tokinonagare

> running Linux

Problem exists between user and hardware. Applied the Firefox salt over the wound doesn't help either. It's a discussion about Macs btw.

I agree, but even online is now heavily censored. It's harder and harder to find a place to express even slightly non-PC opinions. In my opinion this is not gonna produce good results in the long run.

My first personal page was made this way too. Nightmare to debug, since "view source" only gave the XML code, not the computed XHTML.

On the other hand I find it the lamest and most annoying "feature" of the last 10 years. The article itself is a good demonstration (at least on my M1 MBP): as soon as an image has a single pixels row displayed, the luminosity of the whole page fades, and the reverse happens when no image is in sight. The comparison video is the first time ever I see the tech doing anything else than changing the luminosity of the screen.

I bought an early 2015 MBP (my favorite design) when the 2016 models where announced and waited until the M1 to buy a new one again, and the keyboard is good again.

I've seen faddishnes and questionable authorship in a top-3 Japan university too. The lab I was in was a paper mill, the professor even explicitly told student than quantity > quality. I'm glad in France things are getting a bit slower but deeper (from my observations).

> but the outcome may be potentially disheartening for you, because those guys may actually succeed one way or another

Your sentence is very contradictory to say the least! I'll be very glad for each of them to succeed in any way.

I'm giving a programming class and students uses LLMs all the time. I see it as a big problem because:

- it puts focus on syntax instead of the big picture. Instead of finding articles or posts on Stack explaining things beyond how to write them. AI give them the "how" so they don't think of the "why"

- students almost don't ask questions anymore. Why would they when an AI give them code?

- AI output contains notions, syntax and API not seen in class, adding to the confusion

Even the best students have a difficult time answering basic questions about what have been seen on the last (3 hours) class.

It's less hilarious when whole country policies are made on those assumptions thus ruining it economically (notably), and voicing any concerns is threatened with legal force.

In France the official dogma of the educated is that every difference is cultural, and races don't exist. My father for example strongly held and defend those beliefs. Somehow he gets very angry when I ask why there is wide academic achievement difference between his children despite growing in the same environment, or how Japanese people could instantly guess I'm a foreigner while not uttering a single words. I think that deep down all those people know the truth but they don't want to admit it, nor admit it to other for fear of the social consequences.

> Democracies around the world are increasingly looking to surveil and expose private data of their citizens, and introducing laws where simple act of defiance will become criminal.

Not only that, but also trying to ban platforms that don't follow their censorship guidelines (TikTok in the US, X under scrutiny in UE) and even voiding elections when the result is not good (Romania) under very slim technology-related pretense (somehow a few ads are deemed enough to cancel an election, but 24/7 oriented news from every established newspapers in another country like France is totally OK). It's becoming harder and harder to believe in said democracy when the methods are all but looking like the ones used in non-democracies.

Maybe the insecurity of the city since he mentions the evening? Hardly somethings specific to mathematicians tho. It's seems like a weird AI-generated rant.

I have a theory for a long time that "democracy" as a concept is pushed so strongly in the West not because it really favors people nor for its effectiveness but because it nulls political assassinations and delegitimates them. Thus it is an extremely good system for the rulers.

Upvoting too.

> Unless, that is, I agree to work on a comparable solution for the university focused on solving the underlying problem I was building HuskySwap for. They would presumably own the IP and were clear that I wouldn’t be compensated. But it was implied that they would then remove the hold, allowing me to graduate.

Wow. Literally blackmailing a student to do illegal work (at least would be categorized like that in my country). A student that already paid money for class and potentially a degree the univ is trying to block, mind blowing. OP, 1000% lawyer up.

I wish the same. That being said, given how useless Apple Intelligence is, how it isn't deployed in the EU and how it's gatekept by newer hardware, it's still very easy to ignore it. It's even easier on Mac where new versions doesn't bring anything worth upgrading for a non Apple-only developper (still running Sonoma).

> Apple refines what others have attempted before, that's what they're good at.

Exactly. And often the first version is often kind of meh (iPhone, Watch, Vision Pro) but they keep iterating and later versions become really good. Sometimes it's a hit directly (M1), it's still very iterative on whatever came before.

May help some foreigners with the consonants, but the vowels will probably still pronounced incorrectly due to English's Great Vowel Shift. Kunreishiki will still be used in linguistics as it fit better the phonology, and some kana are easier to type this way when using alphabet input.

> It felt like the ARM laptops were rushed about a year too early...

It's like this every year since the Windows RT laptops : 2012.

> The iPhone especially in America is a unique case.

iPhones have a >50% market share in Japan, Canada, and in a few European countries (Danmark, Sweden). The common point I see between all those is that they are high-income countries.

I don't thing it's a money problem. It's more like a framing issue, with some reviewers being too narrow-minded, or lacking background knowledge on the topic of the paper. It's not uncommon to have a full lab with people focussing on very different things, when you look in the details, the exact researchers interests don't overlap too much.

Those fans would probably be as vocal if a white actor was casted for the main role in a Black Panther movie.

Both can be true. They're even complementary I'd say: the DEI policies are like social greenwashing for how poorly they treat their employees.

I had to change a lightning cable once, after years of daily use, and it wasn't the connector the issue. I wonder what was the people owing the cable you saw did with them...

Just use winget if you can a command line style install. It's strange (to not use a stronger word) to expect apt to work on Windows instead of the native alternative. It's like if someone complained explorer.exe does not work on a GNU/Linux distribution.

It seems there wasn't an official one before; the one used was from or derived from a book which is understandable why it could be problematic.

This is a just a small list with very few information, smaller than what Wikipedia lists[1], and even include error in capitalization (SIchuan pepper). This is a bit underwhelming for a "visionary entrepreneur".

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_culinary_herbs_and_spi...

It's indeed crazy how expensive McDo meals had become. When I was a student I used to eat 2/3 hamburgers 1€ each, and something the 2€ local thing too. Now those doubled or tripled. A maxi best of is at least 12€. Sorry but at this price I'll eat anywhere else. The only thing I'm eating these days is the 5€ menu with 4 items in it, the happy meal at 4€ when there's Pokémon cards as toy and the Mac First when it is at 6€ (spoiler: it's often closer to 7€ in most place now).

That being said even kebabs are a luxury now. What used to be 3€ or 5€ with fries and drink is now 7/8€ alone, or 12€ in combo with fries or drink. Well, one more think I'll eat way less than before.

> using Latex

Sorry no. It took me two days to fix a template I got from the internet to display all the writing systems I want. Plus I had a manually fix a hardcoded value in the bibliography template to use French while I had to use the bibliography in an English context so references don't get screwed with space inserted before colons. My dissertation is filed \foreignlanguage{xxx}{yyy} and \textit and I hate it.

> you should... / git gud

No. I have something to write, in addition to all the other things I do, and any time searching for commands or packages online to make things work is pure wasted. If Word had a better CVS and modular story I would have gladly stick with it.

> Too many spammy applications from Chinese?

As I explain in my own post, to many Chinese applicants, period. A lot of Chinese students are very good, but since China population is huge and a lot wants to go abroad (student visa is a door for immigration) there simply too much demand to go in what is a smaller country in comparison.

Taiwanese are definitively seen in a different light than Chinese, however there isn't a strong awareness of the shared past between the two countries in younger generations.

Of course the act is controversial, but it's more interesting to look at why it's happening. No, it's no "racism". There are plenty of Chinese students in Japanese university labs at graduate level. It depends on the branch, but for some speciality it's not rare to have half of graduate students being Chinese. Master degrees and PhD are no very attractive to the native since a bachelor is already almost a guarantee to get a good job, so I an way Japanese research is done on the back of international students, including a lot of Chinese.

The thing is Japan universities have an issue with the number of (good) Chinese students applicants. They already have some special rules, but they can't be too special either. Which mean that without further tweaks, almost no other international applicants would get accepted. University already raised the requirement to the level of Japanese for exchange students a decade ago for that reason, but that didn't solved anything since Chinese writing and vocabulary plus education style give them an edge to reach the highest levels of JLPT easier than other foreigners.

I don't need any TV channel nor statistics for my girlfriend to come home shocked because a friend of her got his apple watch and bag stolen that day, to witness a Japanese girl at an event having her bag stolen during the night, to be aggressed verbally in the station, to have a friend shot in a terror attack (Bataclan), to have an islamic attack at the Christmas market in my town, etc. all the common point here are immigrants or their descendants from non white and non Asian countries.

> I can't even come up with enough terror attacks in Europe to reach 100 deaths in 2024.

Go touch grass ffs! Your reply is infuriating to any victim of terrorism. A single death or wounded from islamic terrorism (the only that really exist) is too much already. If that's not enough for you, please line up with your family and friends and sign to be the next victims and we'll see if "not even 100 deaths" is a good thing or not.