I think that's reasonable cost-wise for my purposes (I'm making a status display to go inside my white-build gaming 'rig' to look shiny). Red takes about 12 seconds to refresh, AFAICT I should be able to get sub-1s black updates. You can get 7-color versions for about the same price but the refresh on those is very slow.
As ever it depends what you want to do - If you want a 2-inch tri-color display, in a format where you can attach SPI wires easily, you might get away with $20 AUD. You can find small greyscale eink displays very cheap (sub-$1) like this - https://www.aliexpress.com/item/1005003555154992.html
But you'll need to find some sort of interface from the ribbon cable to whatever wires you need.
If you want full-color, fast-update e-ink/epaper, that's just filtering into the market AFAICT, and it's much more pricey. I can find a 31.5 inch full-color epaper display for about $2200(US)!
Very insightful, surprised to hear people like it there, I'm glad.
I think the problem with Sharia law and such is when people come from say Saudi Arabia or similar middle eastern countries and expect to bring their backwards ass laws with them to EU countries.