I just went after the first thing that sounded interesting, then the next, then again. It was quite a bumpy ride.

I ended up with a job that I really like, but that might be more thanks to luck than anything else, so I don’t know that everyone should follow my example.

I do have some advice though:

• If there is something you really want to do, try and pursue that first. If you don’t, you’ll always wonder how it would have gone
• If you have never worked before, try that before going to uni. Maybe try an apprenticeship. I found that the practical experience grounded me quite a bit.
• Do not be afraid to change career paths. You may feel a pressure to stick with what you chose. And it certainly is necessary to just tough it out at times. On the other hand, you are still young, and will still be pretty young in ten years, so don’t sweat it too much, and try something new if you find that the current thing doesn’t work.

Some dimensions you may want to consider for any potential profession:

1. How much do you think you would enjoy it?
2. How much of a positive impact would it have on others?
3. How much would you earn?
4. How easy would it be to find a job? How easy could it be to automate your work in the future?

I keep being surprised that people on here seem to have an issue with that nickname. Have a look at the lemmygrad logo.

I think tanks as a visual symbol of authoritarianism kinda make sense. No idea where the link to socialism comes from though.

I am not defending US imperialism, just criticizing a double standard.

Imperialism is a state seeking to maintain and/or extend power over other states. That is exactly what China is doing with Taiwan. Of course, unequal exchange is also a form of imperialism.

Imperialism is when you have a civil war.

That’s just wrong. What is true though is that civil wars more often than not are influenced by foreign powers trying to influence them to their own benefit.

Imperialism is cool as long as the people doing the imperialism call themselves socialists or communists 🙂‍↕️

We already have quite good methods for compression, both lossy and lossless. Any “AI” method would have to reliably beat the benchmarks set by those. Seems like that hasn’t happened yet, though there definitely is research in that direction.

If there is a library, go there, way fewer distractions.

As long as having the windows open and the AC running has the same effect, it makes sense to do both. As soon as the AC has to work against the air coming in from outside, it probably makes sense to either close the windows or turn off the AC.

Even then it might make sense to keep doing both though. For example, if the AC only changes air temperature and moisture, but does not reduce volatile organic compounds, and it’s hot and humid outside. You keep the window open to keep VOC low, while keeping the AC on to keep temperature and moisture pleasant.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum

Long story short: The fewer nuclear powers, the better. A bunch of countries promised to protect the sovereignty of these countries if they returned the weapons to russia. Didn’t quite work out.

Try asking your daughter to outline her desired career path and which degrees she needs for that.

Does she want to work as a medical professional? This university will not help her with that, as it is not accredited as a medical school.

We shouldn’t confuse the effectiveness of these protests with their legality. Yes, the protests moved the government to change its approach to prevent even more unrest. Still, the CCP considered them to be illegal and reacted with force, arresting participants or those that spread information about the protests.

Of course, that is also not what I would consider ‘publicly or vocally’.

I have a Taiwanese friend who is very much anti-CCP, but he does go to china for vacation every now and then.

Yes, you need to be in the right headspace, you cannot expect to vocally or publicly criticize the government and go unpunished. But politics are not everything. China is beautiful in many ways and has many great people. I think it would be a good idea to take the opportunity and make this experience. And afterwards, your opinions on china and the CCP will have a stronger foundation than they do now.

edit: you say you are politically active: is this evident from your social media accounts? That might be problematic.

The final vestige of joy being animal suffering?

It’s great that your brother is doing better with ChatGPT, but LLMs are not psychotherapists and shouldn’t be treated as such. By design they are very affirming. They tend to reinforce people’s convictions, allowing them to detach from reality and becoming psychotic. If you keep telling ChatGPT that you are a wothless piece of shit, and that you should kill yourself, before long, ChatGPT will recommend the best ways to do so.

The code being public helps with spotting issues or backdoors.

In practice, “security by obscurity” doesn’t really work. The code’s security should hinge on the quality of the code itself, not on the amount of people that know it.

Considering how often I see nsfw or nsfl stuff because it wasn’t tagged… no I don’t think so, at least there doesn’t seem to be anything widely adopted on Lemmy.

For images at least it should be possible to create a bot that downloads any uploaded image, runs it through an API like Sightengine, and then automatically removes posts or bans users. Each instance would then of course decide whether to set up such a bot, so there is not going to be any fediverse-wide automod.

Lumpi, in German “Lumpen” means “rag” or “rags”, its a 20 year old Dacia Sandero with 170.000 kilometers.

I say that because Lukashenko is Putin’s puppy:

https://youtu.be/1JNtiO7nhmo

Luckily Belarus is completely sovereign 👍

Nah, except maybe in those first few seconds after waking up