Michael Hall

Blowing out someone else's candle doesn't make yours burn any brighter. FOSS needs more light, not less.

Excited for this because it brings developers the same level of performance analysis that they expect to the latest Arm CPUs!

@mbateman @robertgraham What if the principle was simply "minimize the distance of the edges"?

@robertgraham I actually had in mind responsiveness to bare majorities. But I’m open to other principles or even some balance of them or some more pragmatic solution like a mathematical criterion for gerrymandering that we use to strike down maps.

The problem with this question is that it doesn't state what the "principles" are. My guess is that their principle is that the House of Representatives should have "proportional representation", that if one of the Parties has 55% of the voters, they should have 55% of the House Reps (and consequently, the other Party should have 45%). But our elections don't use that principle. Nobody is trying make House representation proportional. Failure to have proportional representation isn't cheating, isn't a measure of gerrymandering. It's like saying the umpire made a bad call invoking the "in field fly rule", because you disagree with that rule. Well, no, just because you don't like the rule doesn't mean the umpire was wrong following it. Same with proportional representation. If you want that to happen, then advocate for it, but it has little to do with gerrymandering. There are many ways of doing proportional representation. One way is to get rid of districts altogether and simply have voters pick a party, and assigned Reps accordingly, so if 65% of Californians write "Democrat" on the ballot, the Democratic Party gets 34 of California's 52 Representatives. The flaw with that is you no longer have "your" Representative, it's purely about partisanship in Washington DC rather than representing a local constituency. Another way is what I think he suggests below, that you draw districts to ensure the results will match the partisanship of the state, so that if 65% of voters picked a Democrat in the last election, you draw "safe" districts whereby it's guaranteed they get 34 House seats in the next election, and Republicans get the remaining 18. Presumably, all the real action would then be in the primaries. Knowing that a Democrat represents your district, you are going to vote for the best Democrat. So voters would still have some power in the spring elections, just not much power in the fall election -- except as a signal for the next election in 2 years. A lot of countries follow Germanies model where you vote for a local representative and a Party ("two vote system"). Candidates can win their districts as normal. Then afterwards, you count up the total number of votes for each party, and then add some additional seats in the lower house so each Party gets the appropriate number of representatives. Thus, a weak party that has no hope of winning any particular district can nonetheless gain seats in the legislature if they get at least 5% of the total vote. This has the benefit of firstly giving districts their own representative, but also gives parties proportional representation. This removes the incentive to gerrymander for partisan advantage (though it still happens to give incumbents an advantage). The point is that the answer to the question is to note that it's a loaded question, like "have you stopped beating your wife". It assumes principles that don't actually exist to ask why we can't do things to match those principles. The answer is "those aren't the principles we use".

@MadelineProust @QuinnyPig We could elect politicians who will pass laws to limit excess and promote the common good

@QuinnyPig What's your solution to make CEOs and companies salivating for govt contract and mass unemployment understand that their greed has real human impact? So far being civil hasn't helped. At all.

I don’t care what the fuck you think about Altman, we don’t firebomb people’s houses as a form of expressing disagreement.

@Control_Alt_BTC @Arm That's per-core not per-cpu

@Arm Typo?

A new era for the Arm compute platform begins; we're making silicon. Introducing the Arm AGI CPU. Designed for a new class of agentic workloads in the data center, the Arm AGI CPU delivers leading performance per rack with the scale and efficiency to match. This marks a new phase for Arm. Now partners can choose IP, Arm Compute Subsystems or production silicon to accelerate AI-driven infrastructure. #ArmEverywhere okt.to/QGBJgb

So proud to see this go live! @Arm and @nvidia go together like peanut butter and jelly. Like cookies and milk. Like lime and coconut. 😁

@BriannaWu Brianna, surely you recognize the moral difference between standing with somebody and not wanting to attack them

It really disturbs me to see my party, the Democratic party, standing with Islamic dictators who run torture dungeons just because they’d prefer Jews roll over and die for Hamas. Ilhan Omar hates Jews and it’s obvious. It’s not the worst thing. The worst thing is my party welcomes these Jew haters with open arms.

@grange_hillel @tomfgoodwin Organizations with big IT budgets will, today, pay for a hosted open source solution rather than have yet another deployment to support

@tomfgoodwin SAAS might stay for SME’s but for large organisations with big IT budgets the build vs buy decision will be tilted towards build

People talking about the SAAS apocalypse don't get this is how it actually happens. - Hi, we can vibecode your product in 2 months, so how about you cut your annual fees down from $500k to $200k for us. So we don't have to make it. - Maybe, but how about we do a license audit, where will sue you for $4m for breaking T&C's in 9 global offices. BTW, have you seen how much time we spent on support, and training, and we're embedded so deeply into every system, it will take you years to get rid of us. - OK, 500K it is, and see your at the F1, we loved your box last year. - It's going to be $600k this year. -OK, but we still get your box tickets? right?

@BetterDrivingUS @ReiverHall @Avenger85438 Well then they're hardly under the government's jurisdiction then are they? It's not like we don't have civil war precedent to look back on here

@mhall119 @ReiverHall @Avenger85438 What about before they're captured?

The most important civics lesson you need to learn is that "human rights" are for "them" not "us". It's the very worst criminals who deserve "due process", the speakers of the most evil things who deserve "free speech", those hiding something who deserver "privacy". Throughout history, the rights of the "good guys" have always been protected. We haven't needed a Constitution or laws to protect them. The reason we protect the rights of the "bad guys" is demonstrated perfectly by the Trump administration: falsely accuse the side you want to oppress as "savages" and "murderers" and "rapists" in order to justify stripping of them of their rights.

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@BetterDrivingUS @ReiverHall @Avenger85438 Yes, a captured soldier has the right to due process.

@ReiverHall @Avenger85438 @mhall119 @robertgraham Yes, there are exceptions. This is the entire point. But are you saying an invading soldier has the right to due process if on US soil?

@SocialHappiness @COSMIC_desktop Sadly I can only be there in spirit

I'm in Pasadena at #SCALE23x with this beauty. Added the epic @COSMIC_desktop logo key for the SUPER key for some extra pizazz 🤓⌨️💎. You want to touch it? Look for the pink (me) and we can connect during the conference!

@BetterDrivingUS @robertgraham If criminals don't have rights then nobody has rights. They're not a privilege gifted to the people by the government, they are a limitation placed on the government by the people.

@robertgraham I don't care for the language, but if this was about illegals/deportations, I agree that we should not give the same rights to illegal foreigners on our soil as we do our citizens.

@QuinnyPig AI: Artificial Intern

jesus christ

Had a great time interacting with Arm developer evangelists @AvinZarlez @mhall119, Gabriel, Prithvi and builders at Arm AI Developer Challenge Winner Showcase. x.com/i/broadcasts/1…

@BriannaWu @aSpicyCow Brianna, what are you doing?

@aSpicyCow Girl, I’m gonna tell you the truth. This is a bad outfit for your body type. You are not ready yet. Your hips are too square. You need to get more conservative.

Wish I was brave enough to go out like this

SqueezeSAM on-device, accelerated 🚀 With ExecuTorch and Arm SME2, SqueezeSAM image segmentation achieves up to 3.9× faster inference, reducing FP16 latency from over one second to ~300 ms on a single CPU core. This makes responsive, interactive on-device AI practical on mobile CPUs, no GPU required, while preserving headroom for richer user experiences. A strong example of how hardware-aware optimization and operator-level profiling can materially change what’s possible for on-device ML. 🔗 Read the blog: hubs.la/Q040Q9Rq0 👥 Gian Marco Iodice, Damien Dooley, Tyler Mullenbach, Jason Zhu hashtag#PyTorch hashtag#ExecuTorch hashtag#OnDeviceAI hashtag#OpenSourceAI hashtag#MachineLearning

@controscience @StartsWithABang Either show me a testable prediction that your theory makes that is different from the current consensus, or sit back down

@mhall119 @StartsWithABang Not a single astrophysicist has ever answered this question. Ethan himself still pretends like the Plasma Universe does not even exist. What a joke!

Why do gravitational lenses make crosses, not rings? #AskEthan When an observer, foreground mass, and a background light source all align, you get a gravitational lens. You might expect Einstein rings, but more often you get crosses. Here's why. bigthink.com/starts-with-a-…

@controscience @StartsWithABang Listen guy, I don't know that part of my trite comment made you think I'd take you seriously if you sent me a wall of text, but you were as wrong about that as you are about cosmology. You don't need an army of scientists on your side, if Einstein was wrong one would be enough.

@mhall119 @StartsWithABang The point I'm making is clearly related to the amount of effort required to persuade the public that gravitational cosmology is logical, coherent + persuasive. If it was all three of these things, the effort required to establish them would be far smaller (like the EU).

@JackCrosser606 @StartsWithABang It's almost certainly wrong, we just haven't found where yet

@StartsWithABang why sometimes i feel lots of humanity science especially physics and cosmology are wrong ?