GrowingSideways

Well as we all know the political will in this country seems to generally be "let's all commit suicide together", but perhaps mass installations of solar will provide material reason to improve conditions somewhat.

It's just further evidence capital is replacing our humanity, no biggie

Perhaps. This seems somewhat suicidal of a corruption scheme for the leader of a country. Surely there must be easier ways to personally profit than making an international embarrassment of the country—every other country on earth manages this sort of graft just fine.

Is there a particular reason to take any state account of anything at all at face value? At some point you either have to accept to play the game or reject all news.

In this case, it fits squarely in with American foreign policy, especially their orientation towards Venezuelan chavismo.

Yes. I work with teenagers and young adults teaching them how to program, both directly and as a support skill. These are bright young people who can work through problems with enough time—but LLMs allow them through these problems in a minute or two.

I've taken, particularly in people learning programming as a support skill, to teaching them how to verify the solution rather than asking them to deal with hours of frustration while their peers don't bother. A tool is a tool, as sad as it makes me to say looking back on teaching myself how to code 20 years ago.

Are you suggesting that the AfD is not popular?

> Workers at US-tech companies are responsible for the unchecked bombardment of our citizens with propaganda and fake news.

They're also responsible for the propaganda and fake news targeting the center and the left. It just works most effectively to drive people right because of.... widely-distributed personality quirks, shall we say. It's not clear this dynamic would disappear if social media disappeared, but I do think it would slow down.

I suspect many republicans are much more pro-socialism than they realize if you don't use the term socialism.

Lobby to shut down social media that doesn't encourage real life interaction. I honestly think things will keep getting worse until we unplug them.

Well, that may be true, although I didn't intend to imply any causal relationship at all. My point is I don't see the general situation in Europe (or the anglosphere) as much improved, just.... less advanced.

Sure. Money isn't everything. A broader concern is that many european countries have similar problems like housing costs and a rising far-right without any better solution. And besides, these sky-high wages won't last for long with a state intent on isolating itself and starving its consumer base of wages.

Personally, I'm looking at east asia and latin america.

Man, I just want to code from a more relaxing neck angle. I don't think all this is going to be very useful for that. I'm sure these ideas will be useful for something, but.... people have been talking about minority report for decades and trying to materialize it always ends up wasting attention processing too much at once.

> Apple believes the Vision Pro is an iPad Minus

Well you don't have to use the touchscreen, which was always rather awkward for many tasks, particularly anything productivity oriented. Even on my laptop i basically never use windows, but I still find the ipad to be unusable for anything but browsing and reading books and scrolling.

I'm sure they can do more. I'm just not sure "more" has anything to do with dragging windows around.

But maybe it's just me; I think it's easier to command-tab (or opt-tab) around than use my eyes. Unless I need to drag something between windows, which only happens about once a month or so.

I've been trying to research drone navigation tech from what we have learned so far from the russian/ukraine war. I'm very much not a hardware guy but software by itself has been feeling kind of useless or even crueler than usual.

I thought Corbyn started his own party? Surely they have time to figure out a way to look more competent than Starmer of all people

If you wouldn't upload keys to github, why would you trust them to cursor?

Maybe that's a strong element, but I think we are simply too addicted to comfort and our way of life. We've been encouraged to "just vote" for so long we've lost all political muscle.

Then you're stuck with the C stack, though, and no way to collect garbage.

> C is the patrician's choice.

Is this suppose to be a positive thing? I thought we all wanted to violently murder the patricians.

Regardless, C might be a valid IR. I apologize for being bigoted.

> And that's just a wildly nitpicky criticism by the person that brought this up.

It makes linux unusable

> Each user of each OS will be used to whatever that OS chooses to set up.

You cannot seriously expect each user to manually modify the os

Why not compile to rust or assembly? C seems like an odd choice.

In fact why not simply write rust to begin with?

This seems like a concern specific to people who want to use windows. I don't know what pin means.

Can you explain what a thinkpad is?

Gnome is still a windows knockoff yea? Can you use readline bindings in a textfield?

Edit: I mean, usable text fields. Like you have on a mac. You hit control-a and it goes to the start of the field. The command key is for interacting with the application.

> You…ever see a screenshot of Gnome?

Let's talk usability, not bullshit. Also gnome looks like... the rest of computers. It has no usability and is indistinguishable from other windows knockoffs

> I find that it is quite a pleasant operating system!

Pleasant compared to what? Older versions of windows? linux, or macs? This is the first positive review I've ever heard.

Yes, at the cost of dragging people into subscription software. Fuck off

What do you mean by "objectively"? This smells like pinker-esque spinelesness. Like a "you can buy a smartphone if you ignore the world is dying" tone.

Yes, you can buy a smartphone. But most of what makes us care for each other has died. Why not kill yourself today, Sisyphus? There are fewer reasons than ever.

What makes you think wealth inequality doesn't cause despair? Despair strikes me as the expected and desired effect.

Can you interpret this comment for those of us that haven't used windows? All i can recall from "vista" is that it looked good

Eh. Most costs that matter scale to relative wealth, and the cost scales accordingly, and we have more homeless people than any rich country on earth, and we have no community worth a damn—we have snap, medicaid, and section 8, and our kind neighbors are rabid to end them all. This is, in most ways, the worst country on earth to be poor in. If i were poor in cincinnati suburbs I'd kill myself too.

Perhaps there's another place where poverty is a greater curse, though. But I would rather be poor in Burundi or Haiti than Ohio—at least I can sleep outside without dying and my neighbor won't fucking shoot me for existing. But this is what i get for living in the us, the place with the most evil people to have ever lived.

If we're going to socialize production, let's do it properly.