DarkenLM

Not just “The Truth”, but “The Absolute Truth”!

I’m pretty sure I saw that quote in 1984. Which is becoming less of a dystopian novel and more of a description of present times.

wouldn’t be that difficult.

The amount of times I said that only to be quickly proven wrong by the fundamental forces of existence is the reason that’s going to be written on my tombstone.

Alright. Then imagine I am a kitchen knife manufacturer. I make a kitchen knife and sold it. Someone uses that knife to murder someone. Am I responsible for the murder? Because I just reduced the argument you’ve been making this entire time, except I removed the engineering part from it.

I make programs. I make them according to a specification, which is defined by the client AND the management. After I make the program, it’s out of my hands how the fuck it is handled. If one of those two parties use or modify the program in ways they didn’t tell me, and which eventually result in disaster, because they didn’t fucking tell me that they wanted to use it for those actions and I couldn’t possibly predict it, should I be blamed when the program fails? Normal glass bottles weren’t made to hold lava, why should I be blamed when someone uses the bottle to hold lava and ends up melting their hands?

Listen here, buddy. If you think I’m putting my ass on the line for the fuckers up in management, you’re delusional. You’re saying I should be criminally charged for decisions I didn’t have any control over whatsoever? What happened at my previous company would have happened way sooner if I wasn’t trying to hold the entire shit together, pulling all-nighters and going directly against direct orders. And I could have risked going to jail for it, because I cared about the innocents that would lose a lot of money should the program crash on them. And now you’re saying my ethics are wrong, even after all I’ve done? You’re completely delusional.

No matter how many times you hide behind the coward’s whine of “you don’t know anything about the real world, mate,” I will still know what ethics actually are.

Oh, so you’re saying that everyone else with real experience on the field is completely wrong and you, who has never worked a day in the area and doesn’t know shit about it, are the epitome of morality? Yeah, I’m siding with the engineers I know, who have been through the shit I know we have to endure constantly, rather than the idiot arguing that we are murderers for no clear reason.

Do you believe assassins should be let off the hook, and only the mafia bosses who hire them are responsible for those crimes?

If those assassins had the lives of their own families and their own on the line, yes, there are even laws for those cases, I wonder why. Maybe because people who actually studied ethics and worked with it for decades know that it isn’t black and white.

If you take an action, it is your own responsibility. I don’t see how you can reasonably disagree.

In the situation I mentioned, I could either abandon the project entirely, which would have caused even more damage, or I could try to patchwork it until I was forced to stop. I chose the later. And you have the ignorance and the absolute nerve to tell me I am responsible for what happened? Get off your high horse buddy, because you and your twisted sense of ethics would have condemned many innocent people. Look no further than the British Post Office Scandal. Are the people who were condemned responsible for the error? Were the engineers? No, it was the suits that refused to admit that they might have rushed the engineers too much and the program was faulty.

Because capitalism and corporations don’t care about the progress of humanity, they only care about making more money.

Germany saw first-hand what happens when a far-right party is elected through democratic ways. They have all the reasons in the world to try to prevent it again.

Now lets watch this technology become prohibitively expensive unless you plunge into a millionaire debt.

Look at this fancy guy using an abacus. Everyone knows the superior way is to harness your own mind as your computer.

It’s way worse on C and it’s family. I still have nightmares with undocumented embedded dependencies that are so intertwined with the codebase that make JS look like a godsend.

Buddy, I’m an engineer, and let me tell you: You don’t know shit about what you’re talking about. You can have the highest ethics in the entire world, it won’t weight shit opposed to management.
I worked on a project that was constantly rushed and forced to add things that neared the computationally impossible. Every single engineer on my team was BEGGING the management to not ship into production as it was, because there was no way in hell it would work without causing serious problems. They did not care, and when we said that it was impossible to meet the deadline, what was management’s solution? Lay off the entire team and hire a batch of juniors that did not know better, and the product was still shipped, and even if the juniors hadn’t, they’d still find someone that could make it barely work enough to be delivered.

Surprise, surprise, the product failed on a critical time and it cost MILLIONS (not thousands, not hundreds of thousands. millions) of dollars. And you are saying that I should be held responsible for my moronic supervisors’ actions? Fuck off and never come back, idiot.

“Beware those who can’t tell apart the will of God from their own”?

That is a dangerous path to trek, and would lead to record numbers of vote manipulation (excluding dictatorships).

The “none of the above” should be cut-and-dry. If those votes hold the majority, the election is nullified and the candidates are removed from the next one, as clearly the electorate does not seem them fit for the position. It would also give the electorate a good way of protesting, strengthening the democratic values it should hold.

Those who didn’t vote should simply not be counted. Though if it starts approaching 50%, it should ring some alarms.

The only complaint I have, and it’s not really a problem with the OS itself, is that the Realtek driver is unstable at best, and will crash every five minutes.

2+2=5

Unfortunately, this happens way too often. Despite their family’s best intentions for them, money speaks louder.

And OP talks about Alchemy, which commonly uses the energy that different materials have inherently to create magical artifacts.

It’s literally using what God already created.

If it involves pointers, not unlikely.

The problem is that in a flat plane with any amount of thickness, there will be always more mass diagonally than vertically, and it would still require a curve to evenly distribute the mass. I am by no means an expert on the matter, but from what I can recall, the only geometrical shape that allows for it is either a sphere or some complex hyperbolic curve, which is still not a plane.

If the disk had the thickness of Earth’s diameter and through some black magic fuckery made it so that only the mass directly below you affected the force of gravity on you, then yes.

It’s probably easier to make an FTL engine than to make any sense of flat earth theories.