When there was only a single terminal it was common in Europe to just... walk to the counter and pay for the meal card in hand. No other way to type in your PIN
Not universally true. I had a couple of cards without a chip because, reasons. I still was walking to the counter myself, because giving somebody my card feels weird.
Sometimes you start reading comments like this being like "interesting viewpoint", but then somehow Russia deciding to invade a foreign country is the fault of the west and you're like "ah it's a Russian troll"
This is like being in the 2000s and saying "Why would I use anything but IE5, everything works with it"
The market share is what makes those circumstances exceptionally rare. Meanwhile we're having to use safari specific fixes and refrain from using he newest standards just because of safari
Safari's problem has never been the lack of supported standards, more that the support is buggy. You'll find that yes the feature is there but it throws a nonsense exception in a weird case and same in CSS.
It's also the last non-evergreen browser so bugs take longer to fix than Firefox or Chrome, compounding the problem.
I don't know how others use LLMs, but once I find the answer to something I'm stuck on I do not tell the LLM that it's fixed. This was a problem in forums as well but I think even fewer people are going to give that feedback to a chatbot
The problem that you worked out is only really useful if it can be recreated and validated, which in many cases it can be by using an LLM to build the same system and write tests that confirm the failure and the fix. Your response telling the model that its answer worked is more helpful for measuring your level of engagement, not so much for evaluating the solution.
You can also turn off the feature to allow ChatGPT to learn from your interactions. Not many people do but those that do would also starve OpenAI for information assume they respect that setting
My Mastodon feed absolutely blew up with anti-Starlink posts crowing about Kessler Syndrome. It was an echo chamber of dislike, with very few facts involved.
While somewhat lower-keyed, and with a few more (well-chosen) facts, this article seems to target those people in same echo chamber.
This is what working in a toxic working culture does to a person. "Because I only have one week of PTO a year and have to be constantly add afraid of being fired, everyone should be!"
Europe has a borderline shrinking economy, and completely missed out on the tech wave of the last 25 years.
So you have all of Europe using American software, running on American or Chinese hardware, all imported rather than home built.
This "foreign dependent" theme repeats again and again as you go through why Europeans need to get off their asses and drop their perceptions towards industry.
And this doesn't even mention the population age crisis.
I have the savings where I could quit my job, work odd fun part-time seasonal jobs, go traveling, focus on hobbies, focus on friends and family, and live a low stress generally relaxed life. Still live in my house, still drive my car.
I could probably swing this for maybe 5 years.
But after that?
I'd be very low on cash, missing valuable workplace skills, selling my home to downsize, and scrounging for money anywhere I could. Bad financial shape, and forced to give up all those great comforts.
This is what Europe has been doing, on a ~50 yr timescale. They are about 35 years into it, and the writing is on the wall. Euro leaders see it. Unfortunately for Europe, there is now a whole generation that only knows that laid back easy life. Meanwhile Europe needs to double defense spending (cut services) while fostering domestic technology development (cut taxes), all while having a top heavy population (guaranteed generous benefits). All the things necessary to stand on their own, with a hostile next door neighbor who desperately wants the former soviet lands back. And all the things that say "You need to work more for less".
If Europe doesn't get it together in the next 5-10 years, the EU will fracture, and there likely will be another European ground war.
