SkoomaDentist
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SkoomaDentist
12d ago
How dare you suggest anything like that?!
SkoomaDentist
12d ago
Why would the ukrainians do that? They must have ulterior motives.
Indeed. What possible reason could the Ukrainians have to make the war more costly for Russia by striking against targets that Russia can't easily replace. It truly boggles the mind... /s
SkoomaDentist
13d ago
Chatgpt is my worst enemy. Chatgpt is every woman in HR I've ever interacted with.
Rather fittingly my boss in my previous job would use ChatGPT to translate our performance reviews to hyped corporate speech that HR drones would understand on the assumption that nobody important would ever care about the real contents.
SkoomaDentist
14d ago
So would you say they should be renamed to something like MSLTATAH (Make Sweet Love To All The Asian Hoes)?
SkoomaDentist
14d ago
Same here in Finland except from 7-8 years old unless one parent was stay at home or had only a part time job. We were surprised when we found out kids in US stayed so late at after school activities and figured it’d be very exhausting if we had to also do that.
I think you’re mixing two things under one label: the so-called ”vapaa kasvatus” where no limits at all are placed on the children ("to not stifle their creativity" or some such bullshit) and the one where you allow kids to come in and go out as long as they’re back for dinner and you have a decent idea of where they are (with a neighbor’s kids / school friend / nearby forest) but do your best to teach right from wrong and how to be responsible. The first was derided by the very early 90s when I was a teen and old enough to be aware of the public opinion. The second was how I and pretty much all of our neighborhood and my school friends were raised in the 80s and early 90s. The idea was that parents taught their kids how to behave but didn’t have to watch after them every waking moment (and other parents would report to yours if you got into trouble). A sort of trust but verify kind of thing.
SkoomaDentist
17d ago
The list of reputable publications quickly gets very small when you raise standards to expect at least good faith reporting and quality. I can think of only two Finnish publications that I consider to do actual journalism today.
SkoomaDentist
17d ago
Pick a suburb in Ohio and compare it to one in Florida or Texas.
What if you compare it to one in say Alabama, Louisiana, Mississippi or New Mexico?
Granted, I don't live on that side of the Atlantic Ocean but Florida and Texas have never seemed to me to be modal examples of "the South".
SkoomaDentist
20d ago
Because the research is limited by both funding and competent people. Unless the first gets transferred more or less immediately, the competent people will disappear because they don't want to wait years in a limbo before getting on with their career. Sure, you'll eventually get replacements but those are effectively brand new research programs and it takes years to get them off the ground.
SkoomaDentist
21d ago
Linux development is heavily biased toward prioritizing server requirements over desktop requirements when they conflict.
Often to a ridiculous extent as seen in all the schedulers where huge benefits in desktop use are rejected from mainline in favor of 0.1% throughput increase in servers.
SkoomaDentist
22d ago
And he does it using the infamous Beat Kangz Beat Thang!
SkoomaDentist
22d ago
I'd put Greek civil war as a result of WW2 given that it already started during WW2 in practise. Spanish civil war counts, tho.
SkoomaDentist
22d ago
The point is that US isn't / wasn't recently a part of a larger state breaking up, is not engaged in a major war nearby, has no direct ethnic conflicts that would map to side A vs side B and there isn't a more powerful state meddling and intentionally triggering a civil war in US. The civil wars that come to mind were all driven by one of those four factors (which don't apply to US) or are / were in countries that aren't by any meaningful definition "modern and industrialized" (ie. various African conflicts).
SkoomaDentist
22d ago
it's just very hard for an urbanized, industrialized, well-developed country to have a civil war.
Have there even been civil wars in modern industrialized states that weren't linked to the larger state breaking up (Yugoslavia), another war, clear ethnic conflict or another more powerful state meddling and triggering the war?
SkoomaDentist
23d ago
In related news Trump administration just revoked Harvard's ability to enroll international students by terminating the Harvard University’s Student and Exchange Visitor Program certification. Apparently this will also force their current exchange students to transfer to other schools or lose their legal status.
Feel free to substitute a better term for "clear detachment from factual reality on some issues where the person was before well aware of the reality". Tesla's idea of wireless power transmission fundamentally cannot work because of the interaction of inverse square law and Maxwell's equations. Tesla, having invented the AC induction motor, was well aware of those equations and his inventions relied on them. Thus to later pivot to "No, that's actually bullshit and I'll just transfer power wirelessly without direct beaming" is a sign of either that or generally losing his wits (ie. senility).
As @TeknOSheEeP mentioned, you can beam power but that's fundamentally the same as just pointing a giant flashlight in one direction, only using microwaves in the hope of better conversion efficiency. A key fact is that it relies on a tightly directional beam, something which requires wavelength much shorter than the dimensions of the transmitter. Otherwise you've just built a plain old radio transmitter which (again because of inverse square law) are extremely inefficient as far as the received power goes.
SkoomaDentist
25d ago
wireless power transmission like Tesla always dreamed of
Tesla's dream of wireless power transmission was mostly just him going senile / developing schizophrenic symptoms. His earlier inventions that he made his fame from relied on the same laws of physics that were well known by then to make such long distance wireless power transmission inherently extremely inefficient (there's a reason any modern "beamed power transmission" concepts use parabolic antennae and microwave wavelengths).
SkoomaDentist
25d ago
I never did figure out why classical geometry was given such place in our high school curriculum. It seemed that any time I wanted to actually use geometry for anything, it was strictly better to use coordinate geometry and trigonometry. Then again, I still consider proofs to be a waste of time unless you want to study mathematics for its own sake.
SkoomaDentist
26d ago
I was expecting some bangin’ black metal (translated lyrics) and all I get is some shitty hiphop?
Son, I am disappoint.
SkoomaDentist
26d ago
we're not listening to mainstream music (which is blatantly satanic)
Where would one find this ”blatantly satanic” mainstream music?
Asking for a friend,
SkoomaDentist
27d ago
However, you are correct that, on occasion, businesses don't think their promos through.
Sometimes even for permanent ones. An example I ran into yesterday was that the Steinberg Cubase Pro DAW costs 575e to buy. However the combination of their cheapest audio interface (IXO12 at 49e) that comes with the lite version Cubase AI and upgrade from AI to Pro (279e) ends up costing barely over half that and you get an audio interface you can give to a friend. Those deals have been in effect for over a year or longer.
SkoomaDentist
29d ago
Timed tests are too much for ADHD students.
Errr, what? Why on earth would they be? If anything, being in such timed situation helps with getting things done when you have ADHD.
SkoomaDentist
30d ago
Alas, these electronics vendors do not typically sell to hobbyists.
Many of them do (likely because they realize that "hobbyist" might be in a position to decide where to order parts for a company in a year or two). They just have somewhat higher mailing costs which get waived if you order enough euros worth of parts at once. My hobby projects with a friend have made them more than a thousand euros worth of business by now once we expanded to making diy kits of some projects and needed multiple prototype rounds.
SkoomaDentist
30d ago
How long would you say they are on average when it comes to page count? (ie. how long are those five paragraphs)
I doubt anything particularly serious will actually develop from this but if it does, it will be glorious. I'm going to need to stock up on popcorn.
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