Socketier's comments

> By the end of 2026, Microsoft Office is to be replaced by LibreOffice on all 25,000 computers used by civil servants and employees (including teachers), and the Windows operating system is to be replaced by GNU/Linux

It literally says they are going to switch to Linux in the first paragraph.

I'm sorry, why is helm so bad exactly?

That's a really profound sounding way of saying that life is complex and we don't understand it. Or are you saying that we do understand it? If so I'm sure you're in high demand right now.

That's circular reasoning. We're here so it must have happened in this specific way therefore it happened.

Sure, an expertly guided experiment in a glass tube can make some basic amino acids but they had to be removed from the experiment immediately before the the product was ruined by further reactions. It was a guided process which we've got no further in accounting for in the wild.

We've made no progress since these experiments to answering the questions posted by the theory of abiogenesis.

We've got no concrete answers, only suppositions.

This is not a popular thing to talk about but the fact remains that we are absolutely nowhere close to solving this in the manner in which we are proceeding in OoL studies. The track record for uncondendable conjecture is abysmal.

This. The amount of trouble one has to go through to break the % cap on internal raises isnt worth it. Especially when you have recruiters lining out the door for your applications to companies who won't quibble about salary expectations.

Switching jobs has now become the path of least resistance to get what you want.

Maybe it's because of all the recent success stories? People are emboldened to take the leap.

Maybe it's because if you're remote working, you're somewhat distanced from the people you're moving away from anyway, it's less uncomfortable than hanging around the office for 3 weeks before you split.

It would be nice if when you skipped a song it would do a soft pop up or something to ask why you skipped it. You could ignore it most of the time but if you felt strongly about the recommendation then you could at least vent your frustration on the "I don't like this song" button.

I think the main issue here is, is that users feel a bit powerless to influence the algorithm with thier dislikes as much as thier likes. Even though a song skip may be functionally similar to the dislike button, the user has no "haptic feedback", for lack of better term, when they really feel the need to have their negative opinion on the song heard by the algorithm.

I think most people's gripes with the nature of these recommendation algorithms deciding things, centre around the feeling that the algorithm doesn't listen to them and their opinion as much as it obeys other overriding trends. Giving them tangible and tactile options to deliver their opinions in hard and fast way gives them some more peace of mind that the algorithm is working for them, and not for some other entity.

.md is the markdown file extension, so having a .md TLD is a clever and amusing idea imo as Obsidian is, after all, a markdown editor.

Having less variety of food l and "having to eat cupboard food" don't really go hand in hand. It's not essentials, they're luxurious options.

Exquisitely engineered creatures.

That being said, I live in the UK. We know it's going to base its default recommendations based on your perceived location.

I personally found that I needed to make an account to get away from the horrendous default recommendations. And allow it to use some data and not clear my cookies etc.

Youtube isn't really the same. I've found that I can watch the things I want to fine without seeing a single political video being suggested.

Gutted.

Waggle Dancing In The Dark (official video) - Bee VEVO

This happened to me as well, only with DSL. The strip lights on the bathroom mirror (newly installed) would disconnect the internet when turned on.

Such a weird thing to troubleshoot when you have a few people living in the same house.

Yeah I managed to do the same, it filled up the firewall state table and nobody was able to initiate new connections, only existing ones continued to work. And that's how I learned about stateful firewalls!

Would you agree that the systems at those scales are remarkably well architected to function in such conditions?

Flawed analogies are the result of improper understanding and the need for explanatory tools and models, but that's always going to happen as facts are revealed over time.

The answer isn't just to assume they're chaotic systems, but instead to accept that we don't fully understand all the systems and forces in play and keep searching for truth.

Thanks, I'll have a read!

I'd like to note though that what ever the case, a beverage that she was expected to put to her lips managed to give her horrific burns. And there was, if I recall correctly, quite a few of the same case accident reports at Mcdonalds on record. She was the only one who ended up in high profile litigation though. I suppose my point is that she wasn't silly or unreasonable as the slow drip feed of facts led many people to conclude as they heard it.

Exactly, it's similar to the media frenzy around the woman who got seriously burned by Mcdonalds coffee and sued them. The reaction was mostly incredulity and mocking her, but the reality was that the coffee was exceptionally hot for decontamination convenience (a corporate money saving measure) and the cup was insulated such that the average person wouldn't ever expect it to be so dangerous.

Best to withold judgments until get more of the facts are revealed.

> Thinking of the body as a well ordered mechanism is a flawed view

That's a bit of a leap.

The order and organisation of the human body is beyond every technology we have ever developed to date.

We discover what appears to be disorder in a healthy, non-aberrant system and make leaps to justify its disorder. Using the same philosophy that brought in the "junk dna" theory, we then settle the on acceptance of it being a mishmash of cobbled together mutations. But then as the years go on we find another level of order in that "chaos" and we're humbled again.

>but isn't it wondrous that from this emerges a complexity that can say "I" and has consciousness of self?

You're right, it is wonderous, and if we assumed order first, I suspect we'd look harder for it and find it faster than assuming chaos so early every time.

Once you notice the "Weasel words" [1] you'll never see a press release like this one the same way again.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weasel_word