Ubuntu's role in the ecosystem is important. They are good at first luring people into using linux. Then the users get pissed off of Ubuntu, because of Snap, ads, or whatever random crap they know from Windows. Finally, they move on to better options, be it Arch, Debian, or Puppy. Ubuntu ensures they don't all stick to the same

Thought the same but with Queen

"I know, they all seem braindead and not entirely trustworthy, and they don't know how to articulate themselves. But I talked with them, and they told me they want something good. Also, YOU trust ME, right? So trust me bro, even if they seem weird and what they say doesn't make sense, I think they are good!"

He would probably have died of natural causes anyway by now. But just disappearing for a few decades might be a sign someone wasn't happy with his bodily integrity? Maybe he chills below one of the Miami skyscrapers now or whatever people in his business do in such cases.

Slightly late, but I currently rewatch the lecture I talked about in my other comment. The interesting part starts roughly here:

https://youtu.be/T3-VlQu3iRM?feature=shared&t=2550

But really, the entire lecture series is quite worth a watch.

Matrix

I think this entire "the Americans" and "the Germans" and "the Japanese" thing in this post is probably super productive and leads us somewhere useful!

Americans are also known for being really direct

Maybe in America. They are also known for saying "this is the best XYZ I've ever had in my entire life!!!" for every XYZ they ever have in their entire lives.

I got 600$ in the bank motherfucker

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Are those the Results of the Search of the Rise of the Return of the Planet of the Apes?

For politicians: Gesturing that you "do something" against the "rampant crime" happening everywhere, which makes you appear as if you care about citizens. On the other hand, actually doing something (e.g., preventative measures) is too expensive and doesn't make you look cool as a politician. If you introduce the new surveillance 'AI' 2000 (tm) by Future Corp., you represent safety, power, future, even if there is nothing meaningful behind it.

For Future Corp.: Sell a lot of shit to politicians and profit.

Wrong question. "I have a solution ('AI'), what's the problem it should solve?" This is the path towards micromanaging stuff that's not core to the enterprise.

Instead, try to identify specific problems in the specific context, or factors that are most relevant for success. Then see what the solution could be. That solution might be "AI", or a bunch of sticky notes, or whatever else.

Other than that: Wherever you use a new tech like 'AI', also consider the risks. For example, do you really want to outsource part of your customer relations to an unpredictable thing that sends them the implicit message that you don't care to directly communicate with them? Etc.

Deadpool vs. (and?) Wolverine. Meh. They try to be funny by making fun of the megacorps that produce such movies (how witty indeed!) while being the same thing you've watched 1000 times before.

Many reasons on many levels. One of them: Browser developers and the companies behind them benefit from a system where we have basically 2 options that reliably work. They have a stronger interest in keeping this expensive, rather than making it easy and cheap. So making sure other people can also develop a different browser is not on the agenda of anyone relevant.

this burns twice

Crowdstrike strikes crowd

joke needs explanation

it's a glimpse into a sad life

Aufenthaltserlaubnisverlängerungsantragsfrist verpasst.

Tight couch, ouch!

Actually, it's GNU/Linux

Yes, and he also makes the point quite clearly that drugs don't make you super productive as a writer. If anything, they make your writing worse. But it's a good excuse to live that "drugged artist" lifestyle, telling oneself that, sadly, that's how you have to do it (while opening the next beer can).

some people... let's hope this mood swing lasts for a couple of months!

Looking at the majority of the replies I see some meme potential (no offense):

Dude irl: "I only carry the minimal"

Dude in games: "This is my 5000 ton backpack with 50 health potions, a bunch of plant leaves, 2 axes, 3 bows, 4 swords (1 of them cursed), a few scrolls and runestones; some bread, cheese, milk, apples, glasses of beer; and a map"

Don't underestimate the weather, though. It's terrible in summer, unless you're up on some mountain or at the Russian border. Spring and fall are great, though.

Not sure where you live, but weather differs around this big bol we're on. Days with 38°C during lunch break and massive rain during evening commute are not uncommon in Tokyo

I guess it's local, it only became so apparent to me some time after moving to Japan. It's also interesting how the types of things to prepare for change. In Japan, I think it's mostly about weather. No need for safety measures, food and drinks everywhere and cheap, clean and reliable infrastructure (toilets, trains, everything, basically). People are also mindful about the noise they make, so even earplugs are not necessary.

In Germany it's different. Weather is not so much of a concern, but I used to carry a basic pack of stuff with me in case I crashed at a friend's place. This doesn't happen here very often, and cheap hotels or manga cafes often have basics like toothbrushes etc.

Not convinced that is any proof. Any tattoo artists here who can confirm? My trust in anyone being an actual tattoo artist is entirely based on their nickname

Fucking Star Wars fans...

I was sure it's Steve Jobs

I sincerely hope that is what's going to happen and Mozilla gets severely fucked over for how they have been running their shit. Break their business and rethink from scratch how we run and finance the development of one of the most important pieces of software around. Hint: You're not going to be competitive with big tech by copying their practices, marketing "AI" bullshit and pocket and all that crap. You can't compete with google there, they can always outspend you.

As a Linux user, such a break would also be very timely, now that we have survived the painful surgeries of systemd and wayland. Those problems are mostly fixed, so we need another dysfunctional troublemaker - Firefox it is!

But seriously: The official story is always that google gives Mozilla the money to be the default search engine. But really, they don't need to care. Google needs Firefox so they can pretend they don't have a browser monopoly. For similar reasons, google used to employed 10000s of people who were doing very much non-essential stuff that is entirely irrelevant for their business. They could have fired them all long ago, and massively increased their profitability. But those would have looked obscene and raises regulators' attention. So just hiring a bunch of expensive engineers who build google chat 23.0 and whatever makes them appear more like a "normal" company.

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What should also probably matter though is the existence of the sun 😉 Otherwise, how can it be a day?

To be fair though, I gave that point in time a day-like notation

And the industrial robot asks: "Why does a bartender need geophysical survey data?"

A ship, a Linux server, and an industrial robot enter a bar.

July 26, 6.000.002.024

There are some pitfalls to be aware of that may not be very intuitive for someone who is not a scientist and even tricky if you are one:

1. the place where something is published matters and it can be hard to tell what is good and what is bad. If you work in a certain field for a few years and talk with your peers, you will get an idea how to read certain types of articles, depending on where they are published. Each field has their top journals/conferences and lower quality ones. If you conduct an amazing new experiment, you will try to get it published in the better ones. This doesn't mean that the other ones are complete crap, but there may be some problems with the research that you as an outsider won't see. The problem is, they are all called something like "International Top Conference/Journal for A Field With A Cool Sounding Name".

There were some embarrassing cases during the Covid pandemic where professors from different fields like economics tried to pose as virus experts because they also know statistics. So they tried to give critical comments about the virologists. But if you have never been in an actual lab where people work with viruses, you have no clue whether things like reasons for excluding certain cases from an analysis are legitimate. You also don't know which key variables you need to know (e.g., is temperature important for vaccine effectiveness? I don't know, but if it is, a virologist can tell you and an economist can't).

A proxy measure for this quality of conference/journal is the number of people who have cited an article. But this doesn't always help and can also be misleading, and some fields in the social sciences and humanities don't care about this at all. And even if it counts, it strongly varies by field. For example, medicine has really high citation counts (thus many of the top journals across disciplines) and mathematics has really low citation counts.

2. don't rely on only a single study. If you look for the light therapy example, one study is better than no study, but usually it helps if you have the time to read a few more studies. Even if one study finds an effect, it is not uncommon that was just due to pure randomness or bad practices during data analysis ("p hacking", "HARKing" etc. This is the best pathway, but very time intense. Even many scientists fail to read their literature properly to stay up to date (because you have tons of other stuff to do as well and the reality is that writing, not reading, keeps you in your job).

3. if you don't have a lot of time to read 10-20 articles, you might still be lucky and find a summary article about the topic. They are sometimes called "literature synthesis", "literature review", "systematic review", or "meta analysis" (good search terms, btw). If you find one that was published in a good journal/conference (or has let's say more than 100 citations if it was published at least 5 years ago - again, take this with a grain of salt), chances are high that's the gold nugget you are looking for. Read this thing properly and you either have a good overview or at least found more interesting studies to read.

Btw: If you can't download an article from for example google scholar, there are search engines where you can get almost anything for free (a good one is maintained by Alexandra Elbakyan). If that doesn't help, write to the authors directly. If it's a field of practical relevance, maybe you can even include the exact question you have and they may share their expertise and a few more sources with you.

Someone forgets the existence of other countries where people speak German

Is Quebec part of latin america?