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You are calling a Linux (sorry, GNU/Linux) killer small silly stuff?

Hm... I vaguely remember a different article debunking the Dunning-Kruger. Basically the conclusion was that the data from the experiment shows that people's estimations of their r…

Are we not expecting any practical benefits from mathematical discoveries any more? Not even as a means to help other sciences?

One should differentiate between "working in academia" and "doing science" here. Science is fundamentally about the curiosity, the desire to know, not the process of getting there.…

Wouldn't it be great if we had a cure for cancer, working fusion energy or at least a proof for P vs NP even if no human had a joy of discovering it?

I think the author means if it happens regularly, and asking people to stop doesn't work or marks you as a dangerous dissident. Obviously, it is wrong to quit in response to one pe…

I don't know about you, but occasionally going outside to breathe some fresh air makes a lot of difference for me

I feel like the real takeaway should be "don't make a competition out of a technical discussion". A culture that doesn't allow openly debating technical decisions sounds like one I…

Good UX makes you achieve your goals on a website faster. It implies that the website has a purpose apart from spending your time on it. If it has no such purpose, and yet people a…

Yeah, we are not talking about ecological impact of France enough

Uh-oh

Small songbirds apparently

So far it's only US doing this. I don't think it's in anyone else's interest to limit development of open source models or chips. Nvidia has secured a leading position in GPU marke…

With every interview process you say "yes" only once and "no" many times. Where there are a lot of candidates, then many more times, while spending less time on each candidate. The…

Yeah, but I've also appreciated the symbolism much more as an angsty teen than as an adult. The best part about Tolstoy is how he depicts the intricacies of human relationships, an…

I dunno, I feel like Dostoevsky hits perfectly around high school. I enjoyed Crime and Punishment around 9th grade, but tried read some Dostoevsky as an adult, and it really reads …

Absolutely. Either you use LLMs and tolerate unreliability or you are writing proper reliable software yourself

That's a huge stretch. Age verification is a worrying, but a wordwide trend, several US states introduced it as well. The first country to introduce it was Australia, which is only…

China doesn't allow foreign social media on their territory at all. US had one for a short time, then panicked and forced them to sell. EU can neither buy American platforms, nor d…

EU doesn't have enough money to just buy the competition

That's not lobbyism, that's straight corruption. Lobbyism is, at least in theory, about convincing politicians

Obama making an account on Twitter is a marketers' success. Twitter became popular first, politicians wanted to appear there second. WSocial just went to politicians directly,it's …

Not marketers, lobbyists

Practically, if you choose a big enough server, it's rarely a problem. mastodon.social is the most popular one, maintained by Mastodon the non-profit itself. Biggest turn off and a…