They do have categories, via the menu at the top:

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And his voters will never learn, because their media bubble insulates them from facts.

Your taxes, straight into the pockets of Sam Altman and Larry Ellison.

Large chunks of the EU are hurtling rightwards too, unfortunately.

As long as AI is owned by billionaires, I’d rule out the first option.

I dunno. I’ve been programming on and off since the 1980s and professionally since the early 2000s. It still always takes me forever to build anything worthwhile and even longer to maintain it. Most software these days is complicated enough that it requires many people to build and maintain. I’m not sure that “everyone should be equipped to program what they need” was realistic even back in the 1980s, let alone with today’s complexity.

Most users don’t want to be sucked down a bottomless time hole just getting their computer to do a thing it won’t do, and understandably prefer to have someone else suffer this for them, then use what was built.

So I don’t know about the goal of everyone being able to program. I still think it’s a worthwhile goal that people should have full control over their machines so that they can install and uninstall what they want, configure devices to work the best way for them, and turn off the features that don’t serve the user at all. And I think open source software is great for bringing technically inclined people together to collaborate on what’s actually useful to people.

Sorry to be a pedant about little things, but while you’re fixing typos, it’s “aid” not “aide”. I just mention it because it really changes the sense of “holding aid hostage.”

Why is the water consumed? Can it not be cooled and recirculated?

Short video formats on all platforms make me very quickly feel like I’m going crazy. Just one voice after another, trying to cram whatever they have to say into your ears, or one joke taken out of context, or one simplistic moral, or absurdist humor that wouldn’t hold up for longer than a few seconds. My partner watches endless “reels” on Facebook, and that hurried talking they all do, with all those cuts to make sure there’s no gap between words, makes me fell very weird and agitated. It’s like everyone has the same voice. And then it keeps looping. I waste far too much time on Lemmy but the short video stuff seems like another level of brain melt.

Right now he’s using a computer with Windows on it and he couldn’t remember the details of where he got Linux from. He said he never managed to get it working. So no useful info, I’m afraid.

Who would understand it to mean “every single man” just because it doesn’t explicitly say “some”? That would be a pretty strange way to read it.

Because people can figure that out by a combination of using a bit of common sense and reading the article in any doubt. And I say “people” even though there’s at least one person who can’t, and people will understand anyway.

This is worth reading all the way through. MIT takes money from Israel’s defense ministry to research better ways to genocide Palestinians, and subjects any student who points it out to violence and legal attacks.

I guess they’re really proud of their support for Israel.

I’m used to ORM layers where you can write SQL queries but you’re basically converting the results to objects before you use them. These kinds of things tend to handle bits OK, and bit parameters can usually be set as booleans directly. I haven’t used SQL Server in a while though so maybe it isn’t as convenient as that.

It would probably carry less risk, but in terms of bytes used this would be even worse. And we have other problems there that I’d tell you about but it would make me too sad.

Well that would be ok, because any standard tool for interfacing with the database would transparently treat bit in the DB as bool in the code. I think many DBs call it a bit rather than a bool.

Oh you have no idea. There is no teaching this guy.

Yeah of course we convert, but it effectively means you need this little custom conversion layer between every application and its database. It’s a pain.

Zero is something you always have to watch out for and handle, because he likes to use NULL for “don’t know”. I should really have deleted the database while it was still young, before they had backups.