OHHHHHH!

I am sorry I don’t quite get it… Maybe I am not understanding some references? Why is this infuriating?

Sounds pretty ideal. I am not political scientist, nor do I think political scientist can have solid prediction about success of a macro political system at this level of a abstraction – it is simply too complex of a system.

I feel from the past experiment regarding socialism, there seems to be a conflict between large state and large state serving the will of the people. Power corrupt: for a social democracy to be functional, I believe needs to have (at least the following) two characteristic:

1. Most people should not have to feel the worry for the lack of resources. Thus, wealth display will naturally be unnesscary, if not frowned upon. Eliminating the culture of admiring people with excessive assets.
2. A strong democratic system that discourages the consolidation of power under a couple oligarchs.

Socialism only states the public ownership of means of production (sometimes called capital), but there is no requirement in the removal of market.

One of the way socialism can develop is when the cost of capital is way below cost of labour, making worker owning their own capital trivial.

However, there is really no requirement on the side of removal of market, universal healthcare, or universal educations etc; these are often consequence of a strong public sector and (at least attempts at) efficient allocation of resource through said public power. In most places people usually equate socialism with big government, that IMO really is Marx-Leninism (which is formulated by neither Marx or Lenin, but Stalin).

Marxism–Leninism holds that a two-stage communist revolution is needed to replace capitalism. A vanguard party, organized through democratic centralism, would seize power on behalf of the proletariat and establish a one-party communist state. The state would control the means of production, suppress opposition, counter-revolution, and the bourgeoisie, and promote Soviet collectivism, to pave the way for an eventual communist society that would be classless and stateless.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marxism–Leninism

Either with market or not, in a socialist society, worker are still compensated for their labor and expertise. In the scenario I described earlier, even more than a capitalist society, since labor is the more valuable resource given the low value of capital.

China never even advertize themselves as a communist country, the official speak is “Socialism with Chinese Characteristic” – https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism_with_Chinese_characteristics , but often being moked as another way to say “state-sponsored/authoritarian capitalism”.

In the party’s official narrative, socialism with Chinese characteristics is Marxism adapted to Chinese conditions and a product of scientific socialism. The theory stipulated that China was in the primary stage of socialism due to its relatively low level of material wealth and needed to engage in economic growth before it pursued a more egalitarian form of socialism, which in turn would lead to a communist society described in Marxist orthodoxy.[2]

IIRC blocking doesn’t stop them from seeing, voting on, and commenting on your post. It is better to pick a server that have de-federated from .ml

I stopped realizing it, but MACA is quite literally the slogan of Xi: 中华民族的伟大复兴 often translated to “Great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation” in official English version. However, I feel a more accurate translation might be "the great resuscitation of the Chinese race."¹

Basically the xenophobia of MAGA with a sprinkle of racial pride on top.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_rejuvenation_of_the_Chinese_nation

1. “Chinese race” is likely not a scientific concepts, as Chinese people are made up of at least tens of different races, for the last two thousand years.

I think it is open source software development conference, not a computer science event. Unless I am missing something.

I really enjoy the conference and the talks in there, been watching their talks since college.

Oh brightness adjustment is possible with smart dimmer, but you are right, most smart switch cannot change colors.

I would highly recommend a zigbee switch over a zigbee bulb. in that way you can still use the switch instead of locking in in the on position.

In general only click on a link if you trust the domain. A URL usually looks like this: https://first.second.third/… And only the second and the thrid word between dots are important.

For example: https://suspicious.google.com/ is in general fine, since the second and third word is google.com . However, https://lemmy.legit-lemmy.world/ is unsafe, because the second and thrid word are legit-lemmy.world, but not lemmy.world.

There are ways to smuggle unsafe asset under legit URL, usually by uploading them on google drive, github etc. The good rule of thumb is to never run anything on your computer unless you are absolutely sure it comes from trusted source, like from official website.

Official download webpage tends to have very descriptive and short URL, like

• https://zoom.us/download
• https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows11/

If you see long random strings on the download webpage then it is likely unsafe, for example:

• https://drive.google.com/Bt57Fgh90jkU=

My conspricy theory is that early LLMs have a hard time figuring out the logical relation between sentenses, hence do not generate good transitions between sentences.

I think bullet point might be manually tuned up by the developers, but not inheritly present in the model; because we don’t tend to see bullet points that much in normal human communications.

I am great, it is the lunar new year and I am celebrating it with my family.

I made vegan fried rice for them. Most asian haven’t had vegan fried rice, because typically fried rice involves lard and egg. However, they loved the vegan fried rice so much that my cousin asked my aunt to recreate it tonight.

Yeah, rookie mistakes given we already know who is elected.

Honestly after moving into our current home, we were able to avoid Amazon almost completely. We don’t buy cookware, as carbon steel, cast iron, and stainless steel cookware lasts at least decades if not forever; we have way too many mugs from market and thrift store; and all of our clothes are thrifted with some from Costco.

we get groceries from farmers market, local ethnic stores, or super market. We get shelf stable products like toilet paper or drinks from Costco in bulk. We barely replace our electronic, because I would fix them with spare parts from ifixit and eBay; when it do need to get replaced, I get them from bestbuy or manufacture. We get most of the cleaning products from refil store or supermarket; we would buy soap from farmers market or local supplier.

We would only buy very obscure product from Amazon, like replacement knob for pot lid etc, but they are very very rare. One particular product we unfortunately relied on Amazon is the bamboo electric toothbrush brush head, we are trying to find some local salers that carry that, but cannot find any.