I never understand people rejecting free improvements on FOSS projects.
I never understand people who don’t install every free FOSS software offered to them on their PC.
Why would someone take every contribution to their FOSS project? It makes no sense to take a contribution doesn’t help the project owner’s vision of the project.
No, because she didn’t exist.
More details here: https://lemmy.world/post/38716969/20471255
No. The only woman he married was Eva Braun on the day before both of them committed suicide. She was age 33 at that time.
There are rumours that he had an affair with Geli Raubal, his niece, who lived with him from 1929 (then aged 21) until 1931 (then aged 23) when she committed suicide.
He first met her in 1924, when she was aged 16.
Hitler did enough bad shit, no need to invent extra details.
Nah, the story was that Lot and his daughters were hiding in the mountains, and the daughters decided that their chances of ever getting a man were close to 0, so they got their father blackout drunk and got themselves pregnant using him.
I’m not OOP, we will continue using Gitlab for the foreseeable future. Our company recently switched from self-hosted to cloud hosted by Gitlab.
In fact, yes. Not exactly for git itself, but for Gitlab, which does the git hosting for us.
Easy: Altman used ChatGPT to come up with his numbers.
And, tbh, it doesn’t even matter in this case that this was AI generated. If anyone snuck any worthless piece of crap painting into a into a museum without permission it would be removed. AI only contributed to this by making it even more low-effort.
The one thing that communism and dictatorship have in common is that the one pretty much requires a revolution and the other often appears after a revolution.
They have similar origin stories.
The problem with revolutions is that revolutions need a strong man to rally around who can quickly make decisions without compromise and who is in close to complete power. A democratic revolution would not happen, since it’s not fast and decisive enough. But when the revolution is done and that same strongman is still in power, and he gets to decide how the new government is run, only very few of them are capable of handing the power over to a democratic government. And if you run a government like a revolution we tend to call that dictatorship.
If Mamdani is a communist, he’s clearly the least ambitious communist that I’ve ever heard of. What he’s asking for is just basic services of a city to work and be affordable.
That’s the thing with science communication. It barely exists.
There is a bogus theory. Nobody tries replicating it for decades because there’s no fame in replication. Then someone finally does and disproves the theory. If the author is lucky, it gets published on the last pages of some low-level journal, because there’s even less fame in failed replication. But the general public doesn’t read journals. They don’t even read science journalism. They might read a short note in a daily newspaper that was twisted into unrecognizability by an underpaid, overworked journalist who didn’t understand a word in the article they read in some pop science magazine.
Science doesn’t reach the general public, and if it does against all odds, it’s so twisted and corrupted that it frequently says the opposite of what the original paper said.
People do their general education in school, and once they leave they stop learning general topics.
Revenue and profit are different things. In times of low interest it’s growth at all costs. Investors love market share and growth, because they expect to make money when they sell their shares. That’s risky, but with low, no, or even negative interest it’s still worth the risk.
When interest goes up, parking money in safe, interest-based forms of investment becomes more interesting, so to compete companies also need to lower the risk. In a climate like that investors want to make money via dividends, so companies need to maximize dividends and to do so they need to maximize profits. Growth, market share and future plans become less relevant.
That’s what we are seeing right now.
I’d love to see the results you come up with. What you are saying makes a ton of sense, but I don’t see an obvious solution for these problems.
The worst one for me is cable management. My PCs are laptops (one for work, one private one), and while I have them mostly on my desk (where I want the cables to be out of the way), I also frequently have to take them with me and I don’t want to disassemble my cable management system to get to the laptop charger. I also don’t want to have to buy a second charger for my laptop that doesn’t do USBC charging.
Tech is a field where there’s always infinite work to do, and it’s always only limited by the budget.
We had very low interest rates for over a decade, which made investments more profitable and thus there was always a ton of money to go around. The current financial downturn is the main reason of all the tech layoffs with no budget there are no jobs.
The upside of that: Even with all the talk of AI and stuff, once the interest rate goes down and investments go up, all the jobs will be back.
Is it only me or is the same old joke-esolang thing getting boring? They all read exactly the same, just with the keywords replaced by some other random string.
No, this doesn’t read like tabloid headlines. It uses similar words, but nobody would mistake it for tabloid headlines. Same as the other esolang doesn’t read like Shakespeare.
Maybe I am also just getting old and thus I’ve heard this joke too many times.
In my last job we called that “optimizing”, after a colleague (who usually only did frontent work) used the opportunity when everyone else was on vacation to implement a few show-stopping bugs in the backend and put “optimized backend code” in the commit message. He did the same thing a few months later during the next vacation period, which really solidified the joke.
Always great when people see problems that are so old they are literally mentioned in the old testament and think that it’s a new thing that only emerged yesterday.
And even if you ignore the old testament, half of the gospels is Jesus fighting the Pharisees, which are exactly that.
Free dishwater refills.
On my laptop there’s two USB ports on the back and an Ethernet port in between. Ethernet is exactly as wide that an USB A connector fits into it and feels close enough to the real thing.
There’s also the Lenovo proprietary power connector, which has almost identical dimensions to USB A, so it feels like putting an USB A connector in the wrong way.
It’s basically impossible to plug in a USB connector blindly into this laptop. I always have to shut the lid to plug in USB.
Because Cloud is cool or something. You know, now that the US is beconing more and more unreliable and untrustworthy, it’s exactly the right time for a large European corporation that provides critical services to move over to an US product hosted on US servers outside of our control.