wait until you find out what the opposite of progress is

I realize that, academically.

I feel that what I am buying with a lottery ticket is a few days of allowing myself to imagine what my life might be like if I win.

And I invest vastly more of my money than I buy in lottery tickets.

… they are in my country, at least for people who want to attend a university.

I realize myself that the lottery is a tax on lack of statistical knowledge. I still occasionally play it because if I don’t play, then the probability of winning (and never having to work for money again) is 0, and I can easily afford to occasionally buy a lottery ticket.

at least https://stackoverflow.com/questions/22780466/why-cant-my-program-compile-under-windows-7-in-french was actually funny

Yes. Try jobs where you just develop internal software for big companies. Not guaranteed, but not unheard of either.

It is German, but the video seems to have a translation into English too (also French) which you can access through the cogwheel menu.

IIRC it wasn’t crashing, it was UI elements just not doing what they were meant to do. But I haven’t tried it in years, so I don’t remember it very well and certainly can’t say if those problems are still there.

I use Shotcut, works well enough for what I need.

You can also try Kdenlive, though I have previously had problems with it where it just failed to work at all (have not tried recently). There is also a video editor integrated into Blender.

mehmeh-ehhhhh. mehmeh-ehhh. MEHMEH-EHHHH

I don’t get why this had -25 net upvotes before I gave it an upvote to balance it, I think it’s a good shower thought and thinking of AI slop as similar to dreams is genuinely not something I’d thought of before.

Some men can do that. Go ahead and ask them if they are that much happier.

I think upvoting incorrect comments is a bad thing; if incorrect comments have a net positive score, readers might get the impression that they are correct.

The vast majority of things I see, I neither upvote nor downvote. They have to be either extraordinarily good (exactly what I would have written or extraordinarily insightful) or extraordinarily bad (bad faith, blatant falsehood) for me to do that. When I disagree with something, I write a reply explaining why, or upvote one if there already is one, but I don’t downvote what I merely disagree with.

If that were the goal it would be further west so that all of Europe and Africa would be east of it.

The prime meridian is a completely arbitrary line and the “western hemisphere” (defined in terms of it) is equally arbitrary. We need a prime meridian though, if only in order to draw the international date line on the opposite side of it.

Except it’s not my reflection, it’s a reflection of millions if not billions of humans.

any word can sound like an insult if you say it with the right tone, I think? Isn’t there a song somewhere on YT about words that aren’t technically slurs that makes that point?

PL/SQL needs to be compiled, there can be compilation errors when you create a function or procedure on an Oracle DB. Doing that is part of my current job, so I definitely know what I’m talking about.

oiI

Was expecting AI Gore rhythm