Heavy is the burden of the wise one, when no one believes a word that they could say.

yeah i mixed it up with an O’Neill cylinder.

tbf there’s a continuous transition between ordinary space station and dyson sphere. and we already have a space station today.

edit: sry i mixed up dyson sphere and o’neill cylinder again.

“We’re not far from a world — I think we’ll be there in three to six months — where AI is writing 90% of the code. And then in 12 months we may be in a world where AI is writing essentially all of the code.”

They haven’t mastered the true Zen yet. The bad programmer writes a lot of spaghetti code that is impossible to debug and fix, so it has to be rewritten. The good programmer writes a few lines of efficient code and is done with the work. The enlightened programmer realizes this feature already exists in another program and doesn’t need to be reproduced. The enlightened programmer writes no code.

These CEOs are very far from enlightened, because they try to increase the amount of code that is written, rather than decrease it.

at this point that’s a compliment

talks about grass
picture of garden
none of the plants is grass
mfw

to summarize:

• activists don’t like the US’ dominance in tech clouds and services, obviously
• reducing the effect of US tech in europe would mean that smaller european companies have a chance at competing as well
• national security hawks don’t like having essential services depend on the US either

in the past, the US forced everyone to comply with US tech because the US was economically too powerful to deny requests to, but now that is changing because US economy is not so important internationally anymore, due to tariffs but also because US consumers are becoming poorer and therefore less important as a consumer market, so it’s easier to ignore the US and their requests.

yeah i’m actually a big fan of state-run companies, such as schools and medical facilities and transport companies (they are companies too, think about it. just not for-profit companies, but public-benefit companies). i’m even thinking it maybe could be extended a little further to make maybe 30% of the apartments in a city city-owned.

there’s multiple ways to deal with that. i just want to name a few:

• in the past, many countries in europe did it like that that companies are still privately owned, but the companies have to fulfill government-dictated regulation, such as restricting environmental pollution, making sure working conditions for humans are safe, making sure human workers have enough holidays and time off, and such
• a possible alternative that’s often discussed is repossessing the companies entirely, such that the companies become the possession of either the state or the people. i want to comment that there is essentially a mechanism to do this, which is taxation. taxation today is already a mechanism to move wealth from a person or organization to the state. it just has to actually be used properly.
• i’m too lazy to list more options rn

or my tastes have changed, because the ones I have tried in the past few years just aren’t good.

chances are that as you get older, your taste changes. i liked lots of sweets when i was younger and now i just can’t stand them anymore.

also yeah, recipes have changed as well. factories want to make their food “healthier” so it appeals to the consumer who tries to watch their diet and as a consequence they often use less artificial flavors (i actually don’t have a data source on that, it’s just my personal impression/observation). like everything used to be chock-full of artificial flavors in the mid 20th century, and now they’re not so much anymore.

where i live we have both chocolated fruits and nuts (like nuts dipped into chocolate, which is delicious btw) and animal-shaped chocolate (mostly chocolate bunnies for some reason)

we also have chocolate with fruit flavor. that’s mediocre i’d say.

i hope we never run out of fossilesque meme fuels

we have approximately the same brain they have, so anything we could come up with, they could come up with.

it’s really impressive how smart people were back then. we completely tend to underestimate that.

in a similar vein: i think people tend to think that the medieval ages were “dark times” and the people back then were stupid. that’s very far from the case. there were significant cultural developments back then. we just completely underestimate the value of that.

Depends on the human.

beware of fanged girls. also, beware of idols. especially, beware of fanged idols.

at the local animal shelter maybe, or at the vet, idk

the SD card slot is removed because it’s a security issue. data on SD card is per spec (iirc) not encrypted sothat it’s compatible with typical SD reader software on your computer. therefore anything that you store on your phone’s SD card can be read by an attacker who steals your phone and extracts the SD card.

make phones slimmer which is necessary because of uhh

to lower manufacturing costs

also i want to point out that eSIM has potential advantages. when i order a physical SIM card, i have to wait 3 days to receive the SIM card by mail (of course that varies based on where you live). when i buy eSIM, i can get access as soon as payment is processed, which with modern banking systems takes between 5 seconds and 15 minutes.

what if i want triple SIM?