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> If employment is violence, we should end it. But then almost everybody would die. You need to try out for the jumping to conclusions olympics team, that was an impressive leap th…

It has very little to do with trust and a lot to do with the realities of hardware implementation. Every interconnect has a minimum linear transfer granularity that properly utiliz…

> Bubbles bursting aren't bad unless you were overinvested in the bubble. That's what I am trying to say: every big technology player, every industry, every government is all in on…

Games tend to avoid FP64 compute as Nvidia has always gimped it in consumer GPUs, so you are somewhat lucky there. "Lucky" as in, you get to enjoy the broken-ass, glitchy FP32 phys…

I don't think anyone seriously believes AI will disappear without a trace. At the very least, LLMs will remain as the state of the art in high-level language processing (editing, t…

Well unfortunately for you, it has a precisely defined and well-understood meaning for all those not covering their eyes and ears in denial. Quoting Merriam-Webster: > Digital cont…

It also works for Open Sans, on my Linux system at least. Probably only works for fonts that are installed and/or can be licensed for this.

Well good for you. Then I suppose you don't speak for the Debian maintainers responsible for trainwrecks like this: https://research.swtch.com/openssl There seems to be a serious i…

https://www.jwz.org/blog/2016/04/i-would-like-debian-to-stop... and https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=819703#158 Needless to say, Zawinski was more than a little fr…

Well, there are big differences in how aggressively things are patched. Arch Linux makes a point to strictly minimize patches and avoid them entirely whenever possible. That's a go…

"Our" politicians? What makes you think I am American? Of course Switzerland is less dysfunctional than the US, that wasn't the point of discussion at all (and an extremely low bar…

How about that time in 2020 the Swiss voted in favor of an immigration restriction proposal that was so fundamentally incompatible with existing EU treaties, the government was for…

I am going to assume your question is genuine and not rethorical hyperbole. Every sovereign nation has legal supremacy over its own territory. Any company doing business in the EU,…

That's a downright insane comparison. The whole problem with generative AI is how extremely unreliable it is. You cannot really trust it with anything because irrespective of its a…

> So what about all these huge codebases you are expected to understand but you have not written? You do not need to fully understand large codebases to use them; this is what APIs…

Multiple reasons: * Gen AI never disagrees with or objects to boss's ideas, even if they are bad or harmful to the company or others. In fact, it always praises them no matter what…

> Anything that requires actual brainpower and thinking is still my domain. I just type a lot less than I used to. And that's a problem. By typing out the code, your brain has time…

Unfortunately, your reasoning has an enormous hole in it. A huge part of a product's quality is how it fares over time, i.e. how many years it lasts and how much it costs to mainta…

Are you sure? Based on what? All I see is people desperately throwing money they don't have at AI like a gambling addict who just converted their child's college fund into chips. C…

I think you missed the point. The EU is "winning by doing nothing" whereas the US is liable for the huge failing investment it made. US economical growth is now entirely reliant on…

Is that a moon? No, that's your survivorship bias! Jokes aside, congratulations on slipping and falling up the summit, collecting not a single bruise to your ego or soul along the …

> If a company is so broken that promotions are decided based on factually incorrect information, there's nothing to do other than escape to a different company. To me, this means …

> One of the reasons companies get dysfunctional is low- & mid-tier managers seem to be allergic to the idea of laying out what the priorities are and provide feedback on whether p…

As with all forms of verbal abuse, the presence of a power imbalance is paramount. And since we abolished slavery, it is about as high as it gets here. What an employee says about …

Right. In this case I am talking about a "hard" fork, where core contributors disagree on where a project is headed and split up with no intention of collaborating further. Of cour…