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chrystalkey··on Italian parliament votes for return to nuclear energy
What does "Upgrade to the next level" even mean? What next level? Where is the dividing line? Why should we, beside all other concerns there are?
chrystalkey··on C++26: Trivial infinite loops are no longer undefined behaviour
But also very different. If code below this loop executes after elimination and wouldnt have before, that is a very significant change in semantics
chrystalkey··on I don't like passkeys
Idk how much money you must be having, but all of my bubbles only ever go with one device
chrystalkey··on Measuring Gauss-Seidel loop-carried dependency and fixing it via loop unrolling
I wondered the same thing. _dp might mean double precision, but the rest is beyond me
chrystalkey··on Hackers Got Inside a Flock Camera
I say these people should not be in charge of choosing who gets insane amounts of money and networking opportunities
chrystalkey··on Pointing at the error: compiler-style diagnostics in uutils coreutils
Can I ask which Compiler you are working on?
chrystalkey··on Air Conditioning Is Not a Luxury, It Is a Necessity
In what way?
chrystalkey··on There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order
Way over the top mate.

I was just genuinely asking whether there was some specific reason or he just withdrew himself from the public because life happens.

No need to get argumentative.

chrystalkey··on There Are Magic Hexagons of Every Order
Right probably. Do you know what happened by any chance?
chrystalkey··on New cars are getting 1.2cm longer and 0.5cm taller each year
Hey so, why would you even buy that? Was that some external requirement?
chrystalkey··on New cars are getting 1.2cm longer and 0.5cm taller each year
Oh Look, there is a tree sized pole that sticks out of your rear side, might want to have a doctor look at it
chrystalkey··on Bad Apple but It's Traceroute
You do need to get that stick up your colon surgically removed I think
chrystalkey··on Claude: Elevated errors across all models – Resolved
This sound all so insane I cannot tell if it is satire. I mean no disrespect, this is just as bewildering to me as private jets.
chrystalkey··on The EU is about to sell our most sensitive data to the US for visa-free travel
...uhm You are happy to share your home address and everything else to securely identify you to a government acting increasingly erratic? Because I am not. I would be happy if terrorism-flagged people are shared across borders, but not everyone.

Remember once the dataset is there, it is not ever going to go away, regardless of who is in power

chrystalkey··on Germany set to restrict its Freedom of Information Act
Not identical but similar and state vs federal level, might as well be different parties. Thats not to say I am not Just as worried as you
chrystalkey··on Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
What? Tell me the similarities :) There is not strong-willed, controlling figure or imposed ideology, the financial institutions are fairly independent, in general journalism is relatively free to choose topics, the federal states can be pretty independent from the central power if they choose to do so, and all the rest I already wrote in a sister comment. Note I did not compare this to any country, just applying criteria for dictatorships.
chrystalkey··on Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
I think you mean something different than I when we think of dictatorships. I agree in being unhappy with this decision and maneuvering, but we do have to keep a watch out for actual, in the political sense, dictatorships and not mix them up with other concerns.
chrystalkey··on Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
That is incorrect. Usually, the legislation happens in the trilogue, which is an abomination and everything but well representing it's citizens interest, but the Commission can do very very little if the council says no. That again is a body consisting of elected officials with varying degrees of distance from a direct election. Best example for a change: everything that happened after Magyar replaced Orban in the council. This is just to say... Its complicated. The EU can definitely do with a reform and better, stronger democratic legitimacy.
chrystalkey··on Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
Oh please. That is not and never was my argument. I just said, it is not a dictatorship. No Fun discussion anything with you.

If you'll indulge my argument: I have a fair amount of confidence in the stability of the system and fairness of elections. It may be rigged in favour of some interested parties, but there are solid ways to get the people currently in power to be replaced by others and still retain stability in the system. Not so in any of: Iran, Russia, Albany, Eastern Germany, The phillipines, China, Belarus, Sudan, ... That is my whole point. The rest is a different topic, but cynicism usually does not help in doing something.

chrystalkey··on Chat Control passed first round in EU Parliament
You have apparently no idea what an actual dictatorship is
chrystalkey··on Lore – Open source version control system designed for scalability
What a soup of acronyms
chrystalkey··on Conventional Commits encourages focus on the wrong things
Oh please. Public discussion is always a balance, and to answer your question: if the content is nuanced, the title should be too. If they mismatch some of your audience is unnecessarily put off.

Ill add: I am personally put off in the same way your parent comment is, because hard stances are usually wrong, and I like a bit of nuance in my life.

chrystalkey··on GTA 6 Developers Unionize
Well yes sure, but those infrastructure questions come with games as well on top of the whole inherent complexity described in this comment family
chrystalkey··on AI adoption and Solow's productivity paradox
No? I dont see any indication that this would be a good idea. Or even looked for.
chrystalkey··on EU also investigating as Grok generated 23,000 CSAM images in 11 days
The people used as template faces and bodies
chrystalkey··on How teaching molecules to think is revealing what a 'mind' is
I mean... Atom, too, think in some Interpretation of the word. But that interpretation does not help anyone understand or do anything, its mostly useless. Molecules are at a similar point of abstraction, so I remain skeptical
chrystalkey··on I now assume that all ads on Apple news are scams
Very witty
chrystalkey··on How to carry more than your own bodyweight (2025)
Well the answer here is: other factors. Safe, supervised strength training is great, but construction workers do not have that luxury, but instead heavy stuff to carry in (unhealthy)positions dictated by the task itself rather than your training regimen.

Then there are toxic chemicals on site they are exposed to, which attack lung, skin, bones, muscles. Then there is dust everywhere all the time, wood dust, stone dust, plastic particles, metal particles. All not great for your lungs, skin an eyes. So the strength training alone would be great, and many construction workers do have a lot of muscle mass, but the rest ist just poisoned.

chrystalkey··on CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider
Dont be too harsh on the first comment, I'm Sure he's a good guy. Interesting to see that hossenfelder thing, I was'nt aware of it. Her videos got recommended to me but title+thumb always felt like an over the top commentary with more drama than actual problem to be aware of.

So I never clicked and at some point youtube stopped.

chrystalkey··on CERN accepts $1B in private cash towards Future Circular Collider
I see your point, but thats a really bad comparison. We are pretty certain that there is no giant dinosaur in a lake, but in terms of fundamental research there is a lot we cannot really explain a great many things. We dont even know if we are "looking" correctly, with the right concept in mind.

I agree that money spending must be carefully considered, but for this research there really is no replacement. You can shuffle public spending around, but an Experiment not dont will explain no part of the Universe. If the countries and Supranationals that are able to dont fund them we will be stuck with what we know now until they do.

It is a lot of money, but it is also the only way. Does that meaningfully stop the EU and all others from doing their thing? I would argue no. We can still afford it and so we should.

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