Any soviet officials still alive must be going crazy: "wait, they actually pay to be surveilled???"

Yeah, he was an expectable disappointment...so that's fine.

and bad as in bad quality too

What went wrong before that we didn't need them? Why now, to build datacenters?

I see no difference between the book as a tool or any other tool. They all get worn, you can only use one copy at once...maybe the difference is that you will recurrently need specific tools...but reference books were like that too (replaced by the internet). But I guess that is why dictionaries were not lent, at least at my local lib.

Heyhey, I want a kW-(rain)water cooled tower, speak for yourself! :D

Just go to https://www.inaturalist.org/ or install the inaturalist app and you'll have a pretty good guess of what this is.

Could be a lesson to fossil backers: back an unpredictable clown and you may end up worse than the alternative.

Sir...they got to our bellybutton...it's over :(

The other day I visited youtube without any add-ons and concluded I'd rather do anything else than use youtube under those conditions.

This is something you learn the hard way about neoliberal meritocracy..."They only hire the best and you fight to get there, you're the best until you inevitably aren't at your best...and once you aren't at your best even for a moment of weakness, then you are not the best...and you never were". This is why everyone needs protection from a work culture that burns through people.

Every day his stupidity surprises me more than the last.

Antitrust comes in waves in the US. First, it's a free for all to let the tech develop freely...then you see the horrors and a time of antitrust kicks in. This would be the 4th wave since the Sherman Act. Let's hope it's a good one.

Apparently this was a real strategy on twitter for the 2024 election: videos of hot women followed by trump messages aimed at young men...and it seems to have worked to at least get them off the couch...just be aware of it ffs (fucking monkey brains)

huh, we wasn't cynically posturing for election purposes, he really wants to die on this hill :/

Is there a historical precedent for punishing the defender for daring to successfully resist invasion by a third country?

Good science is boring, good politics is boring, good espionage is boring, good journalism is boring, good history is boring, good banking is boring, good business is boring. Entertainment serves us this pop view of the world...

But wikipedia is more valuable than all the LLM slop machines combined.

That's one of the things I love in lemmy. Moderation transparency.

Hm, playing devil's advocate, I think it is because the minus has not been defined as a string operation (e.g. it could pop the last char), so it defaults to the mathematical operation and converts both inputs into ints.

The first is assumed to be a concat because one of the parcels is a string...

It's just doing a lot of stuff for you that it shouldn't be in first place 🤭