I dunno. A shadow-ban normally is retroactive, but I actually don’t know the policy on plain bans from most places. I know that here it would be a huge technical challenge to delete everything a user created, but lemmy is very different from most platforms.

You know that Mercantilism is the name of the policies the European countries had to trade with each other, right?

If you wanted to talk about overseas imperialism, also no, its first business was buying natural resources. Its second business was stealing natural resources. It only started trading people after there wasn’t easy stuff to take away anymore.

Well, the OP didn’t know.

And since it’s banning people from posting new content, it would make sense to delete the old content too. Well, not on reddit devs minds, but it would be a perfectly coherent idea.

In a great place, the python symbol would be on both sides too. All the other ones are best just left.

Slave trading is way older than mercantilism.

There are several possible values for cloud covering extent. Forecasts usually have either 4 or 8 of them.

(And yeah, thinking about it, 8 different values is pure madness.)

Who would build machinery that way?! Think of all the ethics academics jobs it would destroy!

Boilerplate unit tests.

It will generate bad tests, so you will have lots of tests blocking your work, but won’t actually test the important properties.

Mass refactoring.

That’s an amount of trust in the LLM capacity to not create hidden corner cases and your capacity to review large-scale changes that… I find your complete faith disturbing.

Failing your local compilation due to linter problems is just stupid.

Sending “temporary” changes into your CI pipeline isn’t even stupid, it’s borderline malicious.

You mean 3 months? 6 months ago you’d see the same section, from the other side.

Anyway, the Sun rotates too, so it’s not that simple (you can see the sunspots moving). But yeah, right idea.

Hum… The article says it: avoid every one.

Or not, because there is still not enough evidence to conclude it’s a problem. It’s just “very likely”, not "known’.

Hum… Ignore linter advice for code that you temporarily mangled.

It’s not like you have to act upon it as soon as a blue line appears under your code.

Their backs point up when they fly, not backwards.

Firefox does that out of the box.

It can only work up to a limiting frequency. It’s probably in the visible spectrum or in near ultra-violet (that’s how material go). But since it’s a video, I won’t go check it.

The void is shy. Don’t make it uncomfortable.

Oh, you will notice the call of the void, don’t worry about that.

As scary as the article makes screworms look, that thing doing the calling is way scarier.

Oh, and the worm that died inside its brain once too.

It’s one on top of the other, silly AI.

The test is a symptom of whether the text has women as normal characters that do stuff.

But this actual goal is hard to define, and if none of the women do any relevant stuff, they won’t have any subject to talk about that doesn’t involve a men. That said, the proxy test fails to reflect the actual test all the time.