[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
  1. Slash funding to postsecondary education, encouraging institutions to bring in international students
  2. Heavily market immigration opportunities to potential international students
  3. Act surprised when entry level jobs fill up

President Taco notwithstanding, it can’t have been that surprising.

This is important:

Extended unemployment periods carry consequences that reach far beyond economic hardship. Young people experiencing prolonged joblessness often face mental health challenges, delayed financial independence, and difficulty establishing career trajectories. These critically missed opportunities also have repercussions for their professional networks and workplace skills.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 days ago

I was a bit of not interested and not educated enough to know what a NDRI was while I was on it but it does make sense for ADHD and Depression symptoms.

The withdrawal from Wellbutrin was bad. I got brain zaps if I was 1hr late taking it; tapering and cessation was miserable.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 3 days ago

Crowchild said he spoke in his people’s traditional language,

Absolutely

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 4 days ago

My EV gets about 200km range in winter (my use case is up to 30 min trips primarily); 80km in 45 min, x2, is not far from the equivalent of 1/4 tank of “gas” in reserve, except there’s no Jerry can for an EV.

Then, convince someone who isn’t fully convinced of the superiority of fuel injection to go out in that. It’s always the “what if” fear of the unknown scenarios, and politics plays a role.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 4 days ago

I can’t imagine that an EV works as well for someone in rural Saskatchewan with a 45 minute drive to the grocery store as well as it does for someone living in Toronto, Montreal. Mechanics who look askance at “the Asian cars” still are out there. Heck it might be a challenge just getting it to the community from an urban center.

I love my EV, and recognize it doesn’t work for everyone just yet (sometimes because of bad reasons that society accepts like “suburbia”).

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Cost is a factor, but consider that if you live in the urban core, at least in some cities, it’s possible to simply not have a car. Vancouver from my recollection has pretty good transit and is fairly walkable in comparison to eg Houston.

Which comes back to cost doesn’t it.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 69 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago)

Fuck JavaScript in all its forms.

Ok, in a browser is fine. But HARD pass on electron and all this bullshit

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 78 points 4 weeks ago

“Gifted child, if only they’d apply themselves”, turns into “Average adult, not always reliable and my god have you seen their <thing we ignore because we don’t have the bandwidth> but usually gets things done.”

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 171 points 1 month ago

LTSC is supported, yes, but it’s an edge case not intended for desktop (or most server) applications.

If you don’t want to move to 11, install a flavour of Linux. Don’t run LTSC.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 93 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

ChatGPT loses money on every query their premium subscribers submit. They lose money when people use copilot, which they resell to Microsoft. And it’s not like they’re going to make it up on volume - heavy users are significantly more costly.

This isn’t unique to ChatGPT.

Yes, it has its uses; no, it cannot continue in the way it has so far. Is it worth more than $200/month to you? Microsoft is tearing up datacenter deals. I don’t know what the future is, but this ain’t it.

ETA I think that management gets the most benefit, by far, and that’s why there’s so much talk about it. I recently needed to lead a meeting and spent some time building the deck with a LLM; took me 20 min to do something otherwise would have taken over an hour. When that is your job alongside responding to emails, it’s easy to see the draw. Of course, many of these people are in Bullshit Jobs.

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 77 points 2 months ago

This makes sense. Give the companies like Apple and nvidia time to set up some local factories. How long could it take to acquire land, set up a chip foundry, and train up staff? 90 days?

[-] CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de 191 points 2 months ago

France did the thing that Democrats are too scared to. I hope it works

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