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veqz
·7 дней назад·discuss
I, at least, literally made my own keyboard layout some years ago, to be able to type all the characters I want. Got versions both for Linux and Windows (haven't had a need to use Mac yet).

It's basically an extension of US International which can type every letter in all the Latin based alphabets and most of the common punctuations, including hyphens, hyphen-minuses, en-dashes, and em-dashed.

Never found room for all the Greek letters, though.
veqz
·в прошлом месяце·discuss
Yes, I hear lots of people saying Tesla's "FSD" product can drive by itself already.

Yet if the car crashes while in FSD mode, it is still you who are legally the driver and you who will be responsible. You are the driver, regardless of what the name of the car's software is.

This can be contrasted with e.g. Mercedes' offering, which is actually self-driving, and where Mercedes is responsible if the car crashes (The limitation in that case, of course, is the very limited roads and conditions where that software will actually be enabled.).

So, yes: Until Tesla (or someone else) actually takes responsibility while the car drives itself, and the "driver" is legally just a passenger, it is not a fully self-driving car. If you ever take your attention away from the road while using FSD you are breaking the law, which says that as the driver, you must always pay attention.
veqz
·6 месяцев назад·discuss
Feels like we do these rather often? Tons of people can comment with whatever they're using which they feel are great, and others can tell of their experiences with using the same and not being impressed. It's a rather endless list...

But to answer seriously: Have you tried KDE Plasma as a desktop environment? I think Fedora's KDE spin is among the better options for a distro: https://fedoraproject.org/kde/download

I personally think it's the best desktop experience, and always miss it when having to use Windows at work. I've never really worked with Macs.
veqz
·8 месяцев назад·discuss
Inheritance tax is usually only on values above a certain point, though. That point can easily be set reasonable high – say, 5% tax on all inheritance above €2M, and 40% on all inheritance above €10M, and normal families would hardly be affected.
veqz
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
What, are you not impressed by us putting retired politicians into an independent committee according to their party's political power in parliament??

Are you suggesting that the committee should consist of some kind of qualified experts instead of non-competent politicians?!

Preposterous. Typically of a Swede.

(To be fair to Nobel himself, the world was a bit different when he authored his testament, and Norway was relatively innocent still.)
veqz
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
The final nominations are received in January...
veqz
·9 месяцев назад·discuss
Perhaps. But put another way:

Writing code is artistic the same way writing text is.

Whether that is a function call, an ad, a screen script, a newspaper article, or a chapter in a paperback the writer has to know what one wants to communicate, who the audience/users will be, the flow of the text, and how understandable it will be.

Most professionally engaged writers get paid for their output, but many more simply write because they want to, and it gives them pleasure. While I'm sure the jobs can be both monetarily and intellectually rewarding, I have yet to see people who do plumbing or electrical work for fun?
veqz
·в прошлом году·discuss
It's Plato's cave:

We train the models on what are basically shadows, and they learn how to pattern match the shadows.

But the shadows are only depictions of the real world, and the LLMs never learn about that.
veqz
·в прошлом году·discuss
Just block the html elements which show YouTube shorts? Use ublock, select, and block.
veqz
·2 года назад·discuss
Strangely enough Russia (and their predecessors) and Norway has never been at war. Ever.

Not that the past is a predictor of the future, of course, and Putin is operating quite a few spies and saboteurs here too.

But having both Sweden and Finland with us makes it rather unlikely they would get anywhere near the Fen area. :p
veqz
·2 года назад·discuss
Unfortunately this is also in pretty decent farming land. The land owners will be compensated, but I understand many don't feel too happy about leaving their farms...
veqz
·2 года назад·discuss
Eh, don't know about that... We're really just like anyone else, we've just ended up with a fairly decent political environment by the time we found oil, specifically.

We've been pretty good at mining out our copper ores and everything else that we knew of that had value; we've built a whole bunch of hydro plants and have dammed up numerous valleys; no one thought there was oil in the North Sea or that it was valuable enough to get it up, but now we have a pretty extensive petroleum industry, and it barely took five decades since the first oil was discovered.

What resources we have been good with, however, is fish. But that's just proper regulation over the last century or so.

As for our friendly neighbours... Norway was ruled by Denmark for 400 years and we've been part of all their wars, for a start. Our national anthem has 8 verses, 6 of them are about how we killed Swedes, Danes and Scots.

And we'd like Jamtland, Herjedalen, and all the islands in the Atlantic back, thankyouverymuch!
veqz
·2 года назад·discuss
Not sure if the question was asked with sarcasm or not, but, me being me, I actually tested it here as soon as I read it: It's instant. OnMouseDown event, if you will.

Using KDE Plasma 6.