operations that are commutative but exhibit radically different performance characteristics if the arguments are swapped
I feel like a recurring issue in programming is:
- From a correctness and flexible-execution perspective, it’s preferable if you can specify things “declaratively”, i.e., in a way that very minimally communicates the constraints and properties, rather than just providing instructions to the computer.
- From a real fucking life perspective, you almost always want control over execution details, otherwise you will be shadowboxing with an evil compiler or query planner that is constantly doing things in unexpected ways, with no escape hatch.
Very very difficult to achieve both simultaneously. Halide at least tries this idea, splitting the correctness-specification from the optimization-specification, but I don’t have any experience with how easy or successful it is at this.
when we solve this we destroy programming as a discipline, so bit of a cursed quest item really.
putting these tweets here on tumblr bc holy shit did they just explain a lot
Wait what
but wouldn’t explaining said thing, give up that advantage, thus restoring equality ?
or is it the action of explaining to someone something they know that gives an implication that you think they don’t know it ? but that would imply a universal expectation of knowledge and would thus exclude people from obtaining that information because no one thinks to explain it, because they think you should know that thing, thus bringing shame to anyone who has to ask, which seems worse than just possibly giving someone information they already have
I’m so confused
The point is not the actual material reality or it’s logic or explanations or knowledge or anything actually materialy useful
The point is what it looks like to a bystander
If you make someone else look like the dummy that doesn’t know this thing that you do then you win! And people hate losing
The Hierarchy is a zero sum game that depends on how people perceive you
You win Authority and a higher position in the hierarchy by taking it from someone else
If I appear as if I know more than you to others then I win.
I win, I get to decide, I am in control which means I have more Authority than you and if I win against everyone else in a group in a few additional unspoken competitions then I get to lead as well
As you can imagine people don’t like it when others take Authority from them
Whether you’re correcting a teacher or “showing off your superior knowledge” the other person fears that you might take a piece of whatever Authority they have.
Seeing this out of context is what I imagine the website formerly known as twitter users must feel when they see a tweet that just says “(3/5) So, at this point, she had been arrested for arson and slapped me with a fish.” And none of the associated tweets
We don’t need to know what happened to the rest of the original werthers tbf
someone paid money for a type of twitter ad that’s usually meant for promoting TV shows and movies and used it to get your account to tweet out the word ‘carp’ and link the wikipedia page for carps when you click the link
so now for the last hour half of the tweets on everyone’s twitter timeline has been just the word ‘carp’
this is the most tumblr-esque event I’ve seen on twitter
tweets like this are my pet peeve. just throwing silly words together in a way that’s supposed to sound hyperspecific but does not in fact evoke anything recognizable
i do care if someone hires someone to clean though like you can’t just throw that out there as if it isn’t well known that those people that are hired to clean your home exist because they’re poor. wash your own dirty dishes
I understand what you’re saying, but you also seem to be ignoring the fact that people who are hiring these poor people to clean their houses are giving those people jobs. If they weren’t hiring them to clean their houses, these people may not have a job at all.
i don’t agree with this logic. i don’t think we need to settle for a job or nothing, is the same to be said for women who work under slavery like conditions in clothing factories in poor countries? why can’t we fight for change instead of accepting that some people just have to be maids
Before she moved in to take care of her, my aunt hired a maid to come to my disabled grandmother’s house once a week to clean for like 2-3 hours and paid her $80 every time she came over. There’s no way my grandmother, who had a bum hip from a car accident and hobbled around with her walker (back when she could even walk), could clean her own house. Maids provide an invaluable service, especially for the elderly and disabled, and they shouldn’t be eliminated just because you think their jobs are somehow not good enough for anyone to be doing. Many jobs like housecleaners, gardeners, etc., are great for people who may not speak the local language, who may have had a limited education, or who came here as adults with limited opportunities. My grandfather, who could speak four languages fluently but his English sucked, became a janitor at the age of 58 to support his family when they first came to America, and his kids always advocated that you should treat blue-collar and traditionally low-paid workers with respect because those jobs are valuable and even someone who cleans toilets is a person who is trying their best. Basically, we shouldn’t try to eliminate these jobs; they should just be better compensated.
yes i agree! i think that disabled people should have help and that it should be easily available for them but to me that wasn’t what the post was talking about!! i read it as a wealthy people simply hiring help to clean just because they can not because they need to. in an altruistic society people who love to clean could become a maid without having to depend on it, if everyone’s basic needs where met and no one would be walking hungry without their job that’s a different story to me! so while yes we do need to bring respect and wages to these jobs i also don’t think it’s unfair to think about if people actually need their houses cleaned by someone else! some do, including the disabled, some don’t!
But here’s the thing.
By focusing our attention and wrath on people who might buy things they don’t really “need” (OH the wailing over AOC’s $300 purse) we lose sight of the actual problem (Uber and Lyft spending $200 million dollars to defeat legislation that would require them to treat their workers as employees).
Rich people hiring cleaners because they’re “lazy” is not the problem. It is a symptom of the problem. If all rich people started picking up their socks and doing their own dishes tomorrow, it wouldn’t increase the wellbeing or economic security of the rest of us one iota. No small cosmetic change will do that. Only fundamentally changing the legal and economic landscape will do that.
And in the meantime, people’s goalposts for who is “rich” and who is “lazy” will always be so flexible that it will inevitably hit a lot more poor people with disposable income than actual 1%ers.
I know as a disabled person that we are constantly put under scrutiny to prove we’re “disabled enough” to afford accommodation so you absolutely CANNOT say “this is the rule but of COURSE disabled people are excepted uwu.” If the rule isn’t built to accommodate disabled people in the first place, it WILL be used to treat us like shit unless we can meet whatever level of “disabled enough” a random unqualified stranger has decided is today’s benchmark, and meeting that will mean a constant surrender of our rights to privacy and dignity.
This is all probably useless when talking to someone named “70s lesbian” but I really truly promise you, policing people’s choices and “rescuing” people from immoral or “demeaning” work is not nearly as useful as focusing on improving societal and material conditions for workers and poor people.
As a disabled person, I don’t want to rely on someone being “altruistic” to do necessary housework I’m too fatigued and in too much pain to do - and on people deciding I was “disabled enough” through some arbitrary standard to require help. I get enough of “you’re just lazy and your pain is made up” already, thanks.
I’d love to be in a position able to pay someone a fair wage to help deal with housework that I can’t do without hurting myself.
In the same way, I don’t drive. If I need to go somewhere, I really like when I’m able to pay someone for this service! I don’t like having to wait for a friend or acquaintance to be available, and coordinate their schedule with mine, and take time out of their day, and possibly resent me for it (especially if I need to go several places), and have the option of withholding this help in the future if they decide to be an asshole. (I’ve been in abusive situations before where my basic needs have been used as leverage against me. e.g. “Well, you set boundaries I don’t like, so I’m not going to take you to your doctor’s appointment”.)
If I can just say “Here, have money in exchange for doing this thing I can’t/don’t want to do”, things are a lot simpler.
Relying on other people to help out of the goodness of their hearts isn’t practical or realistic for longterm, day-to-day survival stuff.
(If it was, disabled people wouldn’t be in the shitty situations we’re so often in, and so many of us wouldn’t live in poverty.) It’s a nice IDEA, but it doesn’t tend to happen on a large scale.
Cleaning is unpleasant! I’m sure there exist people who enjoy some aspects of it, but if I had to wait for someone to clean out the cat box because they want to, it would never get done. Because cleaning up another animal’s bodily functions is gross and stinky, and if it’s not your cat you really should be compensated in some way for this.
I want everyone to have UBI, too, so that they’re not in a position where they HAVE TO do it or starve, but that’s a separate issue.
Hi, I’m employed part-time by a cleaning service, and I also work full-time as a janitor, and I gotta say, I’m not loving some of the takes in this thread.
1. First of all, there is absolutely nothing inherently wrong with employing a service to make your life easier, whether you need it or not. I feel like we should start with that. A person who hires the services of a maid or cleaning company is well within their right to do so, whether it’s because they can’t do it themselves or it’s because they just don’t want to. That’s their choice! They are paying money for a service! Except in cases where they are hiring someone directly, they do not control how much the employees who clean their homes/offices/businesses get paid!
2. That said, maid/cleaning services may get tipped, but they are still beholden to minimum wage laws. If you want to talk about paying us more, THAT’S how you’re going to do it, not by policing who is and is not “allowed” to hire these services. That said, it might be a good idea to actually do some research into how much a maid or cleaner actually gets paid. I think it’s going to surprise quite a lot of you. Obviously not every person who cleans is going to make a fair wage, but like. Quite a lot of us do, actually. For example, at my part time job, I make $17.50/hour. At my full time job, I’m salaried at $34k/year, with full benefits–and I mean full, including full health, eye, and dental coverage, retirement plan, accruing PTO, the WORKS–and a yearly raise, because,
3. Anyone who cleans in state- or federal-owned buildings are state or federal employees. I’m not sure if the same can be said for municipalities, but I know at the very least, public school janitors are… I’m fairly certain ALL employees of the city in which they work, if not the state. I work as a janitor at a state college, which makes me an employee of the state, which entitles me to the benefits and union protections of literally any other employee of my state. So, like, to make my next point,
4. Please get it out of your head that we need to be pitied for our “demeaning” work. First of all, that is incredibly condescending. Second of all, our work is extremely important! We perform necessary services to society across the board! Please stop looking down your nose at people who clean for a living!! Third of all, I obviously can’t speak for every person who cleans for a living, but from my own personal experience, I have been treated with significantly more respect by my clients at every cleaning job I’ve ever worked than I ever had working retail or food service. Obviously you’re going to get an occasional client having a bad day or who is generally unkind, but even then, they’re almost always appreciative of the work we do. I do not feel demeaned for my work. The only time I have ever felt ashamed of my work is when people TREATED my work like it’s something to be ashamed of.
5. Maybe some people “just have to be a maid,” but like. A lot of us enjoy our work? We take pride in it?? We get a sense of satisfaction seeing something that was dirty and gross NOT BE dirty and gross anymore??? Like, yeah, if I had the choice I’d prefer not to clean strangers’ houses or a bunch of classrooms, but that has nothing to do with the work itself, and everything to do with the fact that I’d just? Like not to work?? But even if UBI were instated tomorrow, I’d still want something to do with my time, and if I, with my level of experience and education, had to choose between the types of jobs available to me, I’d still pick what I’m doing, just because I enjoy it more! I don’t have to deal with vast hoardes of the general public! In fact, most of the time I’m alone! I work at my pace! Nobody’s standing behind me, rushing me or telling me to smile or docking my hours because I’m not up to some arbitrary standard. I LIKE MY WORK!
I know my experiences are not universal. I know there are plenty of cleaning companies that aren’t going to treat their workers with respect, and I know there are even more clients out there who are going to look down on us for the work we do. I know full well that we deserve better wages and better benefits and better treatment for the important work we do (and the fact that none of us qualify for the covid vaccine despite consistent exposure to everything from hospitals to public schools to private offices to private homes is definitely one thing that boils my blood when I think about it too hard).
But, again, this is not demeaning work. This is not shameful work. And there is no line to say whether or not the work I do is justified. I am being paid to perform a service. Whether that service is in the home of someone who can’t clean up after themselves or someone who just wants their time at home not to be interrupted by chores isn’t my business, and it certainly isn’t the business of someone who’d see me out of a job just because they don’t like that fact.
I hire a house cleaning service once a month, simply because cleaning is a skill I do not have. And yes, it is a skill–I can pick up my dirty clothes and empty the dishwasher and all the other basic adulting things, but really getting into corners and sweeping and scrubbing and all the other minutae? If it were up to me it would happen maybe three times a year. So I pay someone else to do it–not because I’m above doing it myself but because they’re much better at it.
Glad to finally have a version of this post with someone who actually does this kind of work chiming in. Cleaning is absolutely skilled labor. It would take me two days to accomplish what a professional does in three hours and they’d still do it better than me.
Leftists who think the solution is to eliminate certain professions they’ve been taught to look down are literally buying into capitalist propaganda. “Play the game or you might have to become one of *those* people.” Instead we should treating all workers and all types of labor with dignity and respect and make sure everyone earns not just a living but a thriving wage.
I have someone clean every other week. She helps me clean and she cleans (she can give me a task and I can do it but I get overwhelmed if I clean on my own). Thank you to all the cleaning people, food delivery people, and mail and FedEx drivers who make my life so much easier.
Also, getting into the original point, there is still a gap between having disposable income and being middle class. Not rich, just middle class.
People can have disposable income because of their saving or spending habits or their living situation, even if they make very little money. And it is not your place to judge their priorities and what they choose to spend their money on.
Someone with a higher income may choose to put all their money in investment, may choose to retire early and become a full time homemaker, may clean to relax, someone with lower income may decide that cleaning is too overwhelming for them and hire someone to do it. You simply cannot judge someone’s financial situation based on how they choose to spend their money. (Excluding things like rigging the market or buying up multiple investment properties.)
For example, I make much more money than I did 3 years ago. However, I have less disposable income than I use to due to having a mortgage. I also have the spare time and energy to truly enjoy doing chores because I am working in a less stressful job. My past self, who was overworked and overwhelmed, needed to hire cleaning service. My present self do not.
When you shame people for their individual financial decisions, you shame poor people for enjoying nice things and getting the services they need, you shame people who aren’t “disabled enough” from taking necessary steps to improve their quality of life.
IF EVERY JOB WAS PAID BETTER, MORE “DEMEANING” JOBS WOULD HAVE MORE PEOPLE WILLING TO WORK THEM.
SOME PEOPLE LIKE CLEANING
SOME PEOPLE LIKE GARDENING
SOME PEOPLE LIKE MANUAL LABOR THAT LETS THEM WORK WITH THEIR HANDS
How fucking condescending is it to act like people working in service industries are inherently exploited by those horrible evil people who want to… pay them for the services they’re selling. Comparing being a janitor to slavery? Really? If you think hiring a cleaner is immoral but, say, commissioning artwork isn’t, then it’s your attitude to service workers that’s the problem.
I already have people judging whether I am disabled enough to receive what little help I get from the government. I don’t want to have to fucking prove how disabled I am to obtain services I am going to PAY FOR FROM MY OWN POCKET so people won’t judge me. Leave disabled people the fuck alone. You can’t know who is or isn’t disabled. And you can’t act like we are the pitiable exception, and it’s okay if WE can’t do our own dishes, WE aren’t like THOSE lazy fucks over THERE, we DESERVE help. That kind of judgment is exactly why we struggle so much as it is.
We can’t rely on altruism. We do right now and it isn’t working, and we know better than to think we are anywhere NEAR the top of the list as far as allocating resources is concerned.
Why someone does or does not hire a cleaning professional is way less important than them finding a company that TREATS their employees like human beings providing a valuable service and PAYS them as such.
There’s nothing inherently moral about doing your own dishes. Hire someone if you can. I wish I could. Just fucking pay them well. It’s hard and dirty work, and a lot of folks are assholes about it.
insane that this thread had to exist
Soooo
What do we define rich people as?
My definition is:
A member of the owning class (a rich person) is someone who holds enough capital (shares, bonds, cash) that they will never have to work another day in their life in prepetuity.
That is to say the interest on their wealth has to account for both a comfortable lifestyle and inflation forever (assuming share prices do in fact go up forever).
Now this does mean that some people with very extensive retirement savings but who aren’t rich could fit this definition but that’s a small enough error that resolving on a case by case basis is reasonable.
If someone has the lifestyle of a stereotypical rich person but they achieved it through their high wage instead of wealth then they aren’t really rich, in my opinion.
Hiring a maid doesn’t make you rich.
Owning a 2% share in Microsoft does.
You have to own a sizeable amount of capital for you to matter when it comes to the phrase “eat the rich”.
the thing is some fictional relationships simply do not work without that third guy there. it doesn’t even have to be romantic but they have to be there
wow i sure am thirsty for some apple beverage oh boy
prices you can trust, products you can’t
Graphic Design has gone so minimalistic it’s morphed into Uncanny Nondescript. My brain tells me there is apple juice in that container, but my heart feels fear.
We need to start dissociating the church historically doing shitty things and the nominally christian people who were in charge also doing shitty things.
me, back in 2005, seeing Sarah Kerrigan in Starcraft, getting put into a Zerg Chrysalis and seeing her transform within it into something else, eventually emerging as a new entity, different, more powerful, more dangerous…
We need to start dissociating the church historically doing shitty things and the nominally christian people who were in charge also doing shitty things.
everyone’s like wehhhhh why doesn’t doctor house gets suuuueeed! like my man. literally every patient he sees is someone that’s been trying to find a diagnosis for ages. i could live with a little medical malpractice if it were coming from someone ready to break into my home to look for allergens and not simply half heartedly listen to me before suggesting I lose weight and take ages of back and forth arguing to order a single test
“it’s medical malpractice” have u ever been a doctor? most medicine is malpractice. let the man limp around chewing vicodin doing 50 invasive tests please
Once Taub (derogatory) derisively said about a patient with unexplained chronic pain “7 doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with him, what does that mean?” and House replied without even thinking “it means they’re idiots” and proceed to work his ass off to diagnose the patient Taub wanted to write off as a faker or something. If a doctor had said that when that patient was ME, I wouldn’t dream of suing them in a million years
[Image: Screencap of tags reading, “Dr House would also draw Rouge the Bat as wide as she is tall with tits to match. You wouldn’t even have to ask, he’d just do it.”]
everyone’s like wehhhhh why doesn’t doctor house gets suuuueeed! like my man. literally every patient he sees is someone that’s been trying to find a diagnosis for ages. i could live with a little medical malpractice if it were coming from someone ready to break into my home to look for allergens and not simply half heartedly listen to me before suggesting I lose weight and take ages of back and forth arguing to order a single test
“it’s medical malpractice” have u ever been a doctor? most medicine is malpractice. let the man limp around chewing vicodin doing 50 invasive tests please
Once Taub (derogatory) derisively said about a patient with unexplained chronic pain “7 doctors couldn’t find anything wrong with him, what does that mean?” and House replied without even thinking “it means they’re idiots” and proceed to work his ass off to diagnose the patient Taub wanted to write off as a faker or something. If a doctor had said that when that patient was ME, I wouldn’t dream of suing them in a million years
[Image: Screencap of tags reading, “Dr House would also draw Rouge the Bat as wide as she is tall with tits to match. You wouldn’t even have to ask, he’d just do it.”]
once i was in the TSA line for a flight and it was SO LONG that TSA decided to just drop all the security protocols. leave everything in the suitcase including electronics. keep your shoes on. don’t go through the fancy 360 scanner, just the metal detector. get out of here. and i was like ohhhh so you admit this is all just your stupid community theatre production that you’ve made me be a part of for all this time and it doesn’t actually mean anything real. okayyyyy
I fly often enough and with a service dog that I got TSA precheck so I skip the general TSA line and in precheck we don’t have to take off our shoes or empty our bags and usually we just use the regular metal detector, all based on a clean background check and the assumption that someone planning an enormous crime wouldn’t be able to recruit people without prior charges. so not only what you said but also u can buy your way out of it which totally makes sense if the real concern is national security, yeah
The most terrifying part of having memory issues is when you can feel something from 5 seconds ago be thrown out the window and there’s an empty hole where it once was. You remember that you forgot something.
getting my HRT has put me in the negatives, and i currently have covid and desperately need help to get back in the positives and afford necessities
im a trans girl that has gone homeless twice in the last 4 months, ive had to move repeatedly to survive, and ive lost nearly everything i own. please, if you can, some help would be greatly appreciated
he’s back at it, yet another serious death threat has hit car hammer explosion man
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I’m starting to think we have a problem where we’ve gotten rid of *official* feudalism in our society without getting rid of *people with shit tonnes of cash whose whims shape our everyday lives in ways good and ill* and that the cognitive dissonance between living in what we SAY are democracies that really are no such thing is wrecking tech bois brains
it’s a notion
But are they afraid we don’t have democracies after all … or that we do?
tech bros legit don’t live in democracies! They live for a cyberspace reality where whims of the rich and powerful really do decide if Twitter becomes X and Tumblr can be burned by one guy deciding to cut his losses! nothing about social media is even vaguely democratic!
I was honestly rooting for Matt to cling to ‘open source good’ to keep his sanity but it seems even that isn’t enough.
The deranged anti porn Christians are gonna get their way on some of their wishes in the long run, just because they’re the *only* people who have suggested any kind of way of regulating tech bros in a way that could plausibly stick. And that sucks. But arguably, most people prefer theocracy to dictatorship
The Austro-Hungarian Compromise of 1867 established the dual monarchy of Austria-Hungary, which was a military and diplomatic alliance of two sovereign states. The Compromise only partially re-established the former pre-1848 sovereignty and status of the Kingdom of Hungary, being separate from, and no longer subject to, the Austrian Empire. The compromise put an end to the 18-year-long military dictatorship and absolutist rule over Hungary which Emperor Franz Joseph had instituted after the Hungarian Revolution of 1848. The territorial integrity of the Kingdom of Hungary was restored. The agreement also restored the old historic constitution of the Kingdom of Hungary.
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