Ich denke, dass es einige AfD-Wähler gibt, die wirklich glauben, wenn man einfach nur die anderen Armen los wird, dass dann genug Geld für ihre Interessen da ist.

Wenn man sich Moral sowieso nicht leisten kann und die Faktenlage bzgl. Vermögensverteilung nicht so wirklich auf dem Schirm hat, dann ist das bestimmt leicht zu glauben. Den Gegenbeweis in der Praxis zu haben, ist da viel wert. Wobei eine Lösung der finanziellen Probleme nachhaltiger wäre.

I imagine, you guys might be measuring with two different scales. Early Windows versions were fine, but even back then, a switch to Linux would give you so much more customizability to actually make it yours.

This is a dumb anecdote, but I switched to Linux from Windows 8, and pretty much the first thing I did, was to figure out how to hide the window titlebars. Mostly because I realized, I could, but they also just took screen space away on my laptop.

Aside from the technology stack being the embodiment of vendor lock-in and misery, the scamming is really what makes me not want to work on Generative AI tasks, or whatever the next hype thing is going to be.

The worst part is that many people want to be scammed. We have customers come to us, asking for a solution to a problem they’ve had for long time, and asking it to be solved with GenAI.
Then we tell them that there’s really no use-case for GenAI there, that it could be better solved for half the money using traditional methods.

At which point, they ask us to integrate GenAI in some place anyways, because otherwise their boss will not give them the money. And of course, that boss also has a boss who also only frees up budget for GenAI.
And that just repeats upwards, until you have shareholders at the top, who eat up the hype, because other shareholders eat up the hype.

Ew, what the hell, man. Why would you know what ikea meatballs taste like?

Normally, your dotfiles/stow folder should mirror the structure in your home-directory.

I found this explanation helpful: https://share.tube/w/2d2409df-ab66-471e-8021-8178baca06d4

The guy does use a somewhat opinionated stow setup. It doesn’t have to be this way. But I do think, it’s a good setup either way.

Man hätte entscheiden können, nicht gegen das Ergebnis dieser demokratischen Entscheidung zu protestieren, um nicht noch mehr Vergleiche mit der NSDAP auf sich zu ziehen. Man hat sich dagegen entschieden.

There can also be circumstances where you have to offer people a natural-looking key for general consumption. You can’t put UUID’s on car plates for example.

Often times, the first section of the UUID is unique enough. With certain UI design choices, one can encourage users to normally work with that, while having the full UUID available in a detail view or from a copy-button.

Another strategy I quite like, is to have the UUID as the definitely-always-unique identifier, and then have a separate name, which either the users can enter or we generate something like random adjective+animal.

But yes, neither of those strategies would work for car plates.

Wir haben aktuell eine Studentin bei der Arbeit, die ursprünglich aus Bayern kommt. Und letztens hat sie knallhart gesagt, dass sie bewusst eine Hochschule ausgesucht hat, die etwas weiter weg liegt, weil sie keine Wohnung in Bayern nehmen wollte.

Jo, bei der FDP halt mehr Freie Marktwirtschaft…

Well, in a neighborhood, cars won’t always be driving 50 km/h. And the engine will be especially loud, when they need to accelerate after a turn or whatever.

Either way, I do hear the difference when an electric car goes by.

Hmm, interesting idea, to ask the user to provide the overall intent by making them edit/write the plan, since the LLM can’t do intent.

But man, we’ve recently had a number of programming beginners join us in our relatively large codebase, and I’ve basically had to write such a plan, i.e. step-by-step instructions, for them many times.

It just means that I go through the whole codebase and have to think everything through, without doing it myself.
It often took similarly long do that, and formulate instructions, as it would have taken me to write the code myself. Because obviously we’re using a high-level programming language, so there’s not many detail problems which are easier to describe in a natural language.

It’s also incredibly difficult to provide correct instructions that way, since I don’t get to read the existing code while I write the code.
And reviewing their code to figure out what came from it, that binds even more time.

So, yeah, it really doesn’t sound like this LLM thing would save me time either…

Just upload it again. That should make it disappear.

In this case, I was referring to the URL bar search. I rarely use the other one.

And well, this isn’t really a solution, but as a techie, if you really need that, then what you could do, is to install sqlitebrowser and open the places.sqlite file in your Firefox profile folder.
Then you can run SQL queries to your heart’s content.

I don’t really understand why they decided to introduce this. Chrome’s history search was always rather poor compared to Firefox’s, and I always figured, they wanted people to search with Google Search instead.

That is a way of upholding their monopoly with their other monopoly, which they could theoretically get slapped for by competition regulators.
But in practice, it would be hard to sue them for having a bad implementation of a feature.

I am 100% on board with people doing with their body whatever they want. Restricting that is just ridiculous.
But that also necessarily means, they can decide to do immoral things with their body, which I do not need to be a fan of. And that’s where I’m still somewhat undecided on how to think of the whole sex work industry.

As you say, to some degree, it is simply mental care for those customers. I do think, the offering should exist.
But it’s also all too easy for it to become extremely exploitative.

I’m thinking, in some far-off, progressive future (not sure, if we get there before work stops really being a thing), there would be self-help groups or simply therapy offerings, for those who spend their life earnings on getting sex work done.

I do agree that this harsh language can push people away. I rarely use it myself for that reason. But whether to use it or not, is their personal decision.

As for your dictionary definition comment, I am absolutely on board with it being removed. It was extremely tone-deaf.
You do not need to answer me, but ask yourself the following: Did you really think, they were not aware of the dictionary definition?

They were purposefully using a non-standard word. You could have argued their decision to use that word, if you really felt that strongly about it, although frankly, just don’t do that either. They’ve almost certainly thought about this more than you have, and there’s also just no need to discuss something like that all the time.

The way I interpreted your comment is that you personally felt uncomfortable with their use of language, so you felt an urge to react to it in any way whatsoever. Absolutely understandable.
But that is precisely what this whole post is about. People, who eat meat, will feel uncomfortable with the discussions we have here and then they respond to argue things that really do not need arguing.

Like, if you notice a factual mistake in a post, I welcome you to correct that. Intentional different usage of language is not a mistake, though.

What the absolute fuck. How do you look at the MAGA trainwreck and think, that’s something we should copy.

In my team, 2 out 15 people come to the office regularly, because they prefer the separation of work from free time.

I can definitely see some benefits from being on-site. You do occasionally just run into people, who can tell you really useful things for your job. And it’s definitely harder to keep track of what my wider team is working on, since we’ve gone mostly remote.

But those benefits just as well evaporate when “on-site” becomes two or more locations. I’m not going to run into someone who’s in a different office in a different city.
If I have to actively work together with people from different locations, I will also be wearing headphones all day, not able to socialize with the people around me. That makes it rather pointless to go into the office.

And yeah, just the flexibility of being at home is really useful. I can take a break from work to load my washing machine. I can sleep until 5 minutes before my first meeting. Or I can walk to the store in the morning, when it’s still cool outside.
So yeah, personally, I certainly wouldn’t go back to a fully on-site job, unless it’s somehow the best job in the world in other ways.

While definitely true, then it still shouldn’t be required to come in at all times. Hopefully, you can automate tests to the point where you do not need to physically interact with real hardware every day. And then it should be up to you, whether you want to come in or not.

Hopefully, you do also understand then that this distinction between “murder” and “slaughter” exists, because people wanted to apply different moral standards to it. Since we vegans disagree with having those different standards, we also disagree with what’s the correct word.