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> fsociety remarked (quite correctly) that there are a large number of people who constantly feel the need to denigrate Macs And in response I remarked (very accurately) that there…

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Except, you're proving mine. In a thread full of people gushing on Mac speakers, me saying it's an okay but overpriced machine is considered "hating for the sake of hating"

I wouldn't describe the speakers on the M1 I use as amazing. It's more or less as bad as the speakers of previous laptops I used. I mean, it is a speaker. Good enough for simple so…

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Except they don't? I hate the speaker sound on the Mac I use for work. Unless "so good" in the title means "not as awful as other shitty laptop speakers", but even that is a poor s…

Made me spit my coffee. Have my upvote, you glorious bastard.

Agreed. And I say that when my role is "building software systems" People with different roles in an organization will have different perspectives and goals. Ultimately the softwar…

> People are so skeptic and negative about humans nowadays. Any positivity I might sometimes happen to feel about humanity quickly proves to be misguided as soon I read what other …

> Europe has nothing. The company that develops Stable Diffusion is German. I find it as impressive as ChatGPT.

> when the companies funding the research and launching the products realize that the tools are an existential threat to their profits. Ahh, like Kodak when they were the first to …

> We survived nukes because they were heavily controlled and their spread contained Much to the opposite. We survived nukes because many countries have them. If only one country ha…

That's exactly how I've been using it. Absolutely amazing stuff. Saves me hours of combing stuff through the internet while coding, so I can focus in the actual problems I need to …

> But in some cases there just might me a connection between concepts we haven't seen before that have merit to generate a truly new idea. But it's important to notice that a langu…

> If you do the math that doesn't always work out. I disagree. But it depends on how less the remote companies pay. Are we talking about 80% of the salary of a RTO company? 60%? 30…

Smaller salary to be able to live in much cheaper cities where your general quality of life will also be massively improved? Sounds like a win-win to me. Especially considering tha…

> If your wealth and well-being is tied to the puppy crushing machine Let's crush some puppies m'boy. Them bills, they keep coming.

This is the right answer. I think the startup scene is mostly a huge grift. Companies that don't make any sense being propped up by VC money until they find and exit (typically an …

I think the basic assumption is "you need help, and we are willing to help you". I guess it all comes down to what "life coaching" means in this context. If we are talking about so…

> It helps that in the Netherlands, poverty is typically unnecessary. There is (almost) guaranteed livable income for everyone independent of employment, due to our strong social s…

> There are not that many parties to vote for and people vote for the party they dislike least This is democracy at its finest.

How exactly is it just "barely" democratic?

> There are many concerns about giving a centralized authority more power > Also, since the EU is a vassal of Pax Americana So the problem is giving a centralized authority (EU) mo…

Are you implying I gave up freedoms to state/bureaucracy? Which freedoms did I give up, exactly?

Funny, do they? I don't participate in threads about the US and its policies, so I wouldn't be able to tell.