Are we talking about the same guy that opted to scrap all sensors for his self-driving cars because he figures humans can drive with eyes only, they don’t need more than a camera?

Danke! – tippt Filzhut

“I didn’t give you permission to get caught!”

Was heißen die Flaggen da? Ich nehme an y ist “yes” (automatisch bestätigen) wie bei anderen Paketverwaltern auch, u könnte ich noch raten ist update, aber S hab ich keine Idee.

Some time ago, I read an analysis on why left-wing parties were allegedly more successful in Scandinavia than other parts of Europe. It claimed that, for all their pro-social domestic policy, they weren’t as immigrant-friendly as many other left-wing parties. Supposedly, that approach helped undermined the narrative that “I have nothing, yet these immigrants come here to get stuff for free at my expense.” By putting their own country’s needs first, they won over voters that worried they were being screwed over.

I have no way to verify how accurate that analysis was, nor do I have any sense of how dated it might be, so I’ll be sceptical, but the idea stuck with me. I can’t really blame people for putting their own needs first, and I wonder how much that influences the popularity of right-wing parties all around.

Of course, health care should be a universal good anyway and the US system definitely needs fixing, but I can understand how the “freeloader immigrant” propaganda would work on people suffering from that system – misery breeds bigotry and all.

Let’s put an end to the discussion

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Probably did -6 instead of +6

Da hab ich absolut Verständnis für. Ich bastel gerne an Skripten rum, is auch billiger und platzsparender als eine Modelleisenbahn.

Ich weiß noch nicht ob ich froh oder geknickt bin, durch einen Bot ersetzt zu werden. Klar, spart Aufwand und funktioniert schneller als ich, aber irgendwie hatte es auch was nettes, immer wieder mal deine Posts durchzuschauen.

Naja, das ist halt der Preis des Fortschritts… verdient hast du sie sowieso.

In that respect, I’m rather glad my employer is on the slow and steady side. Yeah, sure, they’re very much behind on some topics and just recently started catching up on others, but their cautious scepticism towards new tech has spared us some headaches. I’d rather take the frustration of not getting all the tools I’d like to have than the stress of “ooh, look, this new shiny thing is gonna replace that other system you just got used to!”

When referencing another person’s comment, it can be helpful to link to that comment or the article you mentioned.

I’d also like to point out that many Wikipedia articles, particularly those written by experts on a given scientific subject, tend to be daunting rather than helpful for people not yet familiar with that subject.

Explanations like the one you offered in this comment and the next reply can help make topics more approachable, so I very much appreciate that.

To illustrate my point:

In this case, the article first describes the principle as “pertaining to a lower theoretical limit of energy consumption of computation”, which doesn’t directly highlight the connection to information storage. The next sentence then mentions “irreversible change in information” and “merging two computational paths”, both of which are non-trivial.

From a brief glance at the article on reversible computing linked further on, I gather that “irreversible” here doesn’t mean “you can’t flip the bit again” but rather something like “you can’t deterministically figure out the previous calculation from its result”, so the phrase boils down to “storing a piece of information” for our context. The example of “merging computational paths” probably has no particular bearing on the energy value of information either and can be ignored as well.

Figuring out the resulting logic that you so kindly laid out – again, thank you for that! – requires a degree of subject-specific understanding to know what parts of the explanation can be safely ignored.

Of course, experts want to be accurate and tend to think in terms they’re familiar with, so I don’t fault them for that. The unfortunate result is that their writings are often rather intransparent to laypeople and linking to Wikipedia articles isn’t always the best way to convey an understanding.

I love this

I hate it too but I love it.

Arse nemesis

Prepend “in” to the name of the two Sith first invented.

Glaub die Kirche findet das nicht so lustig, aber ich bin voll dafür. Und die Küken sind auch süß, ja.

Maybe the targeted advertising got your location wrong?

Yeah, well, it’s awful and annoying and shitty and I wish it’d stop doing that. I wish it’d stop doing a lot of things, to be honest, but that’s beside the point.

I don’t use it, but my GF does. She’ll have the volume up for some video that does interest her, then be scrolling through and treat me to the audible part of that trend without even seeing the funny / cute / insightful / boring picture to accompany and potentially compensate the acoustic pollution. She’s thoroughly numbed to it, but I’m not and I hate it.

(I’ve dropped the idea of getting her to quit the app, that battle just isn’t worth fighting.)

Half the time, people seem to upload otherwise perfectly complete still pictures as reel with some dumb music over it because if you’re not constantly assaulted by the same popular song snippets over and over on every post, are you even paying attention?

Particularly pernicious are ones with some sad or bittersweet content that will have some variant of “generic slow piano with a female, breathy voice singing some words that sound sad but you couldn’t actually tell what it’s about without listening to more than the five seconds used in this looping video”.

I mean, this is the Catholic Church we’re talking about. They’re not particularly known for fair hiring policies.

Corporate management often seems to think of changes as isolated, independent events, where the measurable impact of each change can be attributed to that change. I think it’s a symptom of the pathological need for KPIs and Data-based decision-making. Making big decisions is scary, and data can help with informing them, but I get the impression some managers grow so dependent on using numbers as a crutch to spare them from having to justify their decision with their own best judgement.