Xi PT, rhymes with GPT: “China has introduced 'Chat Xi PT,' a new AI chatbot trained on President Xi Jinping's political philosophy, as the country seeks to balance AI development with strict content control and compliance with socialist values.”
I know Althusser (caveat), but his insight that there is nothing outside of ideology (which for him is actions that support power, not beliefs) is undervalued. I'm so tired of obviously fascist patriarchal oppressors telling us they're "critical thinkers not ideologues" when they obviously do everything to uphold power as it is. You can't step outside of ideology without stepping into another ideological system. Better to know what system you are promoting rather than "unwittingly" back evil.
@carrideen@MisuseCase In theory, the whole point of a representative democracy with frequent elections is to allow change to happen at a steady pace, rather than getting stuck in the mud until something breaks badly and people die. It's to avoid bloody revolution as much as possible.
@deane I've been at a Kotlin-based company for a year and a half. First year I was managing their one PHP division. Now I'm transitioning into Kotlin/Spring applications.
So far, I kinda like Kotlin. I quite dislike Spring.
One week ago, I watched "20 Days in Mariupol", a gripping film when Russia started the full scale invasion of Ukraine.
At times, I had to pause watching it as it way too much.
The extraordinary cruelty of targeting civilian infrastructure made it even clearer to me that we're doing way too little to help them. Restricting what the Ukrainians can hit is stupid policy.
Any strike on a civilian target MUST be able to result in an appropriate response. Make the suckers pay for it.
@saramg@derickr IIRC, Ukraine isn't allowed to hit anything in Russia with US weapons. They have to use domestic gear for it.
Whereas a munitions factory on Russian soil should absolutely be a fair target for the HIMARS we gave them, especially as Russia has made the ineffective in Ukraine through jamming.
I have just learned that "#Java Bean" has two completely different and incompatible definitions.
One is a dumb, badly designed data object with getters and setters.
The other is... a service object managed by the Spring framework IoC container.
Holy hell. This is 10x worse than #Laravel "facades."
Am I wrong here? This is what I'm finding from online tutorials. Is there more nuance that is not coming through, because for now I just hate #Spring even more.
@deane The first kind were because the language designers didn't think about serialization, and how serialization and private properties might be a problem. They're a hack.
The second kind, I mean, services in IoC are a good thing. Just don't use the same damned name!