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I, at least, literally made my own keyboard layout some years ago, to be able to type all the characters I want. Got versions both for Linux and Windows (haven't had a need to use Mac yet).

It's basically an extension of US International which can type every letter in all the Latin based alphabets and most of the common punctuations, including hyphens, hyphen-minuses, en-dashes, and em-dashed.

Never found room for all the Greek letters, though.

Yes, I hear lots of people saying Tesla's "FSD" product can drive by itself already.

Yet if the car crashes while in FSD mode, it is still you who are legally the driver and you who will be responsible. You are the driver, regardless of what the name of the car's software is.

This can be contrasted with e.g. Mercedes' offering, which is actually self-driving, and where Mercedes is responsible if the car crashes (The limitation in that case, of course, is the very limited roads and conditions where that software will actually be enabled.).

So, yes: Until Tesla (or someone else) actually takes responsibility while the car drives itself, and the "driver" is legally just a passenger, it is not a fully self-driving car. If you ever take your attention away from the road while using FSD you are breaking the law, which says that as the driver, you must always pay attention.

Feels like we do these rather often? Tons of people can comment with whatever they're using which they feel are great, and others can tell of their experiences with using the same and not being impressed. It's a rather endless list...

But to answer seriously: Have you tried KDE Plasma as a desktop environment? I think Fedora's KDE spin is among the better options for a distro: https://fedoraproject.org/kde/download

I personally think it's the best desktop experience, and always miss it when having to use Windows at work. I've never really worked with Macs.

Inheritance tax is usually only on values above a certain point, though. That point can easily be set reasonable high – say, 5% tax on all inheritance above €2M, and 40% on all inheritance above €10M, and normal families would hardly be affected.

What, are you not impressed by us putting retired politicians into an independent committee according to their party's political power in parliament??

Are you suggesting that the committee should consist of some kind of qualified experts instead of non-competent politicians?!

Preposterous. Typically of a Swede.

(To be fair to Nobel himself, the world was a bit different when he authored his testament, and Norway was relatively innocent still.)

The final nominations are received in January...

Perhaps. But put another way:

Writing code is artistic the same way writing text is.

Whether that is a function call, an ad, a screen script, a newspaper article, or a chapter in a paperback the writer has to know what one wants to communicate, who the audience/users will be, the flow of the text, and how understandable it will be.

Most professionally engaged writers get paid for their output, but many more simply write because they want to, and it gives them pleasure. While I'm sure the jobs can be both monetarily and intellectually rewarding, I have yet to see people who do plumbing or electrical work for fun?

It's Plato's cave:

We train the models on what are basically shadows, and they learn how to pattern match the shadows.

But the shadows are only depictions of the real world, and the LLMs never learn about that.

Just block the html elements which show YouTube shorts? Use ublock, select, and block.

Strangely enough Russia (and their predecessors) and Norway has never been at war. Ever.

Not that the past is a predictor of the future, of course, and Putin is operating quite a few spies and saboteurs here too.

But having both Sweden and Finland with us makes it rather unlikely they would get anywhere near the Fen area. :p

Unfortunately this is also in pretty decent farming land. The land owners will be compensated, but I understand many don't feel too happy about leaving their farms...

Eh, don't know about that... We're really just like anyone else, we've just ended up with a fairly decent political environment by the time we found oil, specifically.

We've been pretty good at mining out our copper ores and everything else that we knew of that had value; we've built a whole bunch of hydro plants and have dammed up numerous valleys; no one thought there was oil in the North Sea or that it was valuable enough to get it up, but now we have a pretty extensive petroleum industry, and it barely took five decades since the first oil was discovered.

What resources we have been good with, however, is fish. But that's just proper regulation over the last century or so.

As for our friendly neighbours... Norway was ruled by Denmark for 400 years and we've been part of all their wars, for a start. Our national anthem has 8 verses, 6 of them are about how we killed Swedes, Danes and Scots.

And we'd like Jamtland, Herjedalen, and all the islands in the Atlantic back, thankyouverymuch!

Not sure if the question was asked with sarcasm or not, but, me being me, I actually tested it here as soon as I read it: It's instant. OnMouseDown event, if you will.

Using KDE Plasma 6.

Hyggelig om du forteller hvilken sak det faktisk er, siden jeg ikke kjenner den igjen fra beskrivelsen din.

Nice if you could tell which specific story this is, since I can't recognize it from your description.

Laws upheld by the state are the worst good way to maintain order.

A much better way is to have the parties play nice with each other, build trust, and negotiate as equals. This allows for much better and more detailed agreements, for quicker reactions if market conditions changes, and for more flexibility within each economic sector. The fact that the Nordic countries operate in such a way no doubt contributes to these countries both having great standards of living, and being among the best in the world to start and run businesses in.

Tesla doesn't play nice. They don't build trust, and they don't try to negotiate as equals.

True, it is not illegal. It doesn't need to be. We have other ways to keep hostile actors from misbehaving.

Strikes are one of those ways.

It is not informed consent if people don't understand what is happening, though.

As such, the user benefits are all indirect.

Plasma needs to be ported to Qt6, and thus Plasma 5 becomes Plasma 6. In the process a lot of code is cleaned up, and it is easier to find and eliminate bugs, and also to add new features.

Several new user facing features and improvements are still coming with the release of Plasma 6, and lots more will keep coming in subsequent versions.

My mother calls for me every time during the guitar solo of Guns N' Roses' Sweet Child O' Mine.

Reminds me of my childhood memories playing video games in the basement, and always makes me smile. Love that song :)

It was stated as a causal relationship and reported in the news since the 19th Century. It was still denied by some, and ignored by most.

At some point we should probably start doing something – and enough – about it to maybe avoid the worst consequences?

That's not correct. We have had models showing global warming caused by fossil fuels since the late 18th Century at the very least.

A few papers in the 1980s were predicting global cooling, but those have been shown to be erroneous – sometimes even by the very same authors.

I was terribly skeptical to Steam when it launched, as I am to all online/hosted services. What if they just remove a game I'm using? Does all my games stop working if they turn off their servers? Am I really going to have to be online whenever I want to play?

But I gave in after several years, and now I'm a quite happy Steam user on Linux. It works as advertised, and the only issue I have is that I haven't found a way to filter games for «Linux support» and a genre at the same time. I've used EXT4 and BTRFS as file systems while using Steam, and never had any issues with that either.

I'm inclined to agree with Gabe. I've never spent as much money on games as after I got Steam. It makes it really easy to get a new game. Without Steam, I'd probably just go without. I have lots of things to spend my time on, and sometimes I'm even a little bit bummed that wasting time on games is an option on Linux these days...

My personal experience is that it's been like this for years already. I'm mostly using laptops (Dell XPS at the moment) with some Ubuntu-derived distro with KDE Plasma on top, bluetooth peripherals, external monitor, and external USB-connected drives, and it all just... works.

Other people are reporting less good experiences, of course, so anecdotes aren't worth too much.

I think the real answer is that macOS runs on very specific hardware, and as such it is much easier for Apple to make sure every part works together. Buying a laptop designed for Linux (or even better: a specific distro) would probably be similar to a general macOS experience.

Pascal's wager.

But the big flaw there is rather straightforward: which god? Is worshiping a false god better or worse than not worshiping at all?

Should one avoid eating pork in case the Jewish/Islamic god is real? Or maybe avoid eating beef in case the Hindu religions are the true ones? Or maybe the Jains have it figured out, and you should really be vegan to be safe? Perhaps the Aztecs were right, and we're way overdue on our sacrifices?

Sure do. Was lots of fun, even though my skyscraper plans failed as there was a limit to how man objects we were allowed to stack in the Z-axis.

"The lead–crime hypothesis is the association between elevated blood lead levels in children and increased rates of crime, delinquency, and recidivism later in life."[1]

Basically, during the 20th Century, lead were used in a lot of products, including gasoline and paint. To shocking surprise, it turned out that this lead slowly ended up in our environment, and built up in our bodies.

The hypothesis is that because virtually the entire population got lead poisoned, we became more affected by "learning disabilities, decreased I.Q., attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, and problems with impulse control", which again leads to more crime.

Lead was eventually phased out (no thanks to the companies behind the products), and this correlated with a drop in US crime-rates in the early 1990s.

Since then there's been lots of discussion on why the crime rate dropped. The removal of lead from the environment is one (an alternative, but not mutually exclusive, hypothesis is the legalized abortion and crime effect[2]).

[Personally, I've been wondering how this also affects other qualities of the people affected... Would people born before the 1970s have been more intelligent than they are currently? Could this have given us better political leadership, and better secondary and tertiary effects?]

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead–crime_hypothesis

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legalized_abortion_and_crime_e...

Wait, what? Norwegian is richer because of Danish?? (Also, what conquest?) I'd say it's the same language, just with lots of different dialects anyway.

What has enriched the Norwegian (and Danish and Swedish) language beyond the Germanic Scandinavian would be the importation of words from Latin, German, French, and English. All happening through trade and cultural influence, in roughly that order.

All PII (personally identifiable information) of EU/EEA citisens and residents would have to be filtered out, yes.

Chat messages in themselves are not necessarily PII, but then again WhatsApp isn't claiming to freely read the messages. I suppose the messages in the chat could be mined for keywords to give ads to the non-EU/EEA persons.

Awesome! Thanks for the tip.

Yeah, it's annoying. I've also seen them block entire subreddits for mobile. E.g. this is what I see on my Android phone when trying to read r/Europe: https://veqz.net/reddit_block_europe.jpg («This community is available in the app»).

My two go-to solutions are: 1. Use old.reddit.com/ 2. Stop using reddit

Not ever single DE, but the Compositor a DE uses must have it implemented.

Though Compositors may share libraries as well, and a unifying library might very well be developed for this.