A former colleague of mine liked to say that "There are two kinds of people - those who do backups and those who now do backups. That was relevant before AI, but with it is even more relevant. If I don’t trust myself enough with the production environment I will never trust a glorified CleverBot. But I guess this can fail to, because I’m sure some lazy moron will let the AI do the backups and it will instead nuke the whole machine

That’s how you know it was coded by a human

Sure, but then how would I get my “personalised experience” while dicing onions? What about the assistant using cutting edge AI technology to tell me how to chop the carrots?

Would Chinese TikTok allow anti-CCP content? I genuinely asking. If it does then yes, we can say it’s more democratic. If you mean that the “Chinese” TikTok allows anti-ICE and anti-MAGA/Trump content then this is just a foreign country that has nothing to loose from this, which is not necessarily “democratic”, it’s just that they probably have something to gain from it.

I got something more important — a life lesson! It serves me well now that I work in a corporate environment and turns out school is not that different, some of the management in my company even gives me back memories of the kindergarden.

You are right, I can’t imagine that happening in the real world

When I was in high school we got to write an essay (or something like that, I don’t remember anymore) on some topic I didn’t have any opinions about, so I gave an empty sheet of paper with only my name on it. The teacher was really puzzled, an brought up this to me and my mom. She wondered why I didn’t cheat and copy something from the internet like a lot of my classmates did actually. We already had smartphones, it was around 2012-2013. I didn’t cheat because my parents taught me honesty, that was my answer to my teacher.

Guess what? I got the lowest possible grade (essentially I failed this exam). People who cheated, and she knew they cheated got higher grades. Not that I’m complaining, I got the grade I deserved in my opinion. I would like to note that I wasn’t a lazy student or anything, it was this one time that I slipped up, and preferred to be honest about it.

What school taught me is that cheating will get you further than honesty. If you can’t make it, fake it. This translated very well when I started working in a corporate environment.

As someone who used to work for an ISP I always used to hate it when people acted like it’s the end of the world when there was an outage. I’m not saying this is you, but some people I guess imagine that things happen with a waving of a magic wand. Things brake, things need time to be fixed.

I don’t know how your ISPs work, but in my experience the estimated time is usually way more than what they really need to fix it. They just do it in case things don’t work out as expected. You will be way happier it they tell you they will fix it in 5 hours and actually manage to resolve it in 1 hour. Instead if they say its going to be an hour and then spend 5 hours fixing it you wouldn’t like it as much.

I am doing dry January, because it’s last month here, and since it’s the company that is letting me go to cut some expenses I can’t care less. I just quickly wrapped up and documented stuff that I worked on, just because my colleagues are cool and I’d hate to leave them with some mess to deal with after me.

I don’t know how you got that idea since I said that the president resigned, not that he was kidnapped by a foreign country.

Well, since my country’s government resigned under the pressure of a nationwide protests, althou elections will not be held today, they will be pretty soon.

As to who am I going to vote for, I’m still askig myself this. All of the parties have proven themselves to be trash in one way or the other.

And the newcomer party that is expected to appear will be formed by the former president, who also resigned last week, not because of pressure, but to be able to form a party and participate in the upcoming parliament elections. And while he was president he made some statements that made it very clear he has sympathies towards Russia, so a big NO on the voting there too.

I wish! As someone who have lived in one of those concrete apartments from the communist era of my country, at least as they were made here, you do hear your neighbours. And if your neighbours have an active kid or a bigger breed dog that likes to jump a lot especially. Also every time they drop something on the fooor. I’m not very familiar with construction and material propeties, but there is something about concrete that carries vibrations easily. When a neighbour starts doing some renovations the power drill can be heard in half of the building (it was a nightmare for me, who worked night shifts at the time).

Don’t get me wrong, I’d still prefer that hell to being homeless.

You mean, when it’s in perfectly good condition and there is no reason it shouldn’t be able to work, but you didn’t pay your [insert brand here] subscription, so it gets shut down remotely

This thread went into eugenics stuff waaay too fast

Why do you need to take control over an ally’s territory? The US already has a shot of pretecting Greenland from China or Russia occupying it, because it will be essentially attack on Denmark which is a NATO member.

If there is still anyone out there that believes that the orange turd wants Greenland for security reasons, they must have some negative IQ.

Now, those minerals mentioned… They are another story. That will be for the financial security of Trump’s family and friends.

I’m happy to say I have nothing in common with him

They will just change it to something better, I think “Work makes you free” sounds good. /s

Joke aside, the US is leaning more and more into that Nazi shit and that’s scary

1. Good manners.
2. Staff here is not entitled to tips, they have to earn it, and in most cases just being polite to the clients is more than enough

As a driver I hate electric scooters on the road.

As a cyclist I hate electric scooters on the road.

As a pedestrian I hate electric scooters on the road.

Knowing my YouTube feed it’s most probable that I end up in one of those DIY videos where they tell me how everyone can make thing easily at home and then proceed to use their thousands of dollars worth of professional workshop machinery to show me how to make thing.