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It really depends on the amount. In Belgium for instance there would be no tipping, but rounding up or adding one or two spare coins of change you still have on you in case the service was excellent.

It is like any job where people get a bonus because they have gone above and beyond.

Even if I agree with you, the problem is that we always need to justify our existence as researchers and this is even more difficult if the field or ideas are more exotic...

With the US becoming a fascist state in record time, I do not foresee people following your thinking, unfortunately...

Oh come on, lighten up a little, it's Friday, it's kinda cool as a display tool. should we reduce the number of flights and CO2 released? Of course.

But no need to be rolling in on a guy that just did something neat...

Me simple man. Me see caveman readme, me like. Sometimes me feel like caveman hitting keyboard to make machine do no good stuff. But sometimes, stuff good. Me no do websites or web things, but me not know about XSLT. Me sometimes hack XML. Me sometimes want show user things. Many many different files format makes head hurt. Me like pretty things though. Me might use this.

Thank you reading specs.

Thank you making tool.

You remind me of a movie that I can't remember the name off but it was a low budget American spy movie that was shot in Europe through European subsidies targeted at getting work in Europe for cinema crews.

One shot is supposedly happening in an American city, but it's shot somewhere in Brussels, where they discuss people hiding, then you got a transition shot where now they are supposed to be thousands of km away with said people hiding, and the second shot is filmed in the building across the street.

Many other shots were also combination of places that I knew extremely well, which really was funny at times because once you locate everything it makes the whole situation much more comedic.

Some things cannot be done cheaply or extremely efficiently but needs to be done.

One of the reason for governments to exist is to deliver services to the communities that, by essence, should not be seen as primarily a source of revenue, but enabling communities to thrive in order to generate an environment where the generation of wealth for the community is facilitated.

And tell me how actually efficient and cost saving having many entities that have as sole mission to generate profit really helped (take a look at privatisation of any entities that were of public interest and the good that it did long term... Spoilers It didn't...)

Awwww fuck, thanks for the heads up.

Check https://www.onlyoffice.com/ honestly it's pretty good, open source, multiplatform and it opens everything I've thrown at it so far.

I like libre in general but one too many times it just didn't play ball with some random docx documents.

Yes, sorry I should not have abbreviated that... Professional deformation...

Reminds me of that concept that I saw pop up in HEP in recent years between "users" and "experts".

This distinction in that case is so dumb I cannot wrap my head around it: You first encounter the code, are unfamiliar with it but very quickly you become expert in order to solve your problem and advance the thing forward.

It does not matter which codebase you start on, what matters is that you understand what the actual stack does and what is involved in there because people are supposed to understand deeply what they are doing.

But this comes from the "corporatisation" of every single entity, where random metrics are used in order to assess performance instead of asking the simple question of "does it work" or "does it need fixing" or "will this thing break".

There is a clear disconnect between the manager type people that are removed from the work and the managers still doing things practically, which understand what the stressors are and where some work of deep understanding and extra contextualisation of the systems, is required, in order to not mess the whole thing up.

This being said, this is coming from a very peculiar perspective and with a very specific tech stack which is and is not industry standard at many levels...

The same as matter basically.

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10533407/

The interesting idea behind it is basically that for antimatter a potential wall, imagine a step function which is 0 for negative and 1 for positive and a wave that hits the wall from the negative to the positives, in theory it cannot propagate in the wall, turns out that one solution can propagate in that wall and that's antimatter: It basically sees the potential as inverted.

So since people were thinking about that they started considering that if it happens for EM interaction it could be the case for gravitation, that lead to wonder if the antimatter had different properties in that department.

From a pure theory point of view the mass of the particles and anti particles should be identical but they might have "fallen up" instead of falling down.

Note that if there are significant differences this would be extremely interesting but I am not deep enough into exotic theories that take into account those exotic cases to make more statements about the matter.

To add some context here, at the time you had Jeff Gerstmann which is a dinosaur in the game journalism sphere and had insights and insider information from many different sources.

He has also an encyclopedic knowledge of weird esoteric games.

Add to this a series of people he had great chemistry with and people that were not familiar with some franchises and introduced by other members lead to funny moments.

Their coverage of E3 was legendary.

It depends how deep people are within subcultures but giant bomb did offer a lot of entertainment (even for free I never paid for the premium stuff) and honest game reviews. I can't speak for the current state because I was watching before the core team left and stopped watching after.

Noether was one of a kind communicator and scientist and she should be more widely known because she is a role model for everyone.

Einstein was just not a random person doing something, it was an academically trained person, still in contact with people from academia, with extreme talent and found himself in a situation with a lot more free time and in an environment that was promoting his thinking. Mind you it does not take anything away from the achievements because the overall work was astounding, but it is disingenuous to present him as "a random outside of academia".

Noether was just not correctly widely recognized outside of the field, as much as she should have been at the time, because, let's face it, she was a woman. Her achievements are on par with Einstein's in term of scope and range. Noether's theorem alone is a huge cornerstone of modern physics and guiding the design of Quantum Field Theory and pinning symmetries as the way to tackle the building of physical Lagrangians that lead to the expression of the current standard model.

Her work on algebra is so massive, it is hard to wrap your head around it, the contributions especially to rings and topology are to be mentioned. She has shaped so many parts of mathematics that it boggles the mind and her achievements are well within the once in a several centuries type of scope.

I will not try to compare people because it is pointless because circumstances and "importance of achievements" is a difficult to measure metric, especially for people working outside of the fields where those achievements have been made, but subtly painting Noether as not widely known because she has not achieved "once in many centuries type level of achievement" or that she was not great at communicating, is blatantly false, because she has, in fact, several times over done both of those things.

She was known to be gentle and gracious and always there to offer help and or advice or explanations, sharing her knowledge, and wisdom. She is one of those model scientist that any scientist, regardless of gender or ethnicity, should look up to as a role model, and she embodies what most of us think that science could and should be.

No need to have your laptop compromised if your just hand over the information...

I have the feeling that there will be no redemption arc for those ones and the repenting would be for show before a court of public opinion.

I'm going to be to the point here, if you guys over there don't start to heavily push and organise, and I said it already, you're one Reichstag fire away from something very bad, and from my point of view, there is probably one kristallnacht pending in the mix.

This is not a hyperbole and if someone wonders why this has relevance to the discussions, in this case most of the people around here are blue team, and it does feel like the red team has already taken anything that wasn't attached and now taking the time to take what's bolted on...

I guess the silver lining of all this, is in their hubris, they forgot the bread and games motto, so they're might still be a chance to turn things around somewhat... But the window is closing at an impressive speed.

May I present you Garfeld, the musical? https://youtube.com/watch?v=x4-lNQHxSfI

It is surprisingly good.

Just to set the record straight even if this is going to be flagged

Repeatedly The current administration has stated

* That they would acquire Greenland by any means necessary https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/policy/defense/3361358/us...

* That they would Make Canada part of the US as its 51st State https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cvg198xxy1xo

* That they would engage in trade war with Europe over alleged imbalance and loss in trade https://www.cnbc.com/2025/03/27/trump-threatens-far-larger-t...

Given this context, if you are not directly in the US or directly a US company, it makes a lot of sense to start to question your future ability as well as future costs for access to US controlled systems.

Well, with every conspiracy theories thriving on this day and age with access to technology and information at one fingertips. If you add that now the US administration effectively spewing bullshit every few minutes.

The best example of this was an arguement I had a little while ago where I was talking about self driving and I was mentioning that I have a hard time trusting any system relying only on cameras, to which I was being told that I didn't understand how machine learning works and obviously they were correct and I was wrong and every car would be self driving within 5 years. All of these things could easily be verified independently.

Suffice to say that I am not sure that the "bullshit-radar" is that adaptive...

Mind you, this is not limited to the particular issue at hand but I think those situations needs to be highlighted, because we get fooled easily by authoritative delivery...

Honestly this seems to be a really short sighted view, none of the people that got arrested there really had reasonable grounds to be arrested, although I guess that legally they are "in the clear", but I am no expert, and this is high profile only because of the situation is absolutely absurd, and we are only two months in.

How many cases are not reported and as bad as this or worse? Am I willing to be gambling this?

Sure there are places. But if you're an average consumer I doubt that you would be thrilled to book a gateway room to update your device...

What are you even on about?

It's not invented it's a verifiable fact.

If you align more with Russia and think that Russia would let go of China as their ally when Russia tied themselves to China after the sanctions.

I don't know which universe this would happen but not this one.

Thank you for that addendum which, indeed, is critically relevant to the current situation.

Yes, it was a non exhaustive list and I should have mentioned it...

The implication that I read from what your wrote suggested that the US could offer "assistance" or sit it out, which is not an acceptable stance to hold, by history and the assistance that was provided in need.

Friendship among nations sometimes involves transactions that transcend the pure material considerations, and this shift in alignment is not desirable by anyone.

That's what I meant by "let's not go there".

But I see that basically we are in agreement and I also agree that article 5 interpretation could be dicey.

Let's not go there.

In the history of the Alliance there is only a single country that invoked article 5, and it was the US with 9/11 that lead to the United Kingdom, Canada, Germany, Australia, Italy, New Zealand to send resources and troops to help with Afghanistan.

And managed to get people involved in Iraq namely United Kingdom, Australia, Poland.

And this situation was way worse and way less called for than the Ukrainians defending themselves...

EDIT/NB: I listed just the major contributors, some other countries participated in different ways and at different levels, but still this is important to mention here...

The hard truth is that they have no clue about what they are cutting and they mainly do not care because the initiative is not to make things better it is to break a currently working system in favour of God knows what.

Every step taken by the current administration has undermined the safety and current position of the US both domestically and on the international stage. The only people that I see profiting from the current situation are Russia and then China.

Regardless of opinions on Diversity Equity and Inclusion, one has to look at the current situation with pragmatism: Firing all probatory employees is just insane. Firing the people responsible of your nuclear Arsenal is insane Firing competent workers because of their skin colour or they do not have the genitalia you prefer is insane. Sending an emai, on the weekend, requesting 5 accomplishment or risk getting fired is insane.

Let's see it from a different perspective, let's say you have a large company operating on international scale with many stakeholders, you get a consultant tasked with streamlining and optimising operation. Within less than a month, they start arbitrarily firing people based on aggregated numbers from random collection of papers lying around in the office. Would you trust the fact that they would streamline and make things run better or would you assume they just started slashing left and right to justify "optimising". You can tell by my phrasing what my opinion is on the matter but there is no way that you can optimise, let alone understand, those agencies inner working and essential moving parts within less than a month...

Now I will refrain from making any political/legality statements, but from a pure practical standpoint it is, to put it mildly, nuts.

Not in the science-fiction sense. It's just a convenient way to express anti particles in the diagrams but the travelling back in time should not be taken literally.

The unfortunate truth is that everyone can be manipulated and everyone can be conditioned.

It just takes time and/or the right circumstances.

This includes propaganda.

Is this a way to make me feel less bad about gaining a bit too much weight?

Joking apart this is a very valid point, often you can just fall onto something where people have taken the time to put something out there, you documented your thought or your little haven of work, whatever it is, for other to find eventually. It is nice and valuable.

In a day and age where everything needs to have meaning or be productive, it is healthy to make things that serve no other purpose but to be. It will be eventually lost to time and noise, but so is everyone existence on this earth.

I still use stackoverflow through searching for very obscure things that got answered a while ago and a question kept alive and relevant through people doing good Samaritan work and updating answers to the current year.

Each time I tried to get an answer from any LLM, the thing was always deeply wrong or obviously flawed. Mind you I am always searching for specific, niche, really crappy things that are often an overlap of SW and HW...

But again this is very cherry picked opinion from my personal use.