BrandoElFollito

How does a modern submarine navigates today?

When I was younger and eager for retreats I saw one turn really bad. The facilitator suggested volunteers to sit in the middle and people to be open about their bad and good things.

Oh man, this went south quickly after a few beers, the retreat was shortened, some people never talked to others anymore and the whole team broke apart.

The thing is that nobody was nasty, the first volounteers did nit give a fuck about what was told about them, so others took the step, the people sitting around git bolder (but still telling the truth) and at some point it all collapsed.

I was actually interested in the contents but the scrolling is unbearable. It looks like some contemporary art and not a web page with stuff to read.

No ideas how to design a site (or too many ideas)? The motherfucking website to the rescue! https://motherfuckingwebsite.com. It also has theee other incantations.

Edit: http://bettermotherfuckingwebsite.com/ is the next one, and the third one is not worth it

In France, land of free helthcare, the problem is ultimately the same but for different reasons. We do not have enough doctors (they lobbied a law to set quotas) and finding a specialist is a near miracle.

Then the doctors complain that they are overworked because of what their seniors put in place.

The problem is never the money, though.

SO is the second thing I liked that was broken via "we cannot have nice things". The first one was UseNet.

I was on SO for 14 years, with an accumulated rep of a few hundred thousands. At the beginning the crisp philosophy of the site was great: a question, and answers. Sometimes comments. I believe it set the tone to questions today, without the hello everyone at the beginning and kind regards at the end. The aesthetics of the site were good too.

And then, somewhere around 2018 I think, things started to go south. Meta became a lair of psychopaths with an ego they could not loft. Asking a question over there meant immediate downvotes.

Then came the elitist groups, such as in the Golang section. I asked nice questions that were immediately downvoted at nauseam. This was not the case in other groups where you could find actual help.

Some other SE sites went that way too (cybersecurity, some linuxes) and I gave up completely.

There are however wonderful, more or less niche sites that are still there (LaTeX, cooking, ... ← please do not break them), they thrive because they are small-ish and the egos do not fly too high.

Otherwise I moved to asking questions on Reddit, which is a ht or miss.

The motorola razr was the sexiest phone ever

Not necessarily idocracy.

I don't know the name of the person who runs utilities because they just work. I sure would know if there was a problem. This is the same with politics: when a country is stable and is moving ahead, people are not interested.

Look at the participation levels in elections: they are always high when there is substantial stuff on the scales. Otherwise it is moot.

Noether theorem is one of the nicest ones to derive (together with Maxwell equations). There is such an elegance to go from the axions to the result.

I still have a trauma associated with this, though, because it popped out in one exam and I could see the pages in my notes where it was derived but they were quite blank.

> But Poland and Portugal, and all other countries, send their prime minister

Yes, but what does it have to do with the original point about countries with real power presidents?

Out of my head: Poland, Checkia, Cyprus, Portugal, Romania -- all these have real presidents.

Germany and Italy are exceptions, not the rule

No because we know that we have (in France) a president, a prime minister and ministers.

We know what they are in charge of (for the basic ministries), everyone knows who the president is, a lot who the PM is, and nobody knows the current ministers. But we know their jobs. They also refer to stuff which impacts us on a daiky basis.

The EU as a governing body is a mystery. Not only there are pieces that has almost the same name but are different things, they function in a remote world that does not interfere with ours. Like the UN.

It's not. The EU for us Europeans is a vague institution, very far from our everyday lives.

It is a great analogy even for someone from Europe.

In (4), though, I do not get the French exception. There are many countries in Europe with a president and a prime minister

Or not. I depends on the country and its tax system.

I have this for years, as a google docs shared with some people and a printout.

This is basic decency for the ones that remain and taboos should not be a reason to not do this.

It is a how to on hiw to connect yo my data, including butwarden (where the important logins are shared anyway), all banks, investment companies etc.

I also added a section on how to dumb down my smart home, but this is a niche case.

I self host gitea for my personal-personal projects, the ones nobody will ever see.

For the personal-opensource ones, I am on Github because this is where everyone is when I want to share/collaborate etc

"Why do you want to work here" can be insightful.

I like to be asked this because I can for one tell the truth, and then see how the interviewer responds (when this is at an advanced stage of the process, with real people)

I don't get the chart with the tropical nights.

It is not as if there was a heat dome that is specifically sitting on the cities. It is more because the cities are so bad in heat control that they get tropical night via inertia.

As an ex-physicist, pi^2 is 10. Like g.

I get it that this is a nice calculation with the Zeta function and everything, but 3 and a small something squared will be near 10 so it is 10.

The Trump US gave us (Europeans) the kick in the bottom we needed to get the head from the sand.

Like never we delibrate specifically on non-US solutions (objectively great) because we realized we are neck deep in US dependence. It is not that it was not known before, we just did not feel the threat.

This is why EU companies niw look at our own solution (which are late and will probably suffer from the incompetence and mess of the EU institutions) but another key playet is round the corner, namely China.

Trump managed to make us look elsewhere than the US. Thanks for that.

> Sign in with passkeys linked to a national ID

With what?? Please understand that all countries are not like yours. In France this will happen in 2047 if all planets are aligned (they won't be)

OTOH this is an opportunity to learn yo add guardrails to the cide to check for browser capabilities and display a page inviting to move to new stuff

> there are much better and cheaper alternatives.

Such as? (of course with the same energy density and 24/7 capacities)

As an ex-Motorolan (1998-2008), I sometimes look at what remains of the big mighty company and there is not much.

Here in Europe it is even less, at least in the US you see the umpires (or somebody else, not sure as I fo not know baseball) with their half-headsets with the Motorola logo.

It is a shame, I liked this company very much.

I traveled yo the US maybe 50 times, for different reasons (from Europe or Asia).

I never felt welcome. The only country I felt the same was Russia, and to some much smaller extent - China.

Journals are scams, sustained by scientists. All this paid by our taxes.

Scientists decided that other scientists will be ranked by coolness (where they publish). And that this is a strict process. Except when the scientist is a celebrity, such as Benaventiste and his water memory. Too cool to reject.

Hopefully this will change as information gets more and more decentralized.

Birth in humans is not a "extremely biologically conserved process". Women bodies are not ready for the size of head of the baby.

Compare this to cows or horses - where the baby is of sizeable size, but goes statistically smoothly.

This is not the case in Europe. You would not gain anything by being a doctor from the US vs the local ones. You may even be in a worse position due to many differences between the US and the host country.

It's a good idea to ask a few AIs to get extra feedback. They may be wrong, your doctor may be wrong -- it is better to have a set of inputs and, to some point, check it against sources.

I am on Free (after a few years with Orange because Free could not bother to provide fiber here) but I am considering switching to Bouygues because I pay too much for the connection.

The connection is solid, though - thus my lack of enthusiasm.