If you are talking about like, chicken eggs - no they are not. There is a single cell, the actual fertilized egg from which new life will grow, that is inside what we call an “egg” that we buy, which is protection and nutrients.

It’s kind of like the seed of a plant, which is also not just a single cell, but a nutrient carrier for initial development.

That is just needlessly mean. Done that once to some rando, even worse. I dumped a rant on them. They deleted the post and their account. I felt bad. Don’t be like me.

Is this the new official flag of the USA?

Yeah, I’m also more on the time blindness overcompensation club.

If I have no time fixed, minutes stretch into hours.

If I have some fixed time scheduled, I live by the clock and will rather be way too early than a little to late.

I have to trick my non ADHD wife to be on time, because if there’s a schedule, I’m the master time keeper.

Being late is just way more stressful and I hate rushing and the anxiety of being too late to the train or some doctor or whatever.

My coping mechanism is to have the anxiety way earlier than other people. Everyone believes I’m amazingly organized.

In general I disagree, often you can’t read it it’s satire, trolling or someone being serious, there are weird people and also bots on the internet.

However this piece was pretty clear satire, if you read far enough (probably I would have stopped in the middle and downvoted this crap if it was not marked).

The “ChatGPT showed me a new sorting algorithm” part really does make it pretty obvious to anyone with dev background that this is not serious.

I only trust people who get stomach aches when faced with stressful ethical dilemmas.

we do cross platform stuff and I’m 99% of the time working on Linux, now I have to do some .NET core C# coding, was frustrated first with the language support on Linux - until I tried Rider. If I’ll have to do more C# going forward I’ll consider asking my employer to buy me a Rider license. The alternative would probably be me booting to Windows for that project (which I absolutely hate doing and only rarely have to)

I think about Reddit-style platforms being the centralized bulletin boards and forums of these days, and Lemmy is closest we have to a DIY kind of thing which is controlled by the community.

Back in the day only a sufficiently tech savvy person could set up and run a forum software. Now everyone can do it, and with the Fediverse it’s all nicely interconnected, interoperable and truly free and open.

In general the Fediverse is the best shot we got right now to get back to the non-corporate Internet of my childhood and youth, I really hope it will succeed. And succeeding does not mean that it must grow and outcompete the commercial offerings, I think success is if enough motivated and interesting people join and participate. Quality > quantity.

But what you say IS a kind of technique that hyped for a while in the “speed reading community”, e.g. here is an implementation https://codepen.io/keithwyland/pen/yLyLNz

Or a post about it https://www.reddit.com/r/books/comments/ye6583/whatever_happened_to_spritz_rsvp_kindle_word/

I personally find it exhausting.

Yeah agreed, but that presupposes that the person watching can distinguish someone just babbling and someone who actually is someone qualified to comment on some topic. And I guess the latter kind is a drop in the ocean, because expertise is a limited resource but opinions and bullshit are cheap.

Yeah in the best case it’s just a promotional teaser. Obviously you cannot explain anything non trivial in that amount of time.

Well that’s the platform effect kicking in. Once you ascend to become the environment, you are above petty little competition, you are the system.

Oh I’ve heard some billionaire was planning to go there too, with his kingdom. Maybe pick a different planet.

Are you talking about ePA? Because this is how you leak a lot of sensitive data into all the wrong hands, including hostile countries like the US (central storage in US company clouds) or opportunistic hackers (illegitimate and uncontrolled access to patient data).

I agree that very often stuff is over discussed, but sometimes some garbage solution is deployed that really should not have happened.

They should first repair streets, bridges and schools, and then maybe hire some proper IT specialists before pushing the digitization, Germany is maybe the land of the engineers, but most definitely not of the software engineers. At least the good ones certainly do not end up working for public infrastructure.

How is it that companies known for garbage software such as Microsoft and SAP dominate their domains? Apparently software quality or UX is not even in the top 10 of what you need to run a successful business. I guess Thiel was onto something with his “become a monopoly as quickly as possible and then squeeze the customers out when they cannot run away”, the concept is much older than his fascist version of it.

Somehow I can’t imagine European countries fighting each other again. Fighting at the borders of the EU? Maybe. But like, Europe infighting like back in the old days? No fucking way. Against Russia and/or the US? That may be. But I also do not think so. It will continue to be a hybrid war played out by propaganda and economical warfare, and the occasional tactical military flare-up. I think in our post-modern times almost nobody wants an old school war. Hard to sell to everyone. No need if you can get whatever you want using other manipulations.

The multi-wumms of a country being driven against the wall. Probably against the anti-fascist firewall. Let’s put oil in the fire, maybe it helps.

I wish for a general alternative to Duolingo similar to what it was before it was completely enshittified and turned ads and gems for money up to the maximum.

Before, like 5 years ago, I considered Duolingo subscription and I felt it provided good value. But what it has become now is just disgusting me.

There are worlds of a difference between a project like chromium or Android, which is basically dependent on Google, or random little open source projects run by some fellow nerds. The latter kind of open source is always perfectly fine IMHO, unless the people are confirmed assholes. And there is a wide middle ground containing a lot of the open source ecosystem.

I think there is a valid point in avoiding heavily corporate dominated open source, but this is just a few big problematic fish in a huge ocean.

Yeah same, I’ve tried many things but I managed to always justify to myself the purchase to make sure I’m not wasting too much money on stuff that will just use space and be unused. Still happens, but could be much much worse. Some things I come back from time to time, when the hyperfocus cycle brings me back to it, like musical instruments. Some things I only ever get the entry level stuff because I know I will move on way before reaching some stage where I need better equipment…