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merari42@lemmy.worldOPto memes@lemmy.world•Before the algorithm took over, natural cruelty ruled supreme.10·8 days agoYeah probably some people at bell labs bullied some people in Stanford over ARPANET in the 1970s
merari42@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Phones are handheld computers now. Why aren't laptops phones? I know you can use VoIP or tether to a phone, but why don't laptops have LTE or 5G modules and SIM card slots as a standard?1·2 months agoI had one in 2010 in Germany. Was basically a UMTS modem plus some really shitty phone software
merari42@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•How are Americans preparing for the Trumpist supply shock?5·3 months agoGoing to Germany as a nurse should be possible. You would need to do some language courses and handle some bureaucracy but we have a big nurse shortage.
merari42@lemmy.worldOPto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•This might have some impact on efficiency10·3 months agoThis is a bluesky screenshot, not a twitter screenshot. This is to show, where I reposted this from.
merari42@lemmy.worldOPto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•This might have some impact on efficiency7·3 months agoIf you can tariff penguin island you could also tariff polars, which isn’t slow.
Code Didn’t Break — They Did
merari42@lemmy.worldto World News@lemmy.world•EU considers tariffs on digital services Big TechEnglish19·3 months ago
merari42@lemmy.worldOPto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•The devil said, “Take this glyph-laden grimoire and try to render it cross-platform.”20·3 months agoText encoding ‘standards’ were clearly the devil’s work, handed down to humanity to sow chaos and suffering.
merari42@lemmy.worldOPto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•I want a programming language that supports German style composite words2·5 months agoIt did depend a little bit, what kind of machine/production line he was working on. Before he retired, he worked for an automation engineering company and had different projects in other EU countries, and tried to be understandable for people in those places. He once even coded some Siemens control panel for an aluminum oven loading robot in the czech republic and tried to translate everything to czech with a dictionary (to have the panel info available in czech,english and German). He did of course speak to the foreman of the workers to get it correct.
merari42@lemmy.worldOPto Programmer Humor@programming.dev•I want a programming language that supports German style composite words3·5 months agoMy dad used that a lot to program Siemens Step5 and Step7 PLCs. I think it was German but names were 8 chars since this was straight from the 80s. When he fixed old machines or updated them with new PLCs he had to do full rewrites a few times because nothing was documented in old school machinery.
Upgraded every old MacBook (2009pro, 2015 pro) I had with bigger harddrives and did small repairs with ifixit instructions. But you notice they get less repairable over time. The 2009 thing was built like a tank and you could upgrade ram, replace a broken GPU and this thing over all felt very repairable. I still works but isn’t that useful any more 16 years after release. 2015 was way less repairable.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (also had a decent tie-in point and click adventure game in 1989)
merari42@lemmy.worldOPto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•To what extent do you think political violence can be justified? From a purely strategic perspective, do you believe tactics like the anarchist 'propaganda of the deed' are effective?41·5 months agot new regime. If you want peace, you have to fight peacefully. Yes it’s harder, but it’s the only way. But peaceful doesn’t mean passive (or law abiding)!
Oh sometimes, violence works to build peaceful gouvernments after. In Romania political violence created a functioning democracy. Dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu was executed by the revolutionaries after a 30 minute farce of a trial, but the country is now a democracy for more than 35 years.
merari42@lemmy.worldOPto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•To what extent do you think political violence can be justified? From a purely strategic perspective, do you believe tactics like the anarchist 'propaganda of the deed' are effective?8·5 months agoA big part of the original propaganda of the deed was just that. Killing royals in Europe to show that power of the monarchies is limited
But now he sleeps in a racing car
That is something that some tech savy Lemmy users could already easily do. I repost stuff from all over the web. But some systematic preservation of good old subreddits aught to be automated.
merari42@lemmy.worldOPto memes@lemmy.world•The same duality might also exist outside of Eastern Europe5·5 months agoCompletely agree. Especially less good architects couldn’t deal with it’s limitations. Concrete isn’t some indestructible wonder material—exposure to harsh weather and exhaust fumes leads to cracking, corrosion, and a dreary look if it isn’t properly engineered and maintained. So many old concrete buildings look shitty
merari42@lemmy.worldto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Europeans of Lemmy, is American beer really that bad?101·5 months agoMy American friends made me drink Keystone Ice and this was one of the most disgusting things I did ever drink. The rest was also not great. A few American beers were passable but I had better ones in most European countries.
merari42@lemmy.worldto Technology@lemmy.ml•‘Sputnik moment’: $1tn wiped off US stocks after Chinese firm unveils AI chatbot2·6 months agoDidn’t deepseek solve some of the data wall problems by creating good chain of thought data with an intermediate RL model. That approach should work with the tried and tested scaling laws just using much more compute.
Na, but Millenials used it in their (pre-)teens seeing some fucked-up shit (and strangely most of us are still fine)