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> Apart from that, republicans are ridiculously inept. They're not. They're really not. They're incredibly capable and are currently executing long term plans successfully, one aft…

Agree. I've just decided that I'm limiting my reading to pre-2021 books. There's still many lifetimes of a backlog there, even at my relatively high rate.

> The US is already under an authoritarian regime Yeah, I know. That was my point, the irony in that statement.

"My primary concern is the risk that authoritarian governments—not solely the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), although the CCP is clearly the most capable threat—build AI models tha…

I mean, we are as much a part of the universe as everything else. We're just dead star matter arranged in specific ways. A part of the universe is objectively conscious.

Do you have any proof of this? The moderators are very transparent here. I'd be absolutely shocked if that's true.

Eh, me and most people I know are burning out fast. There's a split between the people that love to program, for the sake of it, and those that just want a well paying job. Seems l…

I appreciate the info. Re: the banks I'm with, I have no choice. I'm an immigrant and most banks refused to give me an account when I moved here. Or ghosted me during the months lo…

Is it that dire? I'm in with DNB and Nordea and they both have functioning netbanks. But I don't know how the rest are. I've been getting by with a bankid codebrick and web browser…

I get the analogy but it's a false one. Google covers about 90% of Mozilla's funding. Firefox only survives because of Google, and that's so they don't hit antitrust problems. http…

I think you're possibly generalising your own experience to the masses. That's absolutely not the case for me. I love learning to learn. I learned programming because I found a qui…

Absolutely. I used to read constantly, from my teenage years through my early 30's, but stopped about 5 years ago? I guess life stress and short form social media taking my free ti…

My fav job was an internship with a EW company that made these massive rackmount radar systems. My boss, the lead engineer, loved blue LED status lights. So the massive boards we m…

> Crazy how you guys blindly trust proprietary apps where you can’t even read the code Wow okay, I'm a huge open source advocate, I run hardly anything closed source. No one here w…

> Don’t take my word for it then, ask any terminal agent to dig in and get an idea of how good these apps are. Okay but, you know this isn't a quality metric right? These models ar…

Not sure where in the Nordics you are, but just want to plug ut.no and norgeskart.no for really fantastic Norway navigation. Both have free apps (norgeskart has a 50kr / year subsc…

> People who have experience with embedded programming knows that reading out a button usually means denouncing I know you mean "debouncing" but I love the autocorrect. Like the bu…

It really depends on the state of the screen. It's easier with reading PDFs, for instance, when you can get away with a full refresh on page turns. Versus someone drawing on the sc…

That's exactly it. I was a firmware engineer at reMarkable making the latest tablets. We had some secret eink sauce (propriety waveforms) to get the high refresh rates and colour c…

You're heavily downvoted, and while this admin is absolutely autocratic far beyond anything we've ever seen, and democracy is eroding rapidly: privacy has backslid under every admi…

Cope all you want, the broad spectrum opinion by most experts and independent research groups holds it to be true. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Democratic_backsliding_in_the_...

> Europeans are doing this to themselves. I mean, tbf the situation was fine until the US transitioned to an autocracy, and the companies went full surveillance state evil, complet…