hyperman1

And still more than half of the USA voters believed him better than any other candidate. In fact, a decent chunk responded to his call for an insurgence when his previous presidency ended.

They can't be all total idiots. So what are they? I have never seen a decent deep analysis on why they behave like this. Afaik, they got the worst chances in the existing economy, and decided, as they are hurting anyway, they'll make the other half of the USA also hurt.

Question for every USAian: Someone must have thought deeper about it. Is there a decent book or long form internet article, readable by a more leftist public?

I know a few smart people from Europe who went to the USA. Several of the smartest went to Canada in Trump 1. More have followed now. They still prefer Canada above returning to the EU, even if it is legally harder.

That discussion contains:

  TE have perfected milking hipsters to perfection

As someone considering buying a pocket operator for his son: How true is this? What are decent alternatives for PO?

I really like datagrip when working with SQL. It works on most common databases, and allows for inline query results, giving a workflow comparable to jupyter notebooks. All Jetbrains IDEs using the same keybindings for e.g. multi line edit is another big plus, I have to learn only 1 IDE.

But there are clouds on the horizon. Every time I install the big data tools plugin, instability follows swiftly, untill I uninstall it again. I've noticed some cosmetic changes disturbing my workflow for no good reason.

Last update broke datagrip's AI completely, the plugin simply won't download and datagrip is not in the list of supported IDEs anymore. I lived with it for 2 days, but reported an issue anyway. Either I have a specific breakage or use a very specific setup, because I found no duplicate reports. Which, for such a major feature breaking, makes me feel like I live in an abandoned city.

I will still pay for next year's licence, it is still best in class for my needs. But if things stay like this for long, I'll have to migrate

I remember them releasing it on an 1st of april l, we were all: Great joke. Then it turns out they were serious. That was some smart marketing.

That's an impressively thorough answer to a vague wonder. Thanks

I've been vaguely wondering lately:

The climate crisis is solar energy getting trapped on the planet instead of radiating into space.

Solar panels convert light to electricity to ultimately mostly heat, instead of reflecting it to space. So it also traps energy on our planet.

How big is the impact of this? Right now, it is probably ignorable, but will there be a theoretical point where solar itself becomes a climate crisis?

I see a lot of coherence in the ages used in the western world. Laws use age 16-18-21 to say almost adult - adult - need to be sure adult.

Strict is probably good. My company started to enable bitlocker this year on win11, and a non trivial amount of initial encryptions seem to be failing, destroying the user data and requiring a full reformat.

I last saw a psychology thing on TV about people reserving theur strong reaction to the second severe transgression. Bad guys get 1 abuse for free, modulo some stern looks and grumbling. Second time, the big hit comes. The number of transgressions is a more important fact than the time or size.

There is some truth to this, once you look at it. So Russia took Crimea as first abuse, and got some survivable sanctions. Then they hit Ukraine a second time.

Trump, well, it is hit after hit after hit. Liberation day, ICC, threatening greenland, backstabbing Ukraine, Iran. And we're not even halfway his term, and we got proof from the last 2 Republican presidencys that this is no outlayer.

I don't think Ukraine lost. They surely did a lot better than anyone expected. Right now, I'd say it can go both ways, with Ukranian deaths vs Russian economic crash and hurt for their rich class seeming the main determinaters. If Putin drops dead, if the rich feel enough bombs exploding in Moscow, .... Then Ukraine wins

I think the main EU fear is ex-soviet countries fearing they are next if Ukraine falls. So Ukraine should not necessary win, it should mainly bleed Russia and not loose. An eternal standstill is probably best, realpolitik-wise (To be clear, I am not happy with this analysis).

Before Trump, there was Bush Jr. The world's view on him was also dim, but 9/11/2001 made the world cut the USA a lot of slack. It turns out he was the new normal, instead of a temporary savage spot. Trump is not the only USA leader in the back of the world's mind.

Somerhing is finally happening. A consultant came talking about software choices. We asked for non US possibilities and he gave a few. While talking about ut, he mentioned the question came up a lot now, typically from governements and bigger corporations dealing with entities outside the EU. Discussion was done on management levels, not just on IT levels. It seems everyone is testing the waters.

It is indeed cool tech. But be aware that e.g. building weapons is also playing with cool tech.

The main problem I see: Who is the attacker and who is the defender. The presented scenario has the machine owner (renter?) as defender, so no problem. In quite a lot of cases, the machine owner is the attacker, and e.g. Microsoft is the defender. That's where things get nasty.

I had a 386 with 40Mhz (which does not exist, so in hindsight it must have been a clone chip) and 4MB Ram. I could run all Doom 2 levels with reasonable speed, except the last one, where 4mb just wasn't enough.

One thing I liked about Gothic 1 was how you could fight people and not kill them ( Kill was an extra action after you won).The NPCs reacted differently to winning vs killing, pushing you to let others live. In a brutal penal colony, this made a lot more sense than win=kill.

Picture of me, outdoors. According to this, I lost 10 years and gain €10k salary. I also moved to the Netherlands, started smoking, don't like computer games and am racist. I might be interested in pottery and painting, also in unhealthy food. The main correct thing is a hetero male. It will try to sell me garden gnomes.

I have no idea who this man is, and am not worried at all for my privacy. Maybe it works better on US inhabitants?

I don't think there is any reliable source in this war, so the best thing to do is try to read from all sides. I'll take a look at them. Thanks.

Who would you consider reliable news sources for this war? Honest question.

AFAIK The USA governement has proven unreliable, even more so than Iran. USA news sources are owned by the same oligarchs owning the governement. Other western sources follow the USA train of thought, with more or less doubt thrown in. Mint from India and Al Jazeera from Qatar (not happy with Iran right now) seem closest to neutral of the pack, even if not that great. I am not aware of a reliable Israeli news source.

The ACOUP article was one of the best analysis of this war I've seen, which is pretty damning for the real news sources if you think about it.

I recently switched to Lutris, so my son can install games without me. It just works. Great stuff.

I've been wondering if a linux GUI applucation can be made by compiling wine libraries into a linux ELF executable, skipping the EXE format. Do I still need the wine supporting extra processes or is this shippable?

We're looking for a new car. I'd love to go electrical, but there are a few problems:

1) I have no garage and no parking space next to my home. I can't charge it.

2) We have no trustworthy garage for repairs. It turns out the garage regulations require a separate space for electrical forcsafety, and nobody has room to expand.

Apart from that, electricity in Belgium is expensive. I did the math on swapping our gas heater for a heat pump, but I'd pay more for energy even of the amount of watts is so much lower.

I wonder if it is possible to double all token types . One token is secure, the other is not. The user input is always tokenized to insecure variants. You kinda get a secret language for prompts. Of course, new token kinds are not cheap, and how do you train this thing?

From that page:

grow your business by creating ongoing revenue streams

a.k.a they sell your customers' eyeballs. I don't want these creeps near my tv, european or not.

I feel the basic premise here is wrong. People do not choose C++ because of trust(ing they cannot back themselves in a corner).

Main reasons are more: Our people know it, our vendors support it, our libraries use it, our workflow is built for it, etc. It is understanding that the cultural work has been done. The cost of switching is huge.

That's a good reason, but it is also the reason why people start new Cobol applications in 2026.

The other reasons for C++ were very good control of the lowest level, and very good performance, combined with decent ergonomics. You could have some of these (eg fortran's performance being better than C's), but rust brought a new player that gave this too, and bringing much better stability as a bonus.

If you have a huge C++ code base, looking into things like this might be worth it. But if you start without knowledge of either C++ or Rust, choosing C++ would probably be a bad idea .

When a computer crashed, cd audio continued to play. My PC just kept playing trough a hard reset/reboot, in fact. It would only stop playing when DOS booted far enough that it loaded mscdex, a step I could skip with a startup menu. I've always wondered why it managed to survive a reset pulse on the wire.

This reconceptualized the article as victim blaming. Spot on.

I see a group of countries trying to work together. As this is a massive coordination effort and the participants all want different things, it can only go slow. As with every governmental entity, there probably is some waste. But the alternative is each country for himself, so I rather have the UN.

Seconded. My 9 year old son has in his life worked with Android and Debian at home, and iPad at school. There is 1 game I could not get to run under wine (beltmatic), but apart from that everything works. I was a bit scared about his school stuff (from Die Keure) but it just does its thing. He recently installed Planet crafter, a game I had never heard of or checked out, and it was a non event. Lego, basic programming, ...

He went to a friend, doing networked minecraft on friends windows laptop. Son then took our laptop as he did not like Windows, and I think he accidentally convinced that whole family to migrate to KDE on Debian, just by showing them how reliably boring it is. I was smiling at that one, to be honest.