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To be fair: setting it as a temperature range was very stupid from the get go. Also, to not consider the economic impact, was also stupid, and the CO2-tax is also beyond idiotic since it creates a fake-economy where people buy the right to pollute. That runs counter to the idea of green energy.

I think one should abandon the Paris Agreement and label it as the failure as it was. However had that does not mean that green energy should be abandoned. There need to be more incentives towards green energy (see how Putin uses gas as means to amplify his genocidal activity against Ukrainians). Meaning, companies that verifiably transition towards more renewable, need to get positive incentives to go towards that and maintain it at all times. The CO2 tax should also be eliminated without compensation. And there also has to be more realism - it makes no sense to cut down an economy, producing more unemployment in the process. It has to be a cohesive unit.

Good how and where? That's a very uncritical take you have here.

I find it is way too complicated with regards to flexbox, grid etc...

Just do a google search for flexible divs side by side. Start with two. Then switch to five. Tell me the solutions that work well.

In general I like CSS, but ...

a) they keep on making CSS more and more complex. You can reason in favour of it, of course, but it is undeniable that CSS becomes more and more complex - and complicated, too. Which leads us to b)

b) "CSS Subgrid is a good example. Subgrid is a super-powerful extension to CSS Grid which enables entirely new layouts."

Well ... I wanted two flexible divs side by side. It is possible, but there are like 5 different main strategies for this, grid is one of them.

Now via a "subgrid", they acknowledge that the existing ways SUCK. So they add yet-another-component here. This reminds us of:

https://xkcd.com/927/

I started to go back to oldschool - HTML tables.

People can hate it, but they work really almost flawlessly. I am not saying I use them for everything, but I totally changed my mind after I saw how flexbox and other things SUCK to no ends. So I now compare all of them to HTML tables. If they suck more than HTML tables, I discard them. This is my quality metric now. And a lot of this has to do with developers making these decisions, failing hard at DESIGN. What happened to simplicity? HTML tables are simple for the most part; they are kind of like a grid already.

I just wrote almost the same thing (I start to write my comments before I read what others say, so that it is not influenced directly what I write). I am glad to come to the same conclusion - this website is both visually interesting as well as very annoying.

That website looks weird - was it AI coded?

It is visually interesting but also annoying. I hate to admit it, but as I grow older, I may get dumber and I much prefer simplicity at all times.

As for PHP: it also is a bit weird how programming languages have not yet all fixed existing bugs. Has not AI been used to find bugs or assumed bugs? Why are bugs found in old code still?

> But yay, democracy? We can do anything as long as no one is subjectivly harmed.

USA harms a lot under the orange clown. So first that term you use must be defined - what IS a democracy?

Russia and North Korea also claim to have some kind of democracy some sorts.

There are just too many differences in the term here.

> And when nothing at all gets done, we blame politicians for being lazy, incompetent, or corrupt.

Many are corrupt. Many are incompetent. Many are lazy.

By the way, at best you describe indirect democracy. This one has more limits than democracy, which - conversely - requires more effort.

Don't become dependent on these greedy corporations.

But there is no german verb called "shlingen".

Does the person who wrote this, speak german?

I assume "schlingen" was meant, but this sounds more like "etwas herunterschlingen" aka eating quickly; that was mentioned via "scarf down, as in food", but to me it sounds more like a description of the object that is held here, like a sling.

But why would that be associated with Vienna, anyway? Nothing like that exists in Vienna really. Also I am not sure about that explanation; to sling makes more sense with hurling something in this context. And the thing looks like a huge slinger. Nobody is opening the mouth to eat everything coming out of that thing right?

That name is super-strange.

"Der Viener Schlinger".

So ... "Der" is german, we can translate this into "The".

"Schlinger" is a strange word; there is Schlinge in german, which could be translated as loop, snare or, better, a sling. You can see how similar sling is to Schling or vice versa here. To sling ... may also be herumschlingen, a snake may have a similar movement like that; curvy movement aka not linear or so. Makes sense for a sling that throws stuff about, see the slingshot channel or Tod's Workshop. So far this is a bit strange, but not totally strange.

But next comes ... "Viener". This is VERY strange. Where does this word originate? My first impression was it was from Vienna, a city; the german name for the city is "Wien", and if you replace the V here with a W, then it would be "Wiener" (which in english would be viennese, but in local wording). So when I first read the three words, I thought this originated from Vienna ... but that makes no sense. It's from the USA. So Viener must mean something else. But then why it is "Schlinger" rather than "slinger" or sling"? And why the name "Der"? I mean that only makes sense for a german word. Now I am very confused.

I also don't recall any meat cannon as a tradition in central Europe either, so that makes no sense either. Who coined that word here, anyway?

Right, but distillation is a trivial task, just heat things up properly to their vaporization point. Why would it be forbidden?

The main question is why a government in an allegedly free country thinks it can control what people do. This is not solely confined on forbidding production of liquor but also taps into all those other discussions about "sovereign" citizens. It is a question of how much slavery a government can enact. It is an interesting discussion because on youtube you see many videos where people poke fun at sovereign citizens being largely clueless, but they then don't answer the follow-up question as to how much control a government may have over "its" people. And who controls the making of laws. And why any law xyz would have to be binding - since without enforcement, the law would not be effective (and often is not, anyway, if you are rich).

ESA must defend against Trump-NASA. Recently the USA threatened Europeans again if they "prevent" entry of US-Starlink and other AI slop spam working for Putin. The USA has become a security risk not only for Ukrainians but all Europans under agent Krasnov.

Well, they were always slow. But they made a stand against AI slop, which is great. Look at how AI slop infiltrated the ruby core team. You even get slop-spammed down when you try to interact with e. g. Hiroshi Shibata, who suddenly has ... perfect english language skills. A few years ago his command over the english language was rather weak (which is fine by the way, I much prefer broken english from a real human than AI slop spam text as filter acting in between humans).

Now the BSDs are not so popular compared to Linux, but I think this is great news as more eyes help here. Let's have EVERYTHING from windows portable towards linux. (I struggled with the 32-bit versus 64-bit stuff; this should also be a prime goal for wine to make this a trivial super-easy to solve thing for linux in general. Back then when I ran into this issue, it was not trivial to solve.)

People will need to come together and fix the system.

If a definite majority wants to do so, the system will change. Until then the oligarchs will keep playing one side againts the other, as can currently be seen with Trump amplifying the hate in the population, in order for his cronies to steal more money, start more wars and so forth. He will lose the upcoming elections but he will continue to worship theft and destruction.

And ICE in turn guns down US citizens, as is already documented.

This is literally a repeat, with modification, of Europe in the 1930s. It is not 1:1 comparable, also in part because the US justice system, even if undermined by orange scumbag loyalists, works to some extent still. I am not saying all of it works, but on youtube you can often listen to discussions by several judges discussing issues at hand. I forgot which one it was, but it was linked in "Audit the Audit", and the judges there asked very good, and very objective questions. In the end they denied a cop immunity by default, based on very logical arguments they made. I was quite surprised when I listened to that. It also means that the Trump oligarch team is not able to kill all of the US justice system, even though they placed their agents into it already.

Sounds very french-like in origin. Do all in Switzerland use that though? Even the exclusively german-speaking part? In Austria there is a West-East difference, some words spoken by the Vorarlbergers (most western part) we don't too easily understand in the east (it's quite similar to swiss-german in some ways in the western area, but not identical either).

Is chicken really German though? A hen is called "Huhn" (Das Huhn), and chicken may be more appropriately translated as "Geflügel" (or rather, the latter would be poultry; chicken would be "Huhn" or "Hähnchen"). I don't see the germanic origin insinuated here for the word "chicken", whereas I do so it for "hen" <- "Huhn" quite easily. (And "Geflügel" has "Flügel" which relates more easily to flight/to fly, or better Flügel=wing).

The royals owe us money.

So basically more fine tuned jail controls.

I'd love if chrooting would become easier. In particular a requirement to have bash or a specific shell is annoying; imo a simple REPL should suffice already there. I wrote one that works years ago, need to look into what is all needed for a chroot (I always used bash for this but I'd also want to change to my own shell eventually).

> ultimately AI does not have values, intent, and taste

How do you know that? AI is also software. Who controls that software?

Plus, AI picking up data from real human means they will also incure bias aka "taste".

> Recently, many products are starting to feel messy to me, including products from very successful companies.

Well .. I'd love for AI to vanish ... but ... that statement is also wrong.

It insinuates that prior products are all great. I think this is not universally true. Take GTK. I think gtk2 is better than gtk3 which is better than gtk4 (and gtk5 will be wayland-only). But none of them, individually, was really that great to begin with. QT also feels just way too huge - I get that you get a lot of functionality, but to me it often feels as if these toolkits aren't that great. And the competitors are often worse. This is not solely confined just to the code that powers them, but documentation as well. The gtk4 documentation is a total joke. I learned more about GTK3 from the python examples by the way, which were well documented - I think lazka (Christoph Reiter) wrote or at the least organised most of that (for python-gtk3). Barely anyone seemed to want to use python-gtk4, so that part also could be seen in the documentation being worse for a long time (I have not checked this in the last some months, but back when I checked it, it was that way, it almost seemed like 100x more users of python-gtk3, and even that became a slow dying breed ... evidently the www took a huge toll on the traditional GUIs).

I don't want these "agents", aka private tools of greedy mega-corporations, to ruin the world wide web.

I constantly get pestered by "are you a bot" queries.

They ruined the world wide web here. I did not have that in the 1990s or early 2000s.

Mathematics is needed for numerous things. I do not see it going away.

You literally need maths in just about every science, even in biology - think of statistics or any quantitative data set. Or when you need precision or microscopic analysis. cryo-EM is not possible without particle analysis.

Maths will not go away. It is more important than it used to be and it used to be very important already. Albert Einstein without maths wouldn't have been able to conclude much at all.

Not everyone uses AI though. Some do, some don't. I don't.

Though, I am not really in the lua camp either. But I had to comment on the "only AI counts" transfigurative statement.

Hisham is one of the key devs there. He started GoboLinux, htop and some more.

Personally I am not the biggest fan of lua as it really is such a light language in every sense of the word (meaning, syntax too and features - too light IMO). But it's good that creativity keeps pushing things forward.

The USA no longer "exports" information to Ukraine. This means the USA under agent Krasnov now supports dictator Putin. Gold being exported is another piece of the puzzle.

I think agent Krasnov needs to have all his assets seized and given to The People. That includes the whole corrupt family dynasty. It is fascinating to see how easily the US democracy can be disabled; Yuri explained this in the 1980s already:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw

These prices will skyrocket eventually. AI companies need more money.

RAM prices will also probably stay very high as long as AI companis act in such a parasitic manner.

"In the short term, the focus is on gains in programmer productivity through improved tools and integrated development environments."

They actually were somewhat correct in 1982. While they do not explicitly mention AI, we can summarize that e. g. claude is, in some ways, an "improved tool" for some parts of writing code.

I agree with most of your statements, e. g. mass surveillance and what not.

But I think you make one basic mistake with the "ever purchased something solely because of an ad". Because I believe you may not fully understand human psychology.

Not all ads work as a "buy this now". Some use annoying noises or visual effects to hook a message into the brain. Others just do an ad to promote the brand; that's why they use simple and stupid slogans "that stick".

There are many more reasons here, too many to explain in detail. The bottom line is that ads are not solely confineable towards a "it must get people to buy the product". Yes, that is the base line, but the evil ad company works with various tricks, including targeting children, e. g. the "nagging factor". There are excellent books of how this mafia works. Hopefully we'll eventually manage to abolish ads completely. Naturally with Google's adChromium, this will be a fight mankind has to win in the long run.