ElCheapo

A couple of months ago I went with a friend of mine to get a kebab in a place we haden't been before. It was a very large restaurant in an important street of town, and yet it was mostly empty and the kebab was very below average. There were also people talking at a large table and constantly getting food without even ordering.

First thing I said to my friend was: "Yep, sure as hell they're getting the money from somewhere else"

I think these institutions believe that more diversity ----> more inclusivity and less racism. How would a racist indian national deeply entrenched in caste culture help my company be less racist? How would an asian supremacist laotian increase the workplace's acceptance?

If you want a place of tolerance then it should be populated by tolerant people. Throwing together males and females with a random sample of skin colors and passports is not going to make your university a more inclusive place by default.

Go to a shopping center, or a sporting event, or any other place where people publicly gather en masse and ask yourself how many of them could realistically get around on foot.

There are a lot of very fat people, old people, disabled people, and so forth who could not walk for half a mile.

Is walking now an utopia?

>We aren't going to rebuild our cities around bikes, and even if we did, a large number of people could not use them. On the other hand, we already built our cities around cars, and self-driving cars would fit right in (if they actually worked).

And also we aren't going to magically reverse Type 1 Diabetes, but that doesn't mean everyone who doesn't have it shouldn't have a decent diet instead and instead eat like pigs and then get hooked on pills until the day they die.

It should simply be a new "hey guys, look at this cool prompt I came up with" category. Using AI for easy upvotes, unwarranted clout or spam should be banned.

It's not surprising, but I find very cute the fact that the further you are from the center the older the security cameras are.

Option A: return to office

Option A-bis: return to another kind of office

Option B: work from home

Option C: hybrid

Question: what is the goal of the employer? how do the options contribute to the goal?

"Return to the Office" is not a rethoric, there are certain metrics that are boosted by having people in the same buildings, and other that are boosted by having people work naked in their bedroom.

I'd say this " 'Return to the Office Rhetoric needs to end' Rethoric needs to end"

In all fairness, as longs as patents exist you simply can't "open up" a piece of technology. What you can do is reverse engineer it, since it's allowed becausenof the manufacturer's drop of support

It's crazy how much of a rabbit hole reccomendations are. I wish I could disable the "explore" page on every social media I use, it would be heaven

This is really mind boggingly, meaning that there is an actual discrete valicable limit of what can be determined and what can't. Turing machine with 4 states? Cool. Turing machine with 5 states? Sorry, it goes beyond ZFC maths!

Computers are mind boggingly empowering, the problem is always the ignorance of people. Today you can go to a dumpster and take home a perfectly working computer able to run Linux and an capable office suite. With said office suite you are able to keep track of your money, predict expenditures and find ways to save income and organize your life. Want to find the cheapest car? Go to the internet and keep track of the prices with an Excel sheet. Want to standardize your diet to buy in bulk and save plenty of money? Excel sheet. Want to keep track of all your deadlines and avoid paying fees? Excel sheet or your calendar.

Hell, even writing stuff down on a physical notepad would help people immensely to live a better life, but if nobody is educated about it they will hardly do it.

Joe Rogan is able to produce a podcast in which the topics covered and the tones used are not really dictated by advertisers. This is as good and independent as it gets. The podcast should be a prime example of what the web should be about: genuine content free from higher up control and censorship.

The problem seems to be that you don't like this kind of content and would much prefer "safer" things to be popular, but that's exactly how we get harmless TV shows and meaningless music ruining the fun for everyone.

If a company stores data about you, they WILL give it ALL to law enforcement.

How to avoid this?

Don't store any data, as simple as that.

Use p2p E2EE services. The server will only orchestrate between connections but no actual data will pass through it, giving the cops absolutely nothing except connection logs! Sure, they can still see when you connected and who you requested to talk with, but there are many mitigations and (unless they actively sniff you) they won't even have a byte of data you actually sent to that person

I agree. Also every software engineer should have written a compiler, a scheduler, a device driver, a small kernel, an IEEE compliant floating point library and a 3D raytracer in their free time between 30 courses by the time they have completed their degree! /s

Writing a filesystem from scratch is something I would expect from a full 5 years degree entirely dedicated to operating systems, not a generic SWE curriculum

Why are you suggesting proprietary software when talking about a device that exists mainly to run FOSS?

On the other hand, I hate mine.

Worse connectivity than the first cell phones from the 90s, worse applications than the first feature phones from the early 2000s, worse performance than the first smartphones from the late 2000s.

As of today there is nothing really redeeming about it. Sure, some tech enthusiast can hack together a GTK application that shows his FOSS conference's schedule, but that's like having a spork in the middle of the amazon forest.

Yes, that was the point of my comment. Seeing that it even got flagged I can sense people here are treading on thin ice for some reason

The code maintainer (or owner) makes the code available to the world without asking for anything in return, but if you send him a patch he is somehow obligated to implement it? (I'm not saying this is what you're implying)

Open Source goes both ways: nobody forces you to use some rando's code off of github but also nobody forces said rando to to use some rando^2's patch for his own code

Imagine you ran a personal twitter account where you posted your jokes but allowed people to send theirs via email and occasionally publish them. Would you find inappropriate to tell people "yeah this joke almost kinda works but it's not funny enough for my account maybe send me a better version"?

Everything is a compromise. This optical design manages to be f/2.5 most probably because it does nothing to correct the plenty of aberration and defects it produces. Also f-numbers are deceptive regarding brightness and we should see how much light actually comes out from the other side, i.e. calculating its t-stops.

Also, a manual 165mm lens on full frame? I'm sure it could be great for interesting portraits, but street photography?

Let me add a fifth one: consuming. Goes hand in hand with "consuming content" and truly disgusts me

If I sell courses about Windows, can I claim that Windows makes money?

Your comparison is incorrect because you wrote a program whereas the guide didn't set up the trail or build infrastructure to hike on the mountains

Alternative title: "You won't believe how much these 100yo readers' contributions look like Twitter takes!"

>Not long ago many European countries required some form of digital COVID pass for travel.

no they didn't? you could just access the platform on your computer and print the QR code the old fashioned way. Hell, you could do that without even having any electronics, you could just go to the library and print it there.

>unless you want to be waiting weeks for letters and queueing at the office.

this reads to me as "if you don't use these digital systems you have to do things like they were before digital systems"

Unlike your banking website or other critical software, if you find an unlocked phone there are no barriers put in place to make sure it's really you who wants to send a text message. I don't think those barriers should be there, but if anyone can potentially send a text message on my behalf then you can't automatically ban people with no investigation or ability to appeal somewhere.

TIL: upload child porn on a secret website, take someone's device, send said image and delete the chat, get his account banned with no possibility of reversal.

Thank God for AI, planting evidence and automatically ruining someone's livelyhood has never been so algorithmically efficient!

Forget that, I erroneously asked for walking directions my bad. Shame I can't delete the comment lol

I just asked for directions from my home to the railway station and the navigator told me to enter a roundabout in the opposite direction :/

You have listed many companies that do many different things so I don't really know what you mean. But in any case, how would a natively European competitor benefit Europe? Are we talking about money, jobs or what exactly?

Could you give an example of a technology that needs to be scaled up in Europe?

You can't. If your people do not feel the need to live humbly and serve their country they are going to flock elsewhere to the highest bidder. If a German engineer finds $30k/y after tax to be an unacceptable salary what are you going to do about it? Brainwash him into sacrificing for their glorious Fatherland and just shutting up and doing the work?