leisesprecher @ leisesprecher @feddit.org

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That's politically almost impossible.

Apart from the pure evilness, think about the level of pettiness shown here.

Putin invests probably millions and thousands of agents for what exactly? Revenge on a handful of people who silently left?

No, this is exactly where they can hurt him.

Trump and his followers believe that they represent the silent majority that still has "real" values - like honor, strength and misogyny.

Calling them out as weird and cowards attacks exactly these values. It turns their own self image against them.

Not really. The 9€ ticket was an emergency measure for 3 months. It's the soft version of car free sundays.

But since it was so successful, it got turned into a more permanent scheme. 9€ for a whole month of basically free travel was not sustainable, so 49€ was the compromise.

That's unfortunately the exact wrong way to look at it.

The entire point of this ticket was to be cheap enough so a lot of new people get it, but don't use it that often - a bit like a voluntary tax, that subsidizes the ticket for those who actually need it.

There's a reason the regular monthly tickets are much more expensive - they cover the actual costs. If only commuters buy the ticket, public transit providers will make massive losses - and opt out of the ticket.

I'm 80% sure, this is a move to effectively kill the Deutschlandticket. The one good thing our current government managed to get done.

The real problem are implicit biases. Like the kind of discrimination that a reasonable user of a system can't even see. How are you supposed to know, that applicants from "bad" neighborhoods are rejected at a higher rate, if the system is presented to you as objective? And since AI models don't really explain how they got to a solution, you can't even audit them.

Man, I'm so glad this shit is illegal on multiple levels in Europe.

Public private partnership ♥️♥️♥️

I was thinking about that incident a lot lately.

Putin is ultimately an alley bully. He's weak and only pretends to be powerful, hoping no one calls his bluff.

Turkey called his bluff. Putin was super aggressive, but Turkey just said, well, terrible tragedy, let's hope that never happens again, right Vlad?

Well and it never happened again. Turkey is a NATO member. A NATO country shot down a Russian jet and nothing happened.

Cowards like Putin can't be convinced or tamed, they only respond to strength. And currently, NATO doesn't exactly seem strong.

This is the kind of mistake you're doing exactly once and afterwards ask yourself why you didn't anticipate this very obvious danger.

The much bigger problem is the apathy and stupidity of the average person.

Every single person in Western countries has enough information to see through the bullshit of the political class and they have the power to vote them out. But they don't. They don't want to be bothered by actually taking responsibility, they just want someone else to blame. Jews, immigrants, gays, doesn't matter.

Many will argue with propaganda, but most of the propaganda is extremely blatant. You'll only believe it, if you want to believe it. It may solidify resentments, but it won't create them out of nowhere.

Yeah, but with our cutting edge AI model we can disrupt the wet market by leveraging hydrofoil effects on molecular clusters to provide pervasive distribution of fluids. All powered by AI blockchains in the cloud.

We take VC, 100million minimum per investor.

Barely, and depending on the source, the greens might not make it, which essentally leads to a "everyone but the open fascists" coalition, which will get exactly nothing done - which will boost the fascists even further, since democratic parties obviously get nothing done.

So you feel like you're an imposter syndrome imposter?

You'd have to overhaul the funding system drastically.

Measuring scientific output by publications and citations is useless at best, but it's easy so that's how you're measured.

Writing grant proposals is 95% useless bullshit, there's no useful content in the proposals, but it gives a false sense of objectivity and competitiveness, so that's how you're funded.

Thing is, most of the world operates like that. Corporations measure useless KPIs and demand empty reports. There's an entire caste of administrators whose entire existence is founded on this overhead to exist. I don't see a way to change that without a very very serious disruption (that is, a major war, not a startup).

Many professionals (not only scientists) are really bad at crafting sentences and texts, even without jargon.

I get jargon, but even if you replace all of the jargon in a typical paper with simple words, the writing style is often horrible. It's often weirdly repetitive, has fluff-pieces and empty phrases, and just doesn't get to the point. (I'll ignore the inherent worthlessness of many articles here, since this is a symptom of funding policy)

I don't expect a scientific article to be understandable for someone outside the field, but do yourself the disfavour and ask a random scientist, what it is they're actually doing and to explain it in simple terms. Most can't. And that says to me, that these people never learned (or were taught) how to actually boil a concept down to its essence. And that I think is pretty bad.

As an example, two scientists from different fields could work on almost the same problem from different angles, but they would never know that if they talked to each other, because they are unable to express their work in a way the other person can understand.

Linux filled a gap. There was hardly any way to get something unixy running on commodity hardware.

What gap does Redox fill? What's its USP? Just being written in rust can't be it.

But why?

Which company can justify the expense for an esoteric OS with probably just philosophical benefits?

Google maybe, they have Fuchsia, but that's also completely in their control.

Linux is not perfect, but for most companies and products, absolutely fine.

That has nothing to do with a conspiracy, it's just cheaper. If they can get away with it, they'll do it.

Reality is, most people give relatively thought to their purchases. They just buy "the new iPhone" or pick an Android that seems reasonable to them. And even those who do ostensibly care, often enough only care about specifications. More cores, more nits, more camera.

Question is rather: why does Android not allow any distinction between Internal and external/removable?

My downloaded media files belong on the SD card, but APKs, sqlite DBs and temp files don't belong there. But de facto, it's just used as an extension for internal storage. That's just stupid.