Yeah, the moral high ground of Biden vs Trump is still immense, but it’s just a bit less steep than it used to be.

NixOS is like that every day for no reason

Mastodon has terrible discoverability. It feels like a ghost town. It’s just not suitable as a Twitter replacement.

Is this Saddam?

China is pumping up the sector. The level of competition is nuts. At the same time demand is lower than before…

Microsoft Azure already leaks secrets and nobody cares. As long as it has all required certifications it’ll be fine.

Ye thunk yer clever, huh? What with thum mushrooms and shiet?

Is this like learning that the splash from your toilet bowl sprinkles a bit of water on your toothbrush? Essentially a pure infohazard that makes tour life worse with no benefit?

Bruh. Our well had a fish living (and dying) in it for a while. The human body can handle some weird stuff.

If you use something often you learn to handle the bugs and “it just works”. If you use a product rarely then it’s not gonna work as well

Maybe the same as with drugs in sports: Self-experimentation can be an expedient shortcut, and scientists are often very competitive people. If results obtained through self-experimentation are rewarded, many scientists would be tempted to do it. Contrary to doping in sport, however, in science you need to at least do something different each time for it to be publication-worthy. That institutes a big skill floor and considerable risk, so I think a self-experimentation epidemic is unlikely. Generally I still think self-experimentation is good, precisely because it’s such a shortcut.

“How do you want your items?” 🤔

I’m sure it’s possible, but it’s not going to come for free nor will it be immediate

Exactly. Let’s hope we get to have another bad US election rather than this being the last one.

Doesn’t all authority already lie with the USA? If we’re going to be real, I mean. I’m sure France thinks otherwise but let’s be real: NATO was always the “Uncle Sam will protect Europe from Russia”-treaty.

Not a lot. The British weapons are reliant on US maintenance. Won’t be credible for long if the US doesn’t support them.

I hope we’ll be able to do this again. There are worse alternatives.

South Korea gets nukes in 3, 2, 1…

Nobody wants to be on the naughty-list of a person this powerful. Even if he loses, the Republican party and all its office-holding members will still to some degree answer to him. He’s not someone you want to pick a fight with unless you are willing to sacrifice something.

Maybe paid per word