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nikaaa ,

My dad's re-learning Python coding for work rn, and AI saves him a couple of times; Because he'd have no idea how to even start but AI points him in the right direction, mentioning the correct functions to use and all. He can then look up the details in the documentation.

nikaaa ,

You shouldn't feel pressured into making a wish.

nikaaa ,

Short question: how would they enforce that? What if I use some obscure messenger that nobody has ever heard of? What if I simply use telnet or netcat to send messages to other people?

nikaaa ,

Yesss.

flying squid

the cooler mia

max

gandalf der 12

ygthur (or sth)

and a lot of german home instance ones (ranslite, nudel, kühe, ...)

and probably a few i forgot rn

nikaaa ,

There's nobody that I don't like

nikaaa ,

I have always wondered how do you do it: How do you fly?

nikaaa ,

From the link:

A species of oceanic squid can fly more than 30 metres (100 feet) through the air at speeds faster than Usain Bolt if it wants to escape predators, Japanese researchers said Friday.

So, what's chasing you?

nikaaa ,

From the link:

It’s a squid-eat-squid world down there.

Sounds pretty capitalistic to me.

Do you have a minute to talk about socialism?

nikaaa ,

I'm introducing the theory of an "r-factor" that measures how capitalistic a country is.

r = 0 means pure socialism. Everybody gets the same amount of universal basic income, and earns nothing when they work hard.

r = 1 means pure capitalism. there is no social support programs, and what you earn depends entirely on your labour/wages.

in-between them, there's a linear interpolation.

(i invented that "r-factor" as a thought experiment yesterday, and now i like it.)

i'm for r = 0.5 btw.

nikaaa , (edited )

This sounds like the typical plot of a story from The Codeless Code.

Edit: How about this story specifically?

nikaaa ,

FileDialogFactory

nikaaa ,

I personally prefer dialogs.FileDialog.open()

nikaaa ,

Yes, you said it perfectly. Eye contact is intimate, that is why people do it after all. It transmits a lot of information. That is the reason why I don't like eye contact with people that I don't like or can't empathize with. Lots of people are full of anger, and I don't like to feel any of that.

Otherwise, very well said. I relate to a lot of this, also the "being able to see what's in your mind" when other people look at you. That is exactly my impression, too.

nikaaa ,

As a wizard, I agree to this.

Never trust any spell except the most simple and basic ones.

nikaaa ,

“The number of births is the first indicator of the hope of a people,” Francis told an annual gathering of pro-family groups on Friday.

Hope comes first, births comes second.

You can't fake an indicator and hope for the situation to improve.

Russia mounts surprise assault on northern Ukraine in most serious cross-border offensive in two years ( www.cnn.com )

Russian forces have made two cross-border assaults inside northern Ukraine, according to information from Ukrainian sources and officials, in what President Volodymyr Zelensky is calling a “new wave of counteroffensive actions” by Russia....

nikaaa ,

No map in the entire article? Or did I miss it?

nikaaa ,

Crazy. I've been a long-term Musk supporter (because of meaningful business targets: EVs and Mars colonization), but these recent events I cannot support. Laying off employees while not at the same time demanding Universal Basic Income on a state level (so that no single corporation is disadvantaged) is a death sentence to the worker population, and that, I cannot support. I'm out.

nikaaa ,

I'm worried that Maps will be hit by the enshittification next. We need a good quality maps alternative. OpenStreetMap seems ok, but it lacks a few features, including trip planning.

nikaaa ,

This comic is just so nice, I don't even know what that is?

Is this a well-known web comic or sth?

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