Ioper
8d ago
I don't remember anyone even suggesting publicly owned grocery stores.
I believe KF - Konsum filled that role in Sweden. It wasn't technically publically owned but was so intimately tied with the workers movement that it filled much of the same role that a state owned enterprise would. Nowadays noone talks about it, especially due to the commercial failure and consistently higher prices of COOP. Dissatisfaction is mostly channeled toward some kind of market interventions like anti-monopolistic actions agains the largest commercial actors and in the more radical sphere, price controls.
Ioper
23d ago
Of course, text chatting and correspondence is no longer very popular except in niche circumstance,
Have you missed the popularity of discord servers?
Ioper
23d ago
I can't remember this ever being a problem and I even tried lighting a lamp i had at home and tried to see if I could detect any notable smell, which there was only a very mild one.
Googling a little it seems like kerosene can have a pungent smell when burning but that the oil that is sold for indoor lamps is purposefully made to smell less.
Perhaps your relative got the wrong kind of oil or used a bad lamp where the oil didn't burn clean?
Ioper
23d ago
This also 100% applies to this forum's rule effectively banning AI. It's a bad rule overall.
While I agree in general, this forum relies on people engaging with long posts in a thread sorted by new. If long posts are easy to generate but costly in time to evaluate then this forum can't really function.
Wick based lamps are plenty bright and the only kind of lamp oil lamp I've ever used, and those are earlyish Victorian.
Ioper
23d ago
I tried it myself once but it turned out that lighting even a small room with candles is surprisingly hard.
Which is why you use oil lamps. Really easy to regulate light levels with as well.
While I'd say the only thing easy to answer is "does it compile", reading your other list I'd say I largely agree with your assesment.
LLMs can be a force multiplier for SWEs, but that doesn't mean they're good programmers. They're not programmers at all.
Looking at the points you made in your other post I'd argue that the biggest force multiplier is your first point and that this is a pretty big deal and bigger than people might first realise, especially non-engineers.
The second one is the issue I'm having with claims about LLM usability. Its kind of like dealing with mediocre Indian resources. You have break down and define the problem to such a degree that you've "almost" written the code yourself. This can still be useful and depending on your role very useful, but it isn't effectively replacing local resources either. Its not a method for solving problems but more of an advanced auto complete.
How useful is this? It depends on the situation and indivual and I'd rate it as moderately useful. Having managed developers, it also seems like something that (for some people) can feel like more of a productivity boost than it is due to time being spent differently (I'm not saying you're doing this).
Notice how he didn't say that they're good at coding? He said that they're useful for his job.
LLMs are useful for SWEs, at least for some types some of the time. There is value here but they're poor programmers and to use them effectively you have to be relatively competent.
Its also very easy to fool yourself into thinking that they're much more valuable than they really are, likely due to how eloquently and verbosely they answer queries and requests.
Ioper
24d ago
Depending on where you are this might not be an option but I usually go to some restaurant or café in the city center with outdoor seating and do some people watching while drinking a beer, eating or having a coffee. If there is a waterfront you can also go there.
Wealth and income have nothing to do with each other in Sweden. You become wealthy by either starting wealthy, starting a company, or in extremely rare cases invest your way there (or win the literal lottery). Capital gains are practically not taxed in Sweden so being wealthy here is great! Having a high income what's taxed and that doesn't lead to wealth.
Ioper
26d ago
Normally I'd agree but the situation is already unsustainable and rapidly spinning out of control. Massive fiscal reform needs to happen soon and I doubt that cuts to future entitlements that obviously were never going to happen would garner more opposition than cuts to current entitlements.
Ioper
27d ago
So it isn't a problem because you plan to cut entitlements and raise taxes? How does that make it different from any other unfunded entitlement?
Ioper
27d ago
all major spending was Medicare, Medicaid and defense
There is also the biggest budget post by far: social security.
DCC is definitely a big name but several people have independently warned me against it as apparently the author is prone to long, smug /r/atheism style rants which I've had more than enough of elsewhere.
Are you sure you're not mixing up DCC with "He who fights with monsters"? This doesn't sound like DCC and sounds very much like HWFWM, and is likely the second largest LitRPG series out there.
They will have the choice of how much to care for them. Also, cuts doesn't mean abolishment. Balancing the budget for SS and Medicare means less care, not no care, especially if combined with a mild tax increase, which seems it could be sold through everyone having to do "their part".
Only some 15% of the American population currently receives retirement benefits from SS and some 20% are on Medicare. It doesn't seem unreasonable for the rest to be in favor of large cuts here due to their unsustainable nature and limited likelihood to benefit much more people due to the looming insolvency.
Ioper
28d ago
I don't know if you include hybrids in that but I see plenty of people getting hybrids. Its a combination of lack of charging infrastructure and perhaps a Sweden specific issue (in the context of Europe) of people genuinely driving longer distances relatively regularly, leading to range issues. This is not at all a question of cost, seeing as hybrids are as or even more expensive than pure electric.
Its about 50/50 with electric and hybrids sales.
The issue with this analysis is that a lot of it is factually incorrect. College grads make more than ever, easily pay back student loans and unemployment is at historic lows.
AI might take jobs in the future that aren't replaced by other jobs, but that is hardly certain and similar worries have existed in the past.
The only thing real here is the housing crisis and fertility decline. I would add mass immigration to that, which doesn't really seem to create much problems in the US in the sense of unemployment, crime, integration and burdening the welfare systems; but regardless causes much contention, while in Europe it seems more of broader and bigger issue.
Finally, solutions have been proposed to all of these issues and they aren't even hard to implement, it's just that the majority doesn't want to. Its like balancing the American budget, it's super easy but people don't want to (raise taxes, cut (mostly elderly) entitlements). Not even populists who say they want to do it want to do it.
The only thing neo-liberalism is actively opposed to fixing and what seems to be it's downfall is immigration.
Ioper
30d ago
You're not boned but it sounds to me like something has to change. Being 'badly burned out" and collapsing after every work day isn't sustainable. You shouldn't worry about being fired, you can always find a new job, you should be worried about actually severe burn out. Burnout where you can't work at all for a long time and possibly never being able to work full time in your current position again.
I don't know what you need to change but something clearly has to. You only have one body. Don't break it.
If you liked the magic ship series you should definetly go back. The assassins series is set in the same world (but a different location) and is arguably superior.
I'd recommend all her books except the soldier son series. She likes to challenge or torture her characters but I found that series too bleak for my tastes.
This seems like just partisan politics, nothing religious about it.
Their team bad.
Our team good.
There is an issue? Obviously their team did something bad and we need more funding for our team.
Yes?
Absolutely and there was some criticism to that effect in the 19th century and early 20th century but the cooperatives and the workers movement got so intertwined that the criticism died down.
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