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by tsoukase 9mo ago
As a neurologist I cannot be persuaded. Their is a huge placebo and confounding component in the spectrum stress-depression. There are syndromes where AD drugs make wonders, literally saving lives, and others where they are useless. But tak
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
There is a negative Moore's law for software, valid when the one for hardware stopped: with constant CPU speed, the speed of software decreases as its version increments.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
If an LLM hallucinates in 1% of occasions and gives subpar output in 5%, this kills his effectiveness to replace anyone. Imagine a support guy on the other side of the phone to speak gibberish 10 times a day. Now, imagine a doctor. These wi
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Large social media (Tiktok, Instagram, Facebook) have made me (and the world?) a great favor and need a login to scroll through their feed. Resist having an account and you are mostly free. It's like in order to get depended on drugs,
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
It will be the first application of the 'curse of Open company' rule: any for-profit entity that has the name Open in it is destined to go bankrupt.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Scientists of >=PhD level sacrifice their lifetime to a low-profit goal. They could very well be occupied in the industry and earn millions (granted not all of them) with their talent. Instead they demand and enjoy social respect and at
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
As an Xfce4 user my priorities for a WM are in diminishing importance: - speed - memory consumption - simplicity to use - customisability - if it's X11 or Wayland If everything above the last remains the same in the Wayland version, I
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
CEOs and boards of directors treat the regular public as either slaves or stupid. I don't know if they believe that or pretend to believe.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
The reflex to bind Europe's IT with OSS is due to several factors, like Linus Torvalds being Finnish, Arch and SUSE having a European leadership, NEXT and OpenCloud started by German hands and an absence of a unicorn IT company in EU.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
"Nobody Ever Got Fired For Buying Microsoft". Same for Oracle and AWS, until a year ago. Before the current insanity, Europe whould become independent like never. Now, it will take about a decade, IF the insanity continues in the
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Not even 35% of regular people cannot change anything if they are inorganised. But much less than 3.5, namely politician, billionaires and some more can make a great difference. The only case that a small minority can bring a change is the
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Fact is that the massive number of CPUs worldwide run heavy versions of Windows and consume valuable energy while running Linux they whould be idle.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
After a couple of Nvidia driver update occasions (@Arch Linux) the resume brought back a broken resolution. I didn't need any assistance to think that an xrandr command executed after each resume whould solve the problem. Now it might
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
The solution is called 'log levels' and you should be able to filter out anything you think appropriate.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
"With great power comes great responsibility" and Intellectuals have great power.
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Talking generally and depending on many factors the fossil fuel yearly energy consumption for private transportation is similar with that of home heating. ICE cars are replaced with electric and boilers with heat pumps. Both help, may be th
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
The current situation is enforced by a temporary coup and is incompatible with the average American citizen base. Although a sizable share idiotically supports the crimes, the rest awaits its turn. We experience that back and forth in Greec
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
With the current speed of things, Europe will need a hundred years to effectively and totally set free from the US digital dominance. You will know if this timeframe gets shorter if a torrent of change, news and enthusiasm floods almost any
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Vaccines for easily transmitted serious diseases are loosely like seat belts in cars. You use them not only to protect yourself but also the others. Also in order to have any meaningful effect, they must be used from a large majority of pop
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Never in the past an irreversible decline of a hundred long empire has started in one year. Abrupt crisis end abruptly. Never any political party has impeached it's winning leader. Nowadays the country needs a Dem President, whoever th
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
From a semi-corrupt country, ie being somewhere between Africa and the developed world, I can only suggest to fellow USians courage and patience three more years. Times will come good again. A corrupt leader is very difficult to change and
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
The US government has introduced a whole new stance for a developed country: disrupt and poison allied relations, retract from established cooperation and take a hostile position. And all that not because of any MAGA bs but to keep and incr
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
All these milestones of renewables Vs fossils are low hanging fruits. Sometime soon they will hit a wall of diminishing returns: more solar improves nothing. Also, if a large share of heating and transportation converts to electricity then
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
US system was good for the expansion in Far West 200 years ago. Count steps and thumbs to measure distance and feel the temperature on your skin. Now it has no utility and the US should "surrender" in a democratic fashion to the r
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Thank you. This is the first time that someone admits here that NAT actually adds some security. IPv4 will never go away less that an important share because of it's simplicity and NAT-level security it offers to millions of profession
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The title poses it like companies (such as Meta) should be ethical and they might sometime stop to be. No for-profit company is obliged to be ethical, only legal. So the surprising news here are 'Meta used to be ethical until recently&
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Where I live, in nearby villages of 300-500 people living in sparse uninsulated family homes you can almost faint from air pollution (temps at +-0C). Wood (>10tn per 100sqm) or coal can severely impact the local environment. So a dozen d
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
I am not a US citizen but a European one.
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Clearly the DJT's obsession with Greenland has to do with some short term gains of his billionaire friends and not real national interests. Similar to all his other recent shortsighted surprises. So, hold on for 3 years until he retrea
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by tsoukase 9mo ago
Look for train collision in Greece (1), the only in a developed country. Extensive research has been done, from a simple switch malfunction to plasma scale temperatures. 1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tempi_train_cras

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