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I, at least, literally made my own keyboard layout some years ago, to be able to type all the characters I want. Got versions both for Linux and Windows (haven't had a need to use …

Yes, I hear lots of people saying Tesla's "FSD" product can drive by itself already. Yet if the car crashes while in FSD mode, it is still you who are legally the driver and you wh…

Feels like we do these rather often? Tons of people can comment with whatever they're using which they feel are great, and others can tell of their experiences with using the same …

Inheritance tax is usually only on values above a certain point, though. That point can easily be set reasonable high – say, 5% tax on all inheritance above €2M, and 40% on all inh…

What, are you not impressed by us putting retired politicians into an independent committee according to their party's political power in parliament?? Are you suggesting that the c…

The final nominations are received in January...

Perhaps. But put another way: Writing code is artistic the same way writing text is. Whether that is a function call, an ad, a screen script, a newspaper article, or a chapter in a…

It's Plato's cave: We train the models on what are basically shadows, and they learn how to pattern match the shadows. But the shadows are only depictions of the real world, and th…

Just block the html elements which show YouTube shorts? Use ublock, select, and block.

Strangely enough Russia (and their predecessors) and Norway has never been at war. Ever. Not that the past is a predictor of the future, of course, and Putin is operating quite a f…

Unfortunately this is also in pretty decent farming land. The land owners will be compensated, but I understand many don't feel too happy about leaving their farms...

Eh, don't know about that... We're really just like anyone else, we've just ended up with a fairly decent political environment by the time we found oil, specifically. We've been p…

Not sure if the question was asked with sarcasm or not, but, me being me, I actually tested it here as soon as I read it: It's instant. OnMouseDown event, if you will. Using KDE Pl…

Hyggelig om du forteller hvilken sak det faktisk er, siden jeg ikke kjenner den igjen fra beskrivelsen din. Nice if you could tell which specific story this is, since I can't recog…

Laws upheld by the state are the worst good way to maintain order. A much better way is to have the parties play nice with each other, build trust, and negotiate as equals. This al…

It is not informed consent if people don't understand what is happening, though.

As such, the user benefits are all indirect. Plasma needs to be ported to Qt6, and thus Plasma 5 becomes Plasma 6. In the process a lot of code is cleaned up, and it is easier to f…

My mother calls for me every time during the guitar solo of Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine. Reminds me of my childhood memories playing video games in the basement, and always …

It was stated as a causal relationship and reported in the news since the 19th Century. It was still denied by some, and ignored by most. At some point we should probably start doi…

That's not correct. We have had models showing global warming caused by fossil fuels since the late 18th Century at the very least. A few papers in the 1980s were predicting global…

I was terribly skeptical to Steam when it launched, as I am to all online/hosted services. What if they just remove a game I'm using? Does all my games stop working if they turn of…

My personal experience is that it's been like this for years already. I'm mostly using laptops (Dell XPS at the moment) with some Ubuntu-derived distro with KDE Plasma on top, blue…

Pascal's wager. But the big flaw there is rather straightforward: which god? Is worshiping a false god better or worse than not worshiping at all? Should one avoid eating pork in c…

Sure do. Was lots of fun, even though my skyscraper plans failed as there was a limit to how man objects we were allowed to stack in the Z-axis.

"The lead–crime hypothesis is the association between elevated blood lead levels in children and increased rates of crime, delinquency, and recidivism later in life."[1] Basically,…