I mean if you truly intend to stay in a country for many years, shouldn’t you learn the language? Also just for your own sake.

Denmark seems to fit fairly well and there are some English-only jobs in Copenhagen. I have a lot of colleagues that don’t speak Danish.

Denmark is close I would like to say.

Lived in a dorm for 5 years while studying. Makes you confront that anxiety quite often and eventually you get more comfortable.

Basically exposure therapy :P

It’s a political necessity really. If you keep denying the losing party any influence, they’ll grow bigger.

The Danish political system has very successfully stopped the far right parties by acknowledging their concerns and bringing some but not all of their policies into the centrist parties. Honestly this is probably much better than the alternative of the far right parties getting more and more influence.

EDIT: If you’re not Danish and not familiar with our (very successful, I might add) democratic political system, you might not understand, but it has worked quite effectively here. Keep in mind the Danish political leaning is quite leftist already, so even some of our “right-wing” parties are still quite left wing all things considered.

What is insane, is how many people studied computer science but are totally unable to apply mathematics to the problems they try to solve.

Could you elaborate on this? My experience during my computer science education was that a lot of maths was required, but just usually not the same kind of maths as most of the rest of mathematics, because continuous stuff doesn’t apply most of the time.

I think a big difference between the way maths and programming is done however is the way it is written. Mathematics is usually about stating a relation as an equation, i.e. x = y^2. But programming can’t just state the relation, it needs to also state how to compute that relation. Honestly my confusion is that maths has never focused more on the computation part of it, it seems very weird to me.

At this point, it seems like a major existential risk for the internet archive to be based in the US.

“Tech” journalists spend way too much time in the headlines of other outlets, getting a much too shallow idea of the actual tech that they’re supposed to cover. It’s quite sad that this is the state of so-called tech journalism.

Like a 15 minute time out is ok.

Locked in a room or locked out of the house? That is not okay, regardless of how long it is.

Community admins would decide to link their communities.

At this point, why not just shut down one of the communities and use the other one? What’s the point in linking them like this? That just makes it the same as one community, no?

Laying the matter truly bare would be:

To be fair, there’s always been something deeply wrong with how most people understand the universe.

I’m actually most concerned with the IP leaking

I’m curious, what is it about IP leaking that concerns you? I’ve been thinking about it lately but I have a hard time seeing why it’s a problem.

Why is this posted in the fediverse community? I get that you think this is important, but this is an international community and many here have no way to influence American politics. It’s also just off topic.

Communities should be linked at least

Who decides what communities are linked? You’d need some kind of central authority to do that, but that would break decentralization.

Multiple options for the same thing is good and should be accepted as normal. It’s only on the internet that we have learned to think otherwise.

Wouldn’t it be weird if you only had one supermarket option to go to? I mean yea super markets mostly have the same stuff, but there’s a good reason not to have monopolies.

To be fair, almost all instances started like this.

Why are you making such a strawman? Using an AI model to completely generate a picture is obviously not the same as using the tools you mention here.

Isn’t the problem with banning ads that you’d just gets “ads” that aren’t marked as such? Like, ads are still going to happen, they just won’t be clearly marked cause that would be illegal.

EDIT: Would love to hear how the downvoters would enforce an advertisement ban. What happens when an influencer randomly endorses a brand and then that brand also just coincidentally happens to give the influencer a “generous donation” or perhaps a life-time usage coupon?

[PieFed] seems to be strongly opinionated about how people should behave and it kinda gives me an icky feeling about its culture

Yea, I get this same feeling. It’s not that I mind that culture or being mindful of how people behave and such - I just don’t think that is the domain of the software to decide. Individual instances can decide that for themselves, but the software shouldn’t influence that kind of thing, I feel.

Well, that might be the cause. Kinda scary you get recommendations like that just due to no history.

Wow your YouTube recommendations are very different from mine.