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“Distilled”? I mean what model is not distilled from other data? The American models happily trained from my blog and social media data without any kind of rewards. If I can pay th…

In Germany you are obligated to provide usable contact information, and there are even lawyers who make their business model on suing you for not applying that perfectly (it’s has …

VS Code is hard to escape as well.

Yes because most people don’t have an off site backup strategy.

Most French people write cursive.

I never understood that point too. It shows quite some cognitive decline in the users mind. Searching for 20 minutes is now too much even if your privacy depends on it. I suspect a…

Indeed a lot of social media platforms are used by foreign powers to create discord. Human psychology is much more attentive to negative messages and this is too easy to weaponize.…

Well the thing is that people often love when the government tells other families how to live, and partly for good reasons including enabling basic education for everyone. Partly t…

If the rate of failure is slightly consistent then more layoffs will lead to more startups, so more will get on top. Many companies business are easier to attack than it looks. Loo…

In Europe drought is measured from the amount of water at different depths. I would be surprised it’s different in the US.

I know very few average people who would say such a thing though.

Not yet, maybe.

Sorry but 40 tons trucks have been around for decades in Europe and people drove small cars. Its car marketing, group think and FUD.

Actually European integration the last 30 years has been pretty remarkable. In the past, not even electric plugs were compatible. But the EU is not a country. A lot of the ineffici…

LOL are you looking at the news lately. Everything is blatantly in the open now.

I’ve seen many essential people being laid off for stupid reasons, the gp reason above being part of the story for some. Finance runs the world not tech. Tech is only welcome when …

It was a single election in 2016, and a few governors and senators and… oh it’s actually a pattern, a system that people feign to ignore when convenient for them.

The trains that are 10 min late in Germany mostly not exist in many other countries. Sure Switzerland is the best, but Germany is pretty high up. It’s just less good than it used t…

Plex Monospace is great for coding as well.

I use LibreOffice for casual home use and can't remember the last time I missed a feature. The graphs are cumbersome to manage I agree.

Because there are liabilities issues for others. What if your structure falls down on visitors? You cant repair some heath damage or death. Since this kind of problems is easily pr…

It’s still opex for finance

Yes and fantastically executed, consistently through all their products and website - desktop, command line, third parties and more.

Actually the accident is more that it became so successful for embedded computers in professional environments (factories, logistics etc.). This contributed to the lack of availabi…

Has Apple crashed?