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by rwyinuse 1y ago
I would say that mastering things like building, farming, gardening, hunting, blacksmithing and cooking does require quite a bit of learning. Before industrial revolution most people engaged in many or all of those activities, and I believe
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I don't think most of US in the EU really mind, or even know what messaging app people in America use. The privacy conscious folk around here do tend to prefer Signal over Whatsapp though.
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From reliability perspective an used SSD is not a bad idea. Average SSD that has seen typical business / home use will become obsolete long before it reaches its TBW rating, and many drives last way beyond that. Keyboard, screen or eve
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Yeah, it's not worth the risk. When I tried the stuff, I first felt absolutely nothing. Then I took some more, and a couple of minutes later I had a full-blown panic attack, probably some hallucinations too. My brain felt a bit weird&#
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Many EU countries are pretty nice places to live, and didn't need a violent revolution to make it happen. All it took was democracy, a population willing to stand for its rights, and an elite which understood that building a welfare st
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Banning kids from using social media would probably have a much more significant positive impact on their mental development. Obviously kids browsing Pornhub is not a good thing, but sites like TikTok expose them to much more traumatizing v
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I second this. If you really have to live in a flat, top floor is always the superior option.
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I doubt that's a very high percentage of users. Most people use it as a productivity-boosting tool like search engine.
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Right now China is meeting all of its increasing energy demand by building more renewables (in fact more than rest of the world combined). Their citizen buy electric vehicles at a record rate. Yet I don't see Chinese people starving. C
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I would bet that unhealthy eating habits and car-centric city design affect rich people as well. Use of sugar and fatty processed foods appears to be out of control in America compared to your average EU country.
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Why not both? Ebikes are obviously highly useful in cities, but not so much for longer distances in the countryside, also problematic in winter up north. There will always be need for private car ownership for areas that can't be effec
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I think it still varies a lot between individuals. Caffeine often makes me more anxious, the effect on mental energy levels seems kind of random (either short burst of energy or just more tired mentally). Yet when I tried methylphenidate it
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That's good to know. The model I was using supported function calling, but seemed to get the calls often wrong. Perhaps I should try a more fine-tuned model for the purpose.
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It's funny how so many Americans claim having loose gunrights is necessary to guarantee a free state, and protection against a federal army. Now same people have elected a government that really tries its best to turn that free state i
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I use a Proxmox server with RTX 3060 to generate paintings (I have a couple of old jailbroken Amazon Kindle's attached to walls for that purpose), and to run ollama, which is connected to Home Assistant & their voice preview device
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Yep, what I was thinking weren't just direct cost savings, but the ways how what money would flow to other parts of Finnish economy had it stayed here, instead of going to America. We're in recession, there are way too many fresh
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Yeah, it's quite wild what European elites and scientists believed around late 1800's / early 1900's, and it wasn't limited just to anti-semitism or racism towards Africans, even if those groups had it much worse th
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I really hope this will be successful. Living in Finland, I was surprised to find out that last year our public sector spent over a billion Euros on Microsoft licenses alone, while simultaneously following austerity politics elsewhere, maki
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No point using OpenAI when so many safer alternatives exist. Mistral AI, for instance, is based in Europe, in my experience their models work just as well OpenAI.
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Why wouldn't AI eventually take jobs of people who "know how to use it" as well? If AI makes engineers more productive, then you need less of them. I utilize AI as a part of my workflows, but I'm pretty sure I'll be
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Yep, it's a job market problem. Only degrees that are somehow limited in their supply will continue to hold value, the rest approach worthlessness. Neither the state nor universities have any interest to limit the supply. In my country
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Over here in Finland, higher education is state funded, and the funding is allocated to universities mostly based on how many degrees they churn out yearly. Whether the grads actually find employment or know anything is irrelevant. So, it&#
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I think AI is the perfect final ingredient to ruin the higher education system, which is already in ruins (at least over here in Finland). Even before AI, our governments have long wanted more grads to make statistics look good and to suppr
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I'm wondering whether most other white collar jobs will turn like this as well. I see lots of articles that have been at least partially written by AI - so there goes most of your average journalist's job. Then there's stuff
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At least for stuff like electronics, random plastic household items etc EU Amazon isn't particularly cheap. Branded stuff costs about the same in many smaller stores, and random Chinese no-name brands can be bought from Aliexpress chea
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Yeah, it really depends on your life situation. When I was reaching 20's I felt like you, and moving to city was great for my mental health. Now I'm in my 30's, my parents and my spouses parents live in rural area. We have sm
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"Oh, and also not factored in: almost every aspect of rural life is heavily subsidized, and I don't just mean direct assistance. I mean literally everything you stare at when you roll through a rural town was subsidized in some wa
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Another great read, thanks for linking! I remember reading report from another captain, flying for Kam Air or some other Afghan airline about a decade ago. I recall his hotel got attacked by Taliban suicide bombers, but other than that the
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I have HA (the OS version) running as VM on Proxmox, and it's been rock solid for more than a year. Pretty much no issues using dozens of Zigbee devices from various manufacturers. Basic automations just work, I would never recommend a
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For basic automations like you're mentioning, Home Assistant is pretty much rock solid. Bad devices are far more likely to give you trouble than HA itself. Don't buy anything cloud-based if you can avoid it (though many of them do

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