Just go around a bit, there are several that I like, with no video, no sound, only one picture of the result, one one short intro chapter and no gimmicks. But yeah, several of the top search engine results are horrendous and the ones I like are usually in the top 10, but sometimes way below.

I agree with one thing, if the EU would be 'dealing' with the middle east on its own, things would be much better ! Without the US constantly fucking things up there, that is.

So in your mind EU laws should apply to EU companies, but not to US companies operating in the EU ? Right ? Do you even listen to yourself ?!?

How would you even know it went to him in particular ? Instead you can be sure it went to farmers who voted for Trump in the first place and got shafted by his shenanigans with tariffs... And looking at the deficit he's digging with a backhoe, you are not at the end of your complains...

Or better, tax trades under 1s at 90%. Under a day at 50%. Under a month at 20% and over 20 years at 0% (or something similar). Trades are meant to be a way to finance company growth, they are *not* meant to be some gambling game.

What part of "8 years" did you skip ? It means that after that there won't be much ice left and the flow of water will go down. So just the time left and they will be useless. In reality the water that feed the dams is seasonal: the winter snow that melts in spring and the autumn/spring rains; melting old glacier ice is a drop in the bucket compared to that. In the Alps in the last few years they've actually been removing more dams than building new ones: mainly small unproductive ones, but also in order to have fish come back to the rivers.

I lived in the US in the past, and I still come for vacation and to climb in Yosemite and Utah every once in a while, but you can bet your ass I won't show up if I have to give my passwords and prove I did not disparage 'Dear Leader'. Indeed, I'll even say it here for the record: Trump is a piece of shit, a pedo, a conman, a rapist, a felon; and his entire administration is corrupt to the bone. Here.

Nah, using Firefox on Android, with uBlock and a DNS with zero ads. There's also an accessibility setting for min font size, but it doesn't work very well.

It should be easier to change the font and font size on a website. Yeah, I know you can force a custom CSS and shit, but it's complicated and often doesn't work. It doesn't really matter on desktop, but it pisses me off on phone browsers when characters are so tiny you can't read them and can't enlarge them.

Sometimes you can prove it was a bit flip [caused by cosmic ray, local radioactivity or a glitch in the Matrix], you just need to find the exact bit. A friend of that managed to do exactly that after an error in his monthly accounting software. He proved you could only get the resulting sum if you flipped bit Nth of a certain value during the summation. It took him a while and he had written the software himself.

Ha, brings back identical memories of that time period. At one point the teacher was out of his field and I kept pointing out errors. He held the chalk to me and said un-sarcastically: "come here and finish the course for us"...

If it's not an original part, then don't use the reference code, it's as simple as that. Otherwise that's counterfeit.
To give more details, I hate it when nowadays you order a part online and you get a 3D-printed piece of shit instead. I've had several bad experiences, one being a wheel for a suitcase, when I put the empty suitcase up, the wheel broke off. Others are 3D-printed plastic to replace a metal bike part; really ?!? Even things like wood knife handle replaced by 3D-printed garbage !
The very structure of 3D-prints make it so there is a weakness in the layering; it'll break at the 1st opportunity.

I ordered a single run of the mill 16Gb SoDimm DDR4 to upgrade a laptop 2 weeks ago. After a week the order was showing delivery in... april 2026 !!! I canceled the order and ordered from somewhere a bit more efficient. I dunno if that's related as AI uses top of the line ECC DDR5 in banks way bigger than 16Gb... But if so that's fucking dumb.

I post every now and then, but there isn't much to talk about with the old folks 'round here these days. Eventually every comments section looks like a Thanksgiving dinner! Most of my rambles are now on Reddit now.

Keep sharp!

I'm in the same situation as you (embedded C and real-time Linux kernel programming), and last year I got handled exam results that were *very* obviously written by chatgpt. When I asked the university about what the policy about this was, the answer was "there is no policy about AI" so I was disgusted to have to give grade 'A' to ChatGPT. And this year there's been no policy change so I expect the same, and I can tell already the students are far from being as good as last year.