@cvmonakow You just described an Eastern Ukraininan school in the 90s-2000s. I don't want to dig more into the motivations of Dostoyevki's protagonists, leave me the fuck alone and give me more of those trigonomrtrical equasions instead.
@a_a_viswanath A long-long time ago I saw van with a full-width sticker on the windshield in the Gothic German font saying "Edem das Seine". The guy was probably very proud.
If you are a STEM person it is OK to be arrogant towards the rest of the disciplins. It is only that the right way to do it is this quite arrogance when you still loudly acknowldge their positive role in a human's mind development, not openly dismiss it in a nerdy-autistic way.
Andrej Karpathy just said your kids should ignore most of school.
"80% of education should be math, physics, CS."
Not because it's useful - because it carves grooves in the brain.
Grooves that get harder to carve the older you get.
In a pre-AGI world: it gets you a job.
In a post-AGI world: it makes you a functioning, empowered human.
Everything else? Tack it on later.
The cognitive foundation is the only foundation that survives the transition.
@DevinSanLuis Lol, as if Ukraine had a choice whom to appease. This all could have been avoided if Biden gave Ukraine what it was asking for in 2022-2023.
Democrats/leftists back then: no, we aren't giving you Ukraininas what are you asking for, cause escalation management, cause we are smart, real-politics, blabla.
Democrats/leftists now: HOW DARE YOU MAKE FRIENDS WITH MAGA INFLUENCERS HAVE YOU HEARD HOW BAD RACIST THEY ARE???
@academic_la He wouldn't be forced to appease shady MAGA influencers in order to win MAGA support at all cost if Biden and the Dems would have given Ukraine enough when they had all the opportunities for it. They lost the momentum, now they are gone but Ukraine still has to fight for its life
@academic_la Such a shallow analysis coming from an arrogant Westerner. Yes, Zelensky has a lot to be criticized for, but your analysis does not include any nuance and appreciation for the insanely difficult position he and Ukraine are in right now. And by the way:
Turns out, not only doesn't it do it by itself - you can't even enforce it. Mind you, in the official DOCUMENT SCANNING app. Where you EXPECT a document have multiple identical pages. If keeps fascinating me how unusable iOS is for anything remotely productive.
Peak iOS experience is when it's trying to guess your intentions when you don't need it,but if you are scanning a several pages A4 doc with the default "scan document" function, it does not unify the page sizes before saving it to a PDF which would be THE MOST NATURAL THING to do
Peak iOS experience is when it's trying to guess your intentions when you don't need it,but if you are scanning a several pages A4 doc with the default "scan document" function, it does not unify the page sizes before saving it to a PDF which would be THE MOST NATURAL THING to do
@pwk You do realise that in a war-torn Ukraine people might have other more high-priority issues to think about rather than the historical dispute with a neighbour over what happened 80 years ago (which the said neighbour has been using for the internal political affairs)?
@omgsidewalks All the professions you mentioned are still better off with the capitalism than with the socialism (unless you are a writer or an artist that is talanted an loyal to the Party, then maybe yeah socialism will be a better fit)
Thank you Opus 4.8 High MAX for not spotting an obvious behavior aspect of a 10 lines helper function in Python, guess I should be using Fable for the most basic stuff now
@GrantSlatton Western countries lack pragmatic Greens that are pro law an order and whose main motivation to support cycling and transit is that it is a sensible thing to do and not because they get Schadenfreude from making the evil rich car owners mad.