Ok, so this makes the most sense to me. This would indeed need to be handled, I think the best solution is for EU to come up with a set of dispute resolution procedures and pass it as a law for everyone to follow. That way, disputes would be resolved the same way regardless of what network or bank you are using, which sounds the most reasonable to me.

Aha, interesting. I never had a credit card because it would be too stressful for me to take out micro-loans for stuff. Still weird that it’s visa/MC money and not your bank’s though.

Zurab Mikeladze is a Georgian name/surname, not Russian. Given both are fairly popular names in Georgia, I’m assuming there are way more than one person with such a name combo.

Here are some more people with the same name:

• https://enmedic.com/ka/doctors/91d92037-574e-4371-8c4a-5ad86c80eca5
• http://www.nplg.gov.ge/bios/ka/00013666/

If anything, I suspect that “Leonic Leonov” is a typo or misreading of “Leonid Leonov”, a common Russian name/surname, but there would also be hundreds/thousands of people with that exact name.

Does Visa/Mastercard actually offer any protection themselves? When I’ve had to reverse debit card transactions due to fraud or otherwise, I always just called/reached out to my bank and they did it. I never communicated with Visa/MC. Since this system is pretty much SEPA in a trench coat, I’m pretty sure the same would work here.

That doesn’t sound like a good system security-wise TBH. I’d prefer if the employee had to enter the answer successfully on their end for the system to grant them the necessary access, otherwise it feels like a big opportunity both for internal snooping and for social engineering.

Here is translation from HR speak to English:

“fast-paced” - requirements change multiple times during each sprint

“exciting” - your manager will be an idiot

Honestly it’s fine. LSPs are nice but you don’t need them per se. A combination of vim, tmux, entr, a fast incremental compiler, grep, and proper documentation can get you a long way there.

A lot of critically important code that’s running the servers we’re using to communicate was written this way. And, if capitalist decline continues long enough, we will all eventually be begging for vim while writing code with ed.

Personally I use helix with an LSP, because it helps speed up development quite a bit. I even have a local LLM for writing repetitive boilerplate bullshit. But I also understand that those are ultimately just tools that speed the process up, they do not fundamentally change what I’m doing.

It’s nicer to develop anything on a beefy machine, I was rocking a 7950X until recently. The compile times are a huge boon, and for some modern bloated bullshit (looking at you, Android) you definitely need a beefy machine to build it in a realistic timeframe.

However, we can totally solve a lot of real-world problems with old cheap crappy hardware, we just never wanted to because it was “cheaper” for some poor soul in China to build a new PC every year than for a developer to spend an extra week thinking about efficiency. That appears to be changing now, especially if your code will be running on consumer hardware.

My dad used to “write” software for basic aerodynamic modelling on punchcards, on a mainframe that has about us much computing power as some modern microcontrollers. You wouldn’t even consider it a potato by today’s standards. I’m sure if we use our wit and combine it with arcane knowledge of efficient algorithms, we can optimize our stacks to compile code on a friggin 3.5GHz 10-core CPU (which are 10 year old now).

You can write code just fine on 20 or even 30 year old hardware. Basically if it runs Linux, chances are it can also run vim and compile code. If you spring for 10-15 year old hardware, you can even get an LSP + coc or helix, for error highlighting and goto definition and code actions. And you definitely don’t need a beefy GPU for it (unless you’re doing something GPU-specific of course).

Editing 720p videos (which, if you encode with a high enough bitrate, still looks alright) can be done on 10-15 year old hardware.

Research is where it gets complicated. It does indeed often require a lot of computing power to do modern computational research. But for some simpler stuff - especially outside STEM - you can sometimes get away with a LibreOffice spreadsheet on an old Dell or something.

From the looks of it we will have to get used to doing more with less when it comes to computers. And TBH I’m all for it. I just hope that either my job won’t require compiling a lot more stuff, or they provide me with a modern machine at their expense.

It’s funny you should say that, if you look at the living standards & human development before and after, it’s pretty clear that the revolution was overall a really good thing.

UK is clearly “shoes on” on the map though, it’s marked is green.

Well, yeah, the dev environment was compromised but the author restored everything and checked that it all works.

Personally I use Pipepipe and Outertube on my android phone, and just watch through a browser with adblock on my Linux phone. Although I don’t watch youtube too often, especially on my phone (maybe twice a month or so), I didn’t notice any issues with either of those methods, and never got any ads either.

BTW you can/should install an alternative YT frontend on smart TVs, if you want to watch YT and are forced to use a smart TV. Even something semi-suitable like Pipepipe will do, but there are also frontends more suited for TV use, e.g. SmartTube

There are jurisdictions where a price tag in the store is almost always assumed to be an offer (a.k.a “public offer”) and the company is legally required to honor it. In some circumstances the employees who screwed up and put the incorrect price tag will bear most the financial responsibility which sucks. That’s why you shouldn’t do it if you get the chance - it’s not a legal loophole to stick it to a corpo, you’re just ruining the life of some poor overworked retail employee who misplaced the price tag.

And yeah, the good faith part is also really important. If the person has asked a couple of questions to a chatbot, got recommended some products, asked if there’s a discount available and then got an 80% discount out of the blue, got excited and made the deposit, it would probably be enforceable. If the customer knowingly “tricked” an LLM into giving out a bogus discount code, it would be very dubious at best.

To expand on the other comment, Luddites were not necessarily against technological progress. Rather they used destruction of certain types of machinery as a political tool: to temporarily extend their power as skilled laborers, and to intimidate the factory owners into recognizing their unions or getting certain laws passed.

Yeah I know what you mean. I got used to my recordings in my native language, but I still cringe at how I sound when speaking English. I have an insufferable mix of accents because I’m constantly interacting with people from a dozen different cultures.

If you want to get rid of those feelings, sadly the only option is to just listen to yourself more. If you’re into music, maybe even record yourself singing your fav songs, it will be even more cringe but you will get used to it faster IME.

Conflating jews and israelis is antisemitism pushed by zionists.

It doesn’t matter much who was behind Epstein’s operation, it was primarily funded and sustained by US billionaire elite themselves, stop shifting blame away from a bunch of rapist oligarchs.

you will get errors on your errors.

Python3: hold my beer

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Why not? Not everyone has the money or knowledge/tools/time to fix it, and that’s ok. Sometimes fixing it costs more than the car itself (e.g. when Prius gets its factory cat stolen).

Also, what if the person doesn’t have a car at all?

Who are the “good guys”? The only remotely non-evil person who had a serious bid for president is Sanders, the rest are straight up pieces of shit who bankroll genocides, bomb civilians, and empower their billionaire donors. Even then, Sanders is ineffective, somewhat zionist, and old, and I don’t see a viable young replacement even for someone like him.

In the US, the political mainstream isn’t “good guys vs bad guys”, it’s 80% hitler vs 100% hitler.