DrDeadCrash's comments

On: Statement by Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, the Netherlands,Norway,Sweden,UK

[DrDeadCrash]

Republicans love this, legally speaking we can do nothing.

[leviathant → DrDeadCrash]

Legally speaking, the Republicans have been losing in court over and over. That doesn't mitigate the damage they're doing during the lag, and the consequences for breaking the law have never been as strong as they should be when officers of the law and elected officials are the ones breaking the law.

But it is important to acknowledge the wins. They do have an effect, and that's the only path we seem to have toward slowing down the march to autocracy.

On: X users are unable to post “Signal.me” links

[DrDeadCrash]

I think they're saying to give the benefit of the doubt (ex. maybe it's a glitch), without realizing many of us have no more leeway to give due to the continuing onslaught of criminal behavior from musk/Trump which we'll all have to pay for in the future and is now giving our enemies reason to celebrate.

[drawkward → DrDeadCrash]

"Benefit of the doubt" is what some were gaslighted into when Musk threw a Nazi salute.

When you attempt to gaslight the entirety of the planet that hard, you get your "Benefit of the Doubt" card revoked.

[nickthegreek → drawkward]

If you continue to give Musk the benefit of the doubt, then you are charlie brown running at the football lucy is holding.

[drawkward → nickthegreek]

>the [nuclear] football lucy was holding [until we axed the whole department of energy]

On: Judge tells agencies to restore webpages and data

[DrDeadCrash]

That's a strange way to spell "criminal".

[talldayo → DrDeadCrash]

By all means, challenge the research if you find it offensive. It might get conservatives to sponsor a public works project for once.

Removing the data (particularly when it can be archived and served at zero cost to the government) is the only way you can waste taxpayer dollars in this situation. The research has been paid for, taxpaying Americans should be able to access it.

On: US pauses all federal aid and grants

[DrDeadCrash]

This is like being hopeful of staying dry in the rain

On: Automat

[DrDeadCrash]

After ignoring the download links I ejected the floppy, drank some coffee, and read from the notebook. What did you try?

On: Introduction to the λ-Calculus

[DrDeadCrash]

The characters in OP's arrow function have the benefit of being available on a standard keyboard layout. This has proven to be an important syntactic feature, imo.

[quibono → DrDeadCrash]

Haskell uses a single backslash \ in place of λ

On: ADHD drug gets 23.5% production boost from DEA amid shortage

[DrDeadCrash]

A more accurate title, as well.

On: Linux: We need tiling desktop environments

[DrDeadCrash]

I can confirm for power toys on Windows, I find it essential for making use of multiple 4k screens.

[MainlyMortal → DrDeadCrash]

It's honestly the best of the lot but slept on in these parts because of being Windows only. KDE started to clone this as a native feature but it seems to be abandoned. Story of linux I guess.

I really, really can't recommend PowerToys enough.

On: Pilet: A modular tablet-console based on pi5 with 7-hour battery life

[DrDeadCrash]

I believe the goal is to sell this as a DIY PI 5 project...

On: Ask HN: What is the best way to help the homeless?

[DrDeadCrash]

Repeal the Controlled Substances Act Reform policing in America Treat drug addiction as a medical problem Make healthcare, of every type a protected right Create a separation between business and state Make political contributions illegal Create and offer resources that support early childhood development Establish and empower a third party mediator to stop and prevent bullying and other abuse in school Create well funded safety nets people can use if they fall to a risk or on hard times Make Social Security type retirement income a guaranteed right Implement a finely-incremented progressive tax system to pay for it