Yes, I have similar experiences with people in the same age bracket. I'm not sure what the root problem is, I'm sure it's myriad in its origins, but there's some combination of individuals being fully checked-out of the democratic process taking the structure for granted and letting it kind of wash over them, and also a systematic failure of education which has completely failed to impart certain vital aspects of knowledge.
Like you I would classify most of these people as intelligent, and although literally qualified, (possession of university degrees at various levels), they are actually completely uneducated.
I don't think TikTok is itself any worse than our own domestic brain liquefying apps like Twitter, and thus the ban's surface reasoning is specious at best, but I'm fully onboard with reciprocity. If China won't let US companies operate in China, the US shouldn't let Chinese companies operate in the US.
Matzah is fantastic, I wish I had more opportunities to have it. The hard, thin, crunchy matzah bread, matzah ball soup, its all great. We used to have it once a year during school lunch, probably for Passover, but I don't really remember when or why. I just remember that it was pretty delicious.
What gets me is how every minor quirk or fault of FF makes people, despite knowing of and ostensibly being against the chrome monopoly, throw their hands up and declare that they need to go back to chrome.
I understand this comment is tongue in cheek, but of course the answer could only be yes if somehow the UAE had some sort of stranglehold on the product that couldn't be replicated by other players, like uniquely talented engineers, prestigious universities doing fundamental research, etc. I don't think the UAE, or any of the middle eastern countries, is going to be the principal player in AI development.
Likely what they meant, but convicted could be correct here, in that the scientists may not have much conviction in their assessment, i.e. do not feel certain.
Does this really solve any of my problems though? I’m not especially price conscious on phones, I’m just unexcited and feel somewhat underserved. Besides the physical home button, my primary wish for music controls goes unanswered by the SE. Plus I find it’s a little small for my hands. I’d absolutely get it if it was obviously better in some way than a Max model or whatever, but is it?
> As a founding member of the association, Greenpeace e.V. holds only five shares at €55 in the cooperative, otherwise the environmental group and the company are financially and legally independent, although they share the same office building in Hamburg.
It's kind of unclear just how much this organization actually is Greenpeace or not. That being said, extremist political parties and movements (e.g., UKIP), are so often financed by Russia as a form of covert ops that I wouldn't be surprised to find that they were a significant backer of Green Peace proper as well.
Apple has other aspects that appeal to me. By and large, I like the OS, and by and large, I don't like any of the Android variants. This is what keeps me on the platform. But the unexciting upgrades is what keeps me from upgrading.
I've been an iPhone user since the OG in 2007, with a stint of Lumias (RIP) in the early 2010s. I'm currently on an aging 11. I've always been somewhat miffed at iPhones because they've never once cared about whatever consumer segment I fall into. Every year like clockwork it's "better camera". That's it. Whatever other innovations they do under the hood, the only overt thing they advertise or care about it is better camera. Sure, its nice I guess, but I'm not a big taker of pictures. After the iPhone 8, photo quality got basically good enough for me that everything after has been a barely noticeable upgrade. I'm sure teenagers, TikTokers, and amateur photographers really care, but boy howdy, I do not.
I'll be upgrading to the 16 come September, because my phone is kind of falling apart at this point, but it will done wholly without excitement.
I really just want hardware buttons so I can use the music controls by touch, without taking my phone out of pocket. I really just want the clickwheel iPod back.
The problem with paying extortion or ransoms is that you incentivize the attacker to come back and do it again. It may have been $5k to pay off one attacker and more than that to build the defense, but now you have defenses and are less likely to suffer attackers in the future. And as you say, not paying money to criminals is inherently worthwhile.
My despair is that you think he should have spent his effort on something you find, I assume, to be more productive than this. He’s an expert is a video game, it’s wonderful that we have the material abundance to allow that.
Cowards. I'm not a fan of the formulaic silly naming conventions that internet tends to gravitate to, but if you're going to run a contest, you should honor the result.
Meanwhile, there are works of immeasurably lesser technical talent hanging on my walls that I spend much time admiring. Good art is good art, and it's best to not let anyone tell you what that means or doesn't mean.
I feel like MaNGOS never really got good enough, and instead all the solutions in use branched off it. At least, MaNGOS certainly had a reputation for being janky and inaccurate 15 years ago
But I can incentivize, hold accountable, and hire people I trust to be competent. I cannot incentivize, hold accountable, or higher better quality LLMs.
The incompatible library and overly expensive computer recommendations aside, CS is full of things "you literally never use". It's a theoretical discipline more akin to mathematics than anything else, and it certainly isn't software engineering, to the surprise of many students (including me, when I was one).
Outside of my university coursework, I have never used the Pumping Lemma (Theory of Computation), balanced a red-black tree (Algorithms & Data Structures), relational algebra (Databases), and all sorts of other things that someone focused on the software development aspect of computers would literally never use and would wonder why we're focusing so much on these things.