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bus_factor ,

To be fair, any modern truck built for the US market will kill you on the spot, usually by squishing you like a bug against the grill. A Cybertruck is low enough that it will probably just chop off your legs, so you probably still die, but you can have a half open casket! 🎉

bus_factor ,

Why not skip the middle man and ask ChatGPT directly?

bus_factor ,

Fair, I was thinking in the context of Stack Overflow.

bus_factor ,

They were acquired recently.

Mirabilis created ICQ. AOL bought Mirabilis in 1998. Russian investor DST (which soon became Mail.ru and later VK) bought ICQ from AOL in 2010, probably because Russians were among the few nationalities still using it. Russians were over 25% of the hits, and it was the biggest instant messenger in Russia at the time. They also own VKontakte, hence why they're directing people there.

bus_factor ,

Russians kept using it, just like Brazilians kept Orkut alive for years.

bus_factor ,

You probably mean Comic Chat. It was actually just an IRC client, and I think it's still usable (but frustratingly ineffective) today. But there is a website where you can convert IRC logs to it, I think.

bus_factor ,

Yeah, that was my assumption as well. I wonder how they're going to work around that SO is getting spammed with AI-generated answers, though. You really don't want your LLM cannibalizing itself.

bus_factor ,

Eh, tech companies also push out shitty stuff, and sometimes the shitty stuff is hardware.

bus_factor ,

I went to a top university in Norway. My tuition was about $80 per year. All in all various student discounts on everything from haircuts to car repairs to housing, my tuition was effectively negative. I spent a good chunk on books, but rarely used them, and honestly could have saved the money. Considering everyone gets a scholarship from the government for the first 7 years (would have been converted to a loan if I didn't pass enough credits worth of classes), I effectively got paid to study. I still had student loans, because they were interest free while I was a student and cheaper than a mortgage after. I spent some on food and housing, and saved the rest. Like most Norwegians I was not in a hurry to pay it down. Student debt is generally low priority for Norwegians to pay down due to the cheap interest.

bus_factor ,

Did you reboot as part of updating? If so, the reboot could have fixed it.

Also, how often do you check for updates when you're not having problems? How long have the updates been out before you have performance issues and look for them?

A German state is ditching Windows and Microsoft Office for Linux and LibreOffice on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions (www.theregister.com)

Schleswig-Holstein, Germany's most northern state, is starting its switch from Microsoft Office to LibreOffice, and is planning to move from Windows to Linux on the 30,000 PCs it uses for local government functions....

bus_factor ,

I fully expect this to get backtracked almost immediately. From my experience most government employees can barely handle a browser upgrade with a UI change, and they will 100% throw a collective fit if their Word and/or Outlook goes away.

bus_factor ,

Debian Edu has existed for over a decade, originally as a Norwegian distro called Skolelinux ("school Linux"). I'm not sure how they differ from regular Debian at this point, but a big part of the original project was high quality translations.

bus_factor ,

Yeah, and their latest release was 5 months ago, so they're probably still a thing.

bus_factor ,

Washers usually give better estimates than dryers. How long something takes to dry depends on the material used. The washer doesn't care about anything but weight.

bus_factor ,

They're talking about operationally. They don't want to configure and distribute a bajillion dongles to users.

bus_factor ,

YubiKeys have almost every imaginable form factor these days. Here's the USB-C version without NFC:

YubiKey 5C

bus_factor ,

Pretty sure it's always been upfront with that it still tracks you? I always thought of it as a "don't store history and cookies locally" thing and nothing more. Maybe I read that disclaimer with more cynicism than most?

bus_factor ,

They absolutely can, several carriers who use other carriers are cheaper than who they lease service from. They won't be paying consumer prices to use those towers.

It all depends on what margins they have, what extra services they provide, and whether they have other ways of monetizing you. They might even be reselling at a loss to boost their initial market share. In Google's case, it's safe to assume they want your data and sacrifice some margins to get it.

bus_factor ,

This is the Unlimited Plus plan. Their Simply Unlimited plan throttles you after 5 GB of hotspot usage, but phone data is unlimited.

bus_factor ,

I can't be bothered to research every plan to answer this question, but Mint Mobile was dirt cheap while using T-Mobile service. They probably still are, but it arguably doesn't count anymore since T-Mobile acquired them.

bus_factor ,

I never claimed you did. I just clarified which plan you were on, and added how their other plan works. This could be nice for others to know. I don't know why you'd take that as a personal attack, but I certainly didn't intend it as one.

bus_factor ,

I read somewhere that about 50% of vinyl owners don't have a player. Presumably that 50% only have very few records and bought them for the looks, but still.

bus_factor ,

In my experience "USians" is usually used by butthurt Spanish speakers who think that because America means one thing in Spanish it has to mean the same thing in every other language.

bus_factor , (edited )

No, you don't have a point. You're missing the point. The point is that America in English is not the same word as America in Spanish. They're false friends.

False friends is the linguistics term for two words spelled the same in two languages, but with different meaning. For example, the word "glass" means ice cream in Swedish. We don't tell the Swedish they're using the word "glass" wrong, we accept that it has a different meaning in Swedish.

Sometimes the false friends are pretty subtle. The word "må" means "may" in Danish, but "must" in Norwegian. This can sometimes lead to misunderstandings, because unlike the ice cream example above, you don't get any hints from context. You just have to know.

It's the same deal with America. English-speaking countries (yes, the UK too), and all of the Nordics for that matter, use a continental model where North and South America are separate continents, and America is shorthand for United States of America. And the superior amount of Spanish speaking countries don't give them the right to tell English speakers what words should mean in their native language.

bus_factor ,

I got it on Blu-Ray, because fuck "buying" things on streaming platforms. I'll rent stuff there, but let's not pretend "buying" is anything but an undefined extension on your rental.

bus_factor ,

I don't usually care about cars, but for 6 months after every time I see that movie, I kinda do.

bus_factor ,

Gone in 60 Seconds is fantastic, except that one tiny scene in the final fight where he's hanging from his fingertips and the bad guy stands around almost stepping on them without noticing. I'm willing to suspend my disbelief to some extent, but that scene is an insult, and so close to the end that the sour aftertaste lingers past the credits. I should really just rip the Blu-ray and edit it out.

bus_factor ,

Windows NT came out of the failed collaboration with IBM and was originally meant to be OS/2 3.0. MS switched the APIs from OS/2 compatible to Windows compatible after Windows 3.0 took off, and it caused the collaboration to fall apart.

bus_factor ,

I bought a 65" TV in 2013. It's good enough for me. I don't need 4k at home. It got zapped after 9 years, but there were tons of power supply boards on eBay for $40 each. Turns out a lot of people break the display and sell the other parts.

bus_factor ,

You just know it's going to be some stupid AI shit.

bus_factor ,

All the head start in the world can't save you when you have Elon Musk as CEO. He decided years ago that sensors like LIDAR and such are expensive and unnecessary, "because people can drive with just their eyes". So now Teslas rely exclusively on cameras, and have a much harder time figuring out the shape of stuff around them. Can't add sensors with a software update, so they'll be behind for a good while more.

bus_factor ,

Different goals. The goal of Apollo was to make a good app. The goal of the official reddit app is to show you ads and siphon money off you.

I guarantee you a good chunk of that R&D money is for making ads more profitable and other monetization.

bus_factor ,

You forgot same email address.

bus_factor ,

Days? When my company went public employees couldn't sell their stock for several months. And as soon as we could the price tanked, because everyone wanted to cash out.

The selling was understandable, having 80% of your net worth in a single stock is scary, but hundreds of first-time stock owners doing a fire sale didn't do the stock price any favors.

bus_factor ,

I honestly can't tell how this comic is supposed to be funny.

bus_factor ,

New Hondas with front cameras (used for adaptive cruise control and lane departure warnings) will read speed limit signs to display them in the dashboard.

It only parses the number, so if a US car is in Canada it will say the speed limit is 110 mph on the highway. If these GM cars do the same they'd probably think any Canadian car going for a weekend trip to the US did so at prison-worthy speeds.

bus_factor ,

Call me a pussy, but I don't DIY things which can kill me if it malfunctions. A gentle maiming is all I'm willing to risk.

bus_factor ,

Oh, I've done plenty of work on cars, I just don't fuck with the brakes.

Well, I used to, when I had an 80s Toyota. Modern cars are too hard to work on, and honestly don't need that much work either.

bus_factor ,

Definitely requires some research to find a good one. I'm not suggesting getting your brakes done at Jiffy Lube.

bus_factor ,

That's obviously false. Tons of stuff is both lower stakes and easier than brakes. Changing simple stuff like lights, fuses, battery, wiper blades, wheels or oil, tons of other stuff. The only way brakes is the easiest part to work on is by arbitrarily excluding lots of other stuff from counting as "working on your car".

bus_factor ,

That's a fair point. I've started having income since then, though, so now I just send my car to scheduled maintenance.

bus_factor ,

Depends on the engineer. Some make the software which does the math.

bus_factor ,

I think you'll find that the line between "computer scientist" and "software engineer" is rather blurred.

bus_factor ,

Although to be fair most simulation code I've come across was written by Physics majors who really shouldn't be writing code. Most of those implementations are a crime against engineering and humanity alike.

They do the job, though, and I suppose crimes against engineering are better than crimes against physics, if one had to choose.

bus_factor ,

It can probably even run Half-Life no problem. It was based on a mish-mash of the Quake 1 and 2 engines with some extensions.

bus_factor ,

That's interesting. My trilingual kids definitely translate individual words, but I guess the real bar here is to translate sentences such that the structure is correct for the languages?

bus_factor ,

It also didn't help that Poettering isn't particularly popular on a personal level. I think there would have been a lot less drama if he had better people skills.

bus_factor ,

Doesn't take much to get death threats on the Internet, unfortunately. He probably would have received less of them with a better attitude, though. He wasn't full-on Ulrich Drepper, but still pretty divisive.

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