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wischi

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  • Comment thread on /r/Europe suggesting ditching Reddit, Lemmy and PieFed suggested

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  • But that also means that you are way less anonymous and many people don't even know that. Interactions that are typically "anonymous" (except of course to the platform owner) on other platforms like up/down voting is completely public on lemmy. Everybody can just "tap" the feed and see what you upvote and downvote - it's basically heaven for data collectors and advertising companies.

  • Europe's rules-based trade an "advantage in global economy", but continent must be "more confrontational" to defend its own interests, German economist says

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  • I think the biggest problem Europe has (besides too weak military) is how slow this freaking bureaucratic apparatus is.

    Something happens - countries start to discuss how to react, weigh pros and cons, discuss again, Hungary votes against - discuss again... oh it's 2028 already.

  • Precisely

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  • Maybe it's Mozartella?

  • EU readies €93bn tariffs in retaliation to Trump’s Greenland threat

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  • I might get downvoted for that, but I think Europe should start working closer with China.

  • Trump is reportedly taking aim at Canada and raising alarms about its ‘vulnerability’

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  • Two be fair many other countries have the same issue but it doesn't have such horrendous consequences because they don't have a two party system.

    IMHO countries that claim to be democracies should switch to Lottocracy anyway. That's the only way we end up with decision makers that don't just do stuff to get voted again.

  • The URL shortener that makes your links look as suspicious as possible

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  • Ad for an ad-blocker. Genius 🤣

  • Volkswagen shifts back to physical buttons on dashboards

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  • The car is bad because of it's inherent design flaws and bad UX.

    Robo Taxi, "not so full self driving" and similar things don't make the car bad but show the practices Tesla uses to lure people into buying a car. By promising features they can't deliver. Same with Tesla Semi, new Roadster, etc.

    About hating Elon. Hate is a strong word but he is clearly a faschist moron. That doesn't make cars technically bad but I'd like to hear some arguments how a moron being in charge helps the company make better cars.

    And regarding science, there are some papers that show that cars with screens are way less safe because you have to look away to interact with it and that "glorified cruise control" too because you should pay attention because the car has too many flaws but in practice people stop paying attention.

  • Volkswagen shifts back to physical buttons on dashboards

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  • The swasticar manufacturer has the most advanced tech car?

    Their cars are a joke. Opening glove boxes through menus. Getting rid of almost all buttons to just install a giant monitor in the middle?

    And don't get me started about their full self driving robo taxis next year since ages ago. At no point in time (even before the rest of the world caught on that Elon is a complete moron) was buying a Tesla a good idea.

  • I love choice. I hate choosing.

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  • What are the "other reasons"? Thought about trying it.

  • Microsoft CEO wants you to stop calling AI "slop" in 2026

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  • Like Microslop Word or Microslop Excel?

  • ai will surely save us all

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  • Though the phrase "prompt engineer" is so funny. Has literally nothing to do with engineering at all. Like having a PhD in "Google Search" 🤣

  • TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.

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  • Looks like it worked 🤣

  • TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.

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  • I still don't see the benefits. It's a bit like saying that every Februar (in the Gregorian calendar) had 29 days but sometimes it's imaginary and sometimes it's not.

    Would you phone calendar show "imaginary days"? Could you schedule meetings on imaginary days? If yes - that would probably be a complete mess, and if not - why even call it "imaginary day" if it's not a day at all.

    Seems a bit like a bandaid that tries to make it more symmetric/pretty. We could expand all months to 32 days in the Gregorian calender and just call some of the days imaginary. That way all months would be the exact same length 🤣

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  • TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.

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  • Never heard of that one before. What's the point of having an imaginary 29th?

  • TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.

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  • You could just go back. Before the romans changed the start of the year to January, it was March. That way the "climate" would still be roughly what you expect from a September and not two months of. In another comment I linked to a calendar proposal called SAC13 that incorporates exactly that (it also fixes many other issues the Gregorian Calendar has).

  • TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.

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  • I'm not a fan of base 10. I'm really like the consistency of the metric system but base 10 is/was a mistake and base 6 or 12 would have been way better for everyday use (including clocks) because of the number of prime factors. 6 and 12 are what's called superior highly composite numbers (SHCN) which make them great choices for bases in a number system because it simplifies a lot of manual everyday calculations, especially divisions.

  • TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.

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  • True, but that would lead to the same mess the Iranian calendar has, that you can't calculate which year will be a leap year. This leads to fragmentation, lot of custom implementations of algorithms that are more or less accurate for the next hundred years.

  • TIL that January 1 was chosen as the first day of the year by Julius Caesar as the god Janus (where January got its name) was the god of doors and it made sense that the door was open to the new year.

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  • You should take a look 🤣 did that, or better said that's a side effect of starting with march.

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    Why a kilobyte is 1000 and not 1024 bytes

    zeta.one /kilobyte-is-1000-bytes/
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