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This discussion is completely and irrevocably poisoned by the lack of general understanding of the distinctions between citizens, non-citizen permanent residents, legal immigrants,…

Come to Ukraine and witness real "active violence". This is ridiculous.

Asylum seekers in the EU indeed get a monthly allowance and are prohibited from working. Is this not a known fact?

> Convincing all of human history and psychology to reorganize itself in order to better service ai cannot possibly be a real solution. I'm on the spectrum and I definitely prefer …

BGP full view and traceroutes? It's pretty hard to fake the path that a packet takes to that IP address.

There already exist ways to proxy those requests in ways that avoid exposing anything about the visitors to Google. It's in the grey area wrt Google's own ToS, but then, it's that …

I see this and I feel I must ask: why would you EVER engineer ANY application under the idiotic assumption that none of your users will ever want to remove the data that they had s…

Ironic considering the Russian oligarchs have the most blinged out yacht fleet

Russia and most other post-Soviet countries maintained mandatory military draft, with education being one of the only non-health-related exemptions available. Because of the sad st…

Vim has a steep learning curve though, GUI apps don't.

Correct, pidgeons are much more complicated and unpredictable than supersonic aircraft, and the way they fly is much more complex.

Humans understand how to improve themselves, but our bandwidth to ourselves and the outside world is pathetic. AIs are untethered by sensory organs and language.

Mobile operators have added microphones to 4G cell towers throughout Ukraine to triangulate suspicious sounds. Starlinks provide decentralized access to the Internet both on the fr…

The chief reason is decentralization. Journalists who are updating these channels have their own sources in the Ukrainian air defense network as well as OSINTers who, for example, …

Being unable to learn is a matter of either unwillingness or disability. Nowadays it's easier to learn than ever, and the real rates of intellectual disabilities/neurodiversity had…

Verbatim from Kagi FAQ: "Why does Kagi Search require an email address? We require an email address to be able to verify the account really belongs to you in the following cases: T…

> Human workers are not getting smarter. Everyone is walking around with devices that connect them to nearly the total sum of human knowledge. Not acting on that to get out of an e…

I've almost never needed to read those news to keep the system working as I want it to. That's the thing.

If I have both enabled in my install, which I specifically chose to, then upgrading the package locks me out of my database, because those features are not compiled.

ABS is a level up because it curls like mad off the print bed because of internal stresses, and this will cause prints to fail if you do not have a heated chamber, which is a bit o…

It's because plastic injection molding has different constraints and trade-offs in parts design compared to metal machining. E.g. injection molding, after the mold is done, doesn't…

Transporting refrigerated goods over moderate distances and last-mile delivery from the train yards are where trucks using overhead cables can shine. I also read that there existed…

Here in Ukraine, the grid is no longer 100% reliable for obvious (and highly intentional) reasons. Solar is somewhat inconvenient to use in large cities, and cloudy days are common…

The focus of the effort to make overhead charging viable is on large trucks that already drive mostly, but not completely, predefined routes on highways and in cities, which are of…

Reading these comments makes me thankful for the existence of Nova Poshta in Ukraine. Two years of open war, and they still consistently deliver packages overnight across roughly a…