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Comment Re: Shortage? (Score 1) 158

It's good to a point, but what you don't want is Balkanization. Switzerland already has four official languages, so I see why they in particular might be acutely aware of it. There's a similar situation brewing in Mexico City as a lot of foreigners are moving in, with few of them even speaking Spanish, which is pissing off a lot of the locals.

Mexico city also has a related (but not the same) concept progressives are likely familiar with is gentrification, which is somehow bad despite balkanization being awesome because diversity.

Comment Re:Shortage? (Score 1) 158

"The chances of someone being born with excellent skills is equal everywhere"

This is a nice rhetorical assertion, and one I'd like to agree with, but it's (unfortunately, for both the skilled and those in less advanced areas) provably false.

Skill directly correlates to IQ at a population level. The IQ of European-native peoples, Chinese, Japanese, and Jewish peoples is in the 100-105 range average. Africa, India, and the Middle East (to a lesser degree)? Not true at all. A full SD or more different. You've got a huge problem with inbreeding throughout India and the Middle East, for instance. This means that your average person is not going to have the same chance of being "born with excellent skills".

Of course, this is also not without discounting things like upbringing and environment, and it undoubtedly has some play in the matter.

As for this policy, it has absolutely nothing to do with letting the best and brightest immigrate. It's clearly reactionary due to unfettered refugees and other unskilled immigrants who can't speak the language, don't want to speak the language, and bring obscene levels of crime to what would otherwise be an idyllic socialist utopia.

Comment Re:Too late (Score 1) 47

In what ways do you find it superior?

For me, Grok has been pretty consistent at making some pretty wild code recommendations and not following specifications.

It's not like Gemini, which will get stuck implementing things and then get into a histrionic panic loop, but it's not nearly as good as gpt5.1 in implementing correct, complete code per specification.

Comment Re:other way around. (Score 2) 158

>":Roll Eyes: Would they kick their own babies out once they hit ten million?"

Their population is in DECLINE, like almost all Western nations. There is ZERO chance of that happening. They will very likely allow immigration, but with hard caps and based on their own criteria, not just anyone that wants in or crosses their borders without permission. Those criteria will likely be based on things like knowing the language, having valuable/compatible skills/education, already having family there, understanding and likelihood to assimilating to general Swiss values, etc.

>"What this really comes down to, like all immigration debates, is racism. They don't like the color of the skin or the religion of the immigrants."

And you couldn't be more WRONG.

Most people don't give a damn about the "color of the skin." What they care about is *CULTURE* which is a set of beliefs and the way people act. That is NOT "RACISM".

And not liking someone else's religion that wants to push alien values that are incompatible with most of the native citizens is, guess what, ALSO NOT "RACISM".

So do us all a favor and stop using the word "racism", it is so unbelievably overused and abused now, it means almost nothing.

Comment Re:You said "cheap" and "Wifi", but... (Score 1) 143

>"Until recently the only way to access the cameras from mobile was through the cloud service, you could access the device over https directly but then it wouldnt let you view video if you were doing so on a mobile device."

No, you could also use a VPN and access it directly as well. Granted, MOST people that want to use the app (and it is certainly not required) will not have a problem with using a cloud login in the app just for notifications and to stream the video. That is very "normal" for most any platform. But the video and settings are still coming directly from your own physical box. Unifi's cloud is just directing and connecting you to your box own box. And that communication is all encrypted.

>"Their IPv6 support is also very poor, and there are a lot of networks using CGNAT for legacy service so inbound legacy traffic is not possible."

They have made lots of improvements in IPV6 in 2025. If you haven't seen their stuff in a year, you would be pretty amazed at how quickly things have advanced.

>"There is no option to configure IPv6 through the web interface"

Yes there is. But I can't speak on the details, since I don't use it. But I see the settings.

>"There's also no built in dynamic dns support which is needed if the ISP keeps changing your prefix."

Yes there is. I am using it now. That has been available in the web user interface for years, I think. When last did you last use/look at Unifi's gateway???

Comment Not much different from disclosing paid actors (Score 0) 13

This really isn't any different than requiring advertisements to disclose the use of paid actors. I can see it running into a few problems with internet advertisements though. I'm not sure it really matters though. Some people will buy stupid crap regardless of what kind of labels or warnings are put on something.

Comment Re:my 2c (Score 1) 47

I dunno. They make decent enough output for shitposting on social media. While there is a certain amount of delight to be had in coming up with a clever limerick about someone's mother, some people really aren't worth the effort. The AI can do it well enough in a few seconds though.

I'm not sure I'd use it for any productive work though. Of course not everything has to be for work though either.

Comment Re:"Now with 38% FEWER hallucinations!" (Score 3, Insightful) 47

The ideal number of hallucinations is zero unless they are specifically requested for whatever reason. If someone told you they were going to kick you in the nuts 38% fewer times this week, you're still getting kicked in the nuts.

I'm not sure a person who's hallucinating could be convinced by another person that what they observe isn't really happening. I think a person has to come to that realization themselves in order to be able to not lose their shit.

Comment Re:Previous generations (Score 1) 33

Not really. Gambling (legal or otherwise) has been around for a long time.

What's changed is the ease of access. Today making a bet is a few taps away on a phone, whereas in the past you had to go to a bookie at the very least.

I'm not sure to what extent this can be fixed. I have a sneaking suspicion that even if all of these students were made to take a course that shows them how badly a casino, etc. will screw them out of their money that a few would just want to gamble even more because they think they can spot the tricks now.

Making it illegal won't really work either. Organized crime will just fill in for legal businesses. The internet makes it virtually impossible to stop unless a country is willing to implement levels of control similar to China and most people will not put up with that even if it would stop the gambling problem.

Comment Re:How is RISC-V better than ARM? (Score 1) 15

Really there's nothing outside of the ISA being open and freely extensible for anyone who wants to do so. The ISA itself is similar to ARM, MIPS, or other RISC ISAs. If you wanted to build a custom microcontroller for some purpose it would be cheaper to use RISC-V since it doesn't have licensing costs. Most companies aren't doing this though and just by OTS components that work with their codebase. If you wanted to create some dedicated hardware paths for computationally expensive operations, the RISC-V ISA lets you add those in. You'd need your own compilers to generate those instructions or to write the assembly code yourself, but it gives users that flexibility.

Otherwise there's nothing inherently magical about RISC-V that would make it better than ARM in some performance metrics.

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