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A good competitor to SimuLink for graphic system oriented coding and for MATLAB’s code generation, all with a modern UX

I think so, yeah. It was professionally and personally more acceptable to be early/early than late/late. Also if I get anything wrong in my personal life I’d rather be 1h early than 1h late.

Doctors say it’s the wrong one, but my conspiracy theory is that when they do they don’t really account for the fact that the 9-5 rhythm is what’s actually bullshit rather than the correlation between then number on your phone and the sunlight, and they also say that a regular rhythm is what’s really important so I did it this way because it was easier, and if society ever becomes sane I’ll resynchronize with it then.

Edit: I did say “non-dst time zone,” but I only meant a time zone without automatic DST shifts for my computer. In real life I never remember which one is DST and which one isn’t ; in my country they call it summer/winter time.

This year for the first time I tried shifting all my elctronics to a non-dst time zone equivalent to summer time. I spent the whole winter with a 1h time difference relative to my environment and it was absolutely fine. Didn’t miss appointments, coming to work early and leaving early was accepted… I kept waiting for the powers that be to drop DST, but it turns out you can just opt out

Coming from a more science/engineering background than a cs/programming one and having tried both, I wholeheartedly disagree. Or at least it’s a higher floor and lower ceiling situation.

And from an engineering industry standpoint the transition cost (or at least compatibility) from generated C, and the lack of a simulink-like block implementation/visualization and code generation pipeline still make it a hard sell. The block thing isn’t just for comfort in those circles, it’s to do with industry standards for system definitions and representation.

Don’t get me wrong I wish Rust changed that game: I hate MATLAB with a passion; I’m just pessimistic.

I believe the only reasons MATLAB persists are Simulink and a C code generation engine that outputs embeddable code that conforms to some regulation or other in the engineering world. Does gnu octave have similar features? I’ve spent a while looking fruitlessly for python-based alternatives…

Windows users when they’re chased by lions in the African savannah and the only way to survive is attempting to ride a gnu:

Unrelated: you think there are crowdfunding services for assassinations on the dark web?

Nominative determinism is strong in this one

As much as I’m not into pee fetishes, I’d be really uncomfortable lumping nice weirdos who like to consensually urinate on each other in the privacy of their homes, with a piece of human garbage who takes sexual pleasure in humiliating women who’re just there for an already pretty stressful job interview. It sounds like the fetish is more in the layers upon layers of domination and humiliation than in the pee itself, and that’s way more disgusting to me.

Yes and 1$=1$. If you look at stuff in a vacuum everything is symmetrical, that’s a nothing statement.

yes, yes, I meant income tax specifically, proportionally to the aforementioned income.

Argue all you want though, factual reality is just there if you want to look at statistics, both for perpetrators and victims. If you meant like anyone can kill anyone, then money is also symmetrical in that anyone can get it and spend it in precisely the same way.

It would seem weirder to me to have 100% of people be a protected class

The word just existed since 1652

Of course murdering someone due to their sex is illegal if the victim is male, it’s murder

Are you purposefully taking the exact same stance that maga is taking on DEI?

If you look at the rates of social class transitions, you’ll find being rich or poor is not much less of an unchangeable identity than gender… But that’s not the point, you keep saying you don’t get the reasons why this law should be asymmetrical, so I’m trying to explain by analogy. The answer is equality is a bad foundation for lawmaking, equity is a better one.

Your hypotheticals and examples are very bad for someone who says elsewhere that

Of course men can still be prosecuted for murder either way; surely you didn’t think that’s what I was saying?

I’ll answer a better analogy : in a world where 80% of [insert any act of violence] is committed against women, should [insert any act of violence] against men still be prosecuted? Yes. Now, assuming a lawmaker believes that the harshness of punishments deters from crimes*, should that lawmaker make the punishment harsher for [insert any act of violence] committed against women? Also yes, that’s what’s happening here. That’s the definition of an aggravating circumstance such as a motive of hate: a reason for worsening the punishment. It’s still murder, only worse to account for the asymmetry.

*If you don’t assume that, then the reasons for punishing anything more or less are mostly symbolic anyways, so by making an asymmetric law you’re only acknowledging symbolically that there’s an asymmetrical problem, but it’s mostly just posturing.

It’s not an insult, it’s an apt analogy. This argument is childish. In an unjust reality, law should strive for equity, not equality. The US is not a model for how hate should be treated.

Yes. Violence from the oppressed is not the same as violence from the opressor. In an unjust reality, law should strive for equity, not equality.

Reading other comments they’ve made, that person is definitely not a feminist. But alright I’ll give the painful answer to the whataboutism: yes.

Yes, in a society where misogyny is rampant one should consider misogyny differently than misandry. Same for racism. If you take a less extreme case than murder, a white person using a derogatory term for a black people will get canceled and labeled racist, at worse a black person using a derogatory term for white people will get laughed at, and people will assume any actual racial hate is a response to the systemic racism they’ve experienced. And most likely they’ll be right. Even if logically those are two sides of the same coin, if your coin is unbalanced applying every correction to both sides will never work.

The asymmeyrical social reality informs what people feel about hate, and there’s no reason why it shouldn’t inform lawmakers decision in trying to correct this asymmetry.

How about you tell us why the legal system should be symmetrical if the situation isn’t? Why do the rich pay proportionally more tax than the poor? People are trying to make an unjust factual reality more just by acknowledging injustice is why.