The only appropriate response to such a pants on head stupid response. I’ll bet the response thinks this is a defense of US policy.

It’s OK to advocate violence against LLMs.

Why? Do you think nested comments are a good idea?

The argument here is that checking complex validation is a fool’s errand. Yes, you can write a fully validating regex for RFC email. In fact, it should be possible to write a regex shorter than the one that gets passed around since the 90s, because regular expression engines support recursive patterns now. (Part of the reason that old regex is so complicated is because email allows nested comments (which is insane (how insane? (Lisp levels insane)))).

However, it doesn’t get you much of anywhere. What you really want to know is if it’s a valid email or not, and the only way to do that is to send an email to that address with a confirmation. The only point of the regex is to throw away obviously bad addresses. For that, checking that there’s an @ symbol and something for the user and domain portions is sufficient. I’d add needing a dot in the domain portion, but it’s not that important.

Classically, it was argued that emails don’t even need a domain portion when things are done for internal systems, or that internal domains don’t need a tld. In my personal experience, this is rarely done anymore and can be safely ignored. Maybe some very, very old legacy systems, and if you’re working on one of those, then sure. For everyone else, don’t worry about it. You’re probably working on publicly accessible systems, and even if you’re not, most users are going to prefer using their fully spec’d out email address, anyway.

how come no one seems to have successfully made a job where you only do those effective hours possible?

That was the original question. It’s so not hard to find a syndicalist answer: when everyone is in a co-op, they all get together and decide that yeah, we don’t need to work as long. Job done. We haven’t done this yet because not everyone is organized into worker co-operatives.

Capitalism, in contrast, has all sorts of roadblocks to making this happen.

That’s why I handwave it away and turn it back on capitalism. It’s so easy to solve this in syndicalism once its conditions are met.

Not necessarily. For just debugging purposes, you can still break them up to help understand them. Even ignoring that, there are options in languages that don’t implement /x.

https://wumpus-cave.net/post/2022/06/2022-06-06-how-to-write-regexes-that-are-almost-readable/index.html

It helps if you break it apart into its component parts. Which is like anything else, really, but we’ve all accepted that regexes are supposed to run together in an unreadable mess. No reason it has to be that way.

Jefferies, I already know you’re useless, you don’t have to keep bringing it up.

The solution to expensive healthcare is to not have any healthcare worth paying for.

You can believe what you want about altruism. Mutual aid is not necessarily altruism.

People can be motivated to pitch in because they rely on everyone else to pitch in. For some, that’s growing food, and for others, its keeping the plumbing running.

That’s just what a pinko commie organization like checks notes the CATO Institute would say.

Syndicalisim solves it by reducing hours once everyone is in a co-op. I say it’s a question for capitalism because they could just do that right now, there’s some good arguments that they could, but don’t.

Unions alone are necessary, but not sufficient. They have to actually take over their companies for this to work. The number of workers in a co-operative in France is about 5%.

I also know that most office hours are totally wasted, but how come no one seems to have successfully made a job where you only do those effective hours possible?

That’s a very good question for capitalism.

Native American societies were quite sophisticated. Some were closer to anarchy, some weren’t. A lot of what we would like to know got wiped out before any European met them; initial contact was towards the south, but disease spread northward before Europeans did. The writings we do have about their society come from Europeans, which is hardly the best source.

What we can gather from archeology is that they had cities just as big as European ones at the time, and had trade and agriculture on the same level, as well. North America was a fully anthropogenic environment–altered to be better for humans–and the common perception of “vast, untouched wilderness” comes from the fact that Europeans were visiting a century after disease had ravaged the native population.

Edit: rereading your post, what society could solve the “higher technology oppressor” problem?

The syndicalist answer is to get the whole working class into unions. Those unions take over their companies and become worker-owned co-operatives. They preference working directly with other companies doing the same. At some point, this reaches critical mass. The state then becomes unnecessary because the co-operatives handle everything between themselves.

Don’t forget, too, that a lot of “work” being done in a modern office takes, perhaps, 10 hours a week. People aren’t doing real work for 40 hours. That suggests that a company can be just as successful as any other while substantially reducing hours.

It has a lot of women in bad economic circumstances ready to enter some kind of sex work. So that’s nice.

The soap dispenser is always nearly empty, but squirts just enough to be useful if you pump it a bunch.

There’s no consequences to filling out a false claim. That’s been a problem with the DMCA that existed even before YouTube.

I believe there was a documentary about this.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_2000