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I wouldn't generalize Europe like that, our differences in the normal schedule are massive from north to south. Here in Sweden, it's a morning culture. Blue collar workers often st…

> Even if you deeply into tinkering, 1 can be an insanely exciting and rewarding step: for example "how could an abstraction look like in which 2-4 become trivial special cases for…

Yes, it's a very well written, touching tribute and I think it's all the more touching when you're familiar enough with Wolfram's writings to notice the contrast here.

There's practical considerations with AI like it being a probabilistic layer and not deterministic in the way that compilers and deterministic, yes. But the "letting go" point is I…

I don't buy into the huge LLM hype but I certainly think late 2025 was the inflection point. Up until then, I thought LLMs universally sucked at code. GPT-3.5, GPT-4, o1, o3, Claud…

Wolfram is definitely not a crank. Cranks do not understand scientific methods and also have a minimal understanding of whatever field they're trying to be active in. Like trying t…

I'm a big Linux advocate with limited experience on modern versions of Windows, but PowerShell objects are great. So is the Unix way of doing text. I think the strengths of each ap…

Konsole is so good I forget about it, it's just my usual terminal. Once they added the split feature, it became pretty damn near perfect.

I have zero artistic inclination so 90% of image manipulation I do is simple resize/scale/draw line operations, with the remaining 10% being some sort of select+move operation to s…

One of the most impressive and useful free software projects. My first experience was being totally confused by KDE 1 during my first attempts to use Linux, and I'm writing this fr…

I moved to Vivaldi before its 1.0 release and am still happy with, also surprised to see it mentioned so rarely. My previous browser was Firefox but I struggled with a few updates …

I think it's possible that the current shift will be similar to the "assembly to compiled language" shift. Once upon a time we wrote code in assembly language. Then we moved to C o…

I've been using Thunderbird for my email for a very long time. Probably since some early 1.0 release. In these years, I've also had it on Windows and Linux, I've migrated it easily…

We have no wealth tax, no inheritance tax. If most of your income is a salary, the tax burden is high, but if you're living off investments, properties or generational funds, it's …

In addition (I'm European), I object to the use of per-hour wages instead of monthly salaries. It's less informative in Europe. Most jobs are full-time, salaries are typically adve…

The acceleration is in the decrease of the cost to produce misinformation. Misinformation in pure text form has always been cheapest, but is even cheaper now that text generation i…

Valve's Proton (so Wine + DXVK + some other additions) revolutionized gaming on Linux. I play games both for fun and work, and for a solid 3+ years now, gaming on Linux has been an…

On the upside, a country that undergoes the transition from highly corrupt to well functioning inevitably goes through the stage you describe. My native country was going through t…

Then you get worse good and services. Lower quality or longer wait, or don't get it at all depending on the good. The effect isn't that different from being poor in a capitalist ec…

> My guess as to why it was not specified, is that the corruption is so obvious to anyone who has lived it, that it is easy to forget that others might not get the context. It's li…

Yes, an Apple employee doing that would be stealing from Apple. But in the capitalist context, we also have entirely legal business models that I would argue are equivalent to corr…

I didn't mention Russia, and I've never had the misfortune of living there - though I speak the language and am well familiar with the capture. The Swedish term for how you describ…

Well in the Soviet case, plumbing and cheese are most certainly not privately held resources. Doing such work as a plumber means you're essentially acting as self-employed or a bus…

I can confirm those words do not in fact sound very close. They're not etymologically related either, and to a fluent Russian speaker they don't sound particularly similar.

Right. And oh my do I hate blat. It's a difficult concept to translate to English because it's not synonymous with corruption or bribes. A one-time bribe transaction isn't blat. Yo…