Well, what we need is some dedicated non-profit company making chips.

As the saying goes, there’s only two hard problems in IT:

Caching, naming things, and off by one errors.

Honestly, having a declarative package manager is pretty important.

Consider the following: We’ve had the transition from Sys V Init to Systemd recently. But what does it actually mean?

It means, that instead of running a command to start a service, you now flip a switch in a clear, standardized way. The advantage is that you can get a table-like overview over all the services that are currently running. You get an overview, in other words. That is worth a lot because it brings structure and clarity into your system.

Now, with package management it’s the same way. Instead of running a command to install a package, we should instead give a list of all the packages that we want to have installed, and the package manager should take care of making sure that they are installed. That would improve clarity, because you get a list of all the packages that are installed. It might also increase efficiency if you’re installing many packages, because large parts of the work can be done in parallel. And importantly, you get reproducibility. Imagine you just have a file where it names all the packages that should be installed. You can just take that list and copy it to another machine. Now you’ve cloned your package installations. I guess things like Docker, with their docker files, are kinda already going in that direction. But it would be nice to have support for it in the mainline operating systems.

Yeah, I guess you have a point.

That someone is me.

Imagine that (hypothetical scenario) MDMA heals 70% of people, doesn’t do anything for 10% of people, but throws 20% of people into mental disturbances.

Would you take it?

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This is excellent. Recognize when batteries make sense, and recognize when oil makes sense.

In this case, oil makes sense.

Yeah well, it ain’t stupid if it works.

There is this game where you get a million dollars with 99% probability and die a gruesome death with 1% probability if you press a certain button.

What would you do in that case?

IMO, statistics isn’t everything, and one cannot only rely on statistics to make meaningful decisions. Lots of people I know wouldn’t press that button.

It’s not just supervision IMO.

I prepared myself for years before I took psilocybin for the first time, because I knew that it’s going to bring up all of the subconscious shit that I carried around. So I “cleaned” myself enough emotionally beforehand, before taking the fungus.

Now, imagine your typical asshole walks into your medical treatment facility and demands psilocybin. Sure, you can give them psilocybin, but you cannot give them the sense of respect and understanding in front of these drugs.

Edit: by “your typical asshole” i mean, the typical asshole that you would encounter daily. Not you personally or sth.

preventing access to risky behavior is not their job.

I disagree. Lots of people will listen if you tell them about the dangers of a specific medication, but few will understand. Especially if they have no background in medicine or pharmaceutics.

Well, I guess it’s not only that. Psychedelic drugs can really fuck you up, if you aren’t prepared. People talk about set and setting a lot.

I suspect that these drugs sure help a lot of people, but can also fuck a lot of people up really badly. It’s like, people who don’t go along well with these substances, avoid them instinctively.

Now, if someone would prescribe them, I’m pretty sure that a lot of people who are simply not prepared for it mentally (instead blindly trust the medics), would take them and get hurt pretty badly because of that.

The problem is that they’re not really made for this task, both in hardware and available software. They typically specialize in routing and switching, but have insufficient internal hardware (memory especially) to run a full-blown OS.

So whatever you install on these devices, will probably not give you all the features that you would like to have. (For example, a full linux command line with all the typical programs installed.) Also, it doesn’t allow you to use HDMI to connect to a monitor, so there’s that. But basic linux things can be done on it, if you figure out how to get to the command line. But it’s very limited.

Best practice is to communicate before taking action.

It’s the same with building a house. Imagine you put one brick onto another, and only after that draw a plan. Kind of a waste of energy.

Talk first, act second.

Exactly.

Being open and communicating clearly are probably the most attractive features in the world.

Exactly.

Effective feminism is when women make the calls.

I totally relate to this. While we’re sharing personal experiences, I’d also share mine (if that’s ok):

I made very very contradictory experiences. Some girls just seem to get angry if you don’t approach them aggressively, some girls will tell you that you’re a rapist if you even dare to look at them for too long. It’s an impossible puzzle. No matter what you do, someone will always complain. That is why I don’t take these things too seriously anymore. As long as no-one gets seriously hurt, lots of things can heal. What’s important is to use your instincts to classify the situation, and act with an “open heart”. Then most things go well, and those that don’t mostly fail because of other, unrelated reasons. Such as pressure from the environment.

I ask you to recognize that “women” are as diverse as humanity as a whole.

Saying that all women are equal or want the same stuff, is like saying, all humans want the same stuff. Which just isn’t true. Maybe you should consider that doing statistics like “most women want that” is not going to give you a full picture of the situation.

And iirc, the beer was diluted with the local water from the river, to increase its mass while still also making the river water safe(r) to drink.