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Having been raised out of a dictorship I don't have any patience for the cancelation culture that is now so trendy. If those people would get visits from PIDE/DGS, or similar agencies, they would see how real cancelation actually works in practice.
It's very hard to believe you. Comparing life under a dictatorship with somebody asking to change an icon without having any power to impose their will.
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The RISC-V isa is specifically designed to be nice and regular and easy to decode, and work with, which definitely shows here (also in the RTL code if you look at some of the well designed RISC-V cores) Of course, bot x86 and Arm started like that as well - but after 20+ years of evolution, they have to drag along a lot of history. (and one never really takes things away from an ISA, you only add new features, and at…
>Of course, bot x86 and Arm started like that as well - but after 20+ years of evolution, they have to drag along a lot of history. (and one never really takes things away from an ISA, you only add new features, and at best deprecate old ones). Feature-wise, RISC-V is already about on par and has managed not to become a mess. Furthermore, unlike x86, ARM has broken binary compatibility several times in the past, and…
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Having been raised out of a dictorship I don't have any patience for the cancelation culture that is now so trendy. If those people would get visits from PIDE/DGS, or similar agencies, they would see how real cancelation actually works in practice.
It's very hard to believe you. Comparing life under a dictatorship with somebody asking to change an icon without having any power to impose their will.
Maybe not by force, but being afraid of being cancelled can be just as powerful.
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It's very hard to believe you. Comparing life under a dictatorship with somebody asking to change an icon without having any power to impose their will.
Do they not? The icon has changed, so they obviously have the power. Maybe not by force, but being afraid of being cancelled can be just as powerful.
HN can't even tell the difference with asking and imposing?
Instruction interpreter is nicely human-readable: https://github.com/LekKit/RVVM/blob/staging/src/cpu/riscv_i....
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Do they not? The icon has changed, so they obviously have the power. Maybe not by force, but being afraid of being cancelled can be just as powerful.
"cancelled" by xiphias2 deleting the repository on github using magic? HN can't even tell the difference with asking and imposing?
The power is there, because it had an effect on reality, whether you admit it or not. The person has indeed asked, but consider what would happen if the person asked for the whole repository to be deleted, for example, because they personally didn't like the RISC-V architecture: the request would probably not be fulfilled. But the request for removing the cigarette emoji was followed - why? What's the difference between the two?
My theory is that the ratio between the learned "threat" and required effort to avoid the "threat" was low enough to warrant the action. Assuming the effort is a constant (editing a single text file and pushing it to GitHub == removing the repository; ~same amount of clicks), that means that the learned "threat" was high enough to warrant the deletion. The threat comes from the cancel culture that glorifies anyone that presents themselves (or others) as victims. In case of the second - hypothetical - request, there is no such threat, so the request itself would be rendered bizarre and selfish.
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That comment is actually a good politically-neutral illustration of a major force underpinning today's political hyper-polarization: people simply can't handle the mere existence of something they don't like and will respond by shunning entire bodies of work or attacking people unnecessarily. This is definitely new as in the last 10-15 years. In the past more people seemed able to just disregard or shrug at things th…
It's not new, and it's not "profound intolerance", jfc. Cigarette advertising has been banned on American television since at least the 1980's, and it's generally been taboo to depict unnecessary cigarette usage in TV shows and movies for at least as long. This has actually been extraordinarily effective as part of a multifaceted effort to reduce cigarette usage and the resulting diseases. And yes, people have been c…
Fight Club was recorded in 1999, and it explicitly shows a scene of Tyler Durden smoking a cigarette, so I doubt your claim has any substance to it.
> But if you want to see some actual __intolerance__, you might look at what's happening in Florida.
If you want to actually enlighten anyone, you might want to provide more information than "what's happening in Florida". There's a lot of things happening in Florida in any given moment, so I have no way of knowing what you're referring to.
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That comment is actually a good politically-neutral illustration of a major force underpinning today's political hyper-polarization: people simply can't handle the mere existence of something they don't like and will respond by shunning entire bodies of work or attacking people unnecessarily. This is definitely new as in the last 10-15 years. In the past more people seemed able to just disregard or shrug at things th…
> people simply can't handle the mere existence of something Unlike the previous say 2000 years of history, where societies around the world were very tolerant, especially of different religions, cultures, lifestyles etc /s No? Then please don't be silly. xiphias2's request might be strange and even mildly annoying but modern society does NOT have a problem of anti-smoker extremists organizing hangings in the town's…
You are missing the point. The xiphias2's request was not anti-smoking in any way (I doubt they even volunteer in any anti-smoking rallies in their own community) - it was purely masturbatory, using victimhood as a cover for forcing their own will upon a repository that they didn't even have to look at, and which definitely didn't celebrate smoking in any way a reasonable person would recognize.
Victimhood is not supposed to provide you with power (at least not without proper verification), otherwise it provides a perverse incentive [0] for anyone to pretend they're victims in order to gain influence over things that they otherwise wouldn't have.
Instruction interpreter is nicely human-readable: https://github.com/LekKit/RVVM/blob/staging/src/cpu/riscv_i....
https://github.com/cnlohr/mini-rv32ima/blob/master/mini-rv32...
A RISC-V emulator in one include file.
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"cancelled" by xiphias2 deleting the repository on github using magic? HN can't even tell the difference with asking and imposing?
There doesn't have to be a direct tangible threat for people to act on impulses they were taught through a direct tangible threat (see: learned helplessness [0]). That's the way reinforcement learning works on humans, otherwise there would be no concept of ethics - ethics itself is based on generalizing a basic set of rules learned through punishment and reward. The power is there, because it had an effect on reality…
Conversely, I was the author of a project whose namesake and mascot was an animal considered unclean by several world religions. Nobody ever asked me to change it, but I probably would have refused, because in this case, it was tied too much into the identity of the project.