I mean, to be fair, electrical engineering is one of the most notoriously difficult to grasp disciplines.

People don’t generally have a great intuitive sense for how pulsed electromagnet waves propagate through 3d space and time.

I’ve used the advanced systems analysis math I learned in university as an actual calculation in my job precisely zero times.

I roughly think about how those models apply to situations and how that will effect the various likely outcomes and behaviours etc on a literal daily basis.

University isnt just about training you to do a job.

Where did I say this?

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The US pumped massive percentages of its GDP into

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Which changes absolutely nothing from the perspective of NATO

Lmao yes it does. It only doesn’t if you declare “I’m ignoring this information”, and stick your head in the sand.

That’s not reasoning, that’s weaponized incompetence.

Let’s remember that the US has been, by far, the richest country in the world since the world wars, largely because it stayed out of them til the ends, and issued massive loans to European countries that they continued to profit off of for decades and decades.

You talk about GDP percentage, as if every country had a similar GDP per capita, and could thus afford to spend similarly. The reality is that the US had more then enough money to both fund its military and fund its social programs, but it chose to instead fund the military and the already wealthy.

Maybe you should have spent some of those years studying law.

This is a post from an LLM.

Lol this is an interesting shower thought, the fact that you’re taking it seriously makes me wonder if you spent too much time in Sovereign Citizen circles, or just watched Mircacle on 34th Street too many times.

If you’re talking about the chicken and egg problem in the abstract, i.e. how do you determine “what caused what” in a system that feeds back into itself… the answer is that in feedback systems, determining blame or ascribing one or the other as the cause is simply meaningless, and you need to examine how the system behaves as a whole, and how the different parts contribute to the output of the system in various configurations.

Overly simplistic. Lots of things are the abuse of anxiety.

Objectively false my friend.

How would animals have morals if that was the case? Why would they have a sense of fairness baked into them if it came from a religion they couldn’t possibly comprehend?

The reality is that morality as we perceive it, is mostly just the natural rules that let us work together. This little known scientific concept called ‘apes strong together’, meant that the people who possessed a basic sense of morality could work with others and accomplish more, then those without it, and those without it, died off.

That’s all morality is. It has nothing do with any magical creature.

LA is also just a car culture city. When you’re poor in LA, you drive a shitty car, when you get rich in LA, you drive a fancy car.

When you’re poor in New York, you get driven around by public transit. When you’re rich in New York, you get driven around by a car service.

It’s obviously not so black and white, but the percentage of rich people driving sports cars in LA vs rich people getting driven in luxury cars in NY, is probably similar to the percentage of poor people driving in LA vs poor people taking transit in New York.

Nope. You can literally just send them the exact fields needed for processing a transaction.

The dev of Lemmy is an asshole, full stop. He’s also incredibly pro Russian and pro Chinese, but first and foremost, he’s an intolerable asshole.

You’ll get banned from his Lemmy instance if you dare to suggest that Russia or China issue propaganda.

And he is a large part of the reason why all the “tankie”, i.e. pro-communist Lemmy instances, have cultures of such obnoxious anti-intellectualism.

If you just want to build a basic web page or roughly static document / form, then I can see why it would feel like overkill.

But if you’re building a full featured application then modern web development is kind of glorious.

And what hardware do they run Linux on? And what phone do they use? And what TV device?

And if they’re not a mac fan boy, then they’re insistence of looking at Apple as the only possible sign of industry trends is mind boggingly narrow.

Do I really miss it? It never once came up in any practical situation.

You would buy a mobo and a CPU and put them together and not think about the specific buses or controllers you have available, unless you had a very specific reason to.

Unless we’re talking about a mobile power constrained device, I certainly would rather have expandable RAM and graphics cards then everything slammed in a single unchanging chip.

And again, the fact that the author states that Nvidia can’t release an integrated SoC because they didn’t buy ARM, when they actively sell an integrated SoC licensed from ARM, makes the entire rest of their “opinion”, untrustworthy.

This is a bad article. It’s just an Apple fanboy watching their company continue its trend of shitting on customers and assuming that everyone inevitably will, apparently never once reflecting on whether their insistence of sticking with Apple is the real problem.

Their argument boils down to CPUs increasingly integrating basic versions of other components over time meaning that desktops will disappear… Ignoring that the desktop market has stayed surprisingly flat that entire time and has certainly not disappeared.

If your argument is that integrated CPUs will outclass discrete components connected with high speed buses then you need to make it from an engineering standpoint, not a headline one.

I also don’t understand his reasoning that because NVidia don’t buy ARM they don’t get to make an integrated CPU… Nvidia made and sold an integrated ARM CPU before ever being rumoured to buy them, and they still make and sell it to this day … because ARM’s entire business model is based on companies like Nvidia licensing their designs.

Their assessment of the charter of rights and freedoms is nonsense.

We have one of the stronger constitutions in the world, one that actually provides positive rights for it’s citizens, not just negative ones

I.e. American rights are all framed as the government not doing something to you, Canadian rights also include ones that force the government to do things for you, like provide health care and clean drinking water. It doesn’t mean the government always does, but our courts are far better at holding our governments to account for functioning the way that normal people expect them to.

The notwithstanding clause is problematic, but it is not the death knell that post is making it out to be.

Microsoft’s been pretty open about using Linux for at least the past decade or so.

They kept building it into Windows which eventually resulted in WSL, largely because they use Linux servers but Windows workstations.

It was about 5 years ago that they publicly released Common Base Linux Mariner (now called Azure Linux).

The majority of the Middle East, South America, and most of Asia — like 2/3’s of the worlds population — have known this for 50+ years.

Korea and Japan would disagree.

And the internet barely existed at that point, not every westerner in 2005 could have afforded to travel widely. The average western person would have gotten their general impression of the US from western media.