syklemil

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[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

[EEC] is essentially the same as joining, just worse

I tend to agree; I think the decision to not be able to vote was a bad one.

Why mix a defensive alliance with what is mutating into "United States of Europe", those are vastly different kind of deals.

Norway is a sparsely populated and poorly defended country with a lot of natural resources and a long, often strategic, coastline. We're better off being allied to countries that share our ideals, in a union that has actually brought peace to the continent, than being gobbled up by some other superpower that believes in one or another variant of ethnic supremacy.

You're not giving up any serious form of autonomy by joining NATO.

NATO is to a large degree "USA with friends". An EU defence is looking more and more needed.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 11 points 6 months ago (3 children)

1994 is not that long ago,

It's 31 years ago. The people who were of voting age at that time are 49 or older now. The average age in Norway is 41. The average Norwegian isn't old enough to have voted on the EU even once, much less twice.

and the politicians still entered EU regardless.

They did not. We are in the EEC and Schengen, but not in the EU.

Your anecdote is just that. The Finns and Swedes had a sudden change of heart about NATO after Putin invaded. Norwegians might similarly have a change of heart about NATO and the EU if NATO starts rotting at the head.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago)

Depending on which part you asked about:

  1. Yes.
  2. Yes.
[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 27 points 6 months ago (7 children)

Also, as a non-american why would I care until Proton product is good?

Two things:

  1. In the worst case, where they support fascists, they'll also likely not provide the protection from fascists that a lot of users are expecting and paying for. E.g. trans people might be using the service to protect themselves from an administration that is trying to erase them. Will the service actually be safe for them? Can people trust that fascist supporters won't break their own product to support fascism?
  2. We've seen lots of cases of tech companies and CEOs having a deleterious effect on politics. Is this a sign that proton will be yet another of those companies? Swiss law seems to work in our favour here, but if the company is rotting from the head, it won't be enough.

It could be that this is just a series of clumsy actions from the CEO (including using his birth year in his new Reddit nick, when that birth year is also a well-known nazi dogwhistle (88, code for the 8th letter in the alphabet, as in HH, as in "Heil H…")), it could be him showing his true colors.

As an existing customer I've taken a sort of wait-and-see stance; I likely wouldn't become a new customer right now.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 14 points 6 months ago (5 children)

The average Norwegian has never had the chance to vote on the EU. The people who voted twice are all retired or dead.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

Norway is incredibly oil-brained and quite steeped in Norwegian exceptionalism … but there's also a lot of people who love the status quo no matter what, so it's not clear what the effect of Norway joining would actually be

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 2 points 6 months ago

For context I'm a scientist doing data analysis and modeling, so my view point is potentially significantly different than most of "the industry".

Isn't most of science also rather big on types, only they use the phrase "units"? If you take an attitude of "I never bother checking my units, I just see if it works or not after the fact", that's rather different from the science I learned where checking the types of calculations was considered an important step.

At some levels it's even just like colour-coding your wires, helping you not accidentally put ground in the wrong part of the circuit.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 52 points 6 months ago (3 children)

Where's the Orphan Crushing Machine community here anyway

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 6 months ago

Smells a bit Scandinavian to me. In Norwegian we also use "ur" that way, including "urspråk" (Ursprache, ur-language). We have a different word for origin (opphav), so ur remains a prefix that's difficult for us to translate.

Going by Wikipedia however, the English translation for Norwegian urspråk and German Ursprache is proto-language.

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 9 points 6 months ago

Astral is already a Rust shop; uv and ruff are written in Rust, and it makes sense for them to expand on what's already considered very successful.

Rust can enable a lot of speed and "fearless concurrency"; it also has a pretty good type system and a focus on correctness. They'd rather be correct than fast (C made the other choice, but is also from another age), but also show that that extra correctness comes with little runtime speed cost (compilation is another story).

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I had to figure out how to do the factory reset at the gym after I got the blue triangle of death when leaving work. Oddly enough it synced the gym plan I wanted and leaving it connected to the phone didn't seem to produce any other ill effects, but I stayed away from anything using GPS.

But yeah, the general advice for Garmins just now seems to be "just don't" and hope it doesn't triangle itself until the fix is out

[–] syklemil@discuss.tchncs.de 54 points 6 months ago

They're stuck in a reboot loop, but not bricked. A factory reset works (but the problem may reappear on update).

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